My SN25P Shuttle story

~J~

~J~

~J~

Soldato
Joined
20 Oct 2003
Posts
7,558
Location
London
OK, well if anyone's interested I've posted a few pictures and thoughts on my SN25P Shuttle.

Has a few installation photos as well as some details of pitfalls I encountered and a few tips and thoughts for anyone who may be thinking of going down the SFF road.

Thanks to those on here you have helped me over the last few weeks, you've definately been very very helpful and the advice you gave was solid.

Read about it here: http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk/?page_id=193
 
Cheers for the feedback.

At the moment, the amp and xbox are next to each other but hopefully tomorrow I'll be moving them around.

Keep putting my hand next to the exhaust to see how warm it is and I'm surprised how cool the air coming out feels. But you're the experts, will take your advice on board.

Thanks again.
 
Cheers mate.

The power extender; yeah they do supply an additional one, as you say, one for the ide cable, but my card has a 6pin power connector with a male connector and the power extended had a male connector too. Maybe I should blame nVidia then :p

Seriously though, it was just a case of "O heck, how am I gonna do this" and I'm sure the majority of people will have 'spares' kicking about the house.

As for the two keyboards. Well the 4000 I needed as my trusty Natural keyboard was starting to get tempermental, I've had it about 3 years now it's had a hell of a lot of hammer and served me well, so a new natural keyboard was needed. The purchase of the Media keyboard was because I wanted to see how well it integrated with Media Centre as if it performs well I'll be building a dedicated HTPC soon which is where the keyboard will come into play.

My house is also really small (an old millers cottage), so it's pretty easy for me to angle my monitor, lay on the settee and work or watch movies, so having that keyboard rather than a big bulky wireless one is also a lot more comfortable to work with.

Sorry to hear about the CPU hood, have to admit I was like a surgeon removing things as I was so scared on breaking something!
 
Keeping it in this thread.

Recently had an almost disasterous situation with one of my drives (crashed and almost lost the contents).

Eventually got the drive working (still can't read data) and was about to reformat it but I'm sure I've read somewhere on here that the SATA cables that come with shuttles are next to rubbish!

Anyone confirm this and perhaps recommend an alternative, and how easy is it to replace the cables.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom