Few questions for owners of the SN25P

[mrfocus]

Hi,

I will most likely be building a new system in not too long, and I have a few questions about this Shuttle case.

First off, do you find it quiet? I'm not talking dead silent, just quiet, as in: Could you sleep with it on?

Secondly, do you think that it was worth the money? Do you think it was a good purchase, etc.

Thirdly, have you done any overclocking with it? What kind of temps do you get?

Edit: Fourthly, if you could write the pros and cons of the system.

That's about it for now.

Thanks

mrfocus

[Larch]

It is quite quiet as far as systems go. I have a 7800 GTX from BFG installed and even that is quiet.

The build quality is excellent and the performance i have is very very fast. Im happy with what ive bought with the exception of one thing. PCIe only = no decent soundcard.

Havent bothered. The volume of the system is fine and none of the games i play needs overclocking to play @ 1280x1024 with as much gfx as i can give it. Even Battlefield 2 at that res with 4x AA works flawlessly.


Pros:
Fast, quiet, small, asthetically pleasing, portable.

Cons:
Unable to use a decent soundcard (since both expansion slots are PCIe).

[War]

I can sleep with my SN25P in my room (I like the bios ability to turn the power led off) Rather quiet.

I personally have a bit of a battle getting everything installed what with the optical drive (went a bought a dvd burner to make it fit in easilly compared to my vanilla DVD i had lying around)

But now it's all fixed up I do like it a lot, no problems. Solid build again (had the sn41g2 and sn85g4 previously) Good value for money

With the inablity to put an additional soundcard in, I think the onboard is rather commendable no complaints (it is 7.1 after all)

Haven't oc'd it yet (4000+) and probably won't bother, but if you do decide to do it there is the bios reset switch out the back


The only concieveable CON that I can think of is that it is a little larger than the previous models, so if you are intending to use the shuttle backpack... well it's a tight fit.

[REMF]

i can sleep with my SN25P on, frequently do when d/l'ing.

noidy when playing DVD'd, but that's the drives fault rather than the system.

beautifully engineered.

sound now works fine in SUSE 10.0

i'm a very happy bunny.

[Larch]

yea sound isnt so bad, but for example:

Tribes Vengeance on the unreal engine with sound enabled im on about 87 fps with it hardware disabled im on about 127. Its extreemly frustrating i just hope creative redesign their, bus'less sound interface that can only run on the pci bus and get an xfi pcie out