Shuttle Mini PC's

frantic · 06-06-2006, 09:53 PM

Has anyone ever bought one of those small Shuttle square mini PC's?
I think they are often called barebones PCs

Are they worth getting or are they powerless?

McDaddy · 06-07-2006, 09:09 PM

some of the new shuttles are bad ass. they used to be called bare bones, but not any more. now they are shuttles. they can be as good as most all desk tops, and some times better. their greatest assest and downfall is their size, it is small, but being so small they can be limited on componets, suh as not having a second opticacl drive, only 1 hard drive, and i have not seen on yet that supports dual video cards.

james · 06-08-2006, 12:22 AM

What video cards do they have in them?
I have never considered these to be gaming machines. More so just office machines or even little PC jukeboxes, great for playing movies and MP3 on

frantic · 06-18-2006, 08:34 PM

This is an example of the specs of one worth around $1000.
I have to say I could build a better PC than this, as you can see the graphics arent great.

Intel® Pentium® D 805 (2.66G), Intel 945G chipset, LGA775, Aluminium Case, 350W P/S, 512Mb DDR-2 PC4200 RAM,
160B 7200 SATA II Hard Drive
Dual Layer 16x DVD+/-RW Recorder
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 & PCI-Express , 1x PCI
Audio, Gigabit LAN, Firewire, 8 in 1 Card Reader