[clug] Mini-itx vs Linux on XBox

[John Griffiths]

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can't speak for earlier models,

ours are the SB61G2

users at first complained they couldn't tell if they were turned on.

(fortunately they have bright blinkenlights)

James Macnicol wrote:
>>the liquid cooling that comes with these boxes means it uses
>>a single wide, slow, fan at the back of the box instead of
>>lots of little screamers, they run very quiet in a tiny footprint.
>
>
> 	I don't think the heatpipe in the Shuttle boxes is really liquid
> cooling.  Certainly you don't have to fill it with fluid like a regular
> liquid cooling setup.
>
>
>>anyway you asked, we like em.
>>
>>with MS XP licence (*sigh*) and a Gb of RAM we're paying
>>around $1,600.
>>
>>worth it for us for the footprint and the quiet cooling.
>
>
> 	Which model are you using?  I had an SS51G (Pentium 4, i845
> chipset) until I got rid of it recently.  Sure the heatpipe is quiet but
> the 12cm fan that came with it was way noisy (but easy to replace).  The
> killer was the power supplies which were like vacuum cleaners.  My
> Shuttle was by far the noisiest machine I've ever had.  Maybe the newer
> ones are better....
>
> 	Hopefully in the next six months or so the new BTX form factor
> will become widely available, these are designed with much better case
> ventilation so that all but high end CPUs and video cards will be
> passively cooled.
>
>
>
> James
>
>

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