Question concerning SN26P

[Soulz]

Hello everyone, I had a question regarding an upcoming computer I am planning on building.

I am planning on ordering my parts soon, and I have chosen the SN26P as the barebone. This is technically the second PC I'm going to build, as I helped build a friend's PC (who was also using the SN26P) last December.

Here are the specs of my new computer:
Shuttle SN26P Barebone
AMD Athlon X2 4400+
eVGA GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCI Express x16 Graphics Card (not planning on doing SLI)
Corsair XMS 1GB RAM
LITE-ON 16X DVD±R DVD Burner
120GB Hard Drive

I have a pretty good idea of how everything works, but I am concerned that the computer may get too hot. I have talked with some of my friends who know as much as I do, if not more, and they say chances are the PC will not overheat. I went and looked today at a possible fan that connects to a PCI slot, which I might pick up after building the computer sometime next week.

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post it in, but I was just hoping I could get someone's opinion on whether or not any cooling is needed. I know there are a lot of people who like to go SLI with these small cases, which is something I currently am not interested in doing (nor do I think I will ever be). I am going to college in about two months and needed something to take, and I wanted a system that was somewhat for gaming, but to where it was affordable.

Thanks to anyone in advance who can help.

[tino]

If your not going sli get the SN25P instead the SN26P isnt worth the extra if your not going sli. Cooling in shuttles is very good an you will have very few problems with overheating.

[Soulz]

If your not going sli get the SN25P instead the SN26P isnt worth the extra if your not going sli. Cooling in shuttles is very good an you will have very few problems with overheating.

Well, I would do that, but I still want a dual-core processor, and to my knowledge the SN25P does not support dual-core (reading Newegg's product description and it says it does not support Athlon X2 CPUs)...

Anyways, thank you for the information, and I've also read other people's configurations with the SN26P, and it seems compared to them I shouldn't have worried about overheating in the first place...

[Stephen B]

sn25 runs dual cores fine

[tino]

It does run dual core, so Im not sure where you got that information from.

http://www.shuttle.com/share/fae/hq/...readmefn25.htm

[Soulz]

Well, I think I actually do remember a page on Shuttle's website saying it did, but then I went to newegg where I would normally buy it and on the specifications, it did not say it supported an Athlon 64 X2 processor, just Athlon 64, FX, and Sempron.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16856101468

Nonetheless, I might have to reconsider my choices then. I still am not sure, because after thinking a while it might be nice to go SLI in the future, just not now but maybe later as an upgrade...

Thanks everyone.

[SebShuttle]

The SN25P will run up to FX-60 as others have said and the full X2 range.

http://global.shuttle.com/Support/Su...(FN25V1.x,V2.x