Dirt cheap SFF / XPC cases with mobo at newegg!!

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Lifer
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Anyone have any reviews on these? Looks like a good deal but how cheap are they really?
 
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hans007

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they look just like the ams gbox ones.


and the fic ones.


hopefully they start selling the springdale version (i figure this company is the oem for all of those).


i've never seen one this style with a nforce2 unfortunately.
 
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pxc

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Neither of the Athlon SFF barebones comes with an AGP slot. It's a typo.
 
virtuamike

virtuamike

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The CF-S968L-BK for $129 shipped is an incredible deal. i845 chipset, ICH4 south, AGP + PCI, can't go wrong at that price. Wouldn't cost much at all to get the system running ($120 for an old 533FSB P4, $80 for 512MB PC2700, $60 for HDD, $30 for DVD). And yes, these are the same as the AMS cubes.
 
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slycat

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Originally posted by: virtuamike
The CF-S968L-BK for $129 shipped is an incredible deal. i845 chipset, ICH4 south, AGP + PCI, can't go wrong at that price. Wouldn't cost much at all to get the system running ($120 for an old 533FSB P4, $80 for 512MB PC2700, $60 for HDD, $30 for DVD). And yes, these are the same as the AMS cubes.
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thats what i got. best deal anywhere.
 
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leonowski

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looks like they got the SPDIF out and in connectors right on these too!

OUT on the back and IN on the front - not like those other weird arse SFF boxes. =\

AMD one is OOS already too! AT effect =/
 
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teKillah

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Got the 129.00 one with the optical out and the AGP

Wish the Athlon ones had AGP, now where do I look for a cheapo intel processor !!!
 
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robisc

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I too just got in on this, i got the $139 one, also ordered a $69 celery 2.2 which should run pretty good in this box, too bad the AMD boxes are OOS, now if I can just get in on the Staples RAM deal on the other post here I will be golden.
 
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farstar

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wow, I've been wanting one of these since they were new and $350. Bummer now that the bus is 533, 800 would be much better. Are replacement motherboards available? Will these take a high speed ie 2.8 Celeron?
 
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lunchm3at

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Ok.. so I got one of the AMD models... this is my first system with DDR so what do I need here? 2100? 2700? I am planning on a 1600XP CPU

Thanks
 
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Originally posted by: lunchm3at
Ok.. so I got one of the AMD models... this is my first system with DDR so what do I need here? 2100? 2700? I am planning on a 1600XP CPU

Thanks
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PC2100 unless you want to OC. (OC not recommended with SFF due to heat issues. Not sure if the mobo even supports it.)

 
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pxc

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Originally posted by: farstar
Are replacement motherboards available? Will these take a high speed ie 2.8 Celeron?
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:p you said "high speed". j/k

The chances of loading up the system with more and faster parts is limited if you bought an AGP/PCI slot model with a 150W PSU. The Celeron 2.8GHz isn't out yet, but it should work in any any of the SFF cases (150W or 220W PSU). But if the system has an AGP slot, the 150W PSU models probably won't work very well with a fast video card (e.g. 9700/9800/FX5800/etc) since the PSU would be overloaded.

The 9700/9800/FX5800 video cards consume 60W+, the Celeron 2.7GHz consumes around 67W, an optical drive consumes about 18W, a hard drive consumes around 15W and add a few watts for memory, fans, motherboard (those figures are for the components under load, reading and/or writing). That's a load of over 180W. If you stick to an AGP card that doesn't use an external power connector, that lowers the video card power draw to under 30W.

For your original question: I think a Celeron 2GHz or 2.2GHz would be a better choice for this system. It support FSB overclocking and a Celeron @ 2.66GHz (533MHz FSB) is faster overall than a stock Celeron 2.7GHz (400MHz FSB). I ordered one of the cases last night that had the 220W PSU and I'm going to use a Celeron 2GHz @ 2.66GHz.
 
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ericboo

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I have been using the Gbox 968 as my main rig since January. It works great. Noisier than the "regular" computers but small is what I needed.

Wished I had a need for another.

 
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RU482

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Originally posted by: pxc
Originally posted by: farstar
Are replacement motherboards available? Will these take a high speed ie 2.8 Celeron?
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:p you said "high speed". j/k

The chances of loading up the system with more and faster parts is limited if you bought an AGP/PCI slot model with a 150W PSU. The Celeron 2.8GHz isn't out yet, but it should work in any any of the SFF cases (150W or 220W PSU). But if the system has an AGP slot, the 150W PSU models probably won't work very well with a fast video card (e.g. 9700/9800/FX5800/etc) since the PSU would be overloaded.

The 9700/9800/FX5800 video cards consume 60W+, the Celeron 2.7GHz consumes around 67W, an optical drive consumes about 18W, a hard drive consumes around 15W and add a few watts for memory, fans, motherboard (those figures are for the components under load, reading and/or writing). That's a load of over 180W. If you stick to an AGP card that doesn't use an external power connector, that lowers the video card power draw to under 30W.

For your original question: I think a Celeron 2GHz or 2.2GHz would be a better choice for this system. It support FSB overclocking and a Celeron @ 2.66GHz (533MHz FSB) is faster overall than a stock Celeron 2.7GHz (400MHz FSB). I ordered one of the cases last night that had the 220W PSU and I'm going to use a Celeron 2GHz @ 2.66GHz.
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You're talking theoretical maximums, of course.

I've got a P4 3.0Ghz machine. I hooked it up to a watt meter and never saw the computer pull over 120W (even under full load running a DC client). Considering that a switching power supply is ~85% efficient at best, the components are only pulling ~100W. And that's in a high end P4 system with a video card (not internal) and 2 hard drives running.

Food for thought
 
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