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well I don't know about where you live but in Vancouver houses are really expensive and saw our apartments and so are condos and dogs and actually no dogs are more expensive but places to live are certainly more expensive so having a smaller computer is probably a good thing today I have an unboxing of a very fully featured small form-factor computer from shuttle although there's no actual functional computer in this box this is a bare-bones which means you have to add a CPU memory a drive an operating system and I guess that's pretty much it so basically what it is is a motherboard a case and the power supply now what's cool about this product to me is the fact that it is the first one that both the crazy Russian and myself have directly influenced during the design phase so when shuttle did their age 67 bare-bones we suggested to them that because LGA 1155 produces such low power and yet capable gaming CPUs they should make the system a little bit more gaming capable themselves by adding additional capacity to the power supply so shuttle went ahead and took our suggestion and ran with it I mean we like to think it was we were the only ones who suggested it but we probably weren't so with the chip our suggestion and run with it and this bare-bones computer actually includes a beefy enough power supply that you could install a fairly high powered graphics card in it so check this out this is an 80 plus bronze where are we here I remember someone told me already what it is and I know that it's beefy but I don't know exactly what the capacity is we're gonna have to find this out in a sec so yes it is a 500 watt continuous power supply which means yes you can throw a quad-core CPU in here no problem you can throw a decent graphics card and here's also no problem and you can load it up to the gills with all the hardware you want with yes once again no problem so I'll show you guys the basics of the inside so right here you've got support for two three and a half inch drives as well as some do not eat silica gel let's go ahead and slide this baby back you've also got support for one five and a quarter inch drive so you just mount everything on to this right here and then slide the whole thing back in it comes with two SATA cables your thermal compound your mounting screws your socket cover as well as your power cable and your full-color quick installation guide once you get the drives out of the way you can actually see the rest of the internals so here we go here is our front USB 3 which is included and already even plugged in with the unit here's our front USB 2 as well as our front panel audio I'll show you guys the front panel in just a moment here's all of the rest of our internal connectors so let's see what we got here you guys we've got ha check this out that's right dual PCIe one eight pin one six pin very very nice we've also got support for one two three four SATA connectors so that means you can throw a bunch of two and a half inch drives and run like a raid array off them or something if you want we've got two ma molex for pins and one floppy connector coming off this power supply that is in addition to the home and look at this it's got an 8 pin CPU power connector over here so they're only using four pins because that's all we really need for this as well as the 24 pin connector so that is a truly beefy power supply we've also got a very capable looking cooling system on the vrm here and I think that pretty much covers the power side of things so shuttle has also I mean along the lines of making this very capable of putting a very capable machine inside included four dimm slots for SATA connectors as well as a couple of mini PCIe connector here so you could put like a Wi-Fi card here look at that it also oh look at Intel SRT support and say to only well very neat so they've included that functionality as well see that's the thing about a small form factor desktop is the kind of stuff that's normally reserved for notebooks tends to tends to find its way in there so just for heat reasons I really don't think that I I would expect to put anything bigger than about a GTX 560 in here even though the reality of it is with a 500 watt power supply you could probably do like a dual-core in a 570 I still wouldn't really recommend that but I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys how will 560 will fit then I'm gonna put the case back on and then I will show you the outside of the unit now that we blow we should look at the cooling solution first sorry guys so it uses pushpins which are not my favorite but as long as you're only going to use it a couple times I guess it's not the end of the world and then there are three heat pipes that lead up to what appears to be a 92 millimeter cooling fan which has a shroud sort of functionality built into it so it's a little distance away you can see the shroud here from a radiator that sits right at the back of the unit so the entire unit is cooled by this fan and this fan this one for the CPU and this one for the power supply so let's go ahead and show you guys how easy it is to install a graphics card in here I have no idea I'm just assuming that it's easy based on shuttles that I've used in the past being fairly easy to install things and in spite of their small stature correctly push down on it and there we go so you can see that there is plenty of room for my graphics card even once I have installed let's go ahead and throw this baby back in here my hold on have to give me a sec to get these cables of the way guys the cards in the drive tray is back in I'm just gonna show you guys a quick view of what the interior looks like once you've got that card installed so yeah it's a little cramped but that's sort of the reality when you're running a tunnel PC so here's the reason for my suggestion you only really take it up as high as maybe a GTX 560 rather than going all the way to of those enthusiast class cards and that is how much ventilation space you're gonna have for that graphics card so shuttle has in their wisdom included ventilation holes right here which means that those fans do have direct access to cool air from the outside which will then be exhausted through the CPU heatsink and then out the back of the case let's actually have a closer look at the back of the case so this is what it'll look like once you install a graphics card remember this is a z68 chipset so you do have support for lucid logics Hydra that means Intel SRT even if you do have a graphics card installed because it does have onboard video we've also got eSATA as well as USB to USB 3 Gigabit Ethernet a clear CMOS button which is kind of unique to see on like I mean you would typically expect these smaller form factor machines to be more value oriented but there you go it's there cool as well as our back Audio 7.1 we've also got spit if that's optical audio out our power in so that's on the back of the power supply and moving over long to this side we've got a nice brushed metal finish this is sort of my expectation with shuttle they do a good job of the finish of their machines you can see the top as well and then let's have a look at the front of the box so this auj cotton sorry I pushed it in there's nothing there's nothing resisting it right now because there's no optical drive installed so that's that's the problem there we've got room for no is there space four to five and a quarter inch drives would appear that there is let me find that out for you oh no there isn't here we go here we go so that's where you can put like a media card reader or something like that okay and then here we've got our front panel so that's front panel USB three that's a total of four USB 3 ports two USB 2 and there's your microphone jack remember there wasn't one on the back it is on the front as well as your front headphone port so you can see gorgeous little brushed finish on the front here as well so thank you for checking out oh there's your power button just like that thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at I never actually even said the model this is the shut s z68 RS don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and yeah that's the box for it thank you very much for that and other computer videos