Epox 8KHA+ vs. Shuttle AK31 Rev3

[podious]

I'm about to purchase one of these boards, but I'm unsure about which one to get. I've heard great things about both, but I'm wondering if anyone has their own reviews comparing the two, or can point me to an online review comparing the two boards. The closest I can find is the accelenation review on the AK31 Rev3 which compares it to the 8KHA+. The benchmarks on that show that sometimes the shuttle is better and sometimes the epox is better. Can anyone attest to this? Does anyone have really good reasons on why or why not to get one over the other? Your feedback is appreciated.

-podious

 

[Adul]

What to get what to get.

I have the same questions has well. Except i have on more mb to the mix

MSI Kt266 Pro 2 vs Epox 8KHA+ vs. Shuttle AK31 Rev3.

Price is not my major concern, just features, stability, etc...

 

[Tom]

Things that are the same..

all three are good for overclocking.
all three seem to be equal in performance.
none can be considered stable, they just came out. It takes some time to establish stability.

Things that are different..

the MSI with raid has the most features and costs the most. Also uses AMI bios instead of Award.
the Epox goes a bit farther in the overclocking extremes.
the Shuttle is the least expensive. Also has 6 pci slots and 4 memory slots.

 

[BD231]

Personaly I'd go with an MSI board, I like the AMI bios and I'v never had any problems with the 2 MSI boards i'v ownd(K7T Turbo, K7T266 Pro).

 

[SpotDancer]

none can be considered stable, they just came out. It takes some time to establish stability.

I dont think that is correct........these are the same production boards that all the manufacturers have been making. VIA was very shrewd when it came out with this KT266A.........nothing changed but the chip, so that all the manufacturers could continue to produce the board and just insert the new chip.

Just my .02 cents!

 

[codehack2]

I'm going to save myself the effort and answer this before someone says "But the AK31 v3.1 requires registered memory to use all four dimm slots"

You can run 4, unregistered, double-sided dimms in this board with no issues at all.. and yes, Shuttle supports it.

CH2

 

[Ausm]

I went with the shuttle myself can't wait until it gets here


Ausm

 

[mikeyd]

I noticed that most of these new boards have at least 2 usb ports with up to 6 optional. To get these extra ports is it just a matter of the cable and hub or is the header missing off the board all together?
- just curious...

 

[classy]

Well at AMDWORLD, they compared all three. The MSI seems to be a little better, but they are basically all the same performance wise. Unfortunately there is no game benchmarks, so I would call this an incomplete review, but it does give a good idea of what to expect. Here's the review Epox, Shuttle, and MSI KT266a boards.