Het volk van VIAHardware brengt ons een review van het Shuttle SS50 barebone systeem, de opvolger van de SV24. De kast heeft wat kleine designwijzigingen doorgemaakt en ook het moederbord is vernieuwd. Er wordt gebruikgemaakt van het Shuttle FS50 FlexATX moederbord, welke is voorzien van de SiS650/961 chipset voor Pentium 4. Alhoewel de ruimte in de kast natuurlijk erg beperkt is, was het niet moeilijk om de hardware te installeren. De prestaties van het moederbord liggen iets onder die van het Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra plankje. De SS50 gaat voor ongeveer 300 tot 350 dollar over de toonbank. Hieronder een gedeelte uit het artikel:
My point is that the SS50 is so versatile that you can do many things with it, and it is even more customizable than the previous SV24. Offering 2 PCI slots along with the many ports allows for almost limitless expandability. The wide variety of uses is made possible by the small size, and quietness of the product. As I said earlier, the stock heatsink fan is quite loud, but is easily replaceable, and you can even use your own heatsink/fan combination to keep things running at a whisper. The two rear fans can be replaced as well with quieter fans if you think it is necessary. One thing I would like to point out is that I would not recommend disconnecting the power supply fan in the SS50 like some of you have done with the SV24 and SV25. It is putting out quite a bit of warm air, and with a Pentium 4 inside spitting out heat, disconnecting any fan becomes a larger issue than a machine which is running a Celeron, P3, or C3 processor. Airflow is always a concern in a case this size, but I think that Shuttle did a good job with what they had available, everything ran smoothly and I never felt as if anything was getting too hot inside the case.
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