Shuttle SN25P

[QurazyQuisp]

I just ordered this from newegg, although I won't have it up and running until late august because that's when I'm going to order the rest of my parts. I purchased it because of the $30 mail in rebate and I figured it's probably not going to get cheaper then that by august.

I also chose this one over the ATI chipset one because of the reviews I read about it, it got either mediocre or bad reviews because of video card issues, sound issues, ULI south bridge and numerous other things where as the nForce one seemed to have a general feeling of "this thing is amazing"

What do you guys think of the SN25P? Was it worth the $380 ($350 after rebate) that I paid for it?

 

[Megamixman]

I love my SN25P. It is a little bigger then the G5 Chasis, but you can use dual slot video cards in it. The only real downside to it is temporary. There are very vew 1x PCIe cards out there, but they should be coming out soon. The size will also help keep the temp down on those dual core CPU's. The ST20G5 is no where near as bad as those reviews make it sound, but the SN25P is amazing. I think you made a good choice.

 

[jdogg707]

I love mine as well, decent overclocker, I have 2GB memory, 4400+, and a soon to be 7800GTX in it!

 

[SUOrangeman]

Where'd you get your 4400?

-SUO

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
Where'd you get your 4400?

-SUO

Newegg a week ago.

 

[R3MF]

i too love my SN25P, good choice.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

I should be getting it tomorrow, thanks to newegg's quick shipping.

Although I won't be able to use it until late august, I can atleast look at it. I'm also getting a dell 2005fpw monitor to go with it, although I'm not set on what the inerds will be yet.

 

[FreshFish]

I just purchased one of these too What kind of overclocks are those who already have them getting? I bought a venice 3000+ in hopes that I could OC mine a bit.

 

[RaiderJ]

Mine's great! Using MCE2005 and haven't looked back.

 

[R3MF]

Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
I should be getting it tomorrow, thanks to newegg's quick shipping.

Although I won't be able to use it until late august, I can atleast look at it. I'm also getting a dell 2005fpw monitor to go with it, although I'm not set on what the inerds will be yet.

lol, i got one of those too.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

How do you guys hook up the pci-e cards to the power? Did you buy a pci-e power adapter? if so, which one? I opened it up and noticed there isn't one, atleast to my knowledge. (I haven't owned a pci-e card yet, so there might be one, but they all looked like sata)

It looks very nice, I can't wait until august to finish it.

 

[Treyshadow]

I thought the board in this case did not have a pci-e lock? Is that still true, I would like to run mine with a higher speed, like 10x240 rather than 12x200.

I am just about to pull the trigger on a small form factor or a micro atx motherboard and case. Can someone answer this?

 

[cpush]

yeah, also wondering what kind of overclocks the sn25p allow

 

[Megamixman]

Whoever did the review and said the board didn?t have a PCI-e Lock messed up. I can run mine at 272 x 9 fine. That reviewer forgot to lower the HT Multiplier.

 

[QurazyQuisp]

Can anyone answer my question about pci-e cards and hooking the video cards up to the power? How did you do it since there are only 2 4 pin molex connectors, no pci-e connector and the pci-e adapters take the two molex connectors, but that leaves no power for a dvd/cd drive unless you get a sata one.

So, those of you with a pci-e video card that require more power, how'd you hook it up?