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Shuttle AB60/RS (865PE) Motherboard

Company: Shuttle
Product: AB60/RS
Street Price: Unknown
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey Chao

 

Overclocking:

This section is going to be very short because we encountered a few issues or actually one major issue. Remember earlier when we said that the FSB adjustment would only go as high as 233? Well, we set the FSB to 233 because we know our retail 2.4C is good over 270FSB. The system booted fine at 233 but when CPU-Z and WCPUID were run, it showed the system being at the stock FSB of 200 MHz. Thinking that the software might have somehow been wrong, we ran benchmarks. The system scored how it should, if it were stock. So going back into the BIOS we tried many other FSB's. All of which never worked so it was totally impossible to overclock this motherboard. We even tried our 3.2 and 3.0 processors and still had no luck.

Since we can not find any new BIOS updates, which we believe is the issue, we can not say any more about the motherboard's overclocking abilities until a new BIOS is released. Shuttle has been notified about the issue with our board. Hopefully we can get the FSB adjustments working and update the review. One more thing is that we were not able to find any other reviews of this board, so we couldn't find out if anyone had the same issues we did.

 

Test Systems & Benchmarks Used:

 

Test Systems
Motherboards:

Shuttle AB60/RS (865PE)
ABIT IS7 (865PE)
Soltek SL-86SPE-L (865PE)
ABIT IC7-G (875P)
Chaintech 9CJS (875P)
Gigabyte 8PE800 Ultra (845PE)
Processors: Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz (800 MHz FSB)
Memory:

2 x 256MB Corsair XMS Platinum PC3500
1 x 512MB Kingston HyperX PC3500
Video Card: ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
Power Supply: PC Power and Cooling 475W ATX
Hard Drive: Maxtor D740X 40GB
Operating System: Windows XP Pro
Drivers:

Intel INF Update v4.30.1006 (845PE)
Intel INF Update v5.00.1012 (875P)
ATI Catalyst 3.2 Driver Suite (Video Card)

 

 


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Page Navigation
Page 1:  Introduction, Specifications
Page 2:  Onboard Features
Page 3:  Bundled Features
Page 4:  Board Layout
Page 5:  BIOS Configuration
Page 6:  — Overclocking, Test Systems & Benchmarks Used
Page 7:  Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002
Page 8:  Benchmarks: SPEC ViewPerf 7.0
Page 9:  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra
Page 10:  Benchmarks: PCMark 2002, 3DMarks 2001 SE
Page 11:  Benchmarks: Unreal Tournament 2003
Page 12:  Benchmarks: Quake 3 Arena - Normal Configuration
Page 13:  Benchmarks: Quake 3 Arena - High Configuration
Page 14:  Benchmarks: Quake 3 Arena - Max Configuration
Page 15:  Conclusions and Final Thoughts

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