soltek or shuttle???

[shaun_uk1]

as the subject says. which 1 is better and why. i will prob b overclocking which ever 1 i get but i have never had one of these "mini" pc's.any one use any of these?,if so what r they like.cheers 4 n e help

[lemaru]

i cant comment on the soltek but i have a shuttle xpc here.....

the one i got is an SN41G2 (nforce 2) one... quite happy with it.. use it as a media center pc for watching tv and stuff on.... does the job great... only critisism is the fans are a tad noisy and it seems to get a little warm...... other than that had no troubles with it and has always worked a dream

anything in particular u wanna know??

[shaun_uk1]

cheers 4 the reply, i couldnt re- reply as i sold me old pc and made a tidy profit :thumbs ,i have just bought a asus t2 pc.u answered 1 of me q's about the heat,so i plumped for a asus with a p4 to keep temp down.have to say runs spot on and so far have no probs at all with it

[_Belial]

I've been using shuttles for years now, and never had any problems, some of them are a little noisy at times, but a quick fan change and cutting out the real grill usually sorts that out. They do shutles for intel, amdxp, and amd 64bit and i've tried em all and never had any problems. I'm not really an overclocker though so no idea how well they overclock. you should check out the sudhian forums on SFF PC's, i'm sure any questions you have will have been answered there

http://forums.sudhian.com/

[Termy]

I have had Soltek boards for quite a while no. I had the SL75 - KAV (which my Brother now has) and I flashed the bios and it would take the NEWER CPU'S.

I now have the SL75 - FRV, which I have just flashed the bios to take upto the XP3200+. It also has,,, like many other boards these days, the "Redstorm" overclocking feature.

Apparently Soltak had a bad name for themselves,, but I have never had any problems what-so-ever with any of mine.