Good O/C'ing SFF PC?

[jayoung]

I'm looking to put together a machine in the near future, but would prefer it to be a SFF instead of a standard box. The only card I'll be adding is a video card, so all the extra space wouldn't be used. Any suggestions for a good Athlon64 SFF that OC's well? I know SFF have a weak power supply, so i'd probably be looking for one with a stronger PSU to O/C and drive the video card. I'd also like it to have a 5-in-1 reader or something like that as I have a whole bunch of memory formats.
Shuttle seems to be leading the pack, but I'm also looking at AOpen. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated! TIA!

Joseph

 

[imported_justbrowzing]

You should certainly consider the Soltek 3801, I just put one together last week and it's a revelation. I've got 512g of ddr400 and a 3000+ in it--blazing fast, nearly silent (its usually my HDD that's crunching away, not the fans), 2 @ 5 1/2" bays, n-force 3, tons of i/o, and s-ata raid if you sacrifice a cd bay or the floppy. (Actually with all the IDE & s-ata channels (6) I'm thinking of modding it by squeezing a laptop drive vertically on one side for dual booting xp/xp-64.

Soltek makes a point of enabling/encouraging oc'ing on its boards and in fact they just posted a beta bios for this machine that frankly warns that it's capable of cpu homicide. But then again Athlon 64s aren't really oc'ers... There was a rave review of it here at AT only about 3-4 weeks ago.

My only complaint so far are the 3-in-1 n-vidia drivers, after 4 OS reinstalls I finally traced all sorts of hangs and compatibility problems to them.

 

[imported_justbrowzing]

Oh and ps for what it's worth it's got a solid 250w psu.