The new board is identically same as of AK31 except the replacment of northbridge with VIA KT266A chipset. But then also I am postively with the board since the layout of the AK31 was pretty simple and decent. Overall, during the test as we have seen that the board does wonder over the previous board and proves itself to around 20 % more faster then then previous AK31 and in gaming part it produced around 30% much more frames then produced by the AK31. It uses the full potential of the KT266A chipset
FULL STORY @ TECHHARD (http://www.techhard.com/docs/mobo/shuttleak31v31/shuttleak31v31_1.htm)