Can someone explain to me any differances between the Shuttle SN41G and the SB51?

[coolred]

I'm not completely sure if I got those names correct, but I am talking about the up in coming Nforce based XPC and the Intel based XPC. I understand one uses AMD the other uses Pentium and they have differant chipsets, but are there other differances? I want to get one to use as a main rig, but i will prolly incorporate it into my home theater as well. So it will have a Radeon 8500DV and prolly a Hercules game theater XP in it. Would I be better off waiting for Nforce, or should I just go for the P4 based system.

On a side note, hyperthreading in the new P4 CPUs, does that only work with multi threaded programs or will that work with any program?

 

[coolred]

One more question, does anyone know, what if anything AMD has planned to compete with hyperthreading?

 

[coolred]

Other then newegg, who sells the XPC's?

 

[DaveSimmons]

You might want to go to the small form factor forum at www.sudhian.com (was ViaHardware) and read up on the various Shuttle XPC choices, lots of posts from owners.

 

[Bravehead]

I'm thinking of buying the 8500 all in wonder to my Shuttle SB51.
Other eq. is: P4 2.4 /533, 512 Mb Pc2700, etc.

Did anyone of you have experiences from this combination?