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[hadeshorn]

I am thinking of buying a Shuttle Barebone system. Mainly for the thought of being able to take it home with me. My last computer killed me freight wise and cost me a shitload of money.

So I was at Yongsan today. There was a display on them and one looked pretty sweet. Used an AMD 64 CPU.

Now the thing about Barebones you really cant upgrade them. But then again I didnt upgrade my last machine.

Also I have had some trouble in the past with Shuttle motherboards. However Shuttle seems to be getting their act into gear and some people saying now that the Shuttle Barebone systems kick ass.

Any thoughts on this. Also it runs on the nForce chipset. However I will be buying an ATI. Does this mean that this chipset favours running a nVidia card over an ATI?

Any thoughts please.

[jaebea]

Good choice on the machine.. these computers are great for their intended purpose. I specced one out a while ago for my little cousin to last her through the first few years of highschool. No real intention to perform major upgrades or so forth during the life the computer.. and we got a great price on a machine that will pull its weight for quite some time.

[Bunnymonster]

yup I love my shuttle, used to use it for work where I needed a semi portable machine with a dinky 14"TFT display it went into a flight bag no problems. I've brought it out here and it still is serving its purpose well. I am running an ATI card on my NVidia chipset. If you can get one without the onboard graphics I'd reccomend it as the onboard graphics are not the best and paying for something that you'll be replacing with a different GPU is wasteful. Also remember you can use the floppy drive bay to have a second Hard disk drive (so my 'unupgradable machine runs at close to 3 Gigahertz,has 1 Gig of ram and 400 gigs of hard disk space, an aTI 9600 pro GPU and more ports than you could ever sensibly want for). The heat problem was one I worried about a bit but the vapour cooling heat pipe is awesome, just don't touch the exhaust port if it is running hot (I burnt my hand) . I honestly can only say good things about my shuttle. The only black mark against it is the limited BIOS controls so they aren't for the overclockers out there....... sure when its time to upgrade my motherboard I'll need a whole new system but frankly they aren't that much more expensive and how often do you change motherboards???

[hadeshorn]

Cool im buying one wednesday then.

I priced out the top level one. I cant remember its serial because the brochure is at home.

I can be a noob and say its black. But anyway thats 377k.

To get it up to a full system minus a monitor is gonna cost me 1.1 mil.

3000 AMD 64.
512 3200 Ram
160 Gb Sata (I might have to get an ide since they dont boot up on SATA) Maybe get a SATA drive later on down the track.
9600 XT Radeon
Wireless MS Keyboard and mouse.
DVD burner.

I think thats everything. I am gonna talk to the shuttle guy tho because he said they were gonna make a package deal later on. Like an all inclusive thing. If it doesnt suck to much (Like 40gb HD and 256mb ram) then I might get that and save some $$$.

Oh please dont let this turn into a discussion on how cheap you can get stuff for. If you look long enough, you can always get something cheaper. But I just want to set it up and get it working. Not running around Yongsan so I can save 10k on a component.

[Demophobe]