Review of Pentium II Boards with Intel's 440LX Chipset

Shuttle HOT-631

The new HOT-631 from Shuttle is a decent average board. It comes with the sensible four DIMM slots and offers four PCI and three ISA slots in addition to the AGP slot. The AGP performance isn't particularly outstanding, but still not too far away from the fast competitors, the PCI performance is average under Windows 95, very good under NT though. All in all is this board in more or less par with the AOpen AX6L. It offers 75 and 83 MHz bus speed very officially, since the jumper settings are printed on the board. The HOT-631 was running fine with all kinds of SDRAM types I used. You are certainly not making any wrong decision buying this ATX board.