I must say this little box is everything the reviews say and more. Right now I'm running 220x10.5 for 2310mhz, and I have a feeling it will do more once I work on the cooling a little bit. The noise isn't an issue for me, although I suppose it could be for those of you out there who are really noise sensitive.
A few things, if you are in the market for one:
Read the manual. Read it twice. Putting this thing together without knowing what you are doing will achieve nothing but frustrating you and possibly damaging your shiny new XPC.
Do a bios update before you attempt any overclocking. For some reason the bios it ships with doesn't take well to overclocking, and will give you bios checksum errors and all kinds of other interesting stuff if you don't flash it first. There is a winflash utility in case you (like me) don't plan on putting a floppy drive in it. The new bios gives you more multiplier control as well (I think it adds 11.5, 12, and 12.5)
Don't bother with expensive memory, the Buffalo PC3700 on newegg is working great for me, so it should work equally well for you.
Make sure you keep all the screws you take off when putting everything together in a safe place until you need them again. They're odd sized so you probbably wont have one laying around that you can easily replace it with.
Did I mention read the manual?
All in all if I had to rate it, I'd give it a 9/10. -1 because short of ripping the bezel off your cd drive and stealthing it, shuttle offers no way to keep the case looking as clean as it does without any drives in it.
Oh, by the way, Logitech z680's kick ass too.
A few things, if you are in the market for one:
Read the manual. Read it twice. Putting this thing together without knowing what you are doing will achieve nothing but frustrating you and possibly damaging your shiny new XPC.
Do a bios update before you attempt any overclocking. For some reason the bios it ships with doesn't take well to overclocking, and will give you bios checksum errors and all kinds of other interesting stuff if you don't flash it first. There is a winflash utility in case you (like me) don't plan on putting a floppy drive in it. The new bios gives you more multiplier control as well (I think it adds 11.5, 12, and 12.5)
Don't bother with expensive memory, the Buffalo PC3700 on newegg is working great for me, so it should work equally well for you.
Make sure you keep all the screws you take off when putting everything together in a safe place until you need them again. They're odd sized so you probbably wont have one laying around that you can easily replace it with.
Did I mention read the manual?
All in all if I had to rate it, I'd give it a 9/10. -1 because short of ripping the bezel off your cd drive and stealthing it, shuttle offers no way to keep the case looking as clean as it does without any drives in it.
Oh, by the way, Logitech z680's kick ass too.
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