10:50 - Thursday 24 January 2008 by Siggy Moersch
Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Shuttle, SX38P2, Pro
Categories: Hardware
Source: Tom's Hardware UK – Keywords: Shuttle, SX38P2, Pro
Categories: Hardware
Table of content:
Stress Testing – The Third HDD Feels the Heat
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Noise Measurements
A = XPC off, ambient noise (office environment)
B = Shuttle XPC running Windows Vista
C = XPC under full load
Fan Speed Measurements
Temperature Measurements
Stress testing revealed that the third hard drive (dotted green line), which can be installed in the 3.5” drive bay between the motherboard and the DVD drive, gets to hot far too quickly. Even after the end of our stress testing (vertical red bar), the temperature at this point in the case remained the same. Still, since all other components cooled off much faster, there is little to criticize about the way the XPC handles its heat.
CPU Measurements
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integrated fingerprint scanner huh?
what if u cut yourself and won't be able to use your comp?
j/k
neat stuff,but only for people with too much money to spend
It's a great product in many ways I'd say comfining the potential of most decent gaming PCs to that size is an accomplishment.
However I'm a strong proponent of quiet computing, and I normally believe tomshardware under estimates how loud some products they review are, if they say this is loud, then I'd probably want it set up in a different room to me while I'm using it. Personally if I was to get one, I'd try quietening it in any way possible, only use a dual core cpu, put a passively cooled 8800GT (if I could fit one). Or perhaps external watercooling would be ideal though it might contradict the point of space saving and would be inpractical for lan parties.