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today we'll be looking at kind of been interesting things from shuttle this is an NCI X exclusive in Canada right off the bat and this is the SH 61 r4 so what is that what is an SH 61 r4 exactly well to shuttle XP see it has the h61 Express chipset which means you've got support for the latest core i3 i5 and i7 zhan Intel LGA 1155 it supports dual channel ddr3 1333 megahertz memory with up to 4 gigs per slot a maximum of 8 gigs so that tells us it has two slots it supports DVID it supports um look at that DVI / DVID dual display support that's kind of handy so dual display support on a little bare bones like this means that this will be great for an office machine what else do we have here in terms of the features and specifications it has USB 3 which is awesome given the value style product positioning of this particular guy right here 5.1 audio as well as a 250 watt power supply - three-and-a-half inch main use for expansion and one five and a quarter inch base for expansion so this is an X PC from shuttle that means this is a bare-bones machine now I actually did a build guide for shuttle XP systems on my NCIX comm channel so if you want to know how to build a system in one of these then you can check that out but I'm just gonna give you a brief outline of what all you will need so you're gonna need the bare-bones unit itself as I mentioned before this ships with a 250 watt power supply it also has a bunch of onboard connections which means it does have a motherboard and finally as you can plainly see it also has a case so shuttle bare-bones is basically a case a motherboard and a power supply that are all specially designed to work together properly so what you will need is a CPU you will need memory you will also need any expansion carts that you intend to add to it and finally you will need drives so let's go ahead actually you know what let's look at the outside of the unit a little bit first so the casing itself is awesome considering that this is a value unit this is an aluminum of like a brushed aluminum anodized finish on here that looks just outstanding can you see can you see it in the light okay yeah it looks really really sharp and then on the front of the SH 61 r4 we've actually got okay let me just take that off there you've got a nice shiny plastic piece and we have a five and a quarter inch bay cover so there you can put any five and a quarter inch device that you see fit on the front we've got our power switch and then we also have two USB 2.0 ports have headphone jack and a microphone jack let's go around to the back of the unit where we will find a ventilation so you can see the heat pipes running up through the cooler we've also got screws for mounting the cooler to the back we have two PCI expansion slots remember this is a custom form factor so you get two expansion slots in a very similar form factor to something like mini ITX which gives you only one expansion slot next you find your 5.1 audio out one two three four five six USB 2.0 ports Gigabit Ethernet a clear CMOS button check that out you got a clear CMOS button on a value aged 61 bare-bones machine from shuttle that's awesome that's a great feature you got two USB 3.0 ports and this right here that is the selling point so this makes it pretty much the ultimate office machine because you can use those two DVI ports I don't think I've ever seen two DVI ports natively on the back of a board now this is dvi-i which means it has all of the digital connections as well as the analog connections you see the little dots around the outside this is DVID which means it's digital only so this one you can use a DVI to vga adapter this one you can't so what i'd really recommend doing is using two purely digital signals you're going to get the best image quality the best usability out of it and you are going to have less eye strain and you'll be using it to its fullest extent okay looking at the inside here is our 250 watt power supply so not really much to say about that it's got a single 12 bull rail provides up to 16 amps why don't we have a look at the connectors that are available on this 250 watt power supply so we have pretty much everything that we need including the 24 pin the 4 pin which come pre connected to the motherboard for your convenience we have 4 SATA cables which I would imagine is sort of too many because I believe this the spare bulbs only supports 3 drives so two three and a half inch and then one five and a quarter mind you you could throw two two and a half inch drives and a three and a half inch bay and then you would be using all four connectors so there you go we also have two 4-pin molex as well as one for pin floppy and a PCI Express plug so that means you could take something like a GTS 250 or even a GTS 450 throw it in here remember a good 250 watt power supply is still perfectly capable of powering a low-end are like a low to mid-range graphics card I wouldn't go throwing like a GTX 560 or anything like that in there though alright here our front connectors which are already plugged in now you'll see this in my build guide if you watch it but this is what's so convenient about a shuttle is that all of the little finicky stuff like the front panel you know power switch which you can see over here the reset switch the LEDs all that good stuff is all plugged in so all you really have to do is plug in some RAM so you check that out look at this even the SATA cables are pre-wired into the motherboard and then pre-wrote it up exactly where you need them so you cut this one zip tie right here oh no you don't sorry you don't cut this Atty you you undo this right here you plug these into the backs of your drives and you're pretty much ready to rock just like that you actually don't have to do any cable routing on your own other than the power supply cables which are fairly easy to do and I'm clearly trying to put this back all wrong right now which is making my life difficult okay and then all you have to do is plug in the CPU so you take out the pushpins here you take out the screws at the back of the unit here right there and then you plug in your CPU you plug in your RAM you plug in a graphics card if you see fit and you are done now as far as the graphics cards check this out for expansion on mic value 861 bare-bones we've got a PCIe 16x and a PCIe 1x those are very good expansion options you can throw a graphics card in there you can throw whatever you want in there probably most people will put nothing in there because this is more like an office style machine as I mentioned before it does support core i3 Core i5 and core i7 processors although because of the 861 chipset you are not going to have support for overclocking so if you're using like a K series processor you're not gonna get the most out of that K series processor with a little bare-bones machine like this one you've got a nice heatsink here on the vrm so I wouldn't worry too much about any cooling problems and you can actually see speaking of cooling that the whole unit is cooled by three heat pipes coming off the CPU cooler into an 80 millimeter fan that runs and blows all the air directly ok cameraman is looking at the heat pipes there they are and then that both that comes up to that radiator I showed you from the back which is cooled by an 80 millimeter fan which draws air from the ventilation holes on the side of the chassis right here through the back of the chassis cooling things like the graphics card which is next to the ventilation holes as well as the vrm and the RAM which are also sitting next to ventilation holes so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the FH 61 r4 don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and also don't forget to check out my video on how to build your very own shuttle PC just by picking up one of these bare-bones units CPU RAM drives and that's pretty much all you need unless you want to throw in a graphics card as well hey check this out I missed something you guys mini PCIe right here so you can actually throw a wireless wireless card in there like a notebook wireless card also here's another pretty cool feature check this up so they're using a PCIe slot see that's a PCIe 1x but it has an open back so that means that if you have something like a raid card where you're gonna hook up only two drives or something and it's a PCIe 4x you can throw it in there it'll run at lesser bandwidth but at least it'll be physically compatible because you don't have that stopper at the end of the slot