Conclusions

From my point of view industry made a great step forward with the KT266A. I am not talking about pure performance but about the increased AMD Thunderbird and DDR memory power exploitation. As you were able to see using the same hardware a KT266A motherboard was able to overclock and perform better than one of the kings of the road, Abit KG7. With such a powerful platform AMD should have better chances to defeat Pentium 4 which is an advantage for the entire industry present and future.
Epox 8KHA+ is a remarkable board and we should appreciate Epox for how fast they were able to ship a motherboard based on KT266A. Usually early boards are buggy and suffer from incompatibility problems, but it's not the case in this situation. We saw an improved version of one of the best known motherboards on the market, 8KHA. The features provided, which include but aren't limited to BIOS and debug BCDs are really impressing.
The motherboard's stability is also a strong point of 8KHA+. In our reliability tests it didn't hang even once, although the CPU and the DDR memory ran much above specifications.
The AMD XP processor support gives a long life to 8KHA+, and the early time when it was released on the market guarantees that we won't find very soon other solutions based on another chipset. Maybe that the DDR2700 standard will change things a little bit, but as we were able to see KT266A is able to work with fast memory; the only problem at this time is called memory. I do recommend this motherboard purchase although several big names haven't showed yet what they can do. I doubt that you will be able to find a much better motherboard in the following weeks. The price is quite low on pricewatch, an additional reason to consider this motherboard as one of the top choices available.