Shuttle builds another box
X48 this time
SHUTTLE IS CONTINUING its tradition of doing very little to update its product lines with the new X48-based XPC.
The SX48P2 looks exactly like pretty much every other Shuttle box from any point in the last three years. The cooling is the same, the fascia is the same and the form factor is the same. What's changed is the fact there's a new X48 motherbord under the hood, with support for 1600MHz FSB and DDR3 memory.
There's room for two single-slot Crossfire cards, should you be crazy enough to try and jam them in - we suspect the thermals are not entirely conducive to dual-card action.
Which is not to say that this isn't a fantastic portable gaming machine. After all, what better machine to take to a LAN party than a quad-core with blazing fast memory and a decent graphics card?
We just can't help but feel that Shuttle is phoning them in at the moment. How about something new, guys? µ
Comments
SX48P2 is not new... the K48 is
There is nothing new about the SX48P2, the specs have been on the Shuttle site for the past 8 weeks. The K48 on is new. But it's confusing, as the K48 doesn't have a Intel X48 chipset, it uses the Intel 945GC. Guess they should have called it K47 or K49, but not K48.There you go...
Revolutionary New Shuttles
I Have It On Good Authority(tm) that Shuttle are working on a truly revolutionary new case, power and cooling design that will run Dimdows Vista at maximum speed and efficiency while packing in all the necessary hardware support into a space actually smaller than the existing designs.Unfortunately, the new design violates the laws of physics. So they're waiting for Microsoft bring out Vista SP2, which will include a whole new set of laws of thermodynamics that will allow the new case to work.