well I don't know about where you live but in Vancouver houses are really
expensive and so are apartments and so are condos and dogs actually no dogs
aren't more expensive but places to live are certainly more expensive so having a
smaller computer is probably a good thing today I have an unboxing of a very
fully featured small form factor computer from shuttle although there's
no actual functional computer in this box this is a barebones which means you
have to add a CPU memory a drive an
operating system and I guess that's pretty much it
so basically what it is is a motherboard
a case and a power supply now what's
cool about this product to me is the
fact that it is the first one that both
the Crazy Russian and myself have
directly influenced during the design
phase so when shuttle did their h67
barebones we suggested to them that because uh LGA
1155 produces such low power and yet
capable gaming CPUs they should make the system a little bit more gaming capable
themselves by adding um additional
capacity to the power supply so shuttle went ahead and took our suggestion and
ran with it I mean we like to think it was we were the only ones who suggested
it but we probably weren't so with the took our suggestion and ran with it and
this barebones computer actually includes a beefy enough power supply
that you could install a fairly high powered graphics card in it so check
this out this is an 80 plus
bronze where are we here I remember someone told me already what it is and I
know that it's beefy but I don't know exactly what the capacity is we're going
to have to find this out just a sec so yes it is a 500 watt continuous power
supply which means yes you can throw a quad core CPU in here no problem you can
throw a decent graphics card in here also no problem and you can load it up
to the gills with all the hardware you want with yes once again no problem so
I'll show you guys the basics of the inside so right here you've got support
for two 3 and 1 12 in drives as well as some do not eat silica gel
let's go ahead and slide this baby back
you've also got support for one 5 and 1/4 in drive so you just mount
everything onto this right here and then slide the whole thing back in it comes
with two SATA cables your thermal compound your mounting screws your
socket cover as well as your power cable and your full color quick installation
guide once you get the drives out of the way you can actually see the rest of the
internals so here we go here is our front USB 3 which is included and
already even plugged in with the unit here's our front USB 2 as well as our
front panel audio I'll show you guys the front panel in just a moment here's all
of the rest of our internal connectors so let's see what we got here you guys
we've got oh check this out that's right dual PCIe 1 18 pin one six pin
very very nice we've also got support for one two three four SATA connectors
so that means you can throw a bunch of 2 and 1 half inch drives and run like a a
raate array off them or something if you want we've got two Molex 4 pins and one
floppy connector coming off this power supply that is in addition to the oh man
look at this it's got an 8 Pin CPU power connector over here so they're only
using four pins cuz that's all we really need for this as well as the 24 pin
connector so that is a truly beefy power supply we've also got a very um capable
looking cooling system on the vrm here
and I think that pretty much covers the power side of things so shuttle has also
I mean along the lines of making this very capable of putting a very capable
machine inside included four dim slots four SATA connectors as well as a
couple of mini PCIe uh connectors here
so you could put like a Wi-Fi card here look at that it also oh look at that
Intel SRT support MSA only oh very neat
so they've included that functionality as well see that's the thing about a small form factor desktop is the kind of
stuff that's normally reserved for notebooks tends to uh tends to find its
way in there so just for heat reasons I
really don't think that I I would expect to put anything bigger than about a GTX
560 in here even though the reality of it is with a 500 W power supply you
could probably do like a dual core and a 570 um I still wouldn't really recommend
that but I'm going to go ahead and show you guys how a 560 will fit then I'm
going to put the case back on and then I will show you the outside of the unit
now that we've oh we should look at the cooling solution first sorry guys so it
uses push pins which are not my favorite but as long as you're only going to use
it a couple times I guess it's not the end of the world and then there are
three heat pipes that lead up to what appears to be a 92 mm cooling fan which
has a shroud sort of functionality built into it so it's a little distance away
you can see the Shroud here from a radiator that sits right at the back of
the unit so the entire unit is cooled by this fan and this fan this one for the
CPU and this one for the power supply so
let's go ahead and show you guys how easy it is to install a graphics card in
here I have no idea I'm just assuming that it's easy based on shuttles that
I've used in the past being fairly easy to install things in in spite of their
uh small stature so let's go ahead and
position the graphics card correctly push down on it and there we go so you
can see that there is plenty of room for my graphics card even once I have
installed so let's go ahead and throw this baby back in here my hold
on going have to give me a sec to get
these cables out of the way guys the card's in the drivve tray is
back in I'm just going to show you guys a quick view of what the interior looks
like once you've got that card installed so yeah it's a little cramped but that's
sort of the reality when you're running a shuttle PC so here's the reason for my
suggestion that you only really take it up as high as maybe a a GTX 56 rather
than going all the way to those Enthusiast class cards and that is how
much ventilation space you're going to have for that graphics card so shuttle
has in their wisdom included ventilation holes right here which means that those
fans do have direct access to cool air from the outside which will then be
exhausted through the CPU heat sink and
then out the back of the case let's actually have a closer look at the back
of the case so this is what it'll look like once you install a graphics card
remember this is a z 68 chipset so you do have support for Lucid logic's Hydra
that means Intel SRT even if you do have a graphics card installed cuz it does
have Onboard video we've also got eat as well as USB 2 USB 3 gigabit Ethernet a
clear seos button which is kind of unique to see on like a I mean you would
typically expect these smaller form factor machines to be more value
oriented but there you go it's there cool as well as our back audio 7.1 we've
also got spit if that's optical audio out our power in so that's on the back
of the power supply and moving over along to this side we've got a nice
brushed metal finish this is sort of my expectation with shuttle they do a good
job of the finish of their machines you can see the top as well and then let's
have a look at the front of the box so this eject button sorry I pushed it in
there's nothing there's nothing resisting it right now because there's no optical drive installed so that's uh
that's the problem there we've got room for oh is is there space for two 5 and
1/4 in drives it would appear that there is let
me find that out for you oh no there isn't here we go here we go so that's
where you can put like a media card reader or something like that okay and
then here we've got our front panel so that's front panel USB 3 that's a total
of four usb3 ports two USB 2 and there's
your microphone Jack remember there wasn't one on the back it is on the front as well as your front headphone
Port so you can see gorgeous little brushed finish on the front here as well
so thank you for checking out oh there's your power button just like that thank
you for checking out my unboxing and first look at I never actually even said
the model this is the shuttle s z68 RS
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