Shuttle SP35P2V2 Barebone

Size, looks, features, front panel

Stock fans are loud. Reset button is too recessed under the front panel. Need a pen or something to stick into it

Extremely compact, sturdy, and quiet fans ; Design is clean and modern ; Suprisingly Shuttle US customer support was very responsive and helpful

Wish the 4 exterior hand screws were a little bigger

This is my first SFF PC build; came from a full workstation built in a Cosmos 1000. This machine easily powers a Q9650, 8GB RAM, DTS 250 (It install without any mods!! Its only 9in long!) A WD Velociraptor 300GB (this will fit if the HDD is backplane...

Too bad the PCI-E slot isn't on the other side of the MBD, allowing for PCI use expansion. But no complaints

It looks nice and small on my desk ; The OASIS cooler and case fans keep my overclocked E7400 and 4830 very cool and stable in low temperature ; It's very quiet even on top of desk

The BIOS features somewhat limited O/C options to hardcore O/C'ers ; I could barely fit VGA in, there's a bunch of cables come out from PSU and they block the PCI slot ; I had to tape those cables onto PSU to fit my VGA with oversized fan

Great size and works great. Also run cool.

There was an issue with the checksum cmos. Took me a couple days before I fugure that it was the motherboard battery that died and needed to be replaced. Since, then I had no more issues with the bootup stating a checksum error.

Nice and small, well layed out.

Would randomly die ten minutes in when trying to install windows or running off a live cd. Turned out to be a BIOS problem with having 8g of memory.

Great styling!

The PCI slots have a little flap above them that secures them into place. In order to get my oversized graphics card to fit, I had to pop off this flap. There's a 1.25x1 inch space above the cards now, but they still secure, so it's not too big a deal.

Nice clean compact unit. We have 4-320GB drives setup on Raid-1. No more space for any other drives. We connected a WD 1TB external HD via its eSata port on rear, very convenient. Running Linux Suse OS w/ 4GB memory, but can expand to 8GB which is also...

In my situation, I could have used one more drive bay for a CD or DVD, but we used an external instead while setting it up.

Nice clean compact unit. We have 4-320GB drives setup on Raid-1. No more space for any other drives. We connected a WD 1TB external HD via its eSata port on rear, very convenient. Running Linux Suse OS w/ 4GB memory, but can expand to 8GB which is also...

In my situation, I could have used one more drive bay for a CD or DVD, but we used an external instead while setting it up

Now that I have gone through a pretty rough setup, it flies. I think it is super quiet, very fast, and really nice. I have a Q6600 *** read below!!! and 6 GB of corsair ram in it, I also have a pny nvidia 9600 GT

THIS IS IMPORTANT. I read many times the bios doesn't support many CPUs... it is SOOO TRUE. Wouldn't post, I had to rip apart another PC (lucky I had another one with a socket 775, or I would have been in trouble. So I used a core 2 duo 8400, it...