Shuttle announced two new mainboards, AS45GT and AS45GTR based on a still pretty rare SiS648 chipset, one new baby from SiS chipset maker (the difference from SiS645DX is AGP 8x support and a new SiS963 South Bridge).

As for the specifications, they look pretty impressive, I should say: the boards are designed in ATX form-factor, support Socket478 processors (PGA478 Pentium 4 and Celeron) and 533MHz/400MHz QP bus. They are equipped with 3 DIMM slots for up to 3GB PC2700/PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM, 5 PCI slots, an AGP 8x slot. They support ATA/133, USN 2.0, IEEE 1394a (due to SiS963 South Bridge), feature an integrated ATA/133 RADEIN controller from HighPoint (HPT372), 2 Serial ATA150 channels (Silicone Image chip, integrated only onto AS45GTR model), 6-channel Realtek ALC650 sound (with S/PDIF In and Out). Yeah, this is a worthy set, really. Not in the least worse than the ABIT MAX…