Guidance required

Pyrotechnic · 8 Sep 2006 at 00:12

I have had my spare room fitted out to try and capture as much space as possible.

With this in mind I have no option but to purchase some sort of shuttle pc. However I have no idea whatsover what I should be looking at. I currently have a P4 Chip with 1GB of Geil Ram and a 250gb Sata hard drive. If possible I would like to keep these to keep costs down.

I do not play games of any sort and do nothing really that heavy.

Can someone suggest a model that would suit my needs. I do not mind paying as little extra for a quieter one as this will be quite important in this small room.

As I mentioned above, I have no idea what I am looking at so any help would be appreciated.

TIA

Massive Attack · 8 Sep 2006 at 00:57

is your p4 socket 478 or 775

Pyrotechnic · 8 Sep 2006 at 01:00

Its a socket 478, should have mentioned that, sorry.

Massive Attack · 8 Sep 2006 at 01:08

have a look here at some of the modles which best suit your needs, its going to be hard to find one as 478 is an old socket

http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Product_Archives.asp

Pyrotechnic · 8 Sep 2006 at 01:16

Which socket would be better. I would consider using a new CPU if it meant the PC was going to be more upto date.

Pyrotechnic · 8 Sep 2006 at 13:28

In fact it may be better to go for a new system. Anyone suggest a good setup to replace my desktop bearing in mind I dont use it as a games machine ?

Pyrotechnic · 10 Sep 2006 at 20:05

Can anyone suggest a shopping list for me

Pyrotechnic · 24 Sep 2006 at 01:13

Anyone ?

squiffy · 24 Sep 2006 at 01:19

imo get a MATX system, they're small enough and the Shuttles are non standard (as in PC parts) A MATX system isn't that big, look into Qpack, Sugo or Silverstone TJ-08 and put it on the floor under your desk. Tiny.

Working in a MATX is tight enough, let alone a shuttle. Shuttles are quite expensive and have steadily increase in price. Look at this case dimensions and see what you think..

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-tj08.htm

195 mm (W) x 381 mm (H) x 378 mm (D))

WJA96 · 24 Sep 2006 at 21:11

Could I suggest you look at the Biostar C1? It should set you back about £100, is pretty well specced out and you should be able to get a 6xx series S775 P4 processor to go in it for about £60. 1 Gb of DDR RAM will be another £40, add a decent HDD for, say £60 and an optical drive £25. That would be a pretty sweet shoebox for £285.

I reckon you could buy the above parts second hand for about £120, which would make it pretty remarkable value. Sell your S478 P4 on Member's market to recoup some of the cost.

Sorry - just re-read your post, the Geil RAM and HDD will fit fine.