Advice on buying a new shuttle

[blackster]

Hi Everyone, I'm on the look out for a new shuttle system, mainly as a second rig and to act as a backup for my main rig should any problems arise etc.

However I owned a shuttle a couple of years back and I had a mass problem with heat and cooling issues (it nearly fried my 3200+)

It also one day refused to boot and I ended up loosing all my C drive data due to some corruption with the memory (dont ask) although when it worked I quite like it, for its size and wow factor etc, the model I had was a Shuttle SN85G4 V2
I ended up getting rid and building a full size rig.

But I'm thinking of giving the shuttle another go.
I was looking at going for an Intel based machine, either the SD31P or a SB83G5M

I do plan to using for some gaming, like counterstrike but nothing ground breaking.

Now my main concern is :

Heat
Noise
Stability

Can anyone give me any pointers on the above models please

Thanks

 

[Orifice]

I've got an SD31P, its pretty quiet if you run the fans in ultra quiet mode. Still manages to keep a Pentium 830D running at 3.5Ghz reasonably cool, given the amount of heat its kicking out.

As with most intel chipsets, stability isnt a problem.