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Shuttle XPC SDXi Carbon

By Justin Robinson
11:43 May 22, 2009 | 7 Comments
Tags: Shuttle | XPC | SDXi | Carbon | gaming | system | watercooled
Shuttle XPC SDXi Carbon
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Shuttle's latest Carbon XPC comes with a watercooled quadcore for wet gaming on the go!

Watercooling and nerdly habits go hand in hand with each other, those habits specifically being overclocking or high performance, and usually in a giant full-tower ATX form factor.

Shuttle has just bucked this trend; throwing a watercooled CPU into an ITX form factor complete with a beefy gaming GPU and power supply, great design and a lot of features you'd expect in fullsize rigs!

Check out the specs of the tech that they've crammed in there:

  • Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650 @ 3GHz
  • Custom watercooling loop with 92mm rad, 92x35mm cooling fan
  • Hitachi 1TB Deskstar HDD
  • Galaxy GTX260
  • Corsair Dominator 1066 @ 5-5-5-15, 2x2GB
  • Samsung DVD/RW
  • Shuttle P45-based motherboard and case (with a decent 350W-ish power supply)

Don't forget to check out the case we compare it to; the Coolermaster HAF 922, as these are incredibly different sizes of case but will offer identical performance when using the same components.

It's really impressive to see such a high performance build in a very small space, so check out the gallery of pics to see it all crammed in there.

 

 
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7 Comments
nesquick
May 22, 2009 12:45 PM
That has to be the most awesome HTPC ever
stash
May 22, 2009 12:55 PM
Definitely, i guess good things can come in small packages.
Tezlin
May 22, 2009 6:55 PM
Wow. Very, very impressive. D: Watercooling would be a must since heat is probably the devil in there.
Cheesyback
May 22, 2009 9:15 PM
does the design remind you of anything....nanosuit perhaps??+
Rory K
May 25, 2009 11:27 AM
Wow. However that bubble will severely reduce the life of the pump if it passes through it.
Azazel
May 27, 2009 7:29 PM
Wow!! So much performance in such a little package. It will be interesting to see how well it overclocks when you finally get do a review of it, seeing as they have gone to the trouble of water cooling it. The only thing that concerns me is the 350W power supply, but that is probably a very well spec'd 350W power supply. Also how hot is the video card going to get in such a small case as I presume that is still air cooled.
518051
May 28, 2009 10:19 AM
I can see 1 little flaw with the case design, and it has to do with the video card. The air vents are below the intake for the video cards fan - they need to place a ducted intake directly over the fan. This will minimise the amount of heat inside the case and allow the video card to cool more effectively.
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