Hmm........
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Anyway, now we've had a couple of humorous pictures, I got the machine built up.
This Shuttle form factor is quite nice to work on. Everything seems to be accessible, and everything fits together nicely.
I installed the HDD from the old machine, the Samsung SSD, and a SATA DVDRW drive. I installed Debian 9 on the SSD. My first impressions of the Intel UHD graphics weren't too good. It would play HD video fine, but it barely managed 5 fps in Super Tux Kart. I'm wondering if it might be some Linux driver weirdness. So, I put the Radeon HD7770 in from my old PC and now I can easily get 60 fps in Super Tux Kart
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The machine does overall seem nice and speedy.
The CPU fan is quiet, as is the little PSU fan. Definitely quieter than the 80mm fans I have in my Lian Li case. The blue power LED on the front panel was annoying though, so I swapped it out for a green one. It also lacks a reset switch. Why do so many modern machines not bother with a reset switch? Shuttle went to the effort of putting a Clear CMOS switch on the back of the case so I'd have thought they'd have put a reset switch in as well.
I also tried to boot Windows XP from the Hirens boot CD but it just gave me a BSOD.
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Nice looking case, tidy. Dust magnet exterior though.
Are those hard drive innards there up on the side of your filing cabinet?
Originally Posted by J T:
The fact it has two ports labelled DP is just perfect
Anyone?
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Yes, its a couple of magnets from a 3.5" HDD. I also have a load of magnets from 2.5" HDDs at the other side on my desk
. They come in handy.
And here's some DP specially for JT
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I need some new storage.
I've been doing a lot of video recently which has been eating up my HDD space. Any recommendations?
I might see about swapping my SATA HDD for an M.2 one, then I can just use the SATA one for storage.
One of the advantages of modern video codecs is that you can compress 25Mbps standard definition DV down to less than <5Mbps. Of course its not quite as big a saving for high definition video.
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