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A64 SFF Question

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SynthDude2001

Lifer
I'm still chugging along on the reliable, but aging, 2.4GHz Athlon XP machine I built in August 2003. I want to do an A64 upgrade/new build soon (within the next two months probably), and an SFF would be quite nice. I would love to have a small machine to pair with my LCD (great for LAN parties 😉).

There are two things possibly preventing this from being as simple as I would like:

1) I currently own an AGP 6800GT
2) I just purchased a PCI HDTV tuner card

Now, you could say "just buy the Shuttle SN95G5 and be done with it", and that could work. However, lately I've been thinking - if I'm going to wait a few months to do a new build anyway, it's certainly possible that the new video cards will be out by then. And the trend seems to be going in the direction of PCI-Express. So if saving my current video card is not a concern...then the SN25P looks great. (I especially like the memory card slots, room for possibly 3 hard drives - and the nice audio solution/codecs they're putting in.)

The problem with that though, is the HDTV card I just bought. The SN25P doesn't have a PCI slot at all, which is really unfortunate. I could easily live with just one expansion slot other than the video card - but as far as I know, there are no PCI-Express HDTV tuners that are out, or have even been announced. And I wanted to get one anyway before that broadcast flag mess begins in July.

So basically...would you recommend that I just go ahead and get the SN95G5 - or is there an A64 PCI-E SFF machine that has a normal PCI slot (or alternately - a PCI-E HDTV tuner coming out soon)?

Thanks in advance. 🙂
 
Shuttle is set to release the SN25P some time near the end of this month. The only thing I dont know is whether it will have a PCI slot also.
 
Sorry, Shuttle is way behind, in getting the SN25P out. I'm thinking late April at the best.
Biostar is in a similar position. I was hoping to get one by march too, but I figure as long as it come out around XP64 it should be ok.

PS
If anyone has some facts about it coming earlier let me know. I friend of mine is reseller, and he says he don't expect any inventory until late April.
 
son of a ...

actually thats good info. too bad cause everyone has been hyping this Feb 22nd release date for the SN25P. OrSin could you PM me if you find out a more exact date for the SN25P. Thanks.
 
Not to jump the gun, but you can't order or even pre-order the SN25P from anywhere yet.
Not even shuttles site. If I'm wrong someone post a place that have it. I know its the first day it should be out, but I was accepting to see some spots with pre-orders at least.
 
There are hardly any PCIe controller cards. I've seen a few SCSI, and I know of a few gigabit ethernet controllers, but other than that, there's nothing.
 
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