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Shuttle SS51 Reviewed

Posted by michael on from the cute-and-quiet dept.

hilldaddy writes "AnandTech has a review up of the new Shuttle SS51 XPC. Looks like they finally added an AGP slot. Read the review." We've done several previous stories on the Shuttle mini-PC systems.

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  1. Hexus .co.uk review...... by H3XA · · Score: 5, Informative

    in case you manage to /. Anand's servers.

    Hexus - http://www.hexus.co.uk/review.php?review=395

    - HeXa

  2. oops... by H3XA · · Score: 4, Informative

    .... fogot the other two reviews...

    http://www.viahardware.com/ss51xpc_1.shtm
    http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/shuttle/ss51/ss51g p1.htm

    - HeXa

  3. Another review.. by rehabdoll · · Score: 4, Informative

    Firingsquad also has a review up.

    http://firingsquad.gamers.com/

  4. Nifty design, but not that quiet by koreth · · Score: 4, Informative
    Three cheers to Shuttle for taking noise into account in their design, but I hardly think it's reasonable to describe 51dB as "near-silent" like the review does. With careful selection of components and some custom tweaks (replacing power supply fans, etc.) it's not too outrageously difficult to get a reasonably powered PC in the mid-30dB range. My desktop PC is about 35dB and it's still louder than I'd like.

    If you're willing to go with water cooling or something like the CALM System's evaporative cooling, you can get even quieter than that. Or you can do what I did and run cables under the floor so you can put the thing in a closet and shut the door.

    Yahoo's Silent-PC list and AVS Forum have lots of good info on building PCs a lot quieter than the new Shuttle.

    But not as tiny!