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Shuttle SK41G AGP for AMD ...... and it's all in a cube
(Review by MS, January 13, 2003)

BIOS

The BIOS used is the standard Award V6.00PG BIOS with not too many frills. Memory timings can be adjusted for tRCD, CAS, tRP and tRAS, bank interleave can be enabled/disabled and the CMD rate can be set to 1T or 2T. Voltage adjustments are not available, neither for the CPU nor for the DDR voltages. The FSB can be adusted in 1 MHz steps from 100 to 132 MHz using the 1/3 PCI divider (selected via JP2) and 133 to 165 MHz.

We measured the actual DDR voltage as 2.52V on the VDD pins of the DIMM slots which is within specs but will not allow to push the system much into the realm of sensible overclocking.

Test Configuration

Test System Shuttle SK41G AMD Athlon 2400+ ATI Radeon 9700 Pro or Integrated Graphics 1 x 512 MB Mushkin Level2 PC2100 DDR (2:2:2 1T CMD Rate, 6T tRAS @ 133 MHz clock rate) 2 x 1 GB Mushkin PC2100 unbuffered DDR (2.5:3:3 1T CMD Rate 7T tRAS @ 166 MHz clock rate) Maxtor D740X6-L (80 GB) Shuttle DVDROM	Comparison ASUS A7V8X AMD Athlon XP2400+ ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 1 x 512 MB Mushkin PC3200 DDR (2:2:2 1T CMD Rate 6T tRAS @ 166 MHz clock rate) Maxtor D740X6-L (80 GB) Shuttle 52x CDROM
Software Windows XP Corporate Edition WinXP ServicePack1 ATI Radeon driver Catalyst 3.0 SiSoft Sandra 2003 Content Creation Winstone 2002 3DMark2001 SE Comanche 4 Codecreatures Unreal Tournament 2003

Installation

Installation of the hardware and loading the OS on a freshly formatted drive is as easy as 1-2-3, the hardware is thought out so well that there is hardly anything that can go wrong and the driver CD ... well, we already mentioned it, it is the best in the business.

Likewise, upgrading the system to an external AGP card (RADEON 9700 Pro) went without any problems whatsoever, all that is required is to physically plug in the card and load the drivers.

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