VR Features

Shuttle has came a long way in small form factors, from research and development all the way to manufacturing, Shuttle has never slowed down in pace, never failing to deliver quality along with performance. Today, we will be taking a look at the Shuttle SD31P, the 945G Express Chipset based Small Form with support for Intel’s latest Dual Core Processors. Apart from that, The SD31P comes with other useful features such as an external SATA-II port, Creative 7.1 Audio onboard and Firewire etc. This small form is the sucessor to the SB81P, it's Intel 915G predecessor.Before we continue, let’s take a look at the specifications of this little wonder.

Initial Impressions

The most significant change that Shuttle has made in their latest line of Intel Small Forms is the onboard sound. Shuttle has chose to use Creative's Soundblaster hardware solution over the Intel Azalia HD Audio, in which the innate within ICH7. With that, the PCI slot was also removed to make way for a PCI-E x1 slot, sounding support for future PCI-E expansion devices like soundcards and such. That also means that users will be able to experience slightly higher frame rates with their games as the Creative Soundchip will be able to handle audio processing, unlike The HD Audio where processing is still dependent on the processor, like all others AC97 sound solutions.

I am quite happy with some of the improvements that Shuttle did to the P chassis, I will go into details regarding this later in the review.