Shuttle HOT-603 AMD640 Socket-7 Board

In recent times, choosing a motherboard cannot be completely determined by a Winstone score. Now, many boards come within one Winstone point of each other and therefore the need to benchmark boards against each other falls. Therefore you shouldn't base your decision entirely on the benchmarks you see here, but also on the technical features and advantages of this particular board, seeing as that will probably make the greatest difference in your overall experience.

Test Configuration

Windows 95 Performance of the Shuttle HOT-603

The Final Decision

Overall the Shuttle HOT-603 is an excellent motherboard, and if you're not too interested in the overclocking possibilities the 83.3MHz bus speed gives you then it would seem to be the perfect motherboard...for now that is.  Later this month some of the biggest names in the industry will be flaunting their newest motherboards based on the VIA VP3 chipset (the successor to the VP2 and AMD640 which support all of the features of the previous two and adds support for 1GB of cacheable memory as well as AGP) which could very well replace the HOT-603 and the PA-2007 at the top of the list, but for now if you must have a motherboard give the HOT-603 a good look over since it does have quite a lot to offer.