Hi, I've got a one-year-old Shuttle SB51G, loaded with a Terratec EWX 24/96 "ice1712" soundcard and a Gygabyte Radeon 9000 Pro 128 MB video card (just for the facts...), running Fedora Core 1 / Planet CCRMA successfully. Getting circa 11 ms of latency with Jack set (untweaked) at 256 frames per period and 2 periods per buffer. While adding an PCI soundcard seems quite natural to make music on these boxes, why not add a RAM-loaded AGP video card too then? My tip: don't go for the hypest nForce2 models of the Shuttle series, buy a cheaper (or older) one, whose chipsets are known compliant with Linux, disable the video chipset, and invest the gained price difference on an entry 3D video card with built-in RAM! If you're not heavily onto games, don't make the same mistake as I did: get a fan-less video card! (Or disconnect it at your own risk...) Cheers, Mr°Freeze