Barebones Roundup

Frank Völkel takes a quick look at four barebones systems from BIOSTAR, Shuttle and Soltek, one of which is the new Shuttle XPC SN85G4:

While other manufacturers are still working on the finishing touches of their mainboards for the Athlon 64, Shuttle already has comparable mini-bare-bones on offer. As far as workmanship and material appearance are concerned, the system is absolutely identical with that of the XPC for the P4 platform. The bare-bones device is based on the NForce 3/150 chipset from Nvidia and, with the Socket 754 platform, provides the basis for all Athlon-64-processors.

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