Shuttle SH67H3 Barebones Mini PC Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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today we will be unboxing a shuttle xpc
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that is just to say one of their small form factor PCS so shuttle's been making
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a name for themselves for many many years making systems custom systems even
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barebone systems whether it's complete comes with all the stuff or not complete
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doesn't come with all this stuff they are building small boxes small
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motherboards and small power supplies non-standard smaller than you can build
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on your own and that is their advantage
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so they are able to provide these custom solutions that you can then add whatever
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you want to and you can have a pretty neat little system out of it so this
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particular one right here is the h67 H3
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based on the name we can surmise that it uses the h67 chipset which means that
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you have full support for all the latest Intel core I3 Core i5 and core i7
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processors on the LGA 1155 platform Ah
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that's what it says here 67 Express chipset supports up to 95 wat CPUs which
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is the maximum I believe available on that platform dual Channel DDR3 up to
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1333 MHz is supported up to 16 gigs HDMI
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and DVI are both supported remember the h67 has Onboard video but does not
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support the unlocked overclocking feature of the K series processor so
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watch out for that if you're planning on overclocking this solution probably
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isn't for you it's more for uh low low power consumption um low footprint small
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footprint type systems all right one PCI e6x slot so you can build a pretty
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decent gaming machine in this uh support for USB 3 and SATA 36 GB per second as
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well as 7.1 High Def Audio expansion
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capabilities 2 3 and 1/2 in hard drive Bays one 5 and 1/4 in Bay 80 plus 300 W
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power supply so that's going to be enough for pretty much whatever you'd want to add to it remember this is a
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smaller motherboard there's not a lot of room for expansion a 300 W power supply
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is going to easily deal with that CPU and then pretty decent peripheral or
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pretty decent components in terms of RAM and
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um any expansion cards as well as a
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decent video card so let's just take it
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out of the box here and have a look at what there is to see I don't think I've
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ever unboxed a shuttle on my channel
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before although I've been following their products for a long time and uh I
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do find them quite interesting although I've never had cause to build one for
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myself I have been tempted many times just because they're cool little things
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and it's uh it was fascinating to me especially when they launched their x58
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xpc that you could put such a ridiculous
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amount of power in such a small package
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all right so here we are here's the sh
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67 and you know what you're probably going to have to give me a minute here
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although hold on hold on give me a sec I might be able to figure this out relatively quickly cuz I do want to take
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off the actually no give me a sec got
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gloves the reason for that this brushed
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aluminum finish I love this finish but I also hate it because it looks fantastic
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but it is a fingerprint magnet and it's almost impossible to remove fingerprints
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from it so I'd rather just not get any on it in the first place so I've taken
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off the cover you can see there are vents in the side it's got a very nice
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overall finish to it uh it seems to be made of aluminum so
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yeah very nice very nice indeed all
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right actually let's have a quick look at the front of the case so we've got
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eSATA USB combo Port two USB 3.0 ports a
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microphone Port headphone Port as well as a reset switch there's also you got
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to be kidding me where's the where's the power switch I'm sure it's
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somewhere hold on it just a minute
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okay give me a sec power switch is over here it was hiding from me a little
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silver button up here okay we found it it's all good all right in here we have
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some do not eat don't eat it okay here's our 5 and 1/4 in expansion Bay here's
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our two 3 and 1/2 in Bays so you can put a pretty decent amount of storage in
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here even though it's a tiny little case here are all the power supply cables
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which I will show you in a minute uh
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here we go so what do we got oh look at that they've custom wired in the SATA
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cables already so the SATA cables are included one two SATA cables and then
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you can see they've actually run them up here to the top corner so what that
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means is you'll be able to easily plug these into the back of any devices here
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now those are the SATA can't see what kind of SATA they
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are but here are a couple more SATA ports should you so desire them we've
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also got oh there's some pretty interesting stuff in here so look here's
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a little laptop style PCIe 1X slot so
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you could use that for a wireless card for example if you wanted to run
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wireless on your xpc machine okay here I
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want to move these oh yeah no there's your 4 DDR3 slot supporting up to 16
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gigs of dual Channel DDR3 you can see the 24 pin power connector has been
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wired in at the very other side there and here are all of our front panel
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connectors are all already wired in so basically what a barebones does is it
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allows people who aren't necessarily comfortable building their own system
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from scratch to skip all the difficult stuff board mounting power supply
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connections front panel connections and all you got to do is plug in your RAM
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plug in your CPU plug in your graphics card in your drives and you're ready to
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go all right speaking of the CPU you can
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see that there is a custom cooler on it so you've got some fins on the top okay
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oh it says warning do not use a CPU with power consumption level over 95 Watts
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because that's what this cooler is validated for okay you're going to want
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to remove these four screws and you can access those by removing removing these
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screws and pulling out the drive mounting okay and then the way that it's
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actually cooled is by heat pipes and the whole system is cooled by one really no
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two fans so there's a one 192 mm fan
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here that's a nice thick fan good static pressure and then that's running off of
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a radiator style cooler here in the back so that's your exhaust fan and then your
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power supply this is an 80 plus bronze 300 wat power supply also has a fan so
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that's two fans for the entire system three if you put in a high-end graphics
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card so let's have a look at what we've got for
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um PCI or rather yeah PCIe Power connector
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so we have a single PCIe 6 pin so that means that you're probably going to be
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limited to something along the lines of a GTX 550 TI although there's no reason
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the 300 W power supply couldn't support a 560 TI as long as uh space permits you
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know what I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to I'm going to grab a graphics
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card here and see what all we can actually fit here I probably won't need
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long for this n give me two seconds so here's one of these here's one of these
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what is this no that's a flat 50 okay oh here's a
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460 twin frozer 2 so this is a pretty long card let's see if this will fit
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this is a touch longer than a regular GTX 560 but yeah you can see that'll fit
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with no difficulty so the power connectors here at the back are
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definitely going to have enough room to be reached so if you use Molex adapters
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you can easily run that off of this power supply you have three SATA power
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connectors so that supports your four rather supports your full complement of
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drives one floppy connector and then you're going to use both of those Molex connectors if you wanted to run a dual
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PCI E6 pin graphics card like this one
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if you run a single slot graphics card you do have an additional PCIe 1X slot
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inside so that would be for like a yeah wireless card or TV tuner card or
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whatever the case may be there you go total of two PCI expansion slots at the
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back so that is a a little bit more than
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ITX okay oh yeah the back okay so here
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we've got DVI and HDMI out two USB 3.0
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ports so that makes a total of four four USB 2.0 ports eSATA gigabit Lan and 7.1
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audio out there's no microphone Port here remember this fully custom
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motherboard so it's designed to work exactly how they intend for it to work
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so your microphone Port is here also at
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the back we have optical audio out which I almost didn't see there
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moving over to the other side you can see how the power supply specs pan out
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we've got dual 12vt rails rated to up to 16 amps each this is uh looks like fsp
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is the OEM for this so it's probably going to be reliable and awesome in
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every way all right 80 plus bronze active PFC ball bearing fan so it should
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be yeah these are all good things for reliability as well as uh low noise and
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low power consumption here is the heat sink for the pwm as well as the four pin
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CPU power connector located in its ideal location exactly wherever shuttle
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decides it goes because uh really I can't speculate on what the ideal
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location is in this case all right I think that's pretty much it thank you
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for checking out my unboxing of the oh I forget now
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h67 H3 don't forget to subscribe to lus
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techip for more unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos and I forgot to show you guys the quick guide as well as the mounting
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screws cable ties thermal compound CPU
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socket cover and Driver DVD that is
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included with the spare bones