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Jan 17, 2019

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Here is our review of the Shuttle XPC Cube Sh470R6 Plus Barebone Mini PC.

he Shuttle XPC Barebone Sh470R6 Plus shows how discreet a modern PC can look and at the same time how powerful it can be. Its black-brushed aluminium case has barely a volume of 14 litres, but packs everything you need for a high-performance workstation for example. This includes the power of 8th/9th gen. Intel Core processors, a dual-slot graphics card, fast M.2 NVMe SSD drives, two 3.5” hard drives in RAID and up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory, plus a Blu-ray drive. Even without a dedicated graphics card, up to three UHD displays are supported optionally.

FORM FACTOR	Shuttle Form factor
PROCESSOR	Support Intel 8th Generation Core i3/i5/i7, Pentium, Celeron 95W LGA1151v2 CPU
CHIPSET	Intel h470 Express chipset
MEMORY	(4)DDR4 2400/2666MHz support, dual channel up to 64GB (16GB*4)
VIDEO OUTPUT	(1)HDMI + (2)DisplayPort support triple independent display 4K/60Hz playback Integrated in CPU
AUDIO	Realtek ALC662 5. 1 Channel high definition audio
ETHERNET	Intel i211 10Mb/s,100Mb/s,1Gb/s operation Support Wake-On-LAN function
STORAGE INTERFACE	SATA 6.0Gb/s interface
ONBOARD CONNECTORS	(2)4 Pin fan connector (4)SATA 6 connector (1) ATX main power (2*10) (1) ATX 12V power (2*2) (1) 2X5 USB 2.0 header (1) RS232 header (1) Low Pin Count header (1) Front AUDIO header (1) Front USB2.0 header (1) Front USB3.1 Gen1 header
FRONT PANEL	(2) USB 2.0 Port (2) USB 3.1 Gen 1 Port (1) Microphone-In (1) SPK-Out (1) Power LED (1) HDD LED (1) Power-On button
BACK PANEL	(2) USB 2.0 Port (2) USB 3.1 Gen 1 Port (4) USB 3.1 Gen 2 Port (1)LAN (1)HDMI port (2)Display port (1)Audio Mic in (1)Audio Line in (1)Audio SPK out (1)Clear CMOS button (3)Antenna Hole
DRIVE BAYS	(1) 5. 25″ ODD bay (2) 3.5″ HDD bay Support 2.5″ HDD x2 or 4, if use accessory PHD3 x1 or 2
DIMENSIONS	332.1(L) x 215.2(W) x 190.1(H) mm
POWER	80 Plus 500W power supply Input:100 – 240V AC Support 80 PLUS Silver
ACCESSORIES	XPC Multi-Language quick guide XPC DVD Driver SATA Cable CPU Thermal Grease Power cord Screw package
EXPANSION SLOT	(1) PCI-E X16 Gen 3.0 slot (1) PCI-E X4 Gen 3.0 slot (1) M.2 2280 type M key socket (1) M.2 2230 type E key socket
OS SUPPORT	Windows 10 64bit Linux

From their website:

“Established in 1983, Shuttle Inc. is headquartered in Taipei Taiwan and is a global information technology and manufacturing leader. Established as a manufacturer of computer motherboards, Shuttle utilized highly regarded Research and Development capabilities and patented cooling technologies and expanded to offer computer products. Today, Shuttle XPC computers consisting of consumer and commercial products including; Cube (mini-tower), Slim (1.3L and 3L), Nano, and All-in-One PCs. Shuttle also offers Digital Signage Media Players, Notebook Computers, and Tablets.”

The box contains the XPC cube, some instructions, cables, screws and thermal paste for the processor.

Like the other Shuttle XPC cubes, the Sh470R6 Plus is fairly small, but don’t let its form factor put you off – this thing can fit a lot in and can pack a punch!

The case is a lovely black and it can easily sit as a media PC in your living room and fit in with any other high end media equipment. You could also just as easily have it in a bedroom or office as PC – the choice is yours depending on what you put in the case itself.

Gaining access to the insides is just a case of unscrewing two thumbscrews and slipping off the case – it’s really simple. And just as simple to put it all back together again.

The cube itself includes a power supply and a motherboard and also the CPU cooler, but you will need to supply your own hard drive, processor and memory, and you can also add your own graphics card too if you want to use something extra, two in fact, and if you are building a games machine you will probably want to do that so that you have the best graphics you can. The Shuttle website has a detailed list of supported components you can use, so make sure you check that out before you go ahead and buy anything.

Everything is already connected for you as well making it just a case of adding those components – everything else has been done for you which will both save you time and make it less fiddly.

I’m not going to talk about the performance of the cube because this will all depend on what you decide to use, but whatever you select it is very easy to fit into the cube and be ready to use!

The Sh470R6 Plus supports HDMI 2.0 4K / 60Hz video playback and 5.1 Channel HD audio so using it for playing back media such as movies and music works really well. You can also fit a blu-ray drive into it if you so wish.

It can also run three independent monitors if that’s what you want it to do.

Add to that USB 3.1 Gen2 ports, 1000 Mpbs Ethernet ports, and a host of other functionality, the Sh470R6 Plus is an ideal solution for all your work and play or should that be play and work needs.

The Shuttle XPC Cube Sh470R6 Plus Barebone Mini PC is available now priced around £300.

You can learn more from the Shuttle website here.

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Shuttle XPC P2 3700G review: Shuttle XPC P2 3700G

If you thought Shuttle small-form-factor PCs were dainty, then think again. Though no bigger than a pair of newborn babies joined at the face, the XPC P2 3700G provides enough grunt to embarrass most desktops twice its size. If you’ve ever fancied a miniature PC with Alienware-type performance, you’re looking in the right place.

The XPC P2 3700G is available direct from Shuttle’s Web site, which lets you configure the spec to your heart’s delight. We tested the highest-spec model available, which came in at a hefty £2,432.

Design
The XPC P2 3700G is based on the XPC Barebones SD37P2 chassis — a box that’s about half the size of a traditional desktop PC. What it lacks in size it makes up for in looks — the front of the unit is constructed of three distinct fold-down sections, each of which has a front panel with a subtle brushed-metal effect. The silver detailing down the front right makes a great contrast, as do the curved disc eject and power buttons. The third curved button is a hard drive activity LED.

Running along the bottom, top and right-sided front bezel are glossy reflective sections. The bottom-most one opens to reveal a reset switch, headphone and microphone ports, two USB ports and a four-pin FireWire port. The left and right sides of the PC are host to a set of vents and engraved Shuttle logos.

The rear is much busier. There’s a large circular vent expelling hot air from the CPU and two DVI ports from the GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics card. Here you’ll also find five discrete 1.5mm audio ports, two SPDIF inputs and outputs, six USB ports, a six-pin FireWire port, a LAN port and an external Serial ATA port.

The interior design of the PC is very clever. The top of the unit plays host to two 3.5-inch drive bays, one of which is populated. We would suggest you don’t bang the top of the PC unless you fancy damaging one of the drives. The CPU sits towards the front of the PC beneath a large aluminium heatsink and an even larger fan. It’s hard to imagine how Shuttle has managed to include two PCI Express ports in the box, but that’s exactly what it’s done — both are occupied, as are all four of the PC’s DDR memory slots.

Features
Shuttle has tried not to make many compromises in the XPC P2 3700G’s specification. It uses a proprietary Shuttle FD37 motherboard with an Intel 975X chipset, which is exploited very well by an Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 CPU and 4GB of DDR2 667MHz memory.

All good so far — that lot could power a space shuttle to Mars and back without breaking a sweat. Unfortunately, Shuttle seems to have made a slight mistake in the configuration of our review sample. It’s plonked four 1GB modules into each DIMM slot, but the total memory only shows up as being 2,816MB. At the time of writing Shuttle was unable to give us an answer as to why this is.

Graphics are totally sorted on the XPC P2 3700G. It uses a high-end Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 card, which at the time of writing is considered the fastest in the world. Like a dual-core CPU, it uses two graphics processors, has 48 pixel pipelines, 16 vertex shaders and a monstrous memory bandwidth of 76.8GB per second. It’s not all about grunt, though — the card is also HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection)-compatible, meaning it’ll run copy-protected hi-def movies. Our only gripe is that though the card is SLI-capable and can be attached to a second identical card for even more performance, there’s no space inside the PC to accommodate this.

Shuttle has opted not to supply the PC with Windows XP Media Center Edition, opting instead to use Windows XP Professional Edition. This limits the multimedia user experience slightly, but multimedia file hoarders will love the 400GB hard drive. This provides enough room for well over 500 DivX movies of average size or over 100,000 MP3s. Get yourself a decent set of speakers and you can enjoy either through 7.1-channel high-definition audio via the onboard Intel sound card.

Performance
With components as mental as those inside the XPC P2 3700G you wouldn’t expect it to be a slouch. It racked up by far the highest PCMark 2005 total we’ve seen in a desktop PC: 7,169. This beat the Shuttle XPC P 2500G’s 6,244 hands down.

Graphics processing was equally sublime. It chalked up a 3DMark 2006 total of 8,196, which again is the highest we’ve ever seen. In short, if you’re looking for a PC that won’t bat an eyelid at any task, whether it be video encoding, gaming or word processing, the XPC P2 3700G is extremely difficult to beat.

Edited by Mary Lojkine
Additional editing by Elizabeth Griffin

office, corporate and purely for geeks / Sudo Null IT News

Mini PCs continue to enter the market — they are made by large corporations, as well as little-known companies that have started work more recently. However, there are a lot of interesting projects. Among them, we chose 5 that seemed to us the most interesting. More details — under the cut.

Asus PN80

A very powerful «baby», which is suitable for solving a large number of tasks, including those where high performance is required. The basis of everything is the 8-core Core i7-11700B chip with integrated UHD graphics.

Actually, this device can be called a «baby» with a stretch. Compared to the rest of the “colleagues”, it is quite large – 7.9″ x 7.9″ x 2.3″. For the first time, the device became known in January, but only now some details have become clear.

Unit ships with 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB DDR-4 RAM. As for ports and connectors, there are quite a lot of them:

• 2 x Thunderbolt 4
• 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• 5 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
• 1 x HDMI 2.1
• 1 x 3.5mm audio
• 1 x 3.5mm mic input
• 1 x 3.5mm line out
• 1 x 2. 5 Gbps Ethernet
• 1 x 4-in-1 card reader
• Selectable 1 port (VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI, Ethernet)

It is clear that such a device cannot be inexpensive. Indeed, its cost is from $1299 to $1599 depending on the configuration.

Firefly EC-I3588J

Another powerful device that is equipped with an 8-core Rockchip RK3588 processor. The mini-PC is positioned as a universal system that can work as a server, desktop PC, video processing station, multimedia center, etc. It is compatible with 12 different Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian and Buildroot.

The motherboard, the Firefly ITX-3588J, was introduced earlier this year and costs about $500 alone. How much the mini-PC itself costs is still unknown, but it’s obvious that it’s a lot, with such and such a price list for the motherboard.

Here is a list of ports and connectors:

1. 1 x HDMI 2.1 (8K @ 60 Hz or 4K @ 120 Hz)
2. 1 x HDMI 2. 0 (4K @ 60 Hz)
3. 1 x USB Type-C (DisplayPort 1.4 supporting 8K @ 30 Hz)
4. 1 x VGA (1080p @ 60 Hz)
5. 1 x HDMI input (4K @ 60 Hz with DCP 2.3 support)

The buyer is also offered four USB 3.0 Type-A ports, two USB 2.0 Type-A ports, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The system supports up to 32 GB of RAM, plus 128 GB eMMC is offered. It is possible to install M.2 2242 SSD and up to 4 HDD or SSD. A card reader is also available.

In general, a powerful thing, although expensive (how much is still unknown).

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Mini PC with Intel Jasper Lake

An unnamed system that is sold on Aliexpress. An Intel Celeron N5105 processor is installed inside. There is no RAM, disk and, accordingly, no OS. All this will need to be set by the user. If you pay $40, the manufacturer will send a mini-PC with Intel Pentium Silver N6005. Well, by paying a few more tens of dollars, you can get this system with 32 GB of RAM and a 1 TB solid state drive. The maximum configuration will cost $465.

The motherboard has two SODIMM slots supporting DDR4-2933 memory. There’s also an M.2 2280 slot for an SSD. The cooling system is passive, so the device will not make noise.

Ports and Connectors — Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, VGA, 4 USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports. System size 123 x 123 x 45 mm.

Shuttle DH670

This mini PC is based on Intel Alder Lake chip, motherboard is with LGA1700 socket. The system supports up to four 4K displays.

The motherboard also has 2 SODIMM slots with support for up to 64 GB of RAM, plus there are slots for SSD and hard drives. An optional wireless communication module can also be installed — there is an M. 2 2230 slot. List of ports and connectors:

• 2 x HDMI 2.0
• 2 x DisplayPort
• 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• 3 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
• 4 x USB 3.2 Gen1
• 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
• 1 x mic input
• 1 x line out (audio)
• 1 x RS-232
• 1 x RS-232/RS-422//RS-485
• 1 x SD card reader

Supports the system to work with Windows 10, Windows 11 and Linux.

Chonky Palmtop

Well, this is a DIY project, which is very different from all the mini-PCs that are described above. Actually, this is a miniature computer, but not a monoblock. It has an ergonomic keyboard that is very similar to the Corne Keyboard, display and battery. If necessary, the system can be folded for transportation, so that later you can work in a new place.

The case is printed on a 3D printer, and it is all based on the Raspberry Pi 4, so this PC cannot be called powerful. The screen is a 7-inch touchscreen.

All additional project data, including software, case model, and everything else, can be found in the author’s GitLab repository.

5 mini-PCs for any (almost) tasks — Technique on vc.ru

Mini-PCs today are produced by well-known corporations, and completely new players, and even amateurs. The scope is the widest, so do not think that the mini-PC is a purely decorative story.

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We chose 5 devices that seemed to us the most interesting right now. Also check out our previous Mini PC blog post.

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Asus PN80

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A very powerful «kid», which is suitable for solving a large number of tasks, including those where high performance is required. The basis of everything is the 8-core Core i7-11700B chip with integrated UHD graphics.

Actually, this device can be called a «baby» with a stretch. Compared to its peers, the Asus PN80 is quite large – 7.9″ x 7.9″ x 2.3″. The first official information about the PC appeared in January, but only now some characteristics have become clear.

Available with 8, 16 and 32 GB DDR-4 RAM.

Port:

• Two Thunderbolt 4
• USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• Five USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
• HDMI 2.1
• 3.5mm audio
• 3.5mm mic input
• 3.5mm line out
• 2.5 Gbps Ethernet
• 4-in-1 card reader
• Selectable port (VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI, Ethernet)

$1299 to $1599 depending on configuration. Not the most budget model, but in terms of price and performance, it is considered a balanced device.

Firefly EC-I3588J

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Mini PC design is often skimped on, but this is not the case with the Firefly EC-I3588J. The stylish box hides an 8-core Rockchip RK3588 processor. The device is positioned as a universal system that can work as a server, desktop PC, video processing station or multimedia center.

Compatibility with 12 different Linux distributions is a bonus, including Ubuntu, Debian and Buildroot.

The manufacturer introduced the Firefly ITX-3588J motherboard earlier this year. She alone costs about $500.

The release cost of the device has not yet been announced, but with such a motherboard, a powerful take-off has been taken.

Ports:

• HDMI 2.1 (8K @ 60Hz or 4K @ 120Hz)
• HDMI 2.0 (4K @ 60Hz)
• USB Type-C (DisplayPort 1.4 supporting 8K @ 30Hz)
• VGA (1080p @ 60Hz)
• HDMI input (4K @ 60Hz with DCP 2. 3 support)

There are also four USB 3.0 Type-A ports, two USB 2.0 Type-A ports and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.

The system supports up to 32 GB of RAM, plus 128 GB eMMC is offered. It is possible to install M.2 2242 SSD and up to 4 HDD or SSD. There is a card reader.

It remains to wait for the final cost. We hope there will be no surprises.

ELITEMINI B550

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Mini PC is available in two processor options:

• AMD Ryzen 7 4700G
• AMD Ryzen 7 5700G

The maximum amount of RAM is limited to 64 GB. There are two slots for an M.2 2280 SSD. Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6 are supported. MINISFORUM ELITEMINI B550 comes with a graphics card docking station. Mini PC Dimensions — 20,859by 24.088 by 12.813 cm. Device weight 3.208 kg.

Ports:

• Dual HDMI
• DisplayPort
• Four USB 3. 2
• USB-C
• RJ45
• Ethernet + microphone slot

$699 to $809 depending on configuration. This option got as close as possible to the definition of «Top for your money.»

Shuttle DH670

Photo source: minimachines.net

This mini PC is based on Intel Alder Lake chip, motherboard is with LGA1700 socket. The system supports up to four 4K displays. A good option for organizing video streaming indoors.

The motherboard also has 2 SODIMM slots with support for up to 64 GB of RAM, plus there are slots for SSD and hard drives. An optional wireless communication module can be installed — there is an M.2 2230 slot.

Ports:

• Dual HDMI 2.0
• Dual DisplayPort
• USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C
• Three USB 3. 2 Gen 2 Type-A
• Four USB 3.2 Gen 1
• Two Gigabit Ethernet
• mic input
• line out (audio)
• RS-232
• RS-232/RS-422//RS-485
• SD card reader

Supports Windows 10, Windows 11 and Linux.

Chonky Palmtop

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Chonky Palmtop is a DIY project, which, even in terms of form factor, is noticeably different from corporate designs. The case is printed on a 3D printer, the base is Raspberry Pi 4. The screen is a 7-inch touchscreen.

The Chonky Palmtop has an ergonomic keyboard that is similar to the Corne Keyboard, display and battery. If necessary, the system can be folded for transportation, traveling with such a device is quite comfortable.