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Mikey

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I'm in the process of selling my Dell GX270 which I've been using for VMware and I'm also now thinking of getting rid of my AMD Athlon XP 2500 @ 3200, motherboard and Antec Sonata case etc. I haven't decided whether I'll sell it in parts or as a complete unit. I'll prob go for the parts option.

Basically I'm after a very quick Shuttle based system as I want to go back to minimal space.

What will also be included in the Shuttle system is

Black DVD-RW
Black FDD
Samsung 160GB Spinpoint drive SATA
WD Raptor 36GB SATA
2GB RAM

I'm not fussed about graphics card speed as I don't play games these days at all (whether I get back into it, who knows) but what I deffo do want is a DVI connection for my TFT possibly two as I'm either going to sell my Iiyama E431 17" TFT and go big or get a second one. I'm tempted with the second one at the moment as I can then leave the VMWare sessions on one screen and normal stuff on the other.

Suggestions please :) I also not wanting to break the bank with the latest Intel or AMD chips, but still something classed as good
 
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EVH said:
Shuttle ST20G5
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That looks really nice, mmm time to put my old barebones tower up for sale.

How much do you reckon it'll get

AMD XP 2500+ with Thermalright SP97 cooler
1GB PC3200
Antec Sonata case
Sony DVD
Samsung DVD-RW
GeForce Ti4200 with Zalaman cooler
Adaptec 1210s RAID Card
Promise ATA Controller card
Linksys 54G Wireless card

I'm hoping to get £200 for my GX270 Dell and I'd hope for around £130 for the above.
 
EVH said:
The ATi Express chipset runs flawlessly, if not as stable as the nvidia counterpart as used in the SN25P etc.

If you want get the ST20G5, use the onboard chipset and switch over to a bigger card when you can afford it; this way you'll save on buying a low end card just to get it to run (if you had the SN25P) :)
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A very valid point.. Oh well time to see how much money I can raise :)
 
Audionut said:
Well if you want your Black DVD-RW and Black FDD to match then go for the SN21G5. It's essentially the same thing as the ST20G5 but with the nForce 410 chipset and nVidia 6100 onboard graphics.
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I haven't got a black DVD-RW yet, it'd be on the cards. Currently I have a black DVD ROM and CDRW.

That system does look nice though and it's cheaper. but then whatever system I get it must have DVI and the other system looks more future proof etc.
 
Well I sold my Dell GX270 last night for £180, so that's contributed quite a significant amount.

Just need to see what I can get for the Remaining

1GB PC3200
Athlon XP2500
Abit NF7-S
GeForce Ti4200 with a zalaman attached
Antec Sonata Case
DVD ROM
CDRW

Am planning on selling separately at the moment via ebay

At the moment it looks like this Shuttle with Windows XP 64bit, haven't decided what CPU yet as it depends what I'll get for the above etc.

REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST
FS-047-SH Shuttle XPC ST20G5 Aluminium Barebones System - AMD 64 (Socket 939) (FS-047-SH) 1
£209.95 £209.95
CP-147-AM AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-147-AM) 1
£83.95 £83.95
CD-033-NE NEC ND4571 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-033-NE) 1
£24.95 £24.95
Subtotal £318.85
VAT £55.80
Total £374.65
 
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lozza23_uk said:
i would say complete.
but price up the parts, check other forums etc.

1gig pc3200 new is under 50quid now. ti4200 isnt great.
case is nice, but only 40-50 new?

work it all out and decide if splitting it or selling it complete is the best option.
surely someone you know would buy it?

even i would be tempted it if postage was free, and I was allowed to use the extended features of this forum ;) unfortunately my 250posts havent kicked in yet.
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Nah I won't sell it in the forums, I'd sell it via the local paper or ebay, but looking at the prices I'll prob go for seperate parts etc. But with the Antec Sonata case include the CD / DVD within the sale etc.

Either the plan is for a much nicer system with minmal out lay :)
 
Yeah I've got a tube of AS5 at home somewhere so yup that'll be used if this overdue upgrade happens.. (Just spent £350 in Cardiff last weekend on a mates stag do)...
 
Was tempted to re-use my Sonata case, but think I'll still remain on the Shuttle route, had a concern about expanability space etc as I know it's limited on the Shuttle.

Got a 2nd Iiyama 17" TFT coming too (although now thinking I shouldn't have..) Perhaps should've just gone bigger from the outset.

The other thing I'm mulling getting rid of is my WD Raptor and just running on 1 160GB Samsung Spinpoint for the mo, would like to get another so I can do a RAID 1 strip etc. with my critical data being backed up via ntbackup to a USB based disk.... mmmm shame can't get a USB2 LTO2 tape drive ;)
 
Well I install the 3700+ into my new ST20G5 shuttle and at the moment haven't seen a fantasticly quick machine yet. At the moment I've put Windows x64 on it with the various drivers from shuttle. So I'll prob tinker around with it a bit more and then prob put my normal XP Pro back on. I only installed the trial x64 to have a look, nothing more nothing less.

The orginal plan for this system was for it to be the driving force for my VMWare sessions. I may dig out Half Life 2, but I've got to pay £10 to get the Steam account reset as it was given to me by a friend.

All in all not what I was expecting.. It's also running a dual TFT 17" IIyama E431-S set-up and again, I'm now tempted to get shot of both TFTs and just get a bigger one.
 
cokecan72 said:
uninstall all the shuttle drivers right this second! :)

your a lot better off getting them of ati's webby

as for speed. i tihnk your problem here is xp64. when i used it on my SN85G4V3, i found it to be a fair bit slower than normal XP

also this is probs the first time that 32bit XP has actually been as stable as it is. definatly a decent OS now after 2 service packs and loads of other updates :)
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Yeah I wasn't impressed with it.. I work for a microsoft gold partner and the general consensus around the office is that's crap, but I had to have a look for myself. It seems perfectly stable, but at the end of the day I'll be getting 32bit XP back on. I'll have a look at the the ATI site too for those drivers. I just used the shuttle ones just to get it running. Next on the list is Nero 7 for this lightscribe tech
 
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