When the first nForce chipset was released by NVIDIA, it had a good outlook.  It never quite lived up to its potential though since it was so long after the launch of the product that we finally saw it being used.  The nForce2 chipset has also been in the works for quite some time and only a month or two ago did it start showing up in the form of the Asus A7N8X, with other companies finally following suit more recently with their nForce2 boards.  The nForce2 is a very powerful and fast chipset as some of the early reviews told, but by the time it was released, VIA had unlocked some hidden power from the KT400 with new drivers and the two chipsets are close competitors.  NVIDIA does have VIA beat in two distinct areas though.  The first is the onboard video performance.  VIA?s onboard video is not a very high performance solution at all, whereas the onboard video on NVIDIA?s nForce2 is far more superior.  The second area NVIDIA is winning with their nForce2 is sound.  Onboard sound on the nForce2 is very well done and VIA is going to have to start integrating their new Envy solution onboard to beat it.  One could argue that support for Serial ATA is another area that NVIDIA holds over VIA, but it isn?t in widespread use yet and VIA will definitely have a solution for Serial ATA.

Since we know that the nForce2 is an excellent integrated solution, it was only a matter of time before Shuttle stepped up and released an XPC based on this chipset.  Today I?m introducing the SN41G2, an nForce2 based XPC which we have been giving you sneak peeks at for the last several months.  The SN41G2 has outstanding potential so read on and find out what it has to offer.

 

Box Front

The Specs:

• AMD AthlonXP Support (333MHz FSB Support) 
  
• NVIDIA nForce2 Chipset (Crush 18G Northbridge/MCP2 Southbridge)
  
• DDR200/266/333/400 Support - up to 2GB
  
• ATA/133 Support - 2 IDE Ports
  
• Integrated Video (GeForce4 MX GPU ? up to 128MB Frame Buffer using SMA)
  
• 2 VGA Ports
  
• S-Video Out
  
• 1 Serial Port
  
• 4 USB 2.0 Ports (2 Rear, 2 Front) 
  
• 3 Firewire Ports (1 Front, 2 Rear) 
  
• PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse Ports 
  
• Onboard Audio 
  
• Front Headphone and Microphone Jacks 
  
• Front Optical Output 
  
• Onboard LAN
  
• 1 AGP (8X) / 1 PCI 
  
• Aluminum Chassis 
  
• 1 5.25” Bay, 2 3.25” Bays (1 External) 
  
• L) 300mm X (W) 200mm X (H) 185mm 
  
• 200W Power Supply 
  
• 1 80mm Rear Exhaust Fan 
  
• Heatpipe Heatsink with Radiator (I.C.E. Technology - Integrated Cooling Engine)

 

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