This retro Shuttle XPC is AWESOME!

[@abunk8691]

For the 3.5" bay I'd put a multi card reader there for that mid 2000s feel. Particularly the kind that has stuff like CF, Memory Stick, SD/MMC, microSD/TF, USB.

[@SteveChisnall]

for good measure, make it a combo floppy-disk-drive and card-reader

[@abunk8691]

@@SteveChisnall Wow I just searched that and a floppy drive + card reader combo is a frankenstein PC part that I've never seen before or heard about. Though how tricky would it be to service to regrease the floppy mechanism. Searching for combo drives led me down the rabbit hole of 5.25" combo drives and I saw other things I've never seen. LOL 1) combo floppy drives with both a 3½" and 5¼" drives (i.e. Epson SD-800, Teac FD-505, Canon MD5511-V6) 2) combo 3½" floppy + CD drive (no idea on model numbers and I saw more of just 2 laptop drives stick together) 3) combo slim laptop DVD drive + 4 bay dock of 2.5" drives (i.e. IcyDock Touch Armor MB604SPO)

[@kernelpaniiic]

What about a tape backup drive ? Pretty retro isn’t

[@kr15uk]

@@kernelpaniiicthey come in 5.25” bays and more often double height, especially if period appropriate. Is it retro, don’t think so, LTO 9 tapes is current variant with 45TB compressed capacity with LTO 10 coming next year doubling capacity, sure at the time we would have had LTO 2/3 which still would be exact the same form factor.

[@nickwallette6201]

@@kr15uk QIC drives were frequently 3.5". See: Iomega Tape250, or the later Ditto drives. Colorado made lots of 5.25" drives, but even those were actually 3.5" drives with a large faceplate and side rails.

[@gonace]

I remember working at DreamHack (Jönköping, Sweden) in the early 2000s. At one point, they used Shuttle for the CS competition, and after that, it was the dream for most kids.

[@trippycat]

awesome to see CRD and Collin showcase shuttle computers only a few days apart

[@ThisDoesNotCompute]

Yeah it’s weird how the universe tends to line up like that!

[@CasualSpud]

@@ThisDoesNotCompute If I had a nickel for everytime I saw a Shuttle PC video, I'd have 2 nickels.... too lazy to finish the meme

[@iitzfizz]

CRD?

[@RTheren]

@@iitzfizz "Cathode Ray Dude" = CRD.

[@Aeduo]

His was MSI but definitely inspired. This one looks like a dream to work in in comparison.

[@TekTherapy]

Hi Colin! This time just here to say love your channel. I actually watch your vids even will creating my own content. Since they just always get me in the right mood! Thx for all your work! And fun fact.. i had an almost exact Shuttle XPC years back!

[@CyborgPilord]

It's weird how something so modern can feel so nostalgic. This form factor coming back around is great, for some reason I really love this with the little display. It's like a little piece of retro-futurism in microcosm.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

20 years old isn't modern for pc standards, lol.

[@lassikinnunen]

Case standards are still same. You could still easily use peripheals from 20 years ago. The changes between 2024 and 2004 are mininal compared to 1984 and 2004. Things are better sure now than 2004 but theres no huge differences like you can show same photos on both computers etc.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

​@@lassikinnunen No, case standards are not the same. First off what do peripherals have to do with cases? Also 20 years ago peripherals were using things like ps2, which don't use anymore, or usb 1.1, serial ports, vga for graphics into of hdmi. Video cards and other internal parts used molex, something that is rare to find now, there are a ton of other things including 8 pin cpu power also.

[@finkelmana]

I had a few of the shuttle PCs back in the day. They were fine for what they were, but since the cases, motherboards, and heatsinks were proprietary, the ability to upgrade them was extremely limited. I remember starting a new job as a sysadmin and finding about two dozen of them in storage. I asked the president about them and he was surprised they were still there and said to get rid of them. They were left over from the last hardware refresh. So I took them home, wiped them, and sold them on Craigslist for a decent amount of money.

[@jothain]

Did you experience any hardware faults on them? I remember wanting to get one, but luckily heard about horrible hardware design and other issues that apparently didn't make them too reliable computers. Really pretty case though.

[@finkelmana]

​@@jothain No, I had no issues with them at all.

[@jothain]

@@finkelmana It could be indeed the traditional feedback from people that have had issues. Like usual positive/neutral feedback is rarely seen at all 🙂

[@MulliganSnicker]

These videos are so calming. If you ever want to take the KZbin algorithm by storm, combine a huge amount of videos into a “Retro PC ASMR to Fall Asleep To”

[@JoshOsRocks]

These videos do jot fall into the category of ASMR because they are narrated.

[@45KevinR]

It's great to see something so well built. The modular disassembly, and long lived capacitors is just excellent. The fact they still host their drivers should be applauded. I recall a printer company that removed all their drivers the moment a windows version went out of Microsoft support! Which was no help to anyone who needed to reinstall an old system.

[@jothain]

That's apparently quite seemingly well built. From what I've read there's a lot of hardware related problems and reliability issues in Shuttle lineup computers.

[@justbasicfnaf7436]

i just love the way you want the system to be period accurate, it really gives the entire system a history and depth. i am looking forward to your video on early ssds!

[@birdsoup777]

Worked Fry's in Electronics Component Sales from 1999 - 2003. I remember when Shuttle XPC DIY systems 1st retailed. Demand was enormous for them.

[@masejoer]

Yep - I owned a few during the Athlon 64 through early Core2 days, before upsizing a bit to an Antec mATX cube and mini towers, since they could fit the larger heatsinks that were appearing on the market. I wish I could find one of those XPC machines again in mint condition, from the era.

[@birdsoup777]

​@@masejoer Would be awesome if you found an XPC machine. i hope you do. Thank you for commenting

[@NightMotorcyclist]

when I was a teen I wanted a Shuttle PC but those carried quite the price premium as they used non standard parts to make it all fit in a shoebox that can be carried to LAN parties. Upgradeability was tricky with such machines in those days as well as you had to make sure the system came with an AGP slot as PCI wouldn't cut it and when PCIe came along, it was a godsend as it was almost guaranteed to be mid to high end graphics capable.

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

Well keep your eye out for them, I was given a Shuttle XPC for free when I bought a cheap GPU, probably got a dual core in they said. Well it was a Q6600, so it's now a Q9400, with an SSD, DDR3 memory, and I put a GTX 660 3GB GPU in as it also has PCIe. Okay it's not my modern Ryzen PCs, but it's still very impressive running the original Crysis.

[@thedungeondelver]

As far as 2005 not being retro...to put things into perspective, when I was 25 years old, in 1995, I discovered the emulation scene, and found out to my amazement that you could emulate an Atari 2600 on even a middlin' Cyrix based system (which was what I had)! And the Atari 2600 was, in 1995, only 18 years old, and at that time I thought it was _ancient_ . 1977 seemed like an entire epoch before 1995 in terms of tech. So yeah I'd say a 22 year old desktop PC constitutes retro!

[@Pasi123]

2005 wasn't 22 years ago. Progress has also slowed down a lot so a 2005 PC could still be used for light web browsing etc. though of course it would be slow. I still have a Core2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.0GHz (released in 2007, based on 2006 architecture) in my HTPC, it can play 1080p videos without problems and it's fast enough for web browsing even in 2024.

[@isyoulame]

I did IT for a Christian charity, and one office that did counseling, there was a silver colored Shuttlebox, in the year 2016! I always loved the aesthetic of the 2000's stuff.

[@firejama3]

Half expected you to say, "these shuttles will be ready to launch" or something like that at the end 😂

[@DK-210]

Shuttle XPC was the second PC I ever built back in 2004. What’s amazing is that I still have the Newegg order so I know exactly what I had 20 years ago. It was great because I had limited space living in the dorms at the time.

[@26DR715]

I have had loads of these machines over the years since I started using computers many years ago, I'm 61 now and still have one which I use as a win XP setup for games, but uses it for my main computer when using it for ham radio work digital modes, never had any problems with them, really solid machine and the motherboard is bullet proof. Enjoy it good machines.

[@devikwolf]

I've had that exact same stiction issue with several CD drives in the past. Usually if they haven't been opened in a decade or more, and the grease has become a bit more gummy. On some drives it helps to extend the tray all the way and apply some fresh grease to the exposed teeth on the underside.

[@MrLurchsThings]

I absolutely adore the Shuttle XPCs. They were the ultimate LAN party machine. I’ve recently done up a couple. A Core2Duo machine that I spec’d to run as a ridiculous XP machine. But my favourite is a SN45G. It’s their nForce2 based machine and the one a mate had back in my LAN party days and I was always jealous of. It’s running 98SE just for something different and flies with that OS. Yes, these machines mainly suffer from weak PSU’s, but keep these in decent health and they can be an awesome little era correct(ish) gaming machine that doesn’t take up much space.

[@dougkinzinger]

I worked on a ton of these back in the day. Everybody always called them "the Shuttle" whenever referring to them, because nobody ever had more than one of them.

[@vwestlife]

The Pentium 4: Some like it hot.

[@JeremyLevi]

It's not like it's a Pentium D. 🔥🔥🔥

[@davidp4456]

They don’t have to be hot. The last P4’s in the line offered low wattage CPU’s that are comfortable to live with.

[@LOLMAN9538]

​@@JeremyLevi More like Pentium Deez (rest of joke redacted)

[@ttharmor]

I ran a shuttle as my HTPC in the 2000s. It was a great little box for running MythTV. This was a blast to watch, thanks!

[@AWalYT]

I think I still have an old video up from the time period where you can see my Shuttle XPC in use on the desk. Went through a few but my use case changed in the early to mid 2010s and I switch to just having a more powerful laptop to do just about everything...Sadly all three of the Shuttle's I had either had some catastrophic issue requiring them to be retired or scrapped, or were sold to friends. I'm still quite fond of the things, and happy they continue to make them alongside other SFF computers.

[@joshpayne4015]

I used Shuttle XPCs for years in the late 90's/early 2000's, starting with the SV24 model. I loved them. Compact size and good performance. Over time they refined the design and made my original SV24 feel prehistoric. The only issue I ever had was in a couple of the later models had high-pitched coil whine on the motherboard, but some RTV silicone applied to the offending coils solved that quickly. A little bit of modding the fan grills for better and quieter air flow made it a nice quiet system! Snip out the rear hexagonal fan grill, add on a higher-flow wire fan grill on the outside (using the existing thumb screws or using longer ones depending on the fit). Snipping out the fan grill on the PSU and replacing it with a similar (but smaller) wire fan grill. It was unfortunate that their tiny SFX power supply had a tiny (40mm?) fan inside of it, which benefitted from modding (and voiding warranty). Including the PSU fan, there are two fans in this system, the other being the larger ICE cooling rear exhaust fan, and replacing it with a quieter version like Panaflow or, later, Noctua always did the trick. Also I always kept a spare PSU on-hand because they were a bit proprietary and if it failed you were in for about a week's wait to get a replacement.

[@ActionRetro]

0:54 a single slice of american cheese

[@48-_]

Why one.why not make a toaster there

[@10.9.5-mavericks]

PERFECT

[@zenithowo]

​@@48-_that will heat from CPU

[@48-_]

@@zenithowo yes but you need adobe photoshop

[@namuzed]

I bought a Shuttle PC around 2008 as my first HTPC. It was such a novelty at the time that most people who saw it in my living room were confused that it was a computer. It was collecting dust for years, but I recently upgraded the CPU to the best it can support (cost next to nothing from China) and have been using it as a glorified NAS for things I don't mind loosing.

[@UdonTaco]

I had this. It was good. Performed well for recording. It ran Reason, Live, Cubase, and Fruity Loops fine. It played well enough on games. The terrible part was the hinges on the front cover that were first to break, and then the PSU. It was frustrating back then to find a replacement PSU that would fit the case. I ended up moving the motherboard and all the components to another case. Expanded the peripherals since you were limited by the internal frame and design of the original case. I ended up using it as a NAS server and a XBMC machine well into the time Kodi came around

[@robsquared2]

I'd put a Jaz drive in the 3.5 spot.

[@krz8888888]

Agreed, these are fantastic retro PCs if you don't have much space, vert compact yet expandable enough

[@dave4shmups]

Great video as always! I wasn’t a Windows XP gamer, but I’m impressed by how plug-and-play everything is from this video. I think that was one of Microsoft’s goals with XP.

[@kr15uk]

3.5” multi card reader is a must have for this era machine

[@frstesiste7670]

I had a Shuttle as may main computer for 3-4 years. Reasonably fast and stable machine at the time. Extremely convenient form factor.

[@noahderrington5156]

I remember installing these as custom Media Centre PCs in period. XP Media Centre was great and we built out systems with these Shuttles at each TV in big properties, a server was added so each MCPC could watch and record digital TV back to the server and watch back recordings on any other TV in the house. Also had a DVD library where you could rip from any TV back to the server and watch the movie library on all of them. Then the curse of Vista killed the whole situation dead due to epic unreliability. Did have thermal issues with these Shuttle PC media centres in AV cabinets though. We also used early Apple Mac Minis with Media Centre running in boot camp and USB digital TV tuners, worked surprisingly well!

[@eddiehimself]

We got a Shuttle XPC in, bit of an older model with an AMD Socket 462 motherboard. It was donated to us by a security company as a former CCTV recording rig with a special card for hooking up cameras to. The interesting thing about that one is that it had SATA support, but it only supported SATA I hard drives, or SATA II drives that could be configured by a jumper to work in SATA I mode (since it didn't come with a hard drive, that's what we ended up doing). I don't think that would have been the case with your XPC since it's a bit of a newer motherboard, but you may well have dodged a bullet by going with the original hard drive lol.

[@krz8888888]

775 has been retro for several years at this point, those pretending otherwise are kidding themselves.

[@federicocatelli8785]

Yeah even the newest Core quad are more than 15 years old

[@tonygroenewoud-powell53]

Your videos are informative and oh so soothing at the same time. A joy! There is something about your voice!

[@jacobb546]

Watching and writing this from my Shuttle with a 4790k and a 670 and an msata boot drive. Still runs great! Emulation, web browsing, containers, etc. Mine has an esata on the back that I've connected to a DAS.

[@StephanKochs]

We had a bunch of these in a rack as a remote rendering and computational farm. They ran great back in the day and were really reliable.

[@medallish]

I had two Shuttle PC's, I installed XP on them and sold them as a LAN kit, but yeah I loved the builds, compact while compromising very little at the time.

[@laynesamba]

Those NEC multisyncs are AWESOME many of them support 15hz sync signal inputs

[@Motwera]

I never had these Shuttle XPCs back then, but I do clearly remember seeing them at electronic stores back in like 2007/2008, it was cool seeing PCs getting smaller and smaller

[@dongranger5611]

I had one of the first Shuttle PCs I loved it.

[@32KOFDATA]

I used to have the multimedia version and loved it. XPC used to sell case covers with more vent holes and I remember getting one. It truly helped with thermals. Psu after years died on me and threw the system out. Shame, I should have kept and rebuild it.

[@mattg-q3z]

I had a couple of Shuttles back in the day. Good times. They were really excellent.

[@the_beefy1986]

In my first job out of college, my boss (company owner) wanted a new home PC and I built him one with a Shuttle case similar to this one. It was tight to get all the things he wanted into it, but it was a fun build.

[@grtitann7425]

Once I found Shuttles XPC, I abandoned towers for over a decade! Sadly, they lost me when they stopped offering AMD systems . Heck, even today, they still only offer Intel systems. But I really loved them back then. Thanks for the video!

[@GreySectoid]

Shuttles were premium PCs back then, expensive but slick, still got mine which I bought as soon as got my first paycheck.

[@drewnewby]

In repair, we referred to these as the toaster ovens. They became popular for LAN parties. The high end components of the time would cook themselves in these cases regularly.

[@soundguydon]

I remember wanting one of these back then!

[@kernelpaniiic]

It’s so nice that Shuttle still manufactures the XPC series. I am so nostalgic for this form factor, people who had one at work made others jealous ; some models really had stylish and classy cases, much like hifi systems as opposed to ugly beige towers.

[@ScottieNiven]

I have a soft spot for P4 machines as they are what I grew up with, I remember oogling at these exact shuttle machines in magazines! I've still yet to get one, but I do have a beast of a Dell Dimension 8400 that I picked from scrap that has a P4 670 3.8ghz and a 6800GTO, its very temperemental these days and struggles to boot but it certainly is a powerhouse. Found my benchmarks and 3dMark05 was 4331

[@KaldekBoch]

I had multiple Shuttle XPS systems back in the day! Loved them to bits.

[@fistbumpbros]

I bought one like this for my ex in 2005, so she could do school work on it. Few months later, we broke up. And she took the PC with her. Still want it back 😢

[@freemanbam]

Knowing girls she probably sold it or threw it out.

[@fistbumpbros]

@@freemanbam Knowing her, she probably dumped it on the side of the road.

[@211teitake]

I wanted these so much back in those days.

[@nathanmiddleton1478]

I just recently retired (within the last couple years) a Shuttle machine with the Athlon64. We built it to pair with their LCD monitor at the time (about the same period). So right now I have it sitting below my desk with a couple of icy dock 2.5" docks filled to the gills with storage and maxed on ram running Linux. It's a nice little personal NAS.

[@wexomixo]

Funny to think of this as retro - feels like I was just using one of these a few years ago, but I guess it's been closer to 20 years.

[@quadmods]

I loved those Shuttles. Built up a few as Pro Tools sound editing systems for clients. They fit very nicely on a rack shelf or a small edit suite (in a sound proof enclosure).

[@mimo5383]

I think I had the exact same Shuttle box back in the day. Fond memories.

[@ste76539]

My XPC is one of my favourite machines, they're just brilliant 😁 I have a slightly earlier one which is all silver aluminium, upgraded to a Core2Duo, it makes a really nice XP set up. BTW the caps in the power supply DO need checking, they're of a lesser quality to the ones on the mainboard.

[@klauskillski3881]

I had an XPC SN25P. It was super loud but really good for LAN parties

[@NotAbitail]

I've always really liked these Shuttles. I have a SK43G, and it's my favorite computer in my collection. My Dad still uses his Sandy Bridge-era Shuttle and really loves the thing due to its small form factor making it easy for him to use the front IO since he is disabled.

[@StefanMoonen]

I didn't even realise Shuttle still exists! I had an XPC SN45G with an Athlon XP 2400+ and later 3000+ iirc. The nForce2 chipset paired with a GeForce 6800LE made it a great machine for its time! The thing though with these models was that the motherboard could go bad after a while. I don't remember exactly what the issue was, but warranty from Shuttle was good enough that I got a new model once at least.

[@hanslehmann2124]

Back in the day we had several Shuttle computers in our house. They were small, they had all the options we needed, and above all they were quiet thanks to their heat pipe cooling coupled with only one large fan (large fans == quiet, small fans == noisy). They were great for their day.

[@milosviki86]

watch every video from the first to the last second. thanks man

[@theshadowman1398]

Used a pretty much the exact size case for one of my PC build. Really a solid experience.

[@dylantaylor490]

I actually had one of these. Brings back memories.

[@Tarkov.]

Lots of nostalgia for these old 775 boards, my first (that I got with my own money) PC was a 775 Dell that I put an 8400GS in and I could just barely play Team Fortress 2 on it.

[@EastAngliaUK]

I saw a Dell UltraSharp 1907FP in the road last night next to mine it was still there and I took it as was damp outside and did not want it to be broken. it worked fine its a nice pq no marks also and has a dvi to.

[@alles_klar]

What a treat to see you working on a Shuttle box! Thanks for another great video.

[@bunnymaid]

Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I still have one of these in a corner somewhere. I think it might be a bit older than yours and white. They were quite reliable too. We used quite a few of them for desktops in the ISP. The best bit about them was the Aluminium meaning no sharp edges and no blood sacrifices.

[@mikkelbreiler8916]

The problem with the optical drive tray not coming out but you hear the mechanism getting stuck is due to the belt being stiff and stuck on the smallest diameter wheel, usually on the motor itself, as the belt has this memory of being in the position it is also not strong enough to pull the belt any further. If it is not too bad it will solve itself within 10-20 eject attempts, but if the belt is too stiff or broken it will need replacing before working at all..

[@RoderikvanReekum]

This is truly a amazing computer with revolutionaire design!

[@darrylhudsonhudson]

I have grew up with alot of retro computers and others things back when malls and stores were huge back in 1989-1999 and love old school pc games and all that stuff and thank you for the history for the apple mac comuters-DLH

[@ChrisACiufo]

Wow: thanks for the retro-it’s all so familiar from so long ago.

[@3R1XN]

Im glad, that the Pentium 4 returnes. A Pentium 4 HT whith a Radeon 9800 Pro and 1 GB DDR RAM was my first System. The Pentium was overclocked to around 3,2 Ghz. Sadly one of the RAM-Sticks was bad, which i had not realized back in the day. Your Video motivated me pulling that PC out of my parents attic and set it up again. And hoping to find a second DDR-RAM Stick. (While praying, that the capacitors are fine).

[@songsan807]

Great review video. I built over a dozen Shuttle PCs for myself and family during the early 2000s and they are nice machines that are reliable, cheap, and space saving. Around 2010 I went to a yard sale where a man sold me 10 of his shuttle PCs for $5 each. Each was complete and working so had a lot of systems to tinker with. From it's default motherboard and CPU and 1GB memory limit, the further I got was Win XP and put in 1GB of video card to play retro PC games. Can't surf the internet. I could install Linux. Will see what I can do later this year with some free time.

[@zid_just_zid]

I had and loved multiple of those bitd, sk41g, sn41g2 and sb51g. The initial one was the sn41g2 ran with a t-bred 1700+, managed to bump it from 1.46ghz up to 2.4ghz by upping fsb and changing the multiplier via jumpers in the cpu socket, no bios option for multiplier. Eventually i upgraded to a barton 2500+ which i ran at 3200+ speed, this time i think it was just the FSB that needed changing. Got the sk41g as a new home for my 1700+. Initially i had a geforce 4 of some kind running in the sn41g2, eventually it got moved over into the sk41g as i got a radeon 9700 to put in the sn41g2. Id bring both to LAN parties, playing on the SN and hosting games or filesharing on the SK. Later on i got a retired dell desktop out of which i took the 1.8ghz p4 and ram sticks, moved the case on and picked up the sb51g which was as a HTPC, clipped the FSB detection pin off the P4 to make it run at 2.4ghz after verifying it would do that speed reliably in a motherboard with the FSB option, shuttle didnt have that so hence the clipped pin. I was pretty active on the Sudhian Shuttle XPC forum, common mods shared on there were cutting out the restrictive fan grills off the back, both the one for the CPU heatpipe and the one one the PSU. I shared a very easy mod for adapting the stock fan shroud to take a 92mm fan which got quite popular too, i also extended the harddrive cage and was running three HDDs and an optical drive in that (relatively) tiny case. Eventually i gifted the SK to my then girlfriends mom as their computer was trash, no idea what happened to the SN, probably sold it and still have the SB for retro use.

[@dotapark]

WOAH that looks indeed awesome! I’m not done watching the video yet but, it just looks super cool and something I might interested as dream PC case!

[@abdelali9279]

I really like these kinds of understated PC cases instead of the tacky modern RGB boxes we have nowadays.

[@kaustix852]

Damn I remeber wanting one of these back then. And design still holds up, better than most still today.

[@coeus1469]

I loved this system. One of my favorite HTPC / lan gaming builds… back when that was a thing 😁

[@TheRetroMacintosh]

i loved my shuttle in the early 2000's, i miss it , great video

[@Gannett2011]

Great video. I had a later Shuttle XPC in about 2009. The only problem I had with it was the tiny power supply fan was very noisy. But what impressed me was the heat-pipe CPU cooler, just a heavy copper plate over the processor and 3 beefy copper heat pipes leading to an exhaust fan. This kept everything very cool-running, even during the hot California summers out here. The processor in mine was a Core2 Duo so it ran well with Windows 7. I also replaced the sound card - the on-board audio was pretty noisy. I rather miss that little PC now, but there are so many more powerful mini PCs around these days.

[@Markimark151]

The shuttle PC looks cool, for the 3.5 bay I would add a Zip floppy drive or a memory card reader!

[@alistairblaire6001]

I remember when these first came out. I can't believe it's been almost 20 years.

[@coldReactive]

For the DVD Drive, the reason why it probably did that at first, is that someone pushed it back in forcibly to try and close it as it was either opening or closing. This was a common thing at Middle and High School for me. So I always brought a paperclip to "fix" them. Also, when it comes to USB Connections, on older systems anyway, the USB Ports that are on the same rail as the Ethernet Port tend to fail quickly, while the Ethernet port remains pristine. I haven't had this problem since 2015 or so, so I think motherboard manufacturers are getting that down pat.

[@GoingtoHecq]

When they were Intel 3000 I wanted one as my first desktop because they were super compact for the time.

[@vjo03]

Reminds me that I have a Shuttle SN45G in storage. I used it as a media center back in the day. Might have to dig it out and play around with it.

[@Charlesb88]

I built one of these Shuttle barebones PC’s back in the mid 2000’s sporting an AMD Athlon processors and an nVidea graphics card. Kind of wish I still had it though it wouldn’t be good enough for modern applications like KZbin and other HD video playback and modern gaming.

[@happycat0411]

The Shuttle XPC line was a super great bare bones computer that was easy to carry and had just enough power to run a 6 pin GPU. My very first computer build was an MSI XPC Shuttle with a Duo Core CPU. The CPU cooler looked like a small V8 engine with headers and ran flawlessly for years! Really loved those early bare-bones machines!

[@Otakunopodcast]

I still have the Shuttle barebones I built back in 2012. Mine (SA76G2 v2) was AMD based rather than Intel, and I put in an Athlon II X3 450 3.2 GHz because I was building the system on the cheap. In fact I basically got the CPU for free. I bought everything together on one order, and the e-tailer offered me a bundle discount which came out to be the price of the CPU. The performance really wasn't that bad, for a basic workstation, which was what I was using it for. 1 GB of RAM and a SATA hard drive and IDE optical drive completed the package. Kept that machine for a few years, and eventually I outgrew it. I donated it to my workplace and set it up there for use as a VoIP server, where it served for several more years until suddenly it died just last year. I took the machine back (they had since moved the VoIP server to a different machine) and it turns out that the machine itself was ok, but the power supply was dead as a doornail. I decided that I wanted to refurb the machine and use it again, so I bought a replacement PSU, new old stock, off eBay. Like you I was surprised to find that the capacitors on the motherboard were all in good shape and of decent quality. (Not sure about the PSU, since I didn't really feel comfortable disassembling high voltage electronics.) Anyways the machine is running just fine now. I decided to put a cheap SSD in mine, because once you experience the speed of an SSD, you're spoiled for life. :) Because the motherboard has both IDE and SATA on it, and the machine has a PCI slot where I was able to slot in an Adaptec SCSI controller, that means that I can plug in all of the types of hard drives commonly found in vintage PCs and Macs, so I am using it as a drive imaging/data recovery machine, and it is working beautifully at that job.

[@davidgoodnow269]

I have a Shuttle LANParty case that I inherited from a friend, still using it to this day -- though I have gone with replacing and modding to add current iterations of peripheral features like Wi-Fi and USB. I still appreciate having a folding carrying handle on the face of the case, and pretty good air flow.

[@dmug]

I remember thinking how cool the shuttle PCs were, still are a nice form factor. Always love your vids.

[@the_sane_and_logical_hooligan]

Wow. I’m in my early 40s and remember lusting after this machine back in the early 2000s. Never did end up getting one but just seeing it brought back memories.

[@Suedeash]

This was a fantastic watch, would love to pick one up as well as that NEC monitor. Great work!

[@metallitech]

I love Shuttle boxes. I'm using an XPC now.

[@sortamacho]

Such a cool PC. Thanks for showcasing it!

[@NazarethStrickland]

man, i wish that this form factor was more common in the modern day. i still like having an ODD and a front card reader, but don't like having to use a full size case that's pretty much the only way to get front bays in this day and age. ITX seems like the perfect form factor for this kinda thing.

[@michaeltrosenfeld]

I had one of these with a Thunderbird CPU. It did it's thing!

[@frozendude707]

0:50 the thing to have those days were multi-card readers, for that era it would specifically have slots for: Compact Flash/IBM MicroDrive (CF/MD), SmartMedia (SM), xD picture card (xD), Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard/TransFlash (SD/MMC/TF), and Sony MemoryStick/MemoryStick Pro (MS/Pro). ExpressCard was also starting to be a thing among photographers, but those readers were usually bulky external boxes that cost almost as much as the computer did.

[@luisalcarazleal]

I sold my Shuttle cube PC to a fellow retro enthusiast here in town as I needed space for new machines, yet still holding onto my Pentium II machine that's about to be a dual CPU beast as soon as that CPU arrives next week.