Three new Shuttle XPC's announced

[Chriz]

Shuttle just updated their page today with three new XPC's:

SB65G2

SB75G2

SN85G4

The SB65G2 is the one Anandtech reviewed, based on the intel 865PE chipset. However since the review they added a 220 watt power supply and added wireless network support through 802.11b.

The SB75G2 is based on the Intel 875P chipset. This also has a 220 watt power supply and has the PAT technology that increases performance. Also present is gigabit ethernet, but no wireless 802.11b. It also supports dual channel ECC memory and has a large side mesh windows case cover which I am not sure of the use. For deciding between the SB65G2 and 75G2 basically it's a matter of preference if you'd rather have the wireless lan of the SB65G2 or the gigabit lan and faster performance of this 75G2.

The SN85G2 is Shuttle's first XPC with Athlon 64 support. It is based on the Nvidia Nforce 3 150 chipset. Other than the Athlon 64 support, some added features on this machine over the above two are a 240 watt power supply, Serial ATA RAID support, a parallel port, and a built in USB 2.0 6 in 1 card reader.

I just checked Newegg and did not see any of the three XPC's on there yet. Personally I am debating between the SB65G2 and SB75G2 as I was planning on getting a pentium 4 XPC.

 

[Pandaren]

So my question is: Where are the Pentium M XPCs?!?!

 

[Chriz]

Isn't the Pentium M for laptops mainly? I dont think I'd want that in an XPC.

 

[Pandaren]

Why wouldn't you want a Pentium M in an XPC? The Pentium M has very little thermal output and thus doesn't need big fans or fancy cooling. At 1.7 GHz it performs about as well as a 2.6-2.7 GHz Pentium 4 depending on the task.

If you need absoute speed, Pentium 4 and Athlon 64 are the way to go, but there are lots of us who would like a small, quiet, SFF computer.

 

[Foghorn]

A few simple mods get these boxes pretty quiet...

 

[DrMrLordX]

I have to second the call for Pentium M XPCs, but anyone checking my posts in other threads here probably already knows that *)

The Pentium M is a nice, low-power, elegant performer, and it and/or Dothan just scream "use me in a micro-ATX or mini ITX machine!".

 

[Foghorn]

I don't think there's a market worth pursuing for the M processors in a SFF.

 

[Ionizer86]

I'm not even sure if you can buy P-M chips retail or OEM or if the only way of getting one is to open up a lappy.

But of course, you can buy other chips, like P4's and Athlon XP's (even mobile XP's) separately. The P-M's were way too costly last time I checked...they were like $300 to $700 per chip, while mobile XP's were from about $50 to $130.