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More…Shuttle's compact XPC P2 3900g is no run-of-the-mill PC. This desktop is so small that its ideal buyer has several definite attributes: no room for a behemoth tower, no interest in tinkering with the system's innards, and a fata; attraction to the aesthetics of tiny computers.
Shuttle XPC P2 3900g
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Multimedia
| Audio Adapter Model | Integrated |
| Audio Channels | 7.1 surround |
| Graphics Board RAM Type | DDR3 |
| Video chipset | nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX |
| Installed video memory | 768 MB |
| Video bus | PCI Express |
Expansion Slots
| Open PCI Express X16 Slots | 0 |
| Number of PCI slots | 1 |
| Open PCI Express X1 Slots | 0 |
| PCI Express Slots | 1 |
| Slots | 0 |
Display
| Included monitor | No |
| Monitor model number | Samsung SyncMaster 204B |
| Display type | LCD |
| Display size | 20 inches |
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Pros
Small, compact case
Fast performance
Cons
Lacks expandability
High price
Bottom Line
You pay a big premium for this system's small size, and you sacrifice expandability, but you get top-shelf performance.
Shuttle XPC P2 3900g
XPC P2 3900g Review, by Lincoln Spector April 24, 2007
The boxy XPC P2 3900g looks more like an extremely portable refrigerator than like a PC. But this design is practical if you want to put a PC on top of your desk instead of beneath it (hey, they are called desktops), and to see over it while sitting down.
On the other hand, the tightly packed Shuttle comes at a price--aside from the outrageous sticker cost of $4301 (as of March 16, 2007). The XPC comes with only one open bay (an externally accessible, 3.25-inch one) and a single open PCI slot that the GeForce 8800 GTX graphics board sitting in the adjacent PCI Express slot renders unusable because the board is too thick to allow anything to fit next to it. The Shuttle's extremely tight packing makes adding or changing a card or external drive exceedingly difficult. And unlike the seven other power desktops we tested concurrently, the XPC P2 3900g has no media card slots. It does come with one DVD drive (most power systems offer two).
On the bright side, the two internal bays are as easy to access as any I've seen. Our system came with two hard drives that combined to provide 550 GB of storage space but were not configured in a RAID array. Clearly, the Shuttle is for people who don't plan to putter around inside their computer. The only documentation is a well-designed and informative foldout installation guide.
The XPC P2 3900g, which ran Vista Ultimate, performed well in our tests, fashioning a respectable score of 114 on WorldBench 6 Beta 2. The comparably priced $4399 CyberPower Gamer Infinity Ultimate, however, beat it hands down, with a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 129.
If you're willing to sacrifice expandability and to pay a hefty premium for the tiny dimensions of the Shuttle XPC P2 3900g, you'll get very good performance in return.
Lincoln Spector
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PCWorld Lab Results
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| Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 Rendering | 342 |
| Firefox 2 | 222 |
| Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1 | 340 |
| Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0 | 206 |
| Nero 7 Ultra Edition | 365 |
| Overall Graphics Score | Superior |
| Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 1.5 | 202 |
| Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0 | 207 |
| WorldBench 6 Score | 114 |
| WorldBench 6 Word Score | Very Good |
WorldBench 6 Tests
| Multitasking | 251 |
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