In the centre of the system is the socket 939 CPU, this is cooled by Shuttle's custom design cooler which uses heat pipe technology to keep even the fastest CPU’s cool whilst maintaining low noise.

Here you can see the heat sink connected to the cpu block by heat pipes.

A 80mm fan bracket fits over the heat sink grills…

And the unit is attached to the CPU slot bracket by a push clip.

No tools are required for the push clip and it is a very easy retention system to use, even easier than stock AMD heat sink/fan clips.

On the base of the CPU block the material is copper and as expected in a high quality system the copper is very smooth/polished.

Setup
Because of intelligent layout of the system there were no problems in setting up the system. The removable drive bracket makes life a lot easier and in no time you will have the system up and running. The only additional concerns we had were that the ribbon cable connecting the front panel to the motherboard was slightly loose on our review model and had to be tightened and there were a few bios issues with the shipping bios, these were rectified with a bios flash from the image on Shuttles website. A few teething issues really and nothing more than experienced on most motherboards…infact we’d always recommend flashing to the latest bios when receiving a new product.

Here are a few pics of the system with all components installed…

 

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