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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
My brother's new computer
Where has the time gone? My little brother is off to college in another month. So, I get to build him a box. Whoopie! 
Well here’s the specs:
Shuttle SN25B SFF Case (with skt 939 nforce4 based mobo)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice core) CPU
1GB (2x512mb) Corsair XMS PC3200 Ram
200Gig Western Digital SATA Drive
Plextor PPX-712SA SATA dual layer DVD Burner
CONNECT3D Radeon X800XL 256M PCIE Video Card
Should be a nice system for college. Plenty fast yet won’t take up a lot of room in a dorm. All the parts should be here in a few days so once I get it tossed together I’ll run a few benchmarks and show off the numbers.
This will be my first real SFF system. My girlfriends system was in a very small case but was still a micro-atx based system. Jamming all that junk in a 8x8x12 inch box sounds like fun!
on 08/09/2005 at 08:13 PM
I, too, have a SFF: Shuttle SK83G. It’s an okay rig but I think I’d get more bang for the buck if it were built from separate parts than to have a barebone.
Let us know how the benches go. Please do test out the GFX card’s ability as well with 3DMark softwares.