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In the Forums... |
Posted: May 2nd, 2002 Written by: Tuan Huynh Conclusion Shuttle has once again impressed me with one of their boards. Once being an unknown manufacturer, Shuttle is now becoming well known up there with Abit and Asus. The kicker about the AK35GT2 is the price. If you can find me a better board with all the features the AK35GT2 has for less then $90, feel free to tell me. But shooting for a retail price of $90, the AK35GT2 looks to be a winner. When it comes to overclocking, the AK35GT2 can deliver with up to 2.3 volts VCORE and up to 225 MHz FSB in 1 MHz increments. Though I haven’t really overclocked much the board much, I was able to get my MP1800+ running at 2100+ (1.7 GHz) with a 166 MHz FSB, but I’ll talk about running an Athlon 166 MHz FSB at a later date. But like Shuttle and AMD, overclocking is not recommended for the processor as it poses a possibility of frying the processor, which isn’t covered by AMD’s warranty. Nonetheless, overclock carefully and if you do mess up your processor, it’s not my fault as I’ve given fair warning on the subject. In the end, the AK35GT2 with it’s onboard ATA133/RAID, C-Media 5.1 sound, and great overclocking features, looks to be a winner with the enthusiast crowd due to price/features/performance ratio as it is able to beat out the Abit AT7. Shuttle has once again released another low price board that’s able to compete with the higher end products. The board should be available next week or so and New Egg should be one of the first retailers to carry it. Pros
Other then that, I can’t really find anything to complain about since its $90! |
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