Shuttle HOT-613
Equipped with one CPU, Shuttle's Dual Pentium Pro ATX Board seems not to be the fastest, but as mentioned above, I wouldn't care too much about this. Quality is quite good, but I'm substantially missing additional memory banks. The four sockets are just not enough to provide an adequate expandability. Four PCI and three ISA slots can be considered as minimum as well. When equipping a second processor you will have to get the VRM module that is merely integrated for the first CPU, this reduces the costs and can be recommended for systems that possibly some day will need a second CPU. BEDO DRAM is also supported despite you will hardly be successful to get some in case you want to use them. With this particular board, the position of the IDE connectors can be apologized, because the second CPU socket takes all space left on the upper part of the board. Good to see that clock multipliers are supported up to x4.0 what makes the use of future overdrive processors up to 266 MHz possible.
ATX format, ATX power supply, Intel 440FX chipset; 3x ISA, 4x PCI; 4x SIMM; Award flash BIOS; external frequencies: 60, 66 MHz; multipliers: up to x4.0; I/O chip: ITE; PIO 4 onboard; FDC onboard; 2x serial 16550; 1x EPP/ECP parallel; 1x PS/2 mouse; 2x USB (without connector); IrDA support (without connector).
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