The Bottom Line
An excellent barebones system that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processors based on the small form factor that doesn't sacrifice full size computing power.
Pros
- Very compact and portable size
- AGP and PCI expansion slot
- Respectable performance
Cons
- Limited internal expansion
- Cramped space for tricky installation
Description
- Well constructed aluminum case (8" wide x 7.5" high x 11.5" deep)
- Intel Brookdale (850GE) chipset
- Support for Intel Hyper-Threading capable CPUs
- One AGP 4x slot and one PCI slot
- 6 USB 2.0 and 2 IEEE 1394 ports
- Included heat pipe processor heatsink
- On-board 100 Mbps fast ethernet NIC
- Jumperless CPU configuration
- Support for 2 DDR PC2700 (333Mhz) DIMMs
- Two ATA/133 drive interfaces for up to 4 drives (if you can fit them)
Guide Review - Shuttle SB51G XPC Barebones System
The Shuttle SB51G XPC is an excellent choice for either a primary home computer system or as a superb LAN party machine. To get the system up and running requires an Intel Pentium 4 processor, memory, hard drive, optical drive, mouse, keyboard and monitor. The system supports Intel Pentium 4 based processors and even supports Hyper-Threading. Inclusion of the AGP slot is great as the integrated video is not suitable for 3D gaming. Performance of the system with the right components is excellent. Shuttle has outdone themselves with the introduction of this model XPC.
