Shuttle X38-based desktop spotted at Computex

It looks like blistering fast DDR3 RAM and new Draft 2.0-spec 802.11n gear aren't the only new wares taking the stage at Computex, as an X38-based SX38P3 Deluxe was spotted comfortably residing within a Shuttle XPC. Of course, this isn't the first motherboard news coming from the Shuttle camp of late, but the camera-wielding crew at HotHardware was able to snap a few shots of the new flagship system all the while. The SX38P3 will reportedly replace the SD37PV2 as Shuttle's high-end Intel based barebone system, and will sport a single PCI Express x16 slot alongside a vanilla PCI slot -- something the SD37PV2 lacked and received healthy amounts of criticism for. Interestingly, the rear of the machine purportedly held no legacy ports whatsoever, instead opting for six USB 2.0 connectors in hopes that you've upgraded your input peripherals and printer relatively recently. As expected, no availability and pricing details were to be had, but feel free to click on through for more sneak peeks at the newfangled rig.

[Via Inquirer]

[Erwos @ Jun 5th 2007 10:29AM]

I'm not so sure I think PCIe+PCI is the way to go, seeing as PCI will be phased out soonish.

However, I'm dying to know whether the SX38P3 is going to have PCIe 2.0 and DDR support, or if it's just going to have the overclock brakes removed.

[steve @ Jun 5th 2007 10:36AM]

"PCI will be phased out soonish"

what the heack are you talking about? what about a tv tuner, creative soundcard, internal wifi(if the board doesn't allready sport it), and all the other countless devices that use a pci port? I know PCIe 1x is cool and all, but no one makes these boards. even when PCIe boards become popular, there will still be plenty of PCI cards to go around. Heack, I can still get an AGP card if I want. And if your saying to be future proof, I can guarantee that box will be well outdated before the PCI slot becomes an issue...

[strider_mt2k @ Jun 5th 2007 10:41AM]

Not ma PCI!!!
Darnit, it does so much and asks so little...

[Erwos @ Jun 5th 2007 11:06AM]

"what about a:"
1. "tv tuner" (USB, PCIe, or ethernet)
2. "creative soundcard" (USB - see the Audigy 2 ZS)
3. "internal wifi" (USB, PCIe (newer WiFi chipsets))

Creative needs to get off their asses and make a PCIe sound card, but their laziness is not some merit that should be taken for PCI. PCI is going to go the way of ISA, just like PCMCIA is getting phased out in favor of ExpressCard.

[Rico @ Jun 5th 2007 11:28AM]

What a ugly gold color front panel design has the new media center model... are we joking shuttle??

http://eu.shuttle.com/nl/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-53/938_read-6455/140_read-14124/

sick.

[Rico @ Jun 5th 2007 11:31AM]

Media center edition image:
http://eu.shuttle.com/nl/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-53/938_read-6450/140_read-14124/

[Jack @ Jun 5th 2007 11:42AM]

iirc, the reason that there are no PCIe soundcards is that current gen PCIe slots have higher latency then PCI slots, please correct me if im wrong, but it would explain the lack of them, my motherboard has a little 8 channel jobbie that goes in an awkwardly placed PCIe 1x slot, but I suspect the slot is just used as a header for the soundcard onboard.

[droopy1592 @ Jun 5th 2007 11:52AM]

The SD39P2 already addressed the missing PCI slot of the SD37P2. The SX38 is something entirely different.

[Erwos @ Jun 5th 2007 12:48PM]

"iirc, the reason that there are no PCIe soundcards is that current gen PCIe slots have higher latency then PCI slots"

That's just Creative's BS excuse. How can sound cards have lower latency needs than video cards?