Shuttle SN85G4 Athlon 64 nForce SFF Review

If you read our Athlon 64 Chip Guide, you’ll be well aware that the Socket 754 Sempron is not only very close to the speed of an Athlon 64, but a cooler running chip and a great overclocker. These are all qualities that make for a great SFF processor. With this in mind, we decided to take a look at the SN85G4 barebones unit from Shuttle. Although this is now fairly old, being an nForce 150 solution, we wanted to see how it faired with these budget CPUs.

…This bare bones unit is excellent. It is sleek, performance is excellent and noise levels are low. What more could you want out of a PC? At £193.45 inc. VAT from overclock.co.uk this is an attractive bundle. This gives you a case, cooling solution and motherboard. Just add memory, processor and drives. Not only this, it is as good as pre-built. If this case didn’t predate the Sempron, we’d suggest it was made for it.

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Shuttle SN85G4 Athlon 64 Barebones