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Needed some info about Shuttle Cases

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Kill_Seeker

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Hey guys,

I'm looking at getting a shuttle system, however I've been reading mixed reports and hearing some bad info about these.

Basically I want to run a Pentium 4 3Ghz Shuttle with the possibility of upgrading to an ATI 9800XT or alike.

The problem I've been told is that I wont get a CPU working thats more than a 2.4Ghz, and also the Video card and CPU combo will burn out my PSU. Now the shuttles only have a 250W in the SB75G2 so I dont know whats right and whats wrong. Just wondering if anyone else with one or has found out a little more might be able to help me out.

Another confusing peice of info is at this link:
http://www.shuttle.com/share/fae/hq/faq/sff/qa/Shuttle SB75G2 XPC.htm

Any Help would be great.

Cheers,

Kill_Seeker
 
Originally posted by Kill_Seeker



Another confusing peice of info is at this link:
http://www.shuttle.com/share/fae/hq/faq/sff/qa/Shuttle SB75G2 XPC.htm
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Whats the confusion? I think shuttle answered the very question you asked. Don't believe everything somebody tells you. One think to remember is even though that is alot of hardware crammed into that box, that is the MOST you can currently have. You can't go and add 6 drives to a SFF system. I think you should go ahead and build the system you planned on.
 
i run a P4 2.0a on a mATX Intel 865 board, 40gb 7200rpm drive, 2x 256mb dimms, and a GeForce2MX (need to get a better low-profile card i know) and a pair of 60mm panflow fans off of a 90 watt psu

so ya, dont believe what everyone sais...

and put a big ass fan on the psu rofl :D
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

I'm still not 100% convicend only because from what I've heard the video Card (ATI Radion 9800XT) needs around 100W, CPU/MB need quiet a bit and then you have your Hard Drive + USB Devices.

Is 220W really enough, espeically when people buy 350-500W PSU's for standard desktop towers.

Cheers,

Kill_Seeker
 
I have a 3.06 proc, DVD burner, 2 gig of Geil golden dragon ram, radeon 9800XT, Wireless PCI card, and four USB devices including the logitech bluetooth desktop

all running in a stock shuttle, it's quiet, there are NO problems with power, and it even stays nice and cool on it's own, even during intense bouts of UT2003 or DVD burning.

I have about four shuttles, all hooked up pretty top end with a few different configurations, so if you have other questions, I probably have a system similar to what you want to know
 
Originally posted by Kill_Seeker
Thanks for the comments guys.

I'm still not 100% convicend only because from what I've heard the video Card (ATI Radion 9800XT) needs around 100W, CPU/MB need quiet a bit and then you have your Hard Drive + USB Devices.

Is 220W really enough, espeically when people buy 350-500W PSU's for standard desktop towers.

Cheers,

Kill_Seeker
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Not all watts are created equial when it comes to powersupply measurements. It all depends on what temp. that rating is derived at. Generally most powersupplies produce way less than their rated out put at real world operating temps.
 
Im hesitant to get a shuttle in the fact I dunno how shuttle is going to provide enough power to the next gen GPU"s as well as CPU's like the prescott. The power demands are just going to be more then what they can cram in that small amount of space.

Not only that, but the ICE system isn't gonna cut it for cooling a prescott, even though they do pretty much suck at this point in time.

Me thinks shuttle will need to redo the the SFF to make it ready for next gen hardware and god knows how much they will cost then.
 
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