After having owned a Shuttle barebones, where the smart fan socket failed, relegating it to a shelf under my desk due to the noise, and then the hard drive's connection to the motherboard broke, forgive me for not rushing out to buy this.
Both my partner and I had the SB81P's and our graphic cards would die every 10 months, we got through 5 between us. We are convinced it is caused by the increased temperatures the shuttle and its components run at due to the small compact size, because never have we had this problem with standard size machines. If you too get this problem and can cope with renewing parts more often than usual then they are great pc's :)
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After having owned a Shuttle barebones, where the smart fan socket failed, relegating it to a shelf under my desk due to the noise, and then the hard drive's connection to the motherboard broke, forgive me for not rushing out to buy this.
Both my partner and I had the SB81P's and our graphic cards would die every 10 months, we got through 5 between us. We are convinced it is caused by the increased temperatures the shuttle and its components run at due to the small compact size, because never have we had this problem with standard size machines. If you too get this problem and can cope with renewing parts more often than usual then they are great pc's :)