SHUTTLE - Shuttle AN51R nForce3 250 Motherboard Review

With their XPC line, Shuttle has grown immensely over the last few years. However, they have been around as an OEM main board builder for a long time. Today we are going to look at Shuttles latest main board; the AN51R, which is based around Nvidia’s newest chipset the NF3 250. Shuttle had arguably one of the most popular NF3 150 boards with the AN50R, for the price you got great overclocking ability for an NF3 150 board at a bargain price. Can Shuttle repeat the success they had with the AN50R with the AN51R? Let’s take a closer look and find out.

…This board is really geared towards the enthusiast, with the built in CMOS clear in the I/O panel, and the excellent selection of voltages in the Bios this is almost a perfect board, with the exception the low CPU and VDIMM max voltage. This was also the first time I was able to run a 5X HTT frequency at stock speeds and have complete system stability, this was no doubt indo to the boards ability to set a higher Chipset voltage. Knowing Shuttle usually has a lower point while offering the same features as others at a higher price, this with out a doubt will make the AN51R a worthy successor to the immensely popular AN50R. With AMD recently announcing the value based Sempron processors, the AN51R coupled with a 3100+ (Sempron) would make a hell of a fast system for not to much dough.

Pros
Stability
Overclocking Features
Performance
Cons
No Native Gigabit Ethernet & Hardware Firewall

Shuttle AN51R Motherboard Review @ Overclockers Club