At first pass, I figured this was just another Shuttle form factor PC, no big deal. After reading on however, I can see the advantages to owning one of these puppies.

We like small form factor PCs, and we’ve certainly written our share of reviews of those tiny, oblong PCs made famous by Shuttle and copied by a host of manufacturers. Sometimes the tiny, proprietary PCs like Shuttle’s XPC line are too small though. If you need additional expansion capabilities, or want a more standard form factor, you often need to with something larger.

However, larger doesn’t necessarily mean “behemoth,” as in the Thermaltake Tai-Chi we reviewed recently. Sometimes you just want something relatively compact, such as a good microATX case. We’ve reviewed smaller cases in the past, like the Aspire X-Qpack we reviewed as a part of a Pentium-M system we built. The Aspire was flawed because it used a proprietary power supply, and that supply is a pre-ATX 2.1 unit that won’t play well with current generation motherboards. Today, though, we take a close look at a modern microATX case that’s designed to work with standard power supplies, the SilverStone SG01B. [Read the rest]

Tags: microatx, shuttle, pc case review, pentium-m