Dont expect to oc in it, unlike your gigabyte board.

Well as I don't have an X2 yet (should be for sale wednesday at newegg according to them) and they'll cost a ton on their own, I'm not in a hurry. But I've heard pretty mixed results about overclocking this thing, I think more than one site was at 250HTT+. But I'd really be in it for the size not the speed. However it really just makes more sense to use a small ATX case, when I consider expandibility and whatnot.

Perhaps the review documentation was a little off with regards to what Shuttle provided, or the review hardware was an early revision.

All currently shipping SN25P systems should have the Ultra chipset.

http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN25P.asp

Featuring the NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra media and communications processor, the XPC SN25P is optimized to deliver exceptional system performance, security and storage options for high-performance computing environments. Key features of the NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Express chipset for both consumer and corporate market segments:

Good review otherwise.