Mainboard AK32

Active Hardware: "Top Grade Hardware Award"

Active Hardware www.active-hardware.com/... 6. July 2001

For its excellent design, the richness of its features, its incredible performance, and its impressive final score, we're proud to award the Shuttle AK32 our highliy coveted "Top Grade Hardware Award", and our highest recommendations.

Tom's Hardware: Heartily recommended!

Tom's Hardware Guide www4.tomshardware.com/... 30. April 2001

Shuttle AK32 is worth consideration. With all of its features and its combination interface, we heartily recommend this board.

Firing Squad: "...AK32 is a very flexible motherboard..."

Firing Squad firingsquad.gamers.com/... 13. April 2001

Equipped with six PCI slots, two 184-pin DIMMs for DDR SDRAM, and two 168-pin DIMMs for SDR SDRAM, the AK32 is a very flexible motherboard (...) The AK32 also comes with an RJ45 Ethernet connector (...) no dipswitches or jumpers are required to change any system settings. (...) very nice touch feature: a small metal plate on each side of the Socket 462 interface (...) and we applaud Shuttle for being the first to implement it. (...) If the Shuttle AK32 is any indication, KT266 boards will offer more compelling features than AMD760 boards, and will do so at a lower cost.

PC Welt: "Guter Preis für diese Ausstattung"

PC Welt online www.pcwelt.de/... 15.5.2001

Guter Preis für diese Ausstattung Ausstattungs-Note 2,5. Zur Übertaktbarkeit (Note 2,1): Sie können von 100 bis 166 MHz Systemtakt (Front Side Bus) in 1-MHz-Schritten wählen. Die Kompatibilitätstests liefen problemlos (Note 1,3). Handhabungs-Note 1,8.

PC Online

PC online www.pconline.com.cn/... June 2001

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X-Bit Labs: "No doubt ... the most interesting product in this review"

X-bit labs www.xbitlabs.com/... April 2001

No doubt, Shuttle AK32 is the most interesting product in this review. The main feature that makes it outstanding is the support of DDR SDRAM and common SDRAM (...) Shuttle's solution looks wise. (...) AK32 has proved to be the fastest of all the presently available mainbords. This fact joined with flexibility and traditionally low prices for Shuttle's products lets us call AK32 a great success. Overclockers will like this mainboard too...

c't Magazin

c't Magazin Heft 11, 21.5.2001, S. 178ff

AK32: Verwunderlich ist, daß außer Shuttle niemand seine Boards mit Onboard-Netzwerk ausstattet. In Firmen ist ein 10/100-MBit-Ethernet sowieso unverzichtbar. Doch auch immer mehr private Haushalte ... Nur ein Bruchteil der Anwender nutzt dagegen die oft anzutreffenden zusätzlichen IDE-Chips. AK31: Shuttle hat sich getraut, ganze vier DDR-Speichersockel auf das Board zu löten. Laut VIA-Datenblatt funktioniert das nur mit registered Modulen, doch unser Exemplar kam auch mit vier normalen PC2100-Modulen zurecht und ließ sich so als einziges DDR-Board mit 1 GByte DDR-Speicher bestücken.

Overclocker Taiwan

Overclocker Taiwan www.oc.com.tw/... 9. April 2001 (chinese)

AK31 is a pure DDR mainboard which is well designed. AK32 provides two different kinds of memory slots to let PC DIY user for considering advanced upgrade and flexibility. BIOS will automatic detect two types of memory standard and express their own selected manual.