Shuttle XPC X79 LGA2011 Barebones PC Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,912 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of something that I think is freaking fantastic shuttle
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has for the longest time actually I
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don't know how long they've been building mini PCS but they're darn good
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at it and they their big thing is more
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performance in a smaller space and I
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think they've really outdone themselves
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this time I don't want to I don't want to give away what this is yet so let me
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just do this I'm actually going to save
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the suspense that is if you guys haven't figured out to just look at the title of
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the video at this point I know right um
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I'm going to save the suspense of what
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exactly this thing is until we've actually opened up the barebones PC unit
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all the way because this is the most
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performance you are going to fit in a form factor like this yeah okay so just
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for comparison here's the iPhone 4
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against the shuttle to show the size of this reverse monstrosity that is the
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opposite of a monstrosity liliputian proportions haha
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see who can pull out the literary terms now bam so there is my
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iPhone not relevant I
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know okay hold on hold on we'll cover the exterior first the exterior first so
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we got our 5 and 1/4 in Bay going on here so this hooks up fairly easily I've
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actually done one of these recently that used the same mechanism took me a couple
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minutes of like you know kaj jiggering with it to get it going all right here
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is a 3 and2 in front panel so if you want to put in a card read or something
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along those lines you got your power switch your hard drive indicator LED as
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well as your front panel connectors including two USB 3 2 USB 2 headphones
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and microphone you got some ventilation
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going on you got some ventilation going on over
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here you got some ventilation going on over here that's a 92 mm cooling fan
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attached to a 92 mm heat sinky radiator
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kind of looking thing with a bunch of heat pipes going through it you got your included 500 watt 80 plus 80 plus bronze
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I believe let me double check that one no don't look don't look over here this
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is all a secret 80 plus bronze 500 W
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power supply good work okay um this is kind of hilarious so
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there's two more usb3 ports ESAT power so we're going to have to figure out
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exactly what that's all about uh ESAT as well as USB uh ESAT two more USB 2 two
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more so six total USB 2 clear seimos
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dual Lan as well as your 7.1 audio out
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and optical audio out so as you guys can already see this is a unique and very
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high-end xpc I already took out the thumbs screws guys it didn't just fall
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apart randomly man I'm clumsy today fail
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okay uh included accessories include a power
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cord and a quick guide which is in color
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and English even which is good if you're me and you speak English ah here's what
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it is that was easily answered so hold on I'm going to no I can't take this off
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yet I can't unveil it yet okay so that
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goes there and this is actually the coolest thing that I've seen included on
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a case or on a motherboard rather in quite a long time so it's an external
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state of power look at that so that way if you have because this isn't uh
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because eat is pretty inconvenient to
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run off of a be Drive which is what I use it for most of the time unless you
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have an auxiliary power somewhere look at this they just include that little adapter for you and uh then you just
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have to have a regular non powerered normal like e sat cable that is actually
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fantastic I think slick can agree with me on this one he says yes excellent so
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I'm not just crazy that's like who does that that's cool okay also included are
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a couple of regular SATA cables some thermal compound a driver CD which you
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shouldn't use as well as some installation screws and zip ties all
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right
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now removing the cover bam check this
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out so inside actually just SEC just
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SEC all right so taking this apart
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there's our 5 and 1/4 in Drive Mount there's our two 3 and 1/2 in Drive
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mounts okay there's the drive cage that goes with
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them Drive screw holes and there we have it yes this is a
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full-fledged x79
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barebone system inside a shuttle form
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factor so what does all of that mean that means that performance per cubic
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foot this takes the cake so there is the
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80 plus bronze 500 wat power supply that makes it all possible but L is 500 watts
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isn't nearly enough for an x79 actually it is it definitely is um 500 watts is
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going to be plenty for an x79 system with one very high powered graphics card
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which due to the Limited number of slots available is pretty much all you're
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going to be putting in here although I mean if you are water cooling and you do
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want to find single slot back plates you could in theory plug in two two
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reasonably you know not quite highest power graphics cards but two reasonably
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High draw graphics cards because it does have dual PCI e6x slots so that's pretty
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cool it it's in there all right it's in there guys we've also got
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um hold on a second which way do these
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plugin hold on UHA yeah we've got the
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MSA supporting U spot right here for adding
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a small SSD a small MSA SSD as well as
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mini PCIe so that you can add uh some kind of other addin card with so yes you
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don't have the option of too many add-in cards here once you put in a high power graphics card that's going to take up
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your two slots but you can add a couple more other things here quad channnel RAM
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is provided in the form of four slots on
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either side of the CPU socket we've also got SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports uh
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you know what I actually can't tell looking at them although if I had to
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guess I'd say it's the two blue ones are state of three and the two orange ones
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are State a 2 3 gabit per second and
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over here okay sorry guys I'm all excited about this one this one's
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getting uh there we go there so there is
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our motherb power you can see they're using um what appears to be a somewhat
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proprietary looking connector I mean is that is that really a 20 pin power
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connector what is this 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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10 so as click pointed out to me while that may be a 20 pin power connector
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next to an 8 Pin EPS power connector for the CPU itself shuttle apparently just
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does as they please because it has an ESAT power connector coming right out
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the back of the case so we are shuttle we do what we want and that's that's how
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we roll is apparently their Mantra which is cool uh we've got what is for shuttle
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pretty beefy pwm cooling which makes sense because this is an LGA 2011 socket
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which means that all of the CPUs that are supported on this socket are 130 W
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processor so there's some serious power to be delivered to the CPU the chipset
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also has a cooler on it right there and you can see that's probably going to get
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some excess um drafted going on from the
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CPU Cooler that also cools the bulk of
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the system because any other air that's being carried out of the case is going
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to be by this small 40 mil fan on the power supply
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itself USB 3 is covered by and I love
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the way shuttle does all the cable management for you pretty much I mean
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look at this so here's all your extra connectors I'll show you those in a
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minute but USB 3 is done right here you can install your memory right under that
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it's not going anywhere and then uh here
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are is your front USB 2 as well as your front panel audio none of this is going
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to get in the way once you just kind of Route it a little bit like that once you
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put your graphics card in there okay let's go ahead and undo these so I can
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show you guys the included power connectors so you've got two SATA so
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that's for your two 3 and 1/2 in drives two more SATA for your 5 and a/4 inch
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drive and maybe an SSD that you jam in there somewhere you got a couple Molex
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connectors in case you have some kind of use for those and you still got a floppy
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connector which yeah I don't know and then you've got a 6 plus two pin as well
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as a six pin so what kind of graphics card can you put in here let's find
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out this wasn't easy guys but check this out radon 7970 now I actually with how
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power efficient the 7970 is I wouldn't be surprised at all if this just worked
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without without a hitch but there you go it physically
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fits and we had to kind of cram it in there but that's what it'll look like
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will it get enough ventilation from here so it'll actually
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exhaust air out the back of the case with the blower cooler and then it will
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intake air here from here so that's how it'll get access to fresh air will it be
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as quiet as if you installed it in a full-size case no will it work with the
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500 W power supply and a non- overclocked CPU and a non overclocked
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graphics card guys this is not for overclocking this is for stock speed
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operation within small form factor yes very cool guys so thank you for checking
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out my unboxing and first look at the shuttle
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x79 bar bones PC supporting up to 32
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gigs of memory up to two Beast PCI
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Express 3. graphics cards if you can you
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know put in like single slot coolers which doesn't seem that feasible I don't
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know where You' put a radiator in here for example but you know it's just one
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of those things just throwing it out there
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um up to a six core processor and all
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