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Shuttle SB51G is the
Intel flavour of the SS51G we reviewed before. This box has all the
necessary connectors all built into it. On top of that, it promises
future support of Hyperthreading CPU. This won't be possible on the
SS50/SS51.
The performance of this integrated box
is very good and it is in fact on par with most of the Intel 845GE/PE
boards we have benchmarked before. As this box incorporates an AGP slot,
you can use it with the latest graphics card. The only pity is that it's
only AGP 4x and the IDE is only ATA-100.
Installation was not so straightforward.
Well this could be due to the fact that we are so used to installing
desktop and not very good at squeezing our hands into the small metal
structure. With the help of the manual, which could be improved perhaps
with better quality photo shots of the installation procedure, it will
definitely help the user to install the system within half an hour.
In fact, I was quite surprised by the
fact that there are some overclocking features which you could try. no
voltage tweak though. FSB ranges from 100~165Mhz and there are two
options of running at Async DDR266 or DDR333 mode. A low temperature of
less than 50 Deg Celsius is recorded throughout our tests. This is really good considering that there is no
fan blowing at it directly and there isn't much noise generated from the
box.
Although I find that the box
is fast, I would wait for a while before transferring all my HD and
devices over until the P4 3G+ processors appears by year end. Overall,
the SB51G is a rock stable Intel solution. |
