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Shuttle's SS50 reviewed

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-it-under-the-hood dept.

EconolineCrush writes "What's 200x181x280mm, decked out in brushed aluminum, and supports a Pentium 4 processor with DDR SDRAM? Shuttle's SS50 bare bones system The Tech Report has a review up of the latest aluminum cube from Shuttle, and it's an impressive little beast. Small form factor PCs are becoming more popular, and this is the first platform I've seen with Pentium 4 support, DDR, and decent on board video via SiS' 650 chipset."

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  1. Also... by Binary+Tree · · Score: 4, Informative

    More here.

  2. what? can't hear you over the roar of my ss50 :P by pangloss · · Score: 4, Informative

    One person measured the SS50 at 56dba:
    Viahardware Small Form Factor & Quiet PCs Forum

    And a number of ppl on that forum have complained about the noise--the SV24 was loud, but the SS50 is even louder :P

    Apparently the excessive noise is die in large part to the crappy PSU fan, but

    And incidentally, for the crowd that thinks undervolting the fan or using a low rpm fan is the solution, note that at 26'c ambient, the CPU already measures >50'c (more figures on page three of the above link).

  3. Re:what? can't hear you over the roar of my ss50 : by Peyna · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've got one of these and it isn't very loud at all. My CPU stays a cool 40 C most of the time, so the fan is able to stay at 2400 RPMs, even when the fan has to speed up when the CPU heats up (which is customizable in the BIOS), it isn't too incredibly loud. My laptop overpowers this thing by a quite a bit. Maybe they just put a noisy hard drive in =]

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