Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD in a Shuttle SS51G

[ZeroSleep]

Has anyone here heard of someone putting a A250 inside of the new SS51G w/ success? The A250's heatsink looks pretty big (too tall in the pictures on newegg) to fit inside. Opinions welcome.

 

[jamie2833]

well i am not sure about the leadtek one, i am getting one myself that has a masive heatsink any day now, but surely you can change the heatsinks, say for one of those thremaltake geforce 4 copper coolers?

 

[jamie2833]

actually, this might help you, and me in this case

ocworkbench review, including pics of graphics card installation

look at the last couple of pics and you can see the size of the heatsinks on the xabre and geforce 3 ti200 seem to have more than enough room to work with so i cant imagine the leadteks heatsinks are gonna be much bigger.

BTW the full size PCB geforce 4 ti4600 apparently fit in the shuttle ss51 just fine as well.

hope this helps

 

[jamie2833]

here are a couple of other sites that have reviews of the system.



Hexus Review (UK based Site)

FiringSquad Review

Tomshardware Review

hope these guides/reviews also help, they are helping me decide to get one, which i am saving up to do so at the moment, i just gotta go through the hassle of trying to sell my main system so i can afford a nice P4 2.0Ghz or something!

however i am also like the looks of the G-Box/I-Cube can see a very sexy picture of it

Just Here

:Q

 

[ZeroSleep]

Thanks a bunch. Sounds like we're going thru the same thing. I have to piece apart my old system and try to get at least 1300 for it. The shuttle box I want to build is this:

newegg wish

I've been debating on waiting for the NV30 cards to come out. By then the component prices will have dropped and maybe a new shuttle box will be released. I'm hoping they come out with a Shuttle that uses serial ATA and more fans to cool down the hard drive or possible two hard drives.

blah. I'm rambling now.