Any one got a few mins to mesure the Shuttle P2 inside for me?

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hey guys,

am thinking of going to a SD39P2 SFF with a Thermalright Ultra-90I but need to know if it will fit.

the height of the Shuttle is 160.5mm, and the Ultra-90I is 147mm, giving me 13.5mm gap. Will the HD fill in ok.

Any able to take a quick measure off how much room the have inside.

Cheers
 
have you actually read any reviews for this shuttle?

they come with their own cooling system (aswell as motherboard and powersupply) and something tells me there is not enough room for this to fit with it being a small form factor design (height issues).
 
Yeah the Ultra-90 is a tall cooler. It's not going to go in there at all I don't think.

Plus the cooling in the P2 Shuttles is excellent. Why would you bother putting a third-party cooler in that's only going to give similar cooling performance?
 
yup def wont fit with drive cage in, theres approx 120mm space, also even if it did you have the added problem that the mounting holes are proprietary so wont accomodate third party coolers unless your prepared to ghetto mod something up, on the sudihan forums theres quite a few tips, some have even managed to do completely internal water systems with no modding of case (still lose cdrom, but not the whole drive cage.)
 
don't want to touch water cooling tbh, air is enough for me.

Will be adding some fans to the case panel instead of Ultra-90I just to keep the 1950 Pro cool and when i upgrade to 8800.

So far the setup is going to be:
Shuttle SD39P2
Core 2 E6300
2GB DDR2 GeIL PC6400
few extra fans once unit arrives.
 
ok, this is going to sound daft but more fans does not equal better cooling ;)

i once managed to fit 9 fans in a g2 case for a joke,
3x 40mm, 1x 60mm, 4x 80mm and a 92mm in the top, and it was just loud, yes temps might have been 5' better but all that spinning was not worth it. now the unit runs on 2 40mm @9db and 1x 80mm @11db and is almost completely silent.

adding extra fans won't really do much, i've played about with xp120's in shuttles, other coolers etc and to be honest the most efficient cooling i've had with shuttles is to replace the fans already in the unit with more efficient fans. try it stock at first and see how it goes, but adding extra fans to a shuttle might do more harm than good.
 
I agree with Steeps, the cooling in Shuttles is very good, 3 of the main fans are controllable from a program called XPC Tools which you can download from the Shuttle website.

They are normally very quiet but if you crank them up can be a tad noisy, bit if you replaced them with better quality fans that would be more than enough.

GFX card wise, as long as it vents entirely through the back then internal heat shouldn't be too much of a problem.
 
ok so durning the day ave been looking at boards etc.

Ave scrapped the idea of a Shuttle and going with a SliverStone SG01 Evo Black with side Window and a Gigabyte GA-965GM-S2 board.

Sound good?
 
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