SFF or mATX?

[Arju]

Going to build a new PC soon... bought my AMD 1.4ghz way back in 2001.

Now Shuttle SPC or mATX?

Canadian greenback from www.canadacomputers.com. Decent prices and soso bilingual service :p

mATX
Antec Aria MicroATX Cube Case w/ 300W $149
ASUS P4P800-VM Intel 865G, 800MHz FSB, Dual DDR400 $129
KingMax 512MB PC-4000 DDR500 SDRAM $155
Pentium 4 2.8C GHz 512KB cache RETAIL BOX $253
ATI RADEON™ 9800 Pro 128MB DDR AGP 8X $328

Total: $1014
Total w/ tax: $1166.10

Shuttle

Shuttle SB75G2 V2 $519
KingMax 512MB PC-4000 DDR500 SDRAM $155
Pentium 4 2.8C GHz 512KB cache RETAIL BOX $253
ATI RADEON™ 9800 Pro 128MB DDR AGP 8X $328

Total: $1255
Total w/ tax: $1443.25

Not sure whether to buy another HDD... definately going to get a DVD-R soon. I have a DVDROM drive, 32x burner and two Maxtor HDDs in my current PC. I'll be splitting these up somehow between both PCs. Hopefully my AMD can serve as a faithful MIRC/Download/MP3 Server.

[WalkinG]

HI,

I'm usin a COMPAQ EVO310 mATX.
IMHO what to use depends what will you do with your PC. As for me I use my Compaq just for internet surfing, M$ Word, excell, some other programs. if you want to use it for simmilar purposes - buy SFF. It definately save place.
On the other hand, if you are to install new HDD soon, and still want to use DVD, you'll run out of space in SFF.

[penrhos]

Shuttles got the heatpipe tech so should be cooler and is more compact but can't take wide AGP cards. Aria allows more than 1 pci slot and as its a std m-atx board would take a 2-slot AGP card. Aria also has 300W PSU shuttles only 200/240W

[paulmofyourhand]

if you are planning on overclocking, i'd go with the sb75g2, ive heard some good overclocks from that board,

i dunno how well that Asus will do, using an i865g and all

[ufokillerz]

most if not all matx boards do not allow overclocking, heck i can't even up the voltage to my mushkin black level 2 sticks.

[paulmofyourhand]

http://www.aopencom.de/products/mb/MX4SGI-4DL2.htm

this looks like a promising board, its one of the rare i865pe mAtx ive seen