Shuttle Machines

[Jinx_player]

Can a shuttle psu support a 9700 pro along with everything else?

I know it can fit, just wondering if it will have enough juice.

 

[djnes]

It will be plenty for whatever you can fit in there.

 

[theNoid]

I know that plenty of people are running 9800xt on a stock Shuttle PSU. You should be fine. Normally if you were running other PCI cards along with mutliple drives this wouldn't be possible, but because you're powering less devices the power should be there.

 

[pbXassassinX1524]

yea, it seems that even though their wattage is rated pretty low; everyone seems to say that they have more then enough punch to keep everything going.

 

[dotZIP]

There were some problems with a few 9700pro (or was it aiw 9700pro) drawing too much power on startup thus triggering the overvoltage protection on the power supplies. People worked around this problem by installing a delay circuit, though I believe if you send your PSU in to shuttle they can disable OVP. With a new SilentX psu, you should be fine.

Keep in mind this problem was only with a few revisions of the 9700, not all of them. Better to test it out first.

The PSU's work with most things without problems. Generally, anything you can fit into the case, you could probably run without power issues.


Oh, and welcome to the [H]ard|Forums!

 

[Belan]

As you can see from my sig, I'm running a shuttle box with an ati 9700 pro ... I haven't had a single problem concerning power, and that's one of the things I've been watching religiously.

Of course, my model does have the slightly higher wattage psu ... which is available for purchase sepeartely from shuttle if you get one that has the original 200w PSU and it doesn't fit your needs.

 

[Mexicorn]

speaking of shuttles, how viable an option are they compared to a full blown desktop? I have my tower at school now, and it's a real pain to lug it everywhere, so i've been thinking of building a shuttle over the summer. I know from the looks of them, they should theoretically be the same as a normal rig (just less room for junk), but I wanna know how they do in real world applications. And would it be a good idea to get one wthin the next few months?

 

[Belan]

I can't speak for anyone else, obviously, but ...

I love my shuttle ... it's only just barely slower than a full blown mobo with a 875 chipset. The difference is insignificant.

There's fewer slots for equipment, that's really the only downside of SFFs. The small PSUs aren't even an issue because of the lack of expansion slots. I've got 2 SATA drives, a DVD-RW, and a raedon 9700 pro with rock solid power, no fluxuations.

All in all ... if you don't need massive expansion slots, it's a really great solution. I get around the expansion issue by using a file server with half a terrabyte array. When I boot, I've got an automount to simply add the file system. Not as fast as the 2 SATA 10K RPM drives, but it works well.

 

[Decibel]

I switched over to SFF systems over a year ago. There is nothing that I haven't been able to do with my Shuttle's.

My current rig is a p4 2.6 @ 3.25 ghz, 1gig pc4000 ram, 9800 pro and a 74 gig Raptor. I upgraded to the 250 watt PSU. Not because I needed more power, but because I wanted a quieter system.

Quite simply they're just as fast as full size systems and maybe 1/4th the size and weight.

-dB

 

[XBLiNKX]

I have a 9800 with pro bios in mine. Runs fine with standard 200w power supply.

you can see it right there. I don't see why i 9700 would not run.

 

[lorcani]

You will be fine with just a 200W PSU. If you have any problems, just buy the upgraded PSU from Shuttle.