Shuttle Ak35gt-R is a good motherboard?

[Bengt4]

I have a Athlon XP 1800+ and 2 NICs, Windows XP Professional, and a SB Live 5.1, plus 3 7200RPM hard-drives.

Is this a good motherboard to get?

Please I need USER feedback! I saw a lot of positive reviews on the WEB, but USING it every day is another thing!

Thanks!

 

[LED]

For the price (under $90) it's a great MoBo and you won't need to use your SBLive...had for about a Month and have the Ak35GTR2 coming in anyday

 

[Bengt4]

Thanks man.

But I need more specialized information - like: is there any important BUG in this board? Have used/tested all PCI slots?
And: is there any imcompatility issues with NVIDIA or ATI video cards, or any issues with any version of Windows (98 and up)?

Stuff like that!

Thanks for any help guys!

 

[LED]

It's got 6 PCI slots and I had the following installed @ once:

AGP=ATI AIW
PCI1=***
PCI2=Matrox G200 MMS
PCI3=CLabs Audigy
PCI4=Modem
PCI5=Voodoo 5500
PCI6=USB2.0 card
RAID was enabled and had 2 GXP60 HD's with the IDE ports having a CDRW, DVD, and another IDE HD.
IRQ11 looked busy but it all worked even with the onboard sound enabled...

 

[jt63]

It's a great board overall, however I had problems with the onboard sound crackling in Win98 and to a lesser extent in WinXP. I appled George's Latency Patch and it pretty much eliminated the problems in XP, but not in 98. I wound up putting in my SB Live. Other than that, I love it. I've got 5 PCI slots filled along with an ATI All in Wonder 7500. And it's playing nice with the SB card!

 

[HardwareAddicted]

I can second that too.....I love mine.

I built one using the raid and needed to flash that one to use raid, but no big deal.

Used 98 & XP....great in both for me.

Onboard audio is pretty good.

Big bang for the buck...... A+++

 

[Bozo Galora]

it is a rock solid board, if you don't overclock. If you overclock, this is not the board for you.

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Well, I disagree with that one.

This MB lets you take the voltage up to 2.3v !!!

Very very nice.....

I am overclocking mine and it loves it.

 

[kabir2]

Originally posted by: Bozo Galora
it is a rock solid board, if you don't overclock. If you overclock, this is not the board for you.

You must be kidding. I got mine 1 week ago refurbed from Newegg for $60. I get my 1700+ to run a 2000+ speeds. I don't overclock, just testing to see what it could do. Ran stable at the for about a day.