Shuttle ST20G5 AMD Socket 939 Barebones PC Review

The Shuttle ST20G5 small form factor computer supports the AMD Socket 939 processors, including the AMD Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64, and Sempron CPU's. It supports one PCI Express x16 card, has two DDR400 memory slots, and includes ATI Radeon XPRESS200 onboard video. It also has a single PCI slot, a 240-watt power supply, and includes gigabit ethernet and six-channel audio onboard.

This barebones Shuttle system comes with everything you need to build up a system except for the CPU, memory, and drives. Like all Shuttles, it's pretty easy to assemble, even for a beginner.

The nifty thing about all those integrated graphics ports is how they work with an ATI-based graphics card. While we don't have benchmarks with four displays, we were able to verify that the Shuttle ST20G5 will work with four displays attached, assuming you're using fairly recent ATI drivers. We attached two displays to the integrated graphics ports and two to the ports on the ATI Radeon X800 XL we installed near the end of our testing. So if you need four displays, you have them. Bear in mind that the differences in performance between the integrated GPU and the PCIe graphics cards are pretty substantial, though.