Re: Re: Other "Slim-" devices?

Hello dean,

db> That's good feedback.
db> Have you tried running the powersupply fan at 5V. too?

I bought one of these Shuttle SV-24s for myself and instantly most
everyone else in our office bought one as well. One guy bought 2.

This is what I use for the server for my SliMP3.

I modded the default headsink fans and the case fan to 5V and that
makes a huge diff for little appreciable difference in operating
temperature. Unfortunately the PSU fan is a tiny little thing embedded
in an odd sized box at the front of the chassis.

It's very difficult to get to and I don't think such a fan is going to
be a good idea at 5V. Actually you'd need to disable it, remove the
fan and perhaps attach a larger fan to the side of the PSU and
reassemble. Another project I haven't gotten around to yet.

The PSU fan is very noisy unfortunately. Otherwise it's a fab little
unit, firewire ports work a treat with my iPod. I've also fitted
another HD in the floppy bay. Tight fit, front of HD is flush with the
case but it does fit.

If I have any other gripes with it, the onboard video output is
dreadful (you can't scale and the colour is pants). I've also tried a
variety of software DVD players and with a 733 VIA C3, none of them
could play back smoothly - I think it's a vid card issue.

With one PCI slot you have to think carefully what to put in. A
hardware DVD decoder would be a good choice or perhaps a PCI GF2MX
with TV Out so at least you can watch DivX as well.

BTW, Win2K CD just crashed trying to boot it to install so I went with
XP and that was a breeze. The recent partially-not-sucky vid drivers
you have to get from S3's web site.

Regards,

Mat Bettinson
Codeplay


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