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Posted: **Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:50 pm**

Does anyone have seen a Shuttle PC with 2 pci slot where 2 pulsar2 could fit?

I'm looking at a fanless shuttle model with external PSU here, only 1 pci slot, but a pulsar2 fit in ok...

Could use the shuttle as a Pulsar2 container, without any video card, or anything. Just connecting the cube with firewire-lan to access it with a laptop.

Hey they even sell small gig bag to carry the shuttle

could be coOl ?

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: marcuspocus on 2006-03-26 20:51 ]</font>

Posted: **Mon Mar 27, 2006 2:32 pm**

usually there are twin risercards for this type of things, but not all (risers) are created equal. I once put an MSI into a VIA and the 2nd slot only messed things, so ask your dealer for the proper one.

cheers, Tom

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:36 am**

I can be wrong but I think I´ve read that you could remove one PCI card maybe the video/TV or sound card to free up another slot.

Nearly I bought one myself but than I decided myself to not buy one.

It´s to expensive you can build your own barebone PC for less money.

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:30 am**

Why is it that everything MSI creates is a piece of shit?

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:24 pm**

in case that refers to my quote above:
I had a MSI 'small office' desktop, Intel 815 based which had 2 slot risercard.
I plugged that riser into a VIA EPIA (for which it definetely wasn't built) and I wouldn't even consider it a recommended procedure if you don't know the specs... but sometimes this risky stuff is just fun - will it go up in smoke ?

That MSI (and it's Celeron) deserves the honorable mention to have survived an hour without fan, and it also survived 2 Pulsars with a constant case temperature around 55 Celsius and a CPU rarely below 70 degrees - all in a 12x12x3 inch box over several years.
It was a very good system and it still serves my wife for internet - I guess it's much happier now without the DSP cards...

cheers, Tom

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:44 pm**

The one i was looking at is :

http://eu.shuttle.com/archive/en/st62k.htm#st62k

But only 1 PCI...
Bah... I don't know no more...

Also, the power supply is external and fanless, but they still have a fan inside to cool the cpu. It's a lot less fanless than i tought

All the other have 1 pci also, the one with 2 pci have P4 cpu, i wanted Centrino

Thanks for all your insight guys

Posted: **Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:53 pm**

... and it's a lot louder than 'whisperquiet', as the website likes to put it

I've heard one of those in the PC shop I frequently visit.

cheers, tom