shuttle SX58H7

akromatic · Post by **akromatic** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:46 am

im looking into a sff i7 rig and wondering how good is this shuttle for near silence operation

rei · Post by **rei** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:25 am

i don't think it ever will be. they have been historically loud due to size considerations and shuttle's custom coolers.

k2tsai · Post by **k2tsai** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:17 am

The killer on the shuttles have always been the power supply. With 40mm fans, you're always going to have that high pitched fan whine.

The x58 moves to a 50mm fan, but that really isn't a whole lot better.

The ICE cooling system uses 92mm fans, and these are PWM in the newer machines, so that should be OK, or at least replaceable with a quieter unit.

Shuttle also sells the PC62 power supply which is a 200W external brick with a DC/DC converter internally (think picoPSU style). This eliminates the power supply fan, which is a good thing, but is limited to 200W.

As long as you keep your power budget under 200W, this makes for a reasonable system.