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Shuttle SN25P XPC Small Form Factor Kit

By Mark Kyrnin, About.com

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Shuttle SN25P XPC SFF Interior Left Side

Left Side Interior View of the Shuttle SN25P XPC

Left Side Interior View of the Shuttle SN25P XPC

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The left side of the SN25P interior is much cleaner than the right because of the lack of cables. While the right side had most of the drive cables, the only real cable on the left side of the case is the IDE cable that is routed back up to the optical drive. There is space for the floppy drive cable to be added if the system will hold a floppy drive.

On the bottom front of the case is the 80mm fan that is used to pull air through the processor heatsink. This fan is mounted in a special bracket that can be swung away from the case so the CPU heatsink can be removed for installation. This is much easier than previous designs from Shuttle.

In the bottom center of the motherboard are the two memory DIMM slots. Since the system is restricted to two memory slots, the maximum memory that the system can support is 4GB using very expensive 2GB memory modules. Realistically, the system would be configured with either 2GB or 1GB of memory.

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