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Right guys and girls, I need to tap your ominous sources of power and knowledge and ask - where is the best place to get a good, cheap Shuttle PC?

You`re all invited to call me an idiot, but I have recently bought the new Vampire: Bloodlines game and realised it`s too MUCH for laptop dearest to handle. I`m currently renting accomodation and would require a powerfulish computer to play the game (voluntary brainwashing, perhaps?) but small enough to port around when the landlord evicts me.

I`ve looked at some Shuttle PCs - surely they are the smallest, powerfulest things on the market?

Any advice would be appreciated

And a belated Happy New Year to you all.

If you dont mind building it yourself then overclockers.co.uk are good. Only thing I didnt get from there was the memory, since it was cheaper direct from the manufacturers

I`ve bought many Shuttles from www.microdirect.co.uk, but like overclockers you have to build them yourself. The instructions that come with it aren`t bad mind. Check out the Shuttle web site for componant compatibilty lists -
http://eu.shuttle.com/en/DesktopDefault.aspx/tabid-2/

Big Shuttle fan here :D Have an SN41G2, 2500xp, 1gb RAM, Radeon 9800pro, 120gb hdd and a 16x DVD writer in mine. It plays anything I can throw at it. I am going to upgrade to a 64bit model this year.

If you can self build - they are fairly straight forward and come with good instructions. They are sold as "Barebones" machines - meaning you get the case, motherboard, power supply all set up ready to add your own components: processor, drives, ram and graphics card. Decide which processor you want/can afford and then buy a Shuttle model that will take it.

I bought all my bits from ebuyer.

Or, Lans Up North do some decent looking prebuilt models:

www.lansupnorthcomponents.co.uk/ccp51/cgi-bin/cp-app.pl?usr=51F5625610&rnd=1687927&rrc=N&affl=&cip=62.253.32.6&act=&aff=&pg=cat&ref=shuttles