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Shuttle AB60R socket 478 mobo $25 + shipping

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Mercmaster

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Looks like a pretty decent deal for a backup mobo or a budget system, dont think it supports Prescott cpus tho.

Shuttle Mobo


CPU: Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4, Celeron with 400/533/800 MHz FSB
Chipsets: Intel 865PE + ICH5
Form Factor: ATX
Memory: Dual channels DDR266/333/400 SDRAM, 4 x 184-pin DIMM, Up to 4 GB
IDE / S-ATA / RAID: ATA100, Serial ATA, Silicon Image 3112A SATA RAID
Expansion Slot: 8X AGP device, 5 PCI slots
Built in Audio / VGA: 6 channel audio
USB: 8 USB 2.0
LAN: Intel PRO/1000



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Seems like a really good deal. Anyone have any experience with this board or if it supports Celeron D? It doesn't support Prescotts.
 
mj: i think your link/comment is borked

i ordered one on monday but it hasn't been approved... anyone receive theirs yet?
 
Forgive me. What does borked mean??? Looks like the link works. If there's something wrong with it I'd be happy to remove my post - lemme know.
 
Originally posted by: MarlboroJones
Forgive me. What does borked mean??? Looks like the link works. If there's something wrong with it I'd be happy to remove my post - lemme know.
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Keep trying your link. You'll figure it out.
 
HeHeHe. I need to lay off the scotch. My bad.

What I meant to say was there was a deal on an OEM Celeron 2.7 at PCMicrostore.com (in stock seperately) as well as a mascool fan (also in stock, separately) the other night. On one of the other deal websites, they had a link to a combo of the two (below). Combo link showed out of stock, but when you added to cart it was mysteriously available. I cannot say if this would ultimately go through as I didn't try it, but others at the time were trying it.

Combo Link for $67.49

Celeron 2.7 OEM at $69.99 $1 USPS shipping.

EDIT: On a chubby moneyholder post (I just saw), some people noted they thought this was NOT (to them) a hot deal. So, guess the bork was best. Don't know if the chip matched the board's specs, or how good PCMicrostore is - I've never ordered from them.

Sorry 'bout the bump on this as well as the bork.
 
I got one a week ago with a P4 2.26 for $111 +$25 combo at Mwave
I have it o/c to 3.068G and have been running prime95 for 1hr and 20min so far.
Looking good. I may try higher later.
This is at default Voltage w/stock HSF.

update,
now running at 3.4G w/400fsb at default Voltage w/stock HSF.
Tested w/prime for 2 hrs.
 
Originally posted by: cw42
any idea on warranty on this?

the specs are amazing for the price of this.
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Warranty... 30 days with Mwave, remainder with Shuttle. Shuttle will actually deal with end users for warranty. Don't remember if it was 1 year or two. Yes, specs are pretty good. Board is relatively basic, but IIRC has all the BIOS overclocking basics. I've been using Shuttle boards off and on since Anandtech first got started. I was using the socket 7 board HOT-559 or something and felt that it had great overclocking potential. Looking around online, found a review for it at a tiny site called Anandtech.com. Shuttle had one of the early super 7 boards, the HOT-591P. Shuttle went out on a limb with the socket A KT266 chipset (not 266A) board AK31 that used the much maligned chipset (IIRC most of the problems were that manufacturers slapped the chipset onto their KT133A board designs). Shuttle's AN35N Ultra has been wildly popular with the "budget overclocker" crowd who didn't feel like shelling out $120-160 for fancy boards and just wanted a $60 board that could overclock with the best.

A buddy of mine has one of the AB60R boards (paid $56 from Newegg a few months ago) and he really likes it.
 
Originally posted by: Zap
Originally posted by: cw42
any idea on warranty on this?

the specs are amazing for the price of this.
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Warranty... 30 days with Mwave, remainder with Shuttle. Shuttle will actually deal with end users for warranty. Don't remember if it was 1 year or two. Yes, specs are pretty good. Board is relatively basic, but IIRC has all the BIOS overclocking basics. I've been using Shuttle boards off and on since Anandtech first got started. I was using the socket 7 board HOT-559 or something and felt that it had great overclocking potential. Looking around online, found a review for it at a tiny site called Anandtech.com. Shuttle had one of the early super 7 boards, the HOT-591P. Shuttle went out on a limb with the socket A KT266 chipset (not 266A) board AK31 that used the much maligned chipset (IIRC most of the problems were that manufacturers slapped the chipset onto their KT133A board designs). Shuttle's AN35N Ultra has been wildly popular with the "budget overclocker" crowd who didn't feel like shelling out $120-160 for fancy boards and just wanted a $60 board that could overclock with the best.

A buddy of mine has one of the AB60R boards (paid $56 from Newegg a few months ago) and he really likes it.
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This past year, I've put together two systems for friends and family, one using the AN35N and the other using the AN51R and both worked flawlessly. In fact the AN35N was a joy to work with compared to my occasionally flaky A7N8X-Deluxe.

 
Haven't installed windoze yet, looks like mine has a dead FD controller but I"m not overly concerned about it.
Nice deal on a decent board, the only others that used to be in this price range were newegg refurbs and that is no longer the case since they've jacked most of their prices. Thanks for the post OP!
 
Does anybody know if shuttle AB60R will work with a 3.0ghz prescott? On shuttle's websites it states that prescotts are not supported. I wonder if anyone have tried it with a prescott and perhaps oc it?
 
Originally posted by: efnethore
Does anybody know if shuttle AB60R will work with a 3.0ghz prescott? On shuttle's websites it states that prescotts are not supported. I wonder if anyone have tried it with a prescott and perhaps oc it?
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The board's power regulation circuitry probably doesn't support the Prescott core properly. They suck down a lot of power in normal operation, so power regulation circuits designed to handle Northwood loads has the potential to burn out. I remember that it was a problem with quite of few of the 1st gen 865 boards when the Prescott cores were released (I saw one review where the MOSFETs got so hot that they melted the foam the review board was sitting on during the benchmark tests). Since this is a cheaper board, Shuttle probably figured there isn't enough headroom in the power regulation circuits to reliably handle Prescotts, so they didn't add any Prescott compatability to the board in order to save themselves a lot of potential warranty headaches.

In short, a Prescott might work if you manually set the FSB speed to 800 but chances are you could have heat issues with your power regulation. With the BIOS not seeing the processor correctly, you probably won't be able to enable HT, either. You'd proably be better off trying to OC a low clock speed Northwood. A 2.4C with HT is only $174 shipped at the Egg. Not only is it cheaper than the 2.8E, it probably has more OC potential (and at stock speeds is probably about as fast clock for clock thanks to the deeper pipeline on the 2.8E).
 
Thanks for the heads up batmanuel. i got a 3.0ghz prescott lying around with no use, you know what would be a good board for it? and yes i do plan to oc it to around 3.6-3.8. i'm looking at asus p4c800-e but that thing is really good put a strain in my wallet...

thanks and sorry if this is getting a bit off topic.
 
Got the board last week and had a chance to test it out with a mobile P4 (Northwood). The CPU uses the B0 core and worked fine on the board with no pin mods. Strangely didn't hit as high a FSB as with an Asus P4S800-MX board, also ran the CPU at lower voltages than on the Asus board though both boards overvolted because the mobile chip defaults to 1.3v. I've heard the non-RAID version supports Prescott, probably why these are being dumped on the market since seems like most places have just Prescott. I think at just under $35 shipped/taxed, the board is an awesome partner to be used with a mobile P4/Celeron.
 
Mine didn't post with a mobile celeron 1.6 w/pin mod. May be the board itself, however, I will be testing it with a P4 later tonight.
 
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