HardOCP brengt ons de eerste bespreking van de Shuttle AV40R, een P4X266 DDR Pentium 4-moederbord die in de VS sinds kort verkrijgbaar is. De AV40R biedt 5x PCI, 3x DDR DIMM, ATA/100 + RAID, onboard AC97 audio en natuurlijk een AGP-gleuf. De layout was goed doordacht en werd positief beoordeeld. Daarnaast zijn in het BIOS al de belangrijke CPU en voltage tweaks aanwezig, en ook het DDR-geheugen kon door middel van bekende settings optimaal worden afgesteld.
Uit de vele benchmarks die werden gedraaid concludeert HardOCP dat deze Shuttle plank prima in orde is. Hij presteert net iets beter dan VIA's reference model en liet ook geen enkel teken van instabiliteit zien. Een veilige keus voor mensen die op korte termijn een Pentium 4 DDR-systeem willen bouwen, volgens onderstaande conclusie:
Shuttle has done a bang up job with their AV40R. If you wanted to jump into a Pentium4 platform board today, I would have no problems at all suggesting this board to you. In our days of testing we had no real problems whatsoever. The AV40R proved to be the pinnacle of stability. The board's overall layout is smart and will suit the DIYer or enthusiast. The BIOS selections have the most wanted features that any tweaker is going to be interested in. Shuttle has proven that the P4X266 DDR chipset can stand toe-to-toe with the P4/Rambus platform. I would have suggested that was a lofty goal three months ago, but it has surely been conquered. Kudos to Shuttle for building a P4 board aimed directly at the OCer and DIYer crowd, as they have done their job well.
As we have said in the past, the P4 certainly offers some perks that the AMD CPUs do not. With a P4 you don't have to worry about breaking or burning your precious CPUs. In fact, it takes quite a bit of abuse to destroy one. Trust us, we know. Also, I think you will be seeing copper cooling solutions out soon that will boost the overclockability of the Pentium4 on any S478 mainboard. Certainly a good thing. Bottom line...Intel fans rejoice, your savior is here and it has P4X266 written all over it. Now if VIA and Shuttle can just fight the Intel lawyers off...
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Wij danken JAMF voor het submitten van dit nieuws!