Shuttle PC40 SilentX - power supply - 250 Watt

Advantages: Better power supply above the original
Disadvantages: Shame they did not improve the stock fan

...Similar to the SN45Gv1 but the v2 comes with the SilentX 250w power supply as standard and a new motherboard design. This is ideal for high power graphic cards wuch as an ATI All In Wonder Card AIW. The vDimm problems are reportedly solved on this model however my firmare has this option removed. I have purchased 1 of these. Easy to assemble with some practice under 2 hours instructions comprehensive no first time experience necessary. Sound quality is amazing from the nForce 2 Soundstorm chipset. Stock fan is okay but rather noisy but can be replaced with quieter alternative which have better airflow. Supplied thermal paste is okay but better thermal paste can be used to cool the unit. I have 1 hard drives and a DVD-rom drivewith a Radeon 9600 PRO in mine and the power supply copes fine with temperatures around 47c. Ideal units for LAN... Read review

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Advantages: Beautiful, small, rock solid, fast, quality construction, full of features, right there with the big boys on performance.
Disadvantages: none really. once hooked with a Shuttle then there is no going back.

...These are my first impressions of the new SN41G2 V2.0. I had the Shuttle SN41G2 V1.0 Black Special Edition since last june. I loved is so much but it had some annoyances. Last week I managed to short circuit the motherboard which rendered the AGP and PCI slots useless, but strangely enough everything still works including the built-in graphics and I have been using it till this morning. I ordered the new SN41G2 V2.0 and got it this morning. I have to say that the first impression was that the silver colour looks much better that the old SN41G2. It looks more whiter if that makes sense. Under the hood there are many nice changes: - Officially supports DDR400 [400MHz FSB]. - Comes with the SilentX 250W PC40 PSU instead of the old Enhance 200W PSU. - The cables are sooooo neatly routed through the case. in the the old SN41G2 the cables... Read review

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Advantages: small and lightweight and gives freedom over components
Disadvantages: gets a little hot though better than previous models

....25", 2x 3.5" * Chipset - SiS 661FX / SiS 963L * Integrated graphics (64MB UMA) * CPU - Socket 478 supports 800/533MHz FSB, Pentium 4 (Prescott, Northwood) and Celeron processors * Slots - 1 x AGP (8X), 1 x PCI * Memory - Supports DDR-400/333 * Connectors - 2x IDE ATA 133, 1x floppy * 6-channel audio, SPDIF * Firewire, USB 2.0, Dual VGA * Fast Ethernet LAN * Power supply - 200 Watt mini power supply What did I put into my PC? Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar 80 gig. This is a basic hard drive that spins at 7200 rpm. Fairly small compared to some of the massive drives in existence but it came out of my original Shuttle PC so it was not brand new. Memory: I got some memory from ebuyer.co.uk I have always used Crucial RAM because it has yet to fail on me * touch wood * It is well priced. I opted for DDR 400 RAM... Read review

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