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Shuttle AK32A v.2.1

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	4564	02-08-2005

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	$30.00	7.0

Description:	Very fast, reliable, solid mobo. Well-built with nice finish and attention to details. Good documentation. It works flawlessly with one large stick of RAM, rather than two smaller sticks that sometimes make it hang or not boot- that's an issue with the chipset, I think. It has enough room around the northbridge chip to put on a Vantec Iceberq copper heatsink/fan. (My previous mobo died because of the cheap factory chipset fan, so now I always replace the stock fan or heatsink with a good quality one.) Mandrake 9.1 would not see the onboard sound so I got a cheap PCI soundcard with a C-Media CM8738-LX chipset and the sound is great. I've always had trouble getting sound to work in Mandrake, but Slackware sound setup was a breeze. I like playing Tuxracer so I installed the NVIDIA drivers instead of using the basic GeForce drivers in X-Free86: www.nvidia.com Using an AMD Athlon 2000 "b-core" and a little "setpci" code specific to this mobo that I learned in LQ, my processor runs on average at 89 F degrees! setpci -v -H1 -s 0:0.0 70=86 setpci -v -H1 -s 0:0.0 95=1e This board never, EVER crashes. I'm considering getting another one just for a spare. I highly recommend this board!
Keywords:	Linux-compatible AMD motherboard
/sbin/lspci output:	VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
Chipset:	VIA KT266A
Connection Type:	ATX

Author

02-08-2005, 12:50 AM

baird

Registered: Apr 2004

Distribution: Debian

Posts: 19

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $30.00 | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution:	slackware 9.1

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reliable and cheap jumperless board. on board via chipset audio is pretty crappy - recommend swop out.

installed easily into my Aopen housing - SD and DDR ram compatibility is unusual.

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