Shuttle's SDXi is a water-cooled, bestickered beast that displays no price, packing an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM and crossfired AMD Radeon X1950 video cards into a tiny form factor.
Being unimpressed by the gaming performance of my iMac's M.O.R. NVIDIA 7600, I'd been eying Shuttle's P2, which gives me an NVIDIA 8800 GTS in a shoebox. Yesterday, however, I was distracted by this SXDi, and a little disappointed that it appeared to be "Sold Out." It's also sold as the latest XPC "1337" model, which is so 1998. Am I also to pheer it?
To be honest, I'd probably prefer a simpler, single card solution to my framerate woes, such as the faster 8800 series provides. And I'm not the type for these flamboyant cases. But I've looked long and hard, and no-one out there makes a gamer's shoebox quite like Shuttle, and sooner or later, the bastards will have me.
I note that you can also configure the P2 as a barebones though Newegg.com, making it about $500 cheaper than a similarly-configured (and warranteed) model direct from Shuttle. I've built every PC I owned in the last 5 years but the last one, but I'm oddly nervous about doing so with SFF boxes and hot, power-hungry components.
