comparably equipped dell and gateway systems. In terms of performance, there
was no difference. In terms of price the Shuttle won hands down. In terms of
performance it was right up there. Expandability is a problem, once you've
filled up the PCI and AGP slots there's nothing really left, but for at
least 95% of the population, its more than adequate. I had thought that heat
would be a problem, but that turned out not to be the case.
Given that the machine came with 2 firewire, and 6 USB 2.0 ports, onboard
networking, audio and video, you get a lot for the price (I paid around $280
for mine). It's a great little machine.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:25 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: [Long]Consoles better than PC..
>
>
> TigerDirect.com is a great place to look - lots of PCs of all
> stripes (from PII 300s on up) at decent prices.
>
>
>
> Compgeeks.com sometimes also has decent barebones kits, but
> they tend to be thrown together in an attempt to liquidate stock.
>
>
>
> I love the Shuttle systems, but haven't bought one myself yet
> (I had several FIC SFF pcs and just couldn't justify it).
> When you're looking at them remember to note how much comes
> onboard: they may seem pricey, but all you need to add
> (generally) is memory, drives and a CPU.
>
>
>
> Jim Davis
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:38 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: [Long]Consoles better than PC..
>
>
>
> Thanks for the advice. What I'll almost certainly end up doing is
> buying a barebones kit. For whatever reason, that seems to be cheaper
> than buying the mobo, processor, fan, ram separately, even though I
> don't need a new case.
>
> I'm not looking for high performance, just ... um ... the ability to
> play MPEGs without them skipping. :-)
>
> --BenD
>
> Lyons, Larry wrote:
>
> > Ben you might want to do what I did, I built a Shuttle XPC
> system that
> > worked out to be fairly inexpensive. Right now I'm pricing out a new
> system
> > to replace our old Athlon 750 MHz that recently died.
> >
> > Between Pricewatch.com, and eBay you can build a fairly
> cheap kickass
> > system. I also found the BuildIt section of ExtremeTech.com's site
> > (http://www.extremetech.com/category2/0,1556,644478,00.asp) to be
> > really helpful. They had a great series of articles on
> building high
> > performance machines for under $1500 (They have a great article on
> > building an $800 killer PC).
> >
> > larry
> >
>
> _____
>
>
>
>
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