New Build: Questions, Comments, Suggestions.

[Cyraxx]

Been a while since my last build, and since I have gotten stupid and havent read my share of news, or guides. Anyhow, I have started college and am in my third semester. Currently with a Thermaltake Armor monster that sports an AMD 64 3500+ and 2gb of corsair ram. I found it often times unstable, but thats not the major point in this upgrade. I find the bulky Thermaltake Armor bairly fiting on my huge desk (Really, the space inbetween the hutch of my desk and the top of the armor is <1mm. In addition, I believe the fact that it is huge is the reason why its shovng out way too much heat into my room, effectively why its uncomfortably hot in my room. I have seen and built a shuttle before, but never for myself, but the idea of a much smaller and compact box seems much better in addition to the fact that it will need to be atleast partially portable when i move to a 4 year college. Links to newegg are just for the purpose of seeing, probably find better prices at ZZF or something.


Shuttle SD37-P2-BK-V1 Intel Socket T(LGA775) Intel Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium EE/Pentium Intel 975X Aluminum Barebone - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16856101009

SAPPHIRE 100150SR Radeon X1900XTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102672

NEC Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152058

Crucial Technology Ballistix BL2KIT12864AA804 2GB kit DDR2-800 PC2-6400 Memory Retail
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80061-9&ps=ho4

Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822136012

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115002

Main questions,

1) Are these items good to purchase now? Massive price cuts soon or anything? General thoughts here is cool. Core 2 Extreme worth it, or will the price drop in half in another month?

2) Are all these compatable? Again, ive lost what little touch ive had by not reading any guides and/or general [H] news lately.

3) Any other suggestions? Comments?

4) Can I get off the crack known as World of Warcraft?

 

[G'ßöö]

that shuttle is so new its hard to say what one could run into. looks good tho. g'luk

 

[Musulsa]

I strongly suggest you read THIS REVIEW before going ahead with your SD37P purchase.

3 glaring items of note:

1) That shuttle case does NOT support DDR-800. According to the Shuttle rep who posted in this thread: http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/92658 There are no plans to support DDR-800 in the future.

2) That shuttle case has incredibly poor support for overclocking. The maximum FSB setting is only 321. This is pathetic and completely negates the awesome overclocking potential of all the Core2Duo chips.

3) You are forced to use the onboard sound, and apparently the onboard sound on this system is crap.

As an owner of 3 SFF systems I was eagerly waiting for shuttles Core2Duo case to come out, but if you are looking for any sort of high end performance, this is NOT it.

 

[Cyraxx]

Not an avid OCer, I did read that review before writing this thread as well, and considering i use a USB headset, the onboard sound doesnt really bother me.

However, I do see your point in that there could be improvements, that said, im not exactly THAT anxious, but is there going to be new shuttles anytime soon? Have they made ANY mention to the next batch?