today we'll be looking at kind of an interesting thing from shuttle this is
an NC exclusive in Canada right off the
bat and this is the h61
R4 so what is what is an h61 R4 exactly
well it's a shuttle X PC it has the h61
express chipset which means you've got support for the latest core i3s I 5 and
i7s on Intel LGA 1155 it supports dual
Channel DDR3 1333 MHz memory with up to
4 gigs per slot a maximum of 8 gigs so that tells us it has two slots it
supports DVID it supports oh look at
that DVI DVD dual display support that's kind of handy so dual display support on
a little barebones like this means that this will be great for an office machine
what else do we have here in terms of the features and specifications it has a
USB three which is awesome given the value style product positioning of this
particular guy right here 5.1 audio as
well as a 250 W power supply two 3 and
1/2 in Bays for expansion and one 5 and 1/4 in Bay for expansion so this is an
xpc from shuttle that means this is a barebones machine now I actually did a
build guide for shuttle xpc systems on
my ncixcom channel so if you want to
know how to build a system in one of these then you can check that out but
I'm just going to give you a brief outline of what all you will need so
you're going to need the barebones unit itself as I mentioned before this ships
with a 250 W power supply it also has a
bunch of onboard connections which means it does have a motherboard and finally
as you can plainly see it also has a
case so a shuttle barebones is basically
a case a motherboard and a power supply that are all specially designed to work
together properly so what you will need is a CPU
you will need memory you will also need any expansion cards that you intend to
add to it and finally you will need
drives so let's go ahead actually you know what let's look at the outside of
the unit a little bit first so the casing itself is awesome considering
that this is a value unit this is an aluminum like a brushed aluminum
anodized finish on here that looks just outstanding can you see can you see it
in the light okay yeah looks really really sharp and then on the front of
the sh 61 R4 we've actually got okay let
me just uh take that off there we've got a nice shiny plastic piece and we have a
5 and 1/4 in Bay cover so there you can put any 5 and 1/4 in device that you see
fit on the front we've got our power switch and then we also have two USB 2.0
ports a headphone jack and a microphone
Jack let's go around to the back of the unit where we will find ventilation so
you can see the heat pipes running up through the cooler we've also got screws
for mounting the cooler to the back we have two PCI expansion slots remember
this is a custom form factor so you get two expansion slots in a very similar
form factor to something like mini ITX which gives you only one expansion slot
next you find your 5.1 audio out 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB 2.0 ports gigb Ethernet a clear
seos button check that out you got a clear seos button on a value h61 Bare
Bones machine from shuttle that's awesome that's a great feature you got
two USB 3.0 ports and this right here
that is the selling point so this makes it pretty much the ultimate office
machine because you can use those two DVI ports I don't think I've ever seen
two DVI ports natively on the back of a board now this is dvii which means it
has all of the digital connections as well as the analog connections you see
the little dots around the outside this is DV which means it's digital only so
this one you can use a DVI to VGA adapter this one you can't so what I'd
really recommend doing is using two purely digital signals you're going to
get the best image quality the best usability out of it and you are going to
have less ey strain and you'll be using it to its fullest extent okay looking at
the inside here is our 250 wat power supply so not really much to say about
that it's got a single 12vt rail provides up to 16 amps why don't we have
a look at the connector that are available on this 250 W power supply so
we have pretty much everything that we need including the 24 pin the four pin
which come pre-connected to the motherboard for your convenience we have
four SATA cables which I would imagine is sort of too many because I believe
this uh this Bare Bones only supports three drives so two 3 and 1/2 in and
then one 5 and a/4 mind you you could throw two 2 and 1/2 in drives in a 3 and
1/2 in uh bay and then you would be using all four connector so there you go
we also have two four pin Molex as well as one four pin floppy and a PCI
Express uh plug so that means you could take something like a GTS 250 or even a
GTS 450 throw it in here remember a good 250 W power supply still perfectly
capable of powering a low-end or like a
mid low to mid-range graphics card I wouldn't go throwing like a GTX 560 or
anything like that in there though all right here are our front connectors
which are already plugged in now you'll see this in my build guide if you watch
it but this is what's so convenient about a shuttle is that all of the
little finicky stuff like the front panel you know power switch uh which you
can see over here the reset switch the LEDs all that good stuff is all plugged
in so all you really have to do is plug in some RAM see check that out look at
this even the SATA cables are pre-wired into the motherboard and then pre-
routed up exactly where you need them so you cut this one uh zip tie right here
oh no you don't sorry you don't cut the zip tie you you undo this right here
here you plug these into the backs of your drives and you're pretty much ready
to rock just like that you actually don't have to do any cable routing on
your own other than the power supply cables which are fairly easy to do and
I'm clearly trying to put this back all
wrong right now which is making my life difficult okay and then all you have to
do is plug in the CPU so you take out the push pins here you take out the
screws at the back of the unit here right there and then you plug in your
CPU you plug in your RAM you plug in a graphics card if you see fit and you are
done now as far as graphics cards concerned check this out for expansion
on like a a value h61 be bones we've got
a PCI e6x and a PCI e1x those are very good expansion options you can throw a
graphics card in there you can throw whatever you want in there uh probably
most people will put nothing in there because this is more like an office
style machine as I mentioned before it does support uh core I3 Core i5 and core
i7 processors although because of the h61 chipset you are not going to have
support for overclocking so if you're using like a K series processor you're
not going to get the most out of that K series processor with a little Bare
Bones machine like this one got a nice heat sink here on the vrm so I wouldn't
worry too much about any cooling problems and you can actually see
speaking of cooling that the whole unit is cooled by three heat pipes coming off
the CPU Cooler into an 80 mm fan that
runs and blows all the air directly okay
cameraman's looking at the heat pipes there they are and then that that comes
up to that radiator I showed you from the back which is cooled by an 80 mm fan
which draws air from the ventilation holes on the side of the chassis right
here through the back of the chassis cooling things like the graphics card
which is next to the ventilation holes as well as the vrm and the RAM which are
also sitting next to ventilation holes so thank you for checking out my
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these Bare Bones units CPU RAM drives
and that's pretty much all you need unless you want to throw in a graphics card as
well hey check this out I missed something you guys mini PCIe right here
so you can actually throw a wireless uh wireless card in there like a notebook
wireless card also here's another pretty cool feature check this out so they're
using a PCI E slot see that's a PCI e1x but it has an open back so that means
that if you have something like a raid card where you're going to hook up only two drives or something and it's a PCI
e4x you can throw it in there it'll run at lesser bandwidth but at least it'll
be physically compatible because you don't have that stopper at the end of
the slot