OC Workbench has posted a review on the Shuttle AK31 (VIA KT266 DDR) mainboard

This is the 5th KT266 board we have tested and the results are very encouraging. This can be observed from the performance figures obtained in the benchmarks. VIA seems to be very committed in getting their KT266 rectified as quickly as possible after the first few KT266 mass production products were bugged with performance issues and some samples we received improved drastically in performance after removing resistors.

During the tests, we were also taken aback by the Winbench and Winstone results. In certain categories of the tests e.g. CC Winstone which benchmarkes real-life Content Creation softwares, the results are on par with the fastest platform - SiS735 out there. The Disk benchmarks were also greatly improved.

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