06-25-2003, 11:08 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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I go to lots of LAN parties and I am an big gamer. Its so much easier to carry a small computer compared to my mammoth case i have now. Its gonna be the new 2.8 GHz p4 with 800 MHz FSB and a gig of pc 3200 ram. right now i have a geforce 4 Ti 4200 but i will be getting a better video card soon.
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06-27-2003, 07:06 AM | #4 (permalink) | |
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06-27-2003, 07:35 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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I have the shuttle one. It accualy one of the first generations of the shuttle ones they are ok but hard to work in but I just have big hands. Also of course dont plain to overclock the thermal dynamics of the case are not that good of course.
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06-27-2003, 11:46 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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Yeah those Shuttles look dope. If I ever get any spending money, I'm probably going to get one of those, but I'd like to try doing something with an ITX board. I like the weird stuff they do at www.mini-itx.com
My housemate was talking about making an ITX system full of video game emulators and ROMS and running it as an uber game console, as well as a DVD player (and burner?) for our TV downstairs. There is also the possibility of making it an mp3 jukebox. Maybe we'd gut an old VCR or game console and use that as the case? Remote control input and TV for the video output. Man, that'd be nice. |
06-27-2003, 02:21 PM | #7 (permalink) |
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my monitor is a flat panel so thats easy to deal with and my keyboard and stuff just goes in a backpack, the only thing that was a pain to carry was my 65 lb steel case.
The cooling isnt very good in these? damn
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06-27-2003, 08:46 PM | #8 (permalink) |
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shuttles are nice, but mini-itx can be cool, esp for case mods.
westothemax: if you want to make a machine for game emulators, dvds and divx, mp3s, I would suggest getting an X-box and modding it. It would go ~$200 and the TV out on the XBox is incredible. It even comes with controlers so playing console games arent that bad. It has ethernet, so you can pull things from your comp. Last i checked, there were emulators for nearly all game systems including psx. I wouldn't think an ITX (via) could do it, but a shuttle certainly can.
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06-28-2003, 12:28 AM | #9 (permalink) | |
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06-28-2003, 01:20 AM | #10 (permalink) |
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Mini-ITX boxes are pretty cool unless you want to fit much in them.
Not many PCI slots, and it's really crowded in there if you change hardware often. They sure are pretty, though.
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06-28-2003, 07:44 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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I have a Shuttle Xpc and I love it. I have the AMD version with the GF4 nForce chipset. It's a great pc but only problem is that its at work on my desk and not at home
These are suppose to come with some tricked out cooling system that uses some type of copper heat pipes cooled by the same fan that the power supply uses or something like that. I didn't install the mobo software so I can't check the temp at the moment. Really like it alot. If I get one I'd upgrade the video card tho.
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06-28-2003, 03:39 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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Ya I am gonna upgrade my video card soon enough, it sucks being a poor college student.
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06-28-2003, 08:36 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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the newest mini-itx 1ghz can do divx and dvd playback fine, and should be able to emulate 16bit consoles fine, but anything higher requires more horsepower and a much better gfx card. some of the newer mini-itxs have built in mpeg2 decoding and tv-out i believe so dvd's are no problem. They are designed to be silent media boxen. more info at www.mini-itx.com
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06-29-2003, 12:59 AM | #14 (permalink) |
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I have the Shuttle SB51G with a P4 2.4Ghz and a GeForce 4. It's got a 7200 rpm hard drive a CD/RW/DVD drive in it and it overheats and locks up during games if I leave the case cover on. I run it without the cover, but it kinda pisses me off.
Max case temp gets up to 122 F and that's about where it locks it up. The 200 watt power supply gets rather hot too ~116F, but the CPU stays below 110F Anyone else had this sort of problem? |
06-30-2003, 09:29 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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freedomdowntime: Perhaps, but it worked well in our dorm for what we wanted (emulation, divx, dvds). We were able to save tons of space becuase we didn't need a nes, snes, genesis and psx lying around anymore. Still needed our sega saturn for the 10 player bomberman (best fun you will ever have) but other than that, we were all set.
http://flamethroweros.sourceforge.net/ is a linux distro for multimedia use if anyone wants it. It looks well designed.
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