Mainboard AK35GT, AK35GTR

Das Board absolvierte all unsere Belastungstests absolut stabil und entpuppte sich sogar als der schnellste Flitzer des gesamten Testfeldes..

Stabilität: 100%
Leistung: 100%
Qualität/Layout: 85%

Shuttle really has made the AK35GTR board that is able to perform with the best of them. It has everything that a home user really uses and nothing they don't. With a feature rich board, excellent stability, overclocking features that will make anybody envious the AK35GTR board is a steal at it's current price. It currently is my pick for the budget overclocker.

+ excellent stability
+ great overclocking features
+ superb manual
+ excellent value
+ HighPoint RAID

Performance : 9.5/10 +++ I cannot fault the performance of this board, it used every GeForce card I could throw at it that I had (GF2 MX400, GF2 GTS, GF4 Ti4400) and it performed beautifully with each video card. While i didnt have a lot of boards here to be able to test it against the scores do all the talking. The VIA KT266a has proven time and again to be the fastest platform for AMD processors. 
Stability : 10/10 +++ During testing I did not have one single lockup or Blue Screen of Death. Even with RAM settings MAX'ed we couldn't get any stability issues. 
Compatibility : 9.5/10 +++ Again no issues at all with any products we could find. All drivers installed without a hitch. 
Value : 10/10 +++ This one area where the board excells above all others. Its Cheap, it offers a great range of features and its stable as a rock.

Conclusion: Built around the VIA KT266A chipset, AK35GTR uses well the memory bandwidth of DDR to achieve a high performance. Sysmark 2001 gave this motherboard a score of 173 points (a very good score), while for 3D abilities, AK35GTR got a 7066 'grade', which makes us recommend the board for any system designed with performance in mind. The features are also plentyfull, there is a sound chip to replace the ordinary CODEC, and for expansion there are 6 PCI slots and one AGP. Above all that, the board featurea an ATA133 RAID controller from HighPoint.

Conclusion: Shuttle has yet again produced a motherboard worthy of many editorial awards. I have had three separate samples go through my hands, and each have performed at the same high level. I was not shipped a hand picked board for review, but rather one from a pile of excellent products. The value of this product almost blows the mind. There is no other board that offers the features, performance, and stability of the AK35GTR at a price point starting at #88 US. It is a sin to not pick up one of these gems! While the AK35GT2R may appear to be the sexier model, the older sister of the two is by no means a wretched hag! Shuttle wants to be one of the big boys, and they have charted a very aggressive course against the other manufacturers in Taiwan. These other manufacturers have responded with upgraded products, but the overall value and quality that Shuttle offers is astounding. We will continue to hear from Shuttle as the months go on, and they will continue to aggressively update their roadmap. As for now, if a user wants an incredibly well rounded board at a very low price, the AK35GTR should be at the top of their list. It might not have the nifty extras that other boards do, but the overall product itself is second to none. I liked this board so much that I replaced my Soyo K7V Dragon Plus that resides in my main machine with the AK35GTR. I can already feel the difference in overall performance, as my system does run a bit snappier. One other thing that I noticed is that I have had no problems with the Creative Labs Audigy card, which the Soyo did not like. I haven’t had a single crash with this board, and I was averaging one a day with the Soyo. Strong work Shuttle, this is truly a wonderful product.

Positives:
+ Highpoint Raid-Controller 
+ C-Media 5.1 Soundchip 
+ sehr gute Erweiterungsmöglichkeiten
(sechs PCI-Slots, vier Ram-Slots) 
+ Maximum an Übertaktungsmöglichkeiten 
+ gute Performance 
+ Ausfühliches Handbuch 
Negatives: 
+ kein Onboard-Lan

Shuttle bestückt die Spacewalker mit dem Ultra-DMA/133 Raid-Controller Highpoint HPT372 und dem Soundchip CMI8738 (Ausstattungs-Note 1,6). In Sachen Übertaktbarkeit gaben wir der Platine (...) die Note 1,8: es sind 100 bis 200MHz Systemtakt (Front Side Bus) in 1-MHz-Schritten möglich. Auch können Sie bei der Spannung der Speicherbänke zwischen 2,55, 2,6 und 2,7 Volt wählen. (...)

(...) gehört sichlich auch zu Zeiten des KT333 zu den schnellsten Mainboards für den Athlon. Hervorragend ist sicherlich die Entscheidung von Shuttle, auch ein besser ausgestattetes Mainboard anzubieten für die User, die Performance mögen und gleichzeitig auf einen Raidcontroller bauen oder einen qualitativ hochwertigen Onboard-Sound mitkaufen möchten. Das GTR steht dabei für die Performance des Mainboards - es handelt sich hier sicherlich um einen BMW mit breiten Reifen, aufgebohrtem Motor in der M3-Version, der so tief gelegt ist, wie es nur geht: Das Shuttle ist die Racing-Variante unter dem KT266A-Mainboards. (...)

Positive Punkte des Shuttle AK35GTR:
Top-Performance, Gute Stabilität, gutes Bios,
Ordentliche Overclocking-Fähigkeiten, gute Erweiterbarkeit dank 6 PCI und 4 Dimm, Highpoint Raidcontroller (ATA133) Onboard 
5.1 fähiger Digitalsound Onboard

Wir würden dieses Mainboard jedem empfehlen, der aktuell eine ausgereifte und schnelle Platine sucht und bis zum KT333 nicht warten möchte oder seinen guten DDR266-Speicher nicht aufgeben möchte. In diesem Fall kann man hier wirklich ein Schnäppchen machen, was sich in jedem Fall lohnt.

"Das KT266A-Mainboard von Shuttle kommt mit guten Overclocking- Funktionen, einem ATA/133-Raid und 5.1 Digitalsound - und es ist wirklich sauschnell."

But as strong as the pull of brand loyalty may be to a techie, this techie's opinion was swayed away from ABIT by the speedy, stable, feature-packed and surprisingly affordable Shuttle AK35GTR. This board has power to spare, and configuring it is as easy as wading through the BIOS setup menu; it may not be as neatly organized as ABIT's SoftMenu III, but it offers the same level functionality. It's a killer board, and it's likely to be in my next desktop system.