Shuttle Noise

cokecan72 said:
wouldnt you be able to put a zalman or arctic cooler on the graphics card anyway it it was too loud for you??? im sure they fit in the 25/26p's
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Yes you could but..
a) the reference cooler is good enough anyway,
b) if you did that you couldn't run SLi in the SN26P because the cards have 3mm clearance between them - at most! :eek:
 
well he said he had no need for sli so that wouldnt be a problem, and if he did find the stock cooler too loud then he always had the oppertunity to swap it for something possibly a bit quieter.

sounds like a win win situation to me :)
 
cokecan72 said:
well he said he had no need for sli so that wouldnt be a problem, and if he did find the stock cooler too loud then he always had the oppertunity to swap it for something possibly a bit quieter.

sounds like a win win situation to me :)
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Sounds like he should just go with the SN25P to me (if he doesnt need SLi) ;)

Agreed... Win, win!
 
cokecan72 said:
yeah i was thinkin that too. no need for the 26P if ya not doin sli as their practically identical otherwise
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..and the 26P is like £100 or more :eek:
 
There is a few technical differences between the 26p and 25p besides the £130 price increase. From what i've read the 26p has slightly better cooling and can enable you to use a slower fan speed, thus reducing noise, the most important factor to me when doing webmaster work.

Going to order this tomorrow:

FS-059-SH Shuttle XPC SN26P Aluminium Barebones System - AMD 64 (Socket 939) (FS-059-SH)
£339.95 £339.95
MY-057-OC OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum Series EL-DDR CAS2 (OCZ4002048ELDCPE-K) (MY-057-OC)
£124.95 £124.95
CD-033-LG LG GSA-4167BAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-033-LG)
£22.95 £22.95
OS-001-MS Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£49.95 £49.95
SW-017-NO Symantec Norton Internet Security Suite 2006 - OEM (SW-017-NO)
£19.95 £19.95
CP-148-AM AMD Opteron UP 170 Dual Core San Diego 2.0GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-148-AM)
£274.95 £274.95
GX-009-BG BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-009-BG)
£269.95 £269.95
AC-000-AC Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£2.95 £2.95
Subtotal £1,105.60
VAT £193.48
Total £1,299.08

I've read good comments on a few forums about the low noise level of the BFG GeForce 7800 GTX.
 
as EVH said, the cooling is the same, he's owned both. and i really cant see there being any difference in fan speeds. even if there is if you use a program like speedfan you can have what ever speed you want regardless of what hte bios says

i really think you'd be better saving over a 100 squiddies
 
Hey suprafly.. don't buy the Norton Internet Security software, there's plenty of free alternatives :)

(Check this link: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17547074)

...as for fan speeds the SN26P does run louder on stock (solved with BIOS editing) because of it's added 60mm fan, however, both are equally as cool.. the only reason to have the SN26P would be the added SLi feature.

Also, a personal note.. the wiring in the SN26P is a bit better because it pre-routes the gfx cables, better but that's nothing a quick extension wouldnt solve.. i'd certainly keep my £100 if I didnt need/want SLi.
 
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I know everyone has their own opinion on what is good, but i've found the combination of norton firewall/antivirus, spyremover and lately microsoft antispyware as well has kept my pc's virus/trojan free.
 
supafly said:
I know everyone has their own opinion on what is good, but i've found the combination of norton firewall/antivirus, spyremover and lately microsoft antispyware as well has kept my pc's virus/trojan free.
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It's not that it isn't good but it hogs resources soooo badly.

You'd be a fool to use Norton over something like NOD32 which is considered on of the best, and uses the smallest footprint.

I use AVG 7 Professional, and Ad-Aware SE and have never had a virus, or even a hint of spyware on my systems in over 3 years of running. Currently though I run on x64 and, as such use nothing. Going strong now for a year :D - infection free!
 
Do you play many games?

If not I'd just get a passive graphics card, save a huge amount of money and have no fans to worry about :)

The BFG card can be noisy - get the OcUK GeForce 7800GTX SILENT Extreme 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) (GX-033-DE). This comes with the same cooler as the Quadro cards and the 512MB 7800GTX cards and it's said to be very quiet
 
The SN26p is marginally quiter than my previous SN25P, or at least it was till I went SLi :)

Hopefully when Zalman eventually release the VF100, I can get some silence back.

Aesthetically the 26 looks better, but that is obviously just my opinion

When I had a single 7900gt and VF-900 it was all pretty quiet, it is setup in my bedroom and downloads HD material most nights.
 
I was worried about this also when I was ordering my 25P recently

What I found was this...............

I tried this config

25P
X2 4200
7800GT
2Gb Gskill ZX
2* 250Gb Seagate 7200.9's
DVd drive (had problems with Pioneer DVR-111BDK on booting from original Windows XP disc for install purposes but was just unlucky i believe)

I found the above config ok during the day but too noisy at night due to vga fans - changed to a Leadtek GeForce 7600 GS SILENT 256Mb and its now perfect in the dead of night , completely inaudible with chassis fans set to ultra low.

I havent tried gaming or even playing a dvd, but for music playback and browsing the web its great - will be taking pics this weekend and using it a little more arduiously but I cant fault it.

Admittedly I had the X2 4200 and the 7800 laying around spare after recent upgrade, and will be hopefully selling the 7800 soon to make some money back on this but over all I am very happy

Currently using a Dell 1905FP 8ms tft, but shortly going to demote that to a 2nd display and use my LG hdtv as primary when I set it up (mainly as a dvd display but may try and see how 7600 performs in some games)

I would also like to add that while I havent seen a 26P in the flesh I wouldnt say the 25P looks horrendous at all, quite the opposite, but as the above says its personal opinion (-:
 
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