OC Workbench has posted a review on the Shuttle SS40 barebone system
Shuttle SS40 is quite a breakthrough from the conventional desktop or slim casing. Although the performance needs some tuning up as it has almost everything you could have thought of integrated on board. That box is really feature rich with all the necessary connectors already there for immediate usage. In fact, the SS40 is better than the SS50 as it uses a pipe heatsink. The PSU is less nosier as compared to the SS50. It looks like Shuttle has learnt a lot from their earlier mistakes of a noisy PSU FAN.Read more
Features-wise, SS40 already has all of them onboard, the only pity is that it uses 961 South Bridge and not 961B which supports ATA-133. USB 2.0 is also not available. Only ATA-100 and USB 1.1 are available on board. Cmedia 6 ch audio needs no more introduction, it is now used as a defacto sound chip on most mainboards. LAN on board makes it the perfect box for surfing or playing some network games.
