Dave Altavilla van HotHardware had onlangs een exemplaar van Shuttles AV40 moederbord op zijn testbank liggen. In deze review meldt hij zijn bevindingen met deze op de VIA P4X266 chipset gebaseerde plank. De AV40 komt met vijf PCI-sloten, een AGP slot, drie DDR gleuven, een ATA/100 controller en onboard AC97 audio. In het BIOS zijn de belangrijke CPU en voltage tweaks aanwezig. Het testen gebeurde met een Pentium 4 1,8GHz prcessor. Zoals al eerder is gebleken liggen de prestaties hoog wat leidde tot de volgende conclusie:
In the final analysis, it is clear to see that VIA has a winner on their hands with respect to the P4X266 chipset and its DDR support for the Pentium 4. The Shuttle AV40, in most tests, falls within 5 - 10% of the mature i850/RDRAM platform, in terms of raw performance. Furthermore, we should remember, the P4X266 is a new chipset from VIA. Optimizations in drivers could very well bring this architecture right up to par with its RAMBUS based brethren.
The AV40 P4X266 based motherboard is an excellent representation of the kind of features and benefits that can be packed into this new DDR driven Pentium 4 platform. The board has an excellent high quality design and is extremely stable. With the "R" version of this board and its on board Promise ATA100 RAID controller, you'll have just about every bell and whistle available for the P4. Among P4X266 boards (frankly there aren't many released as of yet), we expect the AV40 to hold strong in the top of its class.
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