ASUS' SFF

ASUS was showcasing an 865 based SFF with an interesting chassis design that provided extremely easy access to internals.

Unscrewing a single thumbscrew and popping off the front panel is all that's necessary to gain access to the inside of ASUS' SFF.

The design is interesting, but as an 865 solution it's still a bit dated. We'd like to see something using NVIDIA's nForce4 chipset instead.

The other issue with the SFF is that it has a fairly low powered PSU meaning it can only support a maximum of a GeForce 6600GT and not any of the higher powered GPUs like a 6800GT.

Shuttle's nForce4 SFF 1080p DLPs Coming in April
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  • thraxes - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

  • bhtooefr - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    Me like the Shuttle set-top...

    Now, can we just get more ordinary P-M boards?
  • Chuckles - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    Was VIA demoing their processors and boards?
  • miketheidiot - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    efficeon looked good, to bad transmeta might be going belly up.
  • linuxOwnzIfUrLeet - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    "we had a 46" samsung and gave it right back, viewing from the side looks dark"



    Do you know anything about plasma vs DLP?

    DLP's only life problem is you'll have to buy a new bulb.

    plasma's problem is that it will continue to go darker and darker until the gas runs out of energy.

    You don't like the dark of dlp you aint gonna like the dark of plasma.

    #############################################

    Plasma - can't change the gas- no refills - no recharging. Continue to get darker picture.

    Dlp - change a bulb.



    Plasma - spend lots of money know and throw away soon.


    Today, I can get a 76" dlp for $1400 with <2cm display thickness.
  • Illissius - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    "The Radeon X800 will be available in the first week of February"
    That's odd. What's this, then?
    http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?desc...
  • Ardan - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    Thanks for that link :D. I thought those MGE cases looked great as well and made me interested in what they have been making lately.
  • KristopherKubicki - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    danidentity: http://www.xgbox.com/

    Kristopher
  • Houdani - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    Was the second image on the very last page messed up for anyone else? I could only see the top 10% of the image and the rest was blacked out. The image is supposed to show the MGE cases. The text just above the image is...

    "MGE also demonstrated a more sleek lineup of cases, a welcome change from the overly busy gaming cases that we've seen far too much of lately:"
  • snorre - Monday, January 10, 2005 - link

    "The entire Sound Storm division at NVIDIA has been shut down and thus NVIDIA's Intel solution will have HD Audio support, but we will not see the return of Dolby Digital Encoding support or NVIDIA's Sound Storm DSP."

    I don't believe this for a second. Can someone please confirm or deny this claim? Thanks!

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