welcome to my unboxing of another shuttle xpc barebones PC I love these
things as you guys have probably figured out by now I think they're a fantastic
idea and a great way to build a small form factor PC in the most simple
possible way and it's not just a great way to build a small form Factory PC
it's a great way to build a PC in general if you're Enthusiast who wants
to build their own PC but you're an Enthusiast who doesn't have the
knowledge necessarily to do some of the
more complicated parts of System Assembly like installing the motherboard
connecting the front panel headers um connecting the power supply correctly to
the motherboard all of this kind of stuff there we go so the shuttle xpc
barebones kits actually make all of that stuff simpler while leaving the main
configuration parts of the system system so that is the CPU memory the drive the
graphics card you want to use totally up to you and for you to install and then
they also include a colored quick start guide to
help you get started so here is the the general basic shuttle chassis that
they're using these days it has a 5 and 1/4 inch Bay which is uh with a matter
of a couple minutes you can get it hooked up to the front uh button on your
optical drive you've got a 3 and 1/2 in front dri front Bay you can use for like
a card reader or something like that power switch hard drive indicator LED as
well as your front panel head ports so you have two USB 3 two usb2 headphone
and microphone ports all built into the front with a nice Sleek brushed aluminum
finish the top is also brushed aluminum the sides are also brushed aluminum and
they look can you see the brushed yeah there you go and you got ventilation
holes all along the sides because that is the only place where you're going to
have air being intak in order to be oh is he trying to look at those sorry guys
and then it will be exhausted by the 92mm fan at the back as well as the 40
mm fan built into the power supply there's your power connector here are
your onboard display outs so there's DVI which supports VGA via an adapter you
can tell cuz it's a dvii and then HDMI
we've got uh USB two times four times as
well as one e SATA USB 3 that's running
off the Intel chipset so that's going to be nice high-speed USB 3 gigabit
Ethernet as well as 5.1 audio out did I
say 5.1 that looks like 7.1 sorry guys all right let's open this up and see
what shuttle has done on the inside in terms of configuration for this system
you can see it's only three screws to get it opened up thumb screws of course
shuttle does want to make this as simple as they can because they are designed
for novice Builders and experienced Builders alike
on the inside it's pretty straightforward again all we need is a screwdriver here to take out all the
drive base so you can see there's our 5 and 1/4 in as well as our two 3 and 1/2
in drive base so if you do install an
external 3 and 1/2 in device like I showed you before you will sacrifice one
of your potential internal 3 and 1/2
in mounting Bays hold on there we go got
it so there you go just an aluminum piece right there fairly straightforward
once you get it bolted in at the top it loses a lot of that Flex so it's going to be perfectly sturdy for installing
your drives here inside you see they've already done most of the complicated
connections for you so things like the front panel USB 3 the front panel uh
connectors like your power switch your reset switch your or there is no reset
switch pardon me but your uh front LEDs and whatnot you've also got uh what else
is plugged in your CPU fan is already plugged in although you'll probably have to take that off in order to install the
CPU so to install the CPU is quite simple all you have to do is take out
these four thumb screws pull out the custom Heat pipe cooler that shuttle
uses to cool their xpcs so you got three heat pipes going up here to the 92mm fan
that does most of the exhaust for the system so due to the fact that they use
a uh a single fan here and then one small fan in the power supply shuttles
are actually quite quiet even compared to compared to something like a
performance desktop in spite of the fact that you can still put a lot of
performance inside a shuttle so in terms of SATA uh upgrade options we've got 1 2
3 four SATA ports two of them are SATA 3 6 GB per second so fully ready for the
latest high performance ssds and two of them are SATA 3 uh SATA 2 3 gbit per
second now speaking of high performance ssds you can install an MSA SSD if you
want to use it here for Intel SRT caching to go along with your boot drive
or any other Drive in your system and then you can also install a mini PCIe
card so they've got support for both of those built right into this very small
form factor motherboard now in terms of
expansion slots we've got a PCIe 16x as well as a PCIe 4X so you can install up
to a dual slot high performance graphics card and we've actually been able to fit
a Radeon hd7970 into one of these shuttles with
no issues in fact so we never actually ran the card last time but we should
totally do that with the z77 board we should throw a compatible Intel
processor inside here quad core and then we'll throw 7970 and and see how it
fares actually here is the vrm
cooling and here is one of the things
about this machine that is most unique and most special this is a 500 wat 80
plus bronze power supply in this form
factor look at how small this thing is oh I'm going to do it I'm going to do it
wait for it wait for it taking it out of my battery case oh yeah this thing is so
small that the only suitable comparison is the iPhone comparison that is how big
it is there you
go wow three three rails on on the 12vt
uh 12vt rail neat okay I think that
pretty much covers the general unboxing and overview thank you for checking out
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and other computer videos sorry guys I was just firing this up for the uh for
the test that I want to do here and I realized I totally didn't show you guys
some of the internals here so we've got a front uh floppy connector we've got
two uh Molex 4 pin perip connectors we
have four SATA power connectors and
finally we have a 6 plus2 and a six pin
connector so we have full support for high performance graphics cards another
thing that I totally forgot to show you guys is the fact that it includes a
power cord it includes didn't even go
through the accessories two SATA cables a slot cover all the mounting screws you
need as well as a couple cable ties thermal compound as well as never
actually remembering which I intended to do although I didn't promise you guys
I'd do it never actually remembering to take out the color installation guide
which oh look at that they included in a bunch of different languages
too which shows you how to do
things in
color that is all