Sammanfattning: Shuttle has hit a home run with the SD11G5. Despite my major frustrations with the optical drive bay button, the SD11G5 is a powerful blend of stylish design, clever engineering, and powerful hardware. If youre looking for a silent desktop PC that sti...
In saying all of this, it does have one major downfall: its price. At it is certainly not cheap for a Shuttle XPC. Couple that with the 2.13GHz Pentium M that we have used here and youre looking at £625 before youve even bought a video card, some me...
If you need the lower noise and lower thermal output but still want a good gaming box, this might just be your baby. It would also be a decent office workstation in a low power, low noise environment....
The Shuttle XPC SD11G5 is a landmark product, much like the earlier Shuttle ST62K Zen. The latter Shuttle is about the quietest SFF barebones PC even now, and a modified version of the Zen is still used in the SPCR lab as a silent audio recording PC. ...
Sammanfattning: While you can quieten most PCs, its easier to start from scratch using low-power components. Shuttles XPC SD11G5 is an excellent starting point. It looks like a standard XPC, but its got a socket 479 Intel i915-based motherboard, which takes a Pe...
Sammanfattning: Small, beautiful and astonishingly quiet, this XPC is the new benchmark for small-form-factor systems The SD11G5 is the first Shuttle XPC to support Intels excellent Pentium M processor. Its been in the planning stages for some time now, and we snar...
While its great that Shuttle has made such a superbly quiet Pentium M small form factor, the SD11G5 lacks the one thing that would make it truly great: room for a dual-slot graphics card. This is a real tragedy, as the SD11G5 is a solid performer, and...
Final thoughts Theres a lot to like about the Shuttle SD11G5. Its subjectively pretty, small, powerful, yet extremely quiet, thanks, in main, to the use of Intels excellent S479 CPUs. In fact, running a Pentium M 770 with the 92mm exhaust fan spinn...
