AK32E comments?

External Since: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 11

I am thinking about replacing a Soyo K7VTPro with the Shuttle AK32E, and
using an AMD 1700+ TBred along with probably a 256 MB plus a 128 MB SDRAM.
Anyone have comments on the quality and stability of this board? Thanks
in advance.

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External Since: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 54

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:51:20 GMT, Dennis Roark <denro.TakeThisOut@NSPAMearthlink.net>
wrote:

>I am thinking about replacing a Soyo K7VTPro with the Shuttle AK32E, and
>using an AMD 1700+ TBred along with probably a 256 MB plus a 128 MB SDRAM.
>Anyone have comments on the quality and stability of this board? Thanks
>in advance.

I can't say anything about the E revision but I have the AK32L and since
upgrading from an Athlon 1.1 to an XP2000+ i've been having a random system
freeze i've yet been able to track down. I've dont multiple complete system
reinstalls of both XP and Win2k and still they come. I'm currently leaning
towards thinking it's from using older SDram that can't keep up with the
cpu's clock speed.

At any rate, do yourself a favor and if you upgrade, go to 266 DDR ram.
Sysoft Sandra reports my PC133 Ram is starving the cpu because it can only
run 1 cycle at a time at 133 rather then the dual data rate of DDR memory.

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