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I'm assuming this is related to the power supply, which has an extremely tiny fan. This is a mostly well-designed machine; everything was pretty straightforward to install, except for my standard Plextor DVD-RW drive, which had screw holes that were slightly off from the Shuttle's.Only one drawback (besides the normal non-standard motherboard): the noise. It's not extremely loud, but there's a constant high-pitched hum even with the main case fan at the lowest speed.
It was the easiest build ever. If you stick with the HTPC cards, you should be GTG. The people who don't do that are the ones saying how terrible Shuttle PSUs are because they didn't do their homework and overloaded the thing.Anyways, I love this box. I have no idea what Shuttle box the first reviewer is talking about but I doubt this is it. Took me If you were to put a 95w+ CPU in there, not sure what sort of graphic card you'd be talking about. It only has a 250w PSU. And whatever card you get, I wouldn't go crazy.
And it's QUIET. And still be able to upgrade to a 45nm processor later this year.I was skeptical of the cooling system, but even oc'd to 2.7ghz all 4 cores stay between 34-44 degrees Celsius during fairly heavy use. The only noise is from the hard drive. Great pc for the money- I looked at Shuttles last year, and for dual-core compatibility (AMD or Intel) they were all $350+. Now it's easy to build a quad-core Shuttle with 4g ram, dvd-rw, wireless, and a good hard drive for around $750.
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