While the Transcend manuals don't tend to include as many pictures as say the manuals from Tyan do, the UWH31's manual was still very easy to follow while going through the whole process.

Because the UWH31 utilizes a software-based audio solution, its benchmark scores tended to be from 5 to 10% slower in 3D applications than other i810 boards we've seen that use a dedicated Yamaha-DSP for sound production.

Again, we don't believe Transcend is attempting to fool anyone into believing that the UWH31 is a board meant for the power user as they've got other superior mainboards specifically designed for that purpose elsewhere in their lineup.

We found that for most Win98 desktop applications, the integrated video and audio solutions of the UWH31 were up to the job, offering MS DirectSound support as well as 2D desktop resolutions of 1280x1024x24bpp to be achieved.

But to be clear, this is no 3D barnburner and it shouldn't be treated as such.

The UWH31 offered a few nice surprises concerning the overclocking potential of the board, as several front side bus speeds are available for those seeking to overclock their Celeron processors to 83MHz or beyond. All settings are controlled through the UWH31's BIOS, which is always nice to see.

Adjustable core voltage is also present on the UWH31, allowing users to fool with up to 10% more voltage than standard for their overclocking experiments.

As the next generation of Celeron CPUs approaches by January 2000, the UWH31 is already equipped to handle their 100MHz front side bus speeds as well as their integrated SSE instruction set support. These "Pentium III Lite" Celerons will still offer 128KB of integrated L2 cache but will be clocked at core speeds of 550MHz and beyond when they arrive early next year.