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today we'll be looking at kind of an interesting thing from shuttle this is

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an NC exclusive in Canada right off the

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bat and this is the h61

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R4 so what is what is an h61 R4 exactly

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well it's a shuttle X PC it has the h61

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express chipset which means you've got support for the latest core i3s I 5 and

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i7s on Intel LGA 1155 it supports dual

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Channel DDR3 1333 MHz memory with up to

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4 gigs per slot a maximum of 8 gigs so that tells us it has two slots it

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supports DVID it supports oh look at

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that DVI DVD dual display support that's kind of handy so dual display support on

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a little barebones like this means that this will be great for an office machine

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what else do we have here in terms of the features and specifications it has a

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USB three which is awesome given the value style product positioning of this

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particular guy right here 5.1 audio as

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well as a 250 W power supply two 3 and

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1/2 in Bays for expansion and one 5 and 1/4 in Bay for expansion so this is an

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xpc from shuttle that means this is a barebones machine now I actually did a

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build guide for shuttle xpc systems on

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my ncixcom channel so if you want to

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know how to build a system in one of these then you can check that out but

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I'm just going to give you a brief outline of what all you will need so

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you're going to need the barebones unit itself as I mentioned before this ships

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with a 250 W power supply it also has a

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bunch of onboard connections which means it does have a motherboard and finally

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as you can plainly see it also has a

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case so a shuttle barebones is basically

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a case a motherboard and a power supply that are all specially designed to work

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together properly so what you will need is a CPU

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you will need memory you will also need any expansion cards that you intend to

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add to it and finally you will need

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drives so let's go ahead actually you know what let's look at the outside of

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the unit a little bit first so the casing itself is awesome considering

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that this is a value unit this is an aluminum like a brushed aluminum

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anodized finish on here that looks just outstanding can you see can you see it

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in the light okay yeah looks really really sharp and then on the front of

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the sh 61 R4 we've actually got okay let

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me just uh take that off there we've got a nice shiny plastic piece and we have a

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5 and 1/4 in Bay cover so there you can put any 5 and 1/4 in device that you see

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fit on the front we've got our power switch and then we also have two USB 2.0

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ports a headphone jack and a microphone

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Jack let's go around to the back of the unit where we will find ventilation so

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you can see the heat pipes running up through the cooler we've also got screws

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for mounting the cooler to the back we have two PCI expansion slots remember

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this is a custom form factor so you get two expansion slots in a very similar

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form factor to something like mini ITX which gives you only one expansion slot

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next you find your 5.1 audio out 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB 2.0 ports gigb Ethernet a clear

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seos button check that out you got a clear seos button on a value h61 Bare

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Bones machine from shuttle that's awesome that's a great feature you got

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two USB 3.0 ports and this right here

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that is the selling point so this makes it pretty much the ultimate office

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machine because you can use those two DVI ports I don't think I've ever seen

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two DVI ports natively on the back of a board now this is dvii which means it

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has all of the digital connections as well as the analog connections you see

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the little dots around the outside this is DV which means it's digital only so

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this one you can use a DVI to VGA adapter this one you can't so what I'd

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really recommend doing is using two purely digital signals you're going to

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get the best image quality the best usability out of it and you are going to

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have less ey strain and you'll be using it to its fullest extent okay looking at

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the inside here is our 250 wat power supply so not really much to say about

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that it's got a single 12vt rail provides up to 16 amps why don't we have

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a look at the connector that are available on this 250 W power supply so

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we have pretty much everything that we need including the 24 pin the four pin

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which come pre-connected to the motherboard for your convenience we have

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four SATA cables which I would imagine is sort of too many because I believe

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this uh this Bare Bones only supports three drives so two 3 and 1/2 in and

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then one 5 and a/4 mind you you could throw two 2 and 1/2 in drives in a 3 and

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1/2 in uh bay and then you would be using all four connector so there you go

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we also have two four pin Molex as well as one four pin floppy and a PCI

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Express uh plug so that means you could take something like a GTS 250 or even a

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GTS 450 throw it in here remember a good 250 W power supply still perfectly

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capable of powering a low-end or like a

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mid low to mid-range graphics card I wouldn't go throwing like a GTX 560 or

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anything like that in there though all right here are our front connectors

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which are already plugged in now you'll see this in my build guide if you watch

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it but this is what's so convenient about a shuttle is that all of the

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little finicky stuff like the front panel you know power switch uh which you

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can see over here the reset switch the LEDs all that good stuff is all plugged

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in so all you really have to do is plug in some RAM see check that out look at

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this even the SATA cables are pre-wired into the motherboard and then pre-

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routed up exactly where you need them so you cut this one uh zip tie right here

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oh no you don't sorry you don't cut the zip tie you you undo this right here

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here you plug these into the backs of your drives and you're pretty much ready

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to rock just like that you actually don't have to do any cable routing on

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your own other than the power supply cables which are fairly easy to do and

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I'm clearly trying to put this back all

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wrong right now which is making my life difficult okay and then all you have to

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do is plug in the CPU so you take out the push pins here you take out the

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screws at the back of the unit here right there and then you plug in your

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CPU you plug in your RAM you plug in a graphics card if you see fit and you are

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done now as far as graphics cards concerned check this out for expansion

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on like a a value h61 be bones we've got

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a PCI e6x and a PCI e1x those are very good expansion options you can throw a

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graphics card in there you can throw whatever you want in there uh probably

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most people will put nothing in there because this is more like an office

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style machine as I mentioned before it does support uh core I3 Core i5 and core

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i7 processors although because of the h61 chipset you are not going to have

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support for overclocking so if you're using like a K series processor you're

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not going to get the most out of that K series processor with a little Bare

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Bones machine like this one got a nice heat sink here on the vrm so I wouldn't

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worry too much about any cooling problems and you can actually see

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speaking of cooling that the whole unit is cooled by three heat pipes coming off

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the CPU Cooler into an 80 mm fan that

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runs and blows all the air directly okay

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cameraman's looking at the heat pipes there they are and then that that comes

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up to that radiator I showed you from the back which is cooled by an 80 mm fan

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which draws air from the ventilation holes on the side of the chassis right

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here through the back of the chassis cooling things like the graphics card

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which is next to the ventilation holes as well as the vrm and the RAM which are

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also sitting next to ventilation holes so thank you for checking out my

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unboxing of the sh 61r for don't forget

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to subscribe to lus Tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos and also don't forget to check

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out my video on how to build your very own shuttle PC just by picking up one of

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these Bare Bones units CPU RAM drives

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and that's pretty much all you need unless you want to throw in a graphics card as

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well hey check this out I missed something you guys mini PCIe right here

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so you can actually throw a wireless uh wireless card in there like a notebook

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wireless card also here's another pretty cool feature check this out so they're

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using a PCI E slot see that's a PCI e1x but it has an open back so that means

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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

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e4x you can throw it in there it'll run at lesser bandwidth but at least it'll

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be physically compatible because you don't have that stopper at the end of

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the slot