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HOT! NEW! Shuttle AB60N Intel 865PE chipset $30 plus ship

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vegeto456

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Mwave has the Shuttle AB60N mobo for $30 + shipping. I use will call which is $5 for your whole order so I dont really know shipping rates. Seems hot as the cheapest mobo with an 865 chipset on pricewatch is $53. I needed one of these to pair with my Celeron D 325 from a recent fry's clearance deal.

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Link to review @ extremeoverclocking.com
Review is decent and they think many of the problems may be fixed with a better bios. (Review is 2 years old)

Five Stars At Newegg
 
I was looking for a replacement motherboard for my P4-3.0ghz processor and came across this mobo last week. However in the end I ended up going with an Asus mobo for better overclocking for $62 shipped. If you are looking for a decent, no frills board, this is a great deal. I was going to pull the trigger on this one if I didn't end up getting the Asus. This Shuttle recieved decent to good reviews. I'd reccomend it, especially for the budget conscience.
 
the reviews says that the fsb wouldn't change when changed in the bios. Have you tried it on yours, and if so, does it work now?
 
decided to take a chance and order one. For the most part, I'm reasonably satisfied with it but the BIOS seems to have some quirks. The most current BIOS versions doesn't have CPU voltage controls, but the one mine shipped with, the "U" version did. That's probably ok as my Prescott cpu runs hot enough as it is!

One thing that bugs me though is that for some reason, the BIOS will only le me select PC2100 or PC2700 memory speeds, even though PC3200 is installed. Anyone else get one and experience this?
 
sorry for a basic question but...does this board have built in ATA/IDE connections (PATA)? I actually have no use for the SATA right now but was hoping to build an ftp server pc and SATA would be later but i have a bunch of ATA drives...didnt see mention of it in either article
thanks 🙂
 
Originally posted by: aeneas3
sorry for a basic question but...does this board have built in ATA/IDE connections (PATA)? I actually have no use for the SATA right now but was hoping to build an ftp server pc and SATA would be later but i have a bunch of ATA drives...didnt see mention of it in either article
thanks 🙂
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Should have the standard 4 ide pata ports, primary and secondary.
 
you might want to consider getting the shuttle ab60r instead of the ab60n. Its $45 at the same spot and it adds raid, gigiabit and firewire.

I have been using that board for over a year and it works great.

I don't know if a new bios fixed the problem, but it would not work with a p4 3.4 1meg. I went with the p4 3.4 512k.
 
after fooling around with this board for a while, I have come to the conclusion that high speed Prescotts won't work with it. I don't think the power circuitry is capable off supplying the current needed. On shuttle's site, they only qualify Prescotts up to 2.8Ghz.

I'm using a 2.4Ghz Prescott that is known to work to at least 3.6Ghz, and it hits a brick wall at about 3.2Ghz - sooner if the voltage is bumped up. That's probably why they disabled the voltage controls in recent BIOSes.

As far as the memory goes, I figured out that the 266mhz, 333mhz, etc settings for the memory are indirect controls for the fsb/memory ratio. It is probably only showing me those because that's as high as it is supposed to go with a 533mhz fsb cpu. The BIOS will try to keep it as close to the speed you select as possible. When overclocking to a 166x4 fsb and beyond, I found it was using a 1:1 ratio with the memory. If I could have of overclocked the cpu to a 200mhz fsb, it most likely would have run the memory at ddr400.
 
I got my Celeron D 320 (2.4ghz stock) to run at 3.6 ghz stable with this. Just set the fsb to 200mhz. Ram shows up at 3200.
 
The Celeron Ds consume a lot less power than the P4 Prescotts, so perhaps that would explain why you could get to 3.6ghz? I may try sell my 2.4A and try a Celeron D. This is for playing Hi Def WMV on a HTPC I'm building, so clock speed is more important to me than cache. But then again, 1080p clips seem to play perfectly fine at 3.0Ghz, so I may just stick with it.
 
BZO- You will need a faster processor for high deff. You would also want a fast video card at least a 6600. They may play fine at 1080p but as you get more into the high deff you will want the faster encode decode of a quicker processor. I would look at an a64 that is what most people are going with. Check out htpcnews.com or greenbutton.com.

I went with a 3.0gigahertz system and a nvivia 5200 and it will just not pull off high def recodes as well as I would need.

Peace,

 
Originally posted by: shurato
Originally posted by: aeneas3
sorry for a basic question but...does this board have built in ATA/IDE connections (PATA)? I actually have no use for the SATA right now but was hoping to build an ftp server pc and SATA would be later but i have a bunch of ATA drives...didnt see mention of it in either article
thanks 🙂
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Should have the standard 4 ide pata ports, primary and secondary.
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thanks that is what i figured 🙂 it wasnt mentioned in the articles or on the page.
edit: lol, plus i see them now in the picture
 
Originally posted by: mrbill
you might want to consider getting the shuttle ab60r instead of the ab60n. Its $45 at the same spot and it adds raid, gigiabit and firewire.

I have been using that board for over a year and it works great.

I don't know if a new bios fixed the problem, but it would not work with a p4 3.4 1meg. I went with the p4 3.4 512k.
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The AB60R is on sale right now for $39.99
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?InvtId=ab60r
 
Was thinking about getting something like this paired with a Celeron D 320, and was looking at the card below at around the same price:

Biostar "P4VMA-M"

Would the Shuttle be better?

And, although not a gamer, could one use this (paired with a Celeron D 320 or higher) for a reasonable gaming computer? (I would like to be able to let my nephew use this when he visits - would this be a reasonable system if I bought a decent vid card, like a 6600GT or 9600 soemthing at the very least???)
 
you might want to consider getting the shuttle ab60r instead of the ab60n. Its $45 at the same spot and it adds raid, gigiabit and firewire.
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AB60R doesn't support Prescott or Celeron D at all, while AB60N supports Prescott up to 2.8GHz, so you're giving up something to get RAID, GbE and Firewire.
 
What is included with the motherboard? No info on this at MWAVE. Is this a retail package or OEM. $25.00 is cheap but if you end up buying the cables separately, then it is not.

AB60R for $25.00
 
Originally posted by: wiin
What is included with the motherboard? No info on this at MWAVE. Is this a retail package or OEM. $25.00 is cheap but if you end up buying the cables separately, then it is not.

AB60R for $25.00
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Consider that GB Nic alone is worth at least $10 and so $25 is still a decent deal. The draw back is that it doesn't support Prescott or Celeron D and the Northwood core cpus are more expensive.
I would click on the $10 off $100 coupon inside that ad and then sign up using a throwaway email account. You can purchase a cpu/motherboard bundle for $10 less.
 
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