There is an old saying that ?big things come in small packages? and today I am going to prove that this certainly is the case with Shuttles latest and only Socket 939 based XPC. The SN95G is Shuttle?s only Socket 939 based XPC, which is a bit surprising considering the amount of models in the Intel P4 range. Utilizing the NVIDIA nForce 3 Ultra chipset it is clear straight away that the SN95G will pack a great deal of performance under its sexy black exterior. Speaking of exteriors, the SN95G is simply beautiful. As you can see from the pictures, it features a brushed black aluminum case which is complimented nicely by the silver detailing. It will certainly demand attention when sitting on any desk.

This is actually Shuttle's 5th generation of the G chassis. A lot has changed since the G chassis made its debut, most notably the addition of drive bay covers. The SB95G5 has a nice aluminum finish, and it comes in any color you want, as long as it's black.

We recently received one of their top of the shelf products, the Shuttle XPC SN95G5. The SN95G5 is a barebone system based off NVIDIA's nForce3 Ultra chipset for socket 939 Athlon 64 platform. The nForce3 chipset has had over several revisions since its inception. One can say that the nForce3 had a rocky start with the crippled nForce3 150. NVIDIA has subsequently released updated revisions of the chipset with the nForce3 250 that had a full 800MHz HT bus plus the 250Gb variant, with Gigabit LAN. As socket 939 makes its debut, the nForce3 has had another facelift in the form of the nForce3 Ultra. The Ultra variant is similar in all aspects but has its HyperTransport bus boosted to 1GHz.