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Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed
Bender writes "The Tech Report has done a comprehensive review of the just-redesigned Shuttle XPC. These toaster-sized systems, sold with motherboard but sans CPU, memory, and storage, are becoming a very attractive alternative to the standard DIY system that's over twice the size. This latest PC 'cube' has everything: PCI Express, a BTX-inspired chassis design, room for a small RAID array, and pre-routed cables. The only snag is a Pentium 4 thermal throttling problem discovered through some nice investigative work. If Shuttle can fix this problem, this thing could be a killer personal workstation box."
According to This Page an Athlon 64 XPC of similar appearance is either available or pending - the Shuttle site appears to be under heavy load and is glitching badly so I can't give any further detail.
It's good to see that users who jib at Intel's excessive prices are looked after by Shuttle.
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
I work for an event staging company and we use about 20 of these shuttle pc's to run our portable media (powerpoint, dvd's, mpeg video etc.). For standard presentation fare, and general use, over very long periods of time (sometimes on for days) these little boxes perform very well. we've never had a heat problem (though it doesn't seem outrageous that there could arise such an issue, as they tend to run *very* warm, but not to the point of anything critical).
i didn't rtfa (c'mon, i'm a busy man....) but regardless of what they say, by experience, i say that these get the job done, and take up a hell of a lot less weight/space in shipping.
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True that, unless you planning to run GRE tunnels over IPSEC, (add to that snort) which I do, and have.. needs lots of memory, and your dusty box downstairs won't do it, at least it won't do it easily
I have two of the SN41G2s at home that I got about a year and a half ago. One has an Athlon XP 2600+/333 w/ ATI 9800 Pro and the other an Athlon XP 2400+/266 w/ ATI 9600 XT. Both have 1G memory. My fiancee and I use these as our main machines and we carry them every so often over to friends' house for our mini-LAN games (mini being that there are usually only around 6 of us there). They are much easier to transport than any one of our other four tower/mini-tower case machines. Both of the machines run very well and are very performant given their hardware. I'm glad we got these (and so are our backs).
shuttles are becoming increasing popular as servers in datacenters. You can stack 8 on one 'level', (face to face so the ports/exhausts are all facing out the rack) in the space of ~4u.
They're great PC's, but not for quiet environments.
> Anyone know what's the best SFF for quiet computing?
The Shuttle Zen XPC. Built to be quiet.
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Here's a review.
Nope. Product Specs. No TV Out on board, but if you get a video card to fill the PCI Express slot, you can probably pick up a PCI Express video card in the near future that has TV-Out on it.
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You already can get an AMD version, with AGP to add your choice of video card.
PS/2 Keyboards and Mice do the job just fine, work with KVM switches, and are cheaper than USB ones. Why not leave the connectors in place and let the owner decide?
(As an Aside, I prefer my USB keyboard (IBM Rapid Access III) & mouse (Logitech Marble Mouse USB))
I also have a SN45G and haven't had any problems. Did you happen to change VCORE? That's known to cause problems.
Regarding AGP, this new XPC has PCI Express which I believe replaces AGP (so you'll throw in a PCI Express video card instead of an AGP video card).
I just got a Shuttle SB75G2. And, yes, I'm glad it has the PS2 ports, because I am using it with a KVM switch. As to a floppy drive, I got one or those, too, but with built-in slots for CF, SD, and Memory Stick modules. Now that's what I call handy!
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