Shuttle AV45GTR (anyone have this board?)

[dancingpig41]

I am getting ready to finally upgrade my computer and I have done a lot of research on parts. Now that I have the money to upgrade I am starting to drag my feet a little bit on the motherboard I have selected. I have always found Shuttle mobos to be very stable so I have been looking at their AV45GTR board. I am not a huge OCer, but I would like to be able to do some minor tweaking and from what I have heard this board won't let me do much of anything. I value stabilty over crazy overclocking, but if I could step up my performance by 10-20% that would be nice.

Does anyone have any input pertaining to this board? At $71 it has all the features I want, but it might lack the tweaking aspect of things. Here is what I am going to be running and what I am looking for on a mobo should someone wish to make another suggestion.

Mobo must have RAID(prefer Highpoint) and LAN. I prefer 3 memory slots also. I do not care about onboard sound, and I do not want onboard video.

The system I am builing:

P4 2.53B
1 GB Corsair PC2700 DDR
Gainward GeForce4 Ti-4200


Comments, suggestions?

Jason

 

[Vette73]

That is a OK board. The on-board sound is very good. A 5.1Ch C-Media sound chip.

But if you want to overclock then get the Soyo P4X400 board. It cost $159 at Pricewatch, but has ALL the bells and whistles and should overclock better.

But the AV45GTR is cheaper.

I think the Soyo is a better fit if you can afford it, if not then go for the Shuttle.

 

[Chunkee]

I am also looking at the Shuttle board, the GTR with the new SIS 648 chipset. I read a review on it and it stated that it could probably use a new bios update, however, I have been to the Shuttle website and do not see a bios page for it, also, the only info on it on their web site is a pdf file. I also want to know where did you find the board for 71 dollars? That is a pretty low price.

thanks

JC

 

[dancingpig41]

Newegg has the AV45GTR for $71. It is the P4X266A chipset though.

Jason