SpaceCube SN45G AMD Mini Barebone PC

[Abarbarian]

Hi again ,

So if I was to buy this ,

Product Details

SN45G

Feature Highlight

Chipset
Design in high performance NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset.

Auto Guardian & I.C.E. Heat-Pipe
With heat-pipe technology combines with revolutionary 3 phase CPU temperature Auto Guardian smart fan feature make system very cool and ultra quiet.

Athlon XP Burn Proof
Protecting CPU won’t damage form over temperature.

Specification

Form Factor:


Shuttle Form Factor

Processor

AMD Athlon XP / Duron in the 462 pin package with 200/266/333/400MHz FSB

Chipsets

NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 + MCP-T

Memory

Two x 184 pin dual DDR 200/266/333/400 SDRAM DIMM slots support up to 2GB memory

Audio

On board Realtek ALC650 six channel audio

Fast Ethernet

Support NVIDIA MAC with Realtek 8201BL on board phy,10/100Mbps operation

1394

Realtek 8801B, support the Plug-and-Play (PNP) specification & Serial Bus Data Rates of 100,200, and 400 Mbits/s

Front Panel

2 x USB connectors

1 x Mic-In, 1 x Earphone, 1 x Line in

1 x Power-On

1 x Reset

1 x Power Indicator: Blue

1 x HDD Indicator: Orange

1 x mini 1394a

On board header

1 set of 2x5 pin USB header

CD Audio_In header

1 XPC front panel header(1394a/USB2.0/Line in/Line out/Microphone)

SPDIF_In/Out header

Parallel port header

IrDA header

2 x UltraDMA133 Master IDE connector
1 x Floppy connector
Clear CMOS>/li>

Back panel

1 x PCI slot

1 x AGP slot

1 x PS/2 Keyboard

1 x PS/2 Mouse

2 x USB2.0 ports

1 x Serial Port

1 x RJ45 port

2 x IEEE1394a Ports

1x Rear out, 1x Front out, 1x Center/Bass Audio connector

1 SPDIF In /Out

Extension Bay

2 x 3.5" bays 1 x 5.25" bay

Dimension

300(L)x200(W)x185(H)mm, 2.85Kg (N.W.), 4.65Kg (G.W.)

Along with ,

DiamondMax 10 200GB 8mb Cache Hard Drive

Liteon SOHW-1693S DL Dual Bezel Int IDE 16x DVDRW +/- Ret

and a OS . Then I would have a complete system that would be able to play some of the more modern games . Total cost would be £223.01.

 

[Raje]

Are you missing a video card??? I think you are... but everything does sounds very good... especially the whole Burn proof processor and I.C.E. feature. May I recomend a video card for you...

Seeing that you are already willing to spend over 2k how about these two cards... one is a bit of a budget card but very good... I have installed one on freinds pc and it works well with decent software bundled. The other is a very well know good rated card almost anyone would recomend.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16814130203,N82E16814145076&SubCategory=48

EDIT: OMG I just got that LiteOn drive... Its good in my opinion. You will need to get the firmware from it.. takes 10 seconds.. Very fast drive... supports any disk you put in it.. can get kinda loud sometimes when burning... not recognised by one or two of my programs... Comes with Power DVD bundled which is great software.

 

[Jaguar]

Seeing that you are already willing to spend over 2k

2k? I think maybe you may have mis-read that price.. £223.01 = Two Hundred and Twenty Three Pounds and One Penny in English money

tell em if they drop the penny you will take 2...

 

[Raje]

Wow....... what was I thinking..... I must be getting sleepy... well.... the price does sound much better now.

 

[muckshifter]

That's a socket A architect ... it's 20years old, it's cheap, its pretty ... I would NOT buy it for games.

Used with Linux, would make it a great little FaD cruncher.

 

[Abarbarian]

Hi ,

Looked at a review of the FX5500 card and it was not really recomended as value for money .

Looked at the maths and lost the £00.01 which is good so I might order two .

Dosen't this have on board graphics ??????????????????????

Help me out here I'm going crazy reading specs and assimilating new info ........... I may have to buy a monopoly set .

 

[Abarbarian]

Heres the review of the rig . I know its old but so am I .

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDk5LDE=

 

[Ian]

Which CPU would you be putting in that Shuttle unit, as it doesn't already come with one?

 

[Abarbarian]

I was under the impression that it included this one ,

Processor

AMD Athlon XP / Duron in the 462 pin package with 200/266/333/400MHz FSB


but I am starting to get confused as I've been researching for two days .

 

[Ian]

I was under the impression that it included this one ,

Processor

AMD Athlon XP / Duron in the 462 pin package with 200/266/333/400MHz FSB


but I am starting to get confused as I've been researching for two days .

I'm afraid not, thats just the type it accepts

If you let us know what you are after, and we'll try to help you

 

[tomsega]

Looks good

I have an SN41G2V2, Which is basically the one you are looking at but only without SATA support. They are interesting, because although you really CANNOT OVERCLOCK THE PROCESSOR WHATSOEVER they DO let you overclock graphics cards more than normal - because when you take the lid off (which takes about 5 seconds) the graphics card is left completely open to the air! Whatsmore, if you then purchase a cheap USB fly-fan and AIM that at your graphics card.....HEY PRESTO!

But yeah, they look SUPER cool - and if you like everything about building your PC except for the screwing-in-the-motherboard bit, they are ideal. Beware that they are paranoid little things when it comes to heat - Make sure you use the correct about of thermal paste, because they like to switch themselves off more prematurely than a regular board - you may find you will have to press ON then RESTART immediately afterwards in that scenario.

 

[Abarbarian]

Drat knew it was too good to be true , adding a proccesor would make it too expensive for the specs . Thanks all . Think this should be a dead thread now . I'll start a new one nowi have a clearer idea of what I'm after .

P.S. thanks tomsega I found this slightly damaged one at

http://www.savastore.com/productinf...alog_name=Savastore&page=mainfeatures&pid=175

And it seemed pretty neat .