Shuttle barebone systems

[EricJD]

I've been thinking about building a PC for a while now, and the Shuttle barebone systems look like a good place to start. Small, easy, and relatively cheap.
This is the specific one I'm looking at: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16856101039

I was just curious, how upgradable would something like this be? If I wanted to get a new motherboard in the future, would that be easy to do? Does it just use a standard Mini-ATX motherboard or something like that?

And also graphics cards... The Shuttle system I'm looking at has integrated Intel GMA 3100, but what if I wanted to upgrade? Would a standard PCI-E graphics card fit in there? Would I need to get a new power supply as well?

Thanks..

 

[exe]

You may want to post or do searches in the Small Form Factor thread. The Shuttle uses proprietary mobo, you'll have to buy replacements from them. I can't see your link, but just look under the spec to see if there is an additional slot for graphics card. Power supply requirements will depend on what GPU you install. There should already be someone that has use a similar or more power hungry card in your choice of Shuttle in the SFF forum or other Shuttle related forums on the net.