Barebone systems.

**Thrush** · 17th November 2004

My computer is far too big, it has too many fans takes up too much space and is noisy as hell so I want to go for a barebone unit. I have had my eye on this for awhile...

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=63306

What do people think of it? I don't really want to spend too much money but knowing me I will and end up regretting it later.... *_____*

So with the idea in mind that I will connect it up to my tv and have it as a multimedia machine what do you think?

Thanks in advance,

Cue

**Rustyk1** · 18th November 2004

Yeh, looks quite good. I have recently bought a Shuttle and it's great, small, quiet and very powerful. Just be aware that they are not THAT upgradable, e.g. 1xPCI. They do have a good about of USB and stuff tho.

Also, i think you misunderstand the meaning of 'barebone'. This doesn't refer to the size of the unit but it refers to how it comes. A barebone PC comes with the case, motherboard and sometimes a heatsink and fan. You then add the rest to it. It just happens that most barebones are also SFF (small form factor).

Hope this helps.

**Chip2k** · 18th November 2004

BEWARE.

Ebuyer sometimes ships these system with the psu set to 110v. I blew the power supply for one of the MSI Mega pc's. So when u do get it make sure its set to 240 before you plug in!