Pros: This is the second review I will be leaving for this item. My first review had nothing but praise for this unit. but...

Cons: I'm a musician and I use a device called a Line 6 Guitar Port with this system. This is essentially an external audio card with a guitar input going through the USB port. Here is the problem. This unit has one internal PCI slot. I installed a standard wi-fi card into this slot which works great.. but Shuttle designed this unit using a lazy design which incorporates the USB within the PCI interface which is a practice that most say is wrong and essentialy a bad idea. pci and usb share the same data streams which makes for a bad design. USB will give you audio glitches every 10 seconds or so and if you want to avoid problems you have to disabe the pci slot. I've seen the same problem with video games too. But here is what really sucks.. I e-mailed Shuttle for help. It takes 35 mintues to fill out their questionaire before they let you submit a customer service e-mail. I've e-mailed 5 times now over 3 months for help. They have ignored every e-mail. SH ITE CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!

Overall Review: As many times as I've e-mailed Shuttle for some advice about this problem they have ignored me.. Not one dam n response.. I got this unit to upgrade from my old Biostar IDEQ200N system which had no problems at all with the USB.. this is for all practicle purposes a good system but even video games will glitch and halt in midstream every 10 to 15 seconds if you have anything installed in the pci-E or PCI slots.. Stupid design.. Music and video will glitch. Everything glitches! You'll have to disable all the USB ports to play a video game unless you like a stutter every 15 seconds or so. I've never seen this before..It's a huge hassle. Very disapointed.. My brother has the same system I built for him and his is just as bad. I feel bad for waisting his money. This system is good for the internet or business purposes.. but thats all.. customer service is garbage!! I plan on selling it online and getting something different (better).

Pros: Went together really fast, no problems, no cuts on hands (all rolled edges) and started up with NO problems. Surprisingly quiet and nice looking - wife likes it. Well designed. Used AMD Athlon 3500+ Orleans, 2x512K OCZ2G8001GK Gold memory, LG DVD burner, BFG Tech BFGR76256GTOCE GeForce 7600GT 256MB Video Card, WD 160GB 3.0GHz SATA drive. Did not need fastest everything but it is plenty fast for normal people - this is my backup PC. The rebates saved a bunch. It is a great combination so far, and I would recommend it.

Cons: none

Overall Review: I hope proprietary power supply and mobo are reliable - I have no prior experience with Shuttle and now buy "PC Power & Cooling" power supplies after failures of several other major brands. Note that the Shuttle looks like it would support both an IDE hard drive and CD/DVD player, but I wouldn't do it unless I was desperate. Just buy a SATA drive and do it right.

Pros: Fast, relatively inexpensive, and quiet. 200W PSU is plenty, and quieter than I was expecting. It's all aluminum, and easy to put together. It's much cheaper and faster than a mini-ITX setup, and not a whole lot bigger! Tons of USB ports, and room for "real" expansion cards, not just low-profile. You can get a wi-fi adapter that actually fits onto the case and saves the PCI slot. It'll take two 2GB DDR2 Dimms (if you can find them). It supports dual-core, and the AM2 socket will be around hopefully as long as Socket A was... a looong time.

Cons: Well, it doesn't have standard internal USB headers, which stinks if you want to add an internal media reader like I did. The PCI-e slot is left of the PCI slot, so a mega-wide video card won't fit. The CD audio header was nearly impossible to reach. No parallel port, but you can buy one as an add-on... why not include it? Costs them like two bucks.

Overall Review: I've been building computers for 10 years, and this was my first Shuttle. I'm impressed. I put a 3500+, 2x512MB sticks of generic DDR2, a Samsung drive, an XFX geforce 7300, and a wireless card in it. No problems. I didn't even test the onboard video. I never use onboard video. System was tested with Ubuntu and Suse Linux, and Windows XP Pro. Everything worked like a charm.

Pros: Very quiet - major improvement over my normal tower cases. Lightweight aluminum has nicely rounded edges - great engineering. Has almost all the ports I need built-in (just missing a composite or s-video out). It's small-about the size of a stack of magazines-but holds 2 3.5 inch drives and a normal 5.25 for opticals-plus 2 expansion slots. And access to the drives is pretty easy. It was intended for a SATA hard drive and a PATA optical (1 SATA and 1 dual device PATA cables are already attached waiting for you to plug in the drives), but worked just fine with my PATA hard drive and PATA CD-RW on the only PATA channel. I was worried about adequate 4 conductor molex connectors - but there are 3, plus the floppy power and a SATA power connector. The Pwr Supply in mine was marked as a 240 watt unit. Completely assembled mine weighs about 11 pounds. 1 DDR2 dimm (1 GB, 533 - Wintec), 320 GB Maxtor PATA drive, AMD 3800+ X2 (65 w version) and an old CD-RW from my collection for now.

Cons: Instructions are pretty brief-no real manual for the motherboard-just a quick start guide that steps you through assembly and shows connector layouts-then a PDF file that documents the bios settings, neither shows ALL the pinouts of the various headers on the motherboard or the detailed specs I am used to having. Instead SHUTTLE sells their own parts that utilize their connectors. A handle built-in could be cool. And so would the composite video out mentioned above (but that will be on most decent video cards when I get one). And I was expecting to go with an Intel Core 2 Duo for my next box, but I haven't seen a case/mbd combo that match this and supports the Core 2 Duo. So AMD wins my business again, even though I thought Intel has made all the right moves in the past 12 months (which I give AMD's engineering over the past 3 years credit for)

Overall Review: NewEgg does it again, got me to buy another computer I don't need but love anyway. Ordered Monday, and I assembled it Thursday. And this compact, neat looking case would have passed my ex-wife's form factor tests with flying colors. QUIET / SIMPLE / No other cooling fans needed - they are built right in! Could easily use an OEM processor since you can't use the Boxed version's heat sink/fan with this case. (Was worried about the reset button being so big and close to the power button but I don't use the power button to turn it off anyway.) Sweet!

Pros: It's a Shuttle, well thought out and easily finished. Cables are all in place, you only need to add drives, op system, cpu, memory and a video card if gaming.

Cons: Onboard video is not enough for 3d gaming. The PCI-E slot handles single width cards just fine, there is not enough room for double width cards or big aftermarket fans.

Overall Review: 4200 windsor dualcore, 1 gig corsair ddr800, 7600GT vid. Maxxed out WoW settings, smooth as glass.

Pros: Piece of cake to assemble, started right up, works like a charm. QUIET -- (which is my number one criteria), and really well built. I love it.

Cons: Only negative is the lack of a DVI output on the built in graphics, and with only a 200 W ps, it's difficult to find a PCI-E card that won't overwhelm the unit.

Pros: awesome, awesome system..very quiet, very fast, efficient, looks real sexy. win xp sp2 picks up all components with no probs, just have to install drivers..which they are both 64 and 32 bit..newegg and shuttle x rock!!! :)

Cons: parallel port and optical/coaxial spdif should be include

Overall Review: awesome system..you wont regret it..toss the old full case atx..go with smaller, efficient barebone systems :)

Pros: Quieter than my PowerMac G5 which is quiet. My first exposure to an ICE CPU cooler. Fan with AMD CPU is not needed. Floppy cable folding took a couple of tries. And what exactly is a "thin" layer of thermal paste. Must've got it right because CPU didn't melt. My first PC build, although I've replaced parts in systems before. Assembled in under 3 hours not counting Vista install. Nice clean layout inside. Via Chrome9 runs Vista Aero with 256K shared VGA memory. Runs Vista Basic at 128K or less.

Cons: Not a biggie, but fan stays on low in Vista sleep mode. When fan goes high periodically it is noticeable but that fan speed is for very short periods only. Tried an eVGA GeForce 7300GS with a fan. Nearly dust buster sound level between the GPU fan and case vents. Took it out although Vista Graphics improved to 2.8 and Gaming improved to 3.0. Via Chrome9 with 256K VGA shared memory works but some delay when Vista Aero needs to do a major screen change.

Overall Review: Final config in system: AMD X2 3800+, 2Gb Ram (started with 1G then bumped to 2Gb), 160Gb SATA Western Digital HD, Samsung CD/DVD burner, Mitsumi floppy, Wintec USB Flash ReadyBoost, Viewsonic 17" flat screen, Vista Home Premium. Vista scores: CPU 4.8, RAM 5.6, Graphics 2.0, Gaming Graphics 2.5, Hard disk 5.4. ... "Your results may vary". Use of USB ReadyBoost doesn't affect scores.