Shuttle 25P/26P Overclockers

supafly · 25 Mar 2006 at 23:22

How much have you managed to overclock your Shuttle 25P/26P?

Goksly · 26 Mar 2006 at 11:12

As long as you dont use the latest bios (locks the bus to 250 apparently) they are pretty good for overclocking.
My opty 144 (9x200) is running sweetly at 9x300 - that cuppled with a X1800XT makes it a very good gaming machine and is surprisingly quiet

just make sure you replace those SATA cables.

chaparral · 26 Mar 2006 at 16:10

All sn26p are locked at 250FSB.

Mercutio · 26 Mar 2006 at 23:25

Goksly said:
As long as you dont use the latest bios (locks the bus to 250 apparently) they are pretty good for overclocking.
My opty 144 (9x200) is running sweetly at 9x300 - that cuppled with a X1800XT makes it a very good gaming machine and is surprisingly quiet just make sure you replace those SATA cables.

Goksly - whats your full setup? Have you upgraded any of the fans/cooling? Which if so - im ready for my .5 upgrade (I buy a good machine, run at stock first THEN overclock when the performance vs current games drop off followed by full upgrade) so wouldnt mind a little advice on tinkering with the sn25p.

Whats the 26p like anyone? That might be my next setup if there not tooo stupidly priced - quite liking the P series setup atm, jus need a bit more oomph

Would also influence my purchasing as X1800XT VS 7800GTX/7900GT atm - id likely go nvidia if it will take a pair of mid-high current gen or top last gen cards.

That actually sounds rather good - SN26P, a second card for SLI and a dual socket for next big upgrade

Kinda tempted with loading up a P180 case with similar level kit tho - choices, choices

Might see what an M2 based shuttle brings

Goksly · 27 Mar 2006 at 00:02

I would say the SN26P is a jip - £100+ more for ultra->sli chipset? Get real shuttle.

My full setup is in my sig. I hadnt changed any of the fans; i just run it on smart fan. With the CPU at 2.7ghz under load and 1.488v the fan has never spun up under load (Smart fan appears to have about 3 settings.... very slow, slow and loud). I can just about hear it jump up to slow when benchmarking, but er yeah....generally very happy.

The new P2 shuttle case looks nice... think its labelled the SN27P2 (not 100%). Loses the memory card reader though.

Mercutio · 27 Mar 2006 at 01:10

Goksly said:
I would say the SN26P is a jip - £100+ more for ultra->sli chipset? Get real shuttle.

My full setup is in my sig. I hadnt changed any of the fans; i just run it on smart fan. With the CPU at 2.7ghz under load and 1.488v the fan has never spun up under load (Smart fan appears to have about 3 settings.... very slow, slow and loud). I can just about hear it jump up to slow when benchmarking, but er yeah....generally very happy.

The new P2 shuttle case looks nice... think its labelled the SN27P2 (not 100%). Loses the memory card reader though.

soon as they make something like the sn37p2 for amd chips they might well have my cash