Shuttle SN68SG2 Barebones PC Review (nForce 630a)

Shuttle announced the latest addition to its XPC Glamor line of small form factor PCs, the SN68SG2. We were, as is always the case with new Shuttles, suitably impressed by its stats sheets and glamour shots and knew straight away we just had to get one in for review.

The SN68SG2 is an AMD system based on nVidia’s 630a chipset, which supports all AMD’s current crop of Athlon64, X2, and Sempron CPUs. It has support for a maximum of 4GB of 800MHz DDR2 RAM and includes integrated graphics in the form of the GeForce 7025 processor. If you feel this a bit underpowered, though, you can add in a separate graphics card, using the single PCI-E x16 slot, making it the ideal compact gaming machine or workstation.

..The SN68SG2 is another in the long list of well built, easy to use, great looking small form factor PCs from Shuttle. And, if all you need is a computer for casual office work with the occasional bit of gaming, it is just perfect. However, it is let down by a cooling system that can’t cope with regular intense use and as such it isn’t appropriate for the power user.

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