The quality of Shuttle SFF Barebone systems is going downhill!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Looks like Shuttle is really penny pinching now!

This is the previous high end SFF system, the SX58H7:

http://www.shuttle.eu/fileadmin/reso...s/SX58H7_e.pdf

This is the replacement,the SX58J3:

http://www.shuttle.eu/fileadmin/reso...s/SX58J3_e.pdf

For the same price the SX58J3 is made from cheaper steel, weighs 6.8KG instead of 3.8KG and has a cheaper looking motherboard.

SX58J3 motherboard



SX58H7 motherboard



The SX58J3 seems to have the build quality of the £100 XFX X58 motherboard you can get from Aria!



Yet, the SX58J3 is £440 on Ebuyer:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/222817

I have used Shuttles for years as my primary PCs but it looks like I will be avoiding them for my next PC!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It looks like the new SX58 H7 Pro has gone back to using an aluminum chassis:

http://www.shuttle.eu/fileadmin/reso...X58H7Pro_e.pdf

However,the motherboard seems to lack VRM cooling!

OTH,pictures of a display model seems to show larger chipset and VRM coolers when compared to the SX58J3:

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur...Fsur4AarlOiXDA

[DanceswithUnix]

Used to love Shuttles, but the wife's PC started randomly rebooting and it has to be the motherboard. It wasn't that old either, just over a year I think?

Still have the barebones kicking around, might try and crowbar a mini ITX into it at some point for kicks but she is now happily using a uATX motherboard in a Sugo case I don't see us going back.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Still have the barebones kicking around, might try and crowbar a mini ITX into it at some point for kicks but she is now happily using a uATX motherboard in a Sugo case I don't see us going back.

This is what I am trying to do with a spare Shuttle G2 case:

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...decisions.html

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...-advice-2.html

There are some pictures in the second link of my previous effort.