Between makeovers and cosmetic surgery to add new appeal to the established concept of the XPC, Shuttle has come out with a rather radical solution that has no peers with respect to the number of novel approaches to detail improvements. Zoned airflow, clip-on drives, Stealth drives and all of that wrapped up in a boldly elegant enclosure. Needless to say that there is also some serious technology muscle behind the SB81P. On the down-side, there are some thermal issues that rear their ugly heads and draw a number of other components into their vicious cycle.

BIOS updates did not deliver the promised solutions but in the end, a little bit of tweaking of the BIOS settings did --- but we are getting ahead of ourselves...