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welcome to my unboxing of something that I think is freaking fantastic shuttle has for the longest time actually I don't know how long they've been building mini pcs but they're darn good at it and they their big thing is more performance in a smaller space and I think they've really outdone themselves this time and I don't want it I don't want to give away what this is yet so let me just do this I'm actually going to save the suspense that is if you guys haven't figured out to just look at the title of the video at this point I know right I'm going to save the suspense of what exactly this thing is until we've actually opened up the bare-bones PC unit all the way because this is the most performance you are going to fit in a form factor like this yeah okay so just for comparison here's the iPhone 4 against the shuttle to show the size of this reverse monstrosity that is the opposite of a monstrosity lilliputian proportions haha see who can pull the literary terms now BAM so there is my iPhone I'm not relevant I know okay hold on hold on we'll cover the exterior first the exterior first up we got our five and a quarter inch bay going on here so this hooks up fairly easily I've actually done one of these recently that use the same mechanism took me a couple minutes of like you know kid jiggering with it to get it going alright here is a three and a half inch front panel so if you want to put in a card reader something along those lines you got your power switch your hard drive indicator LED as well as your front panel connectors including two USB three two USB two headphones and microphone you got some ventilation going on you got some ventilation going on over here you got some ventilation going on over here that's a 92 millimeter cooling fan attached to a 92 millimeter heatsink irradiator you kind of looking thing a bunch of heat pipes going through it you got your included 500 watt 80 plus 80 plus bronze I believe let me double check that one no don't look don't look over here this is all a secret 80 plus bronze 500 watt power supply oh good work okay this is kind of hilarious so there's two more USB 3 ports eSATA power so we're going to have to figure out exactly what that's all about eSATA as well as USB ie SATA you 2 more USB 2 2 more it's six total USB 2 clear CMOS dual LAN as well as your 7.1 audio out and optical audio out so if you guys can already see this is a unique and very high-end X PC I already took out the thumb screws guys it didn't just fall apart randomly fail ok I included accessories include a power cord and a quick a guide which is in color and English even she's good if you're me you speak English ah here's what it is that was easily answered so hold on I'm gonna no I can't take this off yet I can't unveil it yet ok so that goes there and this is actually the coolest thing that I've seen included on a case or on a motherboard rather in quite a long time so it's an external state of power look at that so that way if you have because this isn't because eSATA is pretty inconvenient to run off of a bear drive which is what I use it for most of the time unless you have an auxilary power somewhere look at this they just include that little adapter for you and then you just have to have a regular non powered normal like eSATA cable that is actually fantastic I think slick can agree with me on this one he says yes excellent so I'm not just crazy that's it thank who does that that's cool ok also included are a couple of regular SATA cables some thermal compound the driver CD which you shouldn't use as well as some installation screws and zip ties all right now removing the cover BAM check this out so inside actually just have to say alright so taking this apart there's our 5 and a quarter inch drive mount there's our two three and a half inch drive mounts okay there's the drive cage that goes with them drive screw holes and there we have it yes this is a full fledged x79 bare-bones system inside a shuttle form factor so what is all of that mean that means that performance per cubic foot this takes the cake so there is the 80 plus bronze 500 watt power supply that makes it all possible but why does 500 watts isn't nearly enough for next time against actually it is it definitely is 500 watts is going to be plenty for an X 79 system with one very high powered graphics card which due to the limited number of slots available is pretty much all you're going to be putting in here although I mean if you've our water cooling and you do want to find single slot back plates you could in theory plug in two to reasonably you know not quite highest power graphics card but to reasonably high draw graphics cards because it does have dual PCIe 16x slots so that's pretty cool it's in there alright it's in there guys we've also got um hold on a second between two these plug in hold on aha yep we've got the mSATA supporting spot right here for adding a small SSD a small M SATA SSD as well as mini PCIe so that you can add some kind of other add-in card with so yes you don't have the option to mini add-in cards here once you put in a high power graphics card that's going to take up your two slots but you can add a couple more other things here quad channel RAM is provided in the form of four dimm slots on either side of the CPU socket we've also got SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports ah you know what I actually can't tell looking at them although if I had to guess I'd say it's the two blue ones are SATA 3 and the 2 orange ones are say 2 to 3 gigabit per second and over here ah ok sorry guys I'm all excited about this one this one it's getting there we go there so there is our motherboard power you can see they're using what appears to be a somewhat proprietary looking connector I mean is that is that really a 20 pin power connector is this one two three four five six seven eight nine ten so as slick pointed out to me while that may be a 20 pin power connector next to an 8 pin EPS power connector for the CPU itself shuttle apparently just does as they please because it has an eSATA power connector coming right out the back of the case so we are shuttle we do what we want and that that's how we roll is apparently their mantra which is cool we've got what is for shuttle pretty beefy pwm cooling which makes sense because this is an LGA 2011 socket which means that all of the CPUs that are supported on this socket are 130 watt processors so there's some serious power to be delivered to the CPU the chipset also has a cooler on it right there and you can see that's probably going to get some excess draft egde going on from the CPU cooler that also cools the bulk of the system because any other air that's being carried out of the case is going to be by this small 40mm fan on the power supply itself USB 3 is covered by and I love the way shuttle does all the cable management for you pretty much I mean look at this so here's all your extra connectors I'll show you those in a minute but USB 3 is done right here you can install your memory right under that's not going anywhere and then uh here are is your front USB 2 as well as your front panel audio none of this is going to get in the way once you just kind of route it a little bit like that once you put your graphics card in there okay let's go ahead and undo these so I can show you guys included power connectors so you've got two SATA so that's for your two three and a half inch drives two more SATA for your five and a quarter inch drive and maybe an SSD that you jam in there somewhere you got a couple molex connectors in case you have some kind of use for those and you still got a floppy connector which yeah and then you've got a six plus two pin as well as a six pin so what kind of graphics card can you put in here let's find out this wasn't easy guys but check this out Radeon 7970 now I actually with have power efficient the 7970 is I wouldn't be surprised at all if this just worked without without a hitch but there you go it physically fits and we had to kind of cram it in there but that's what it'll look like will it get enough ventilation from here so it'll actually exhaust air out the back of the case with the blower cooler and then it will intake air here from here so that's how it'll get access to fresh air will it be as quiet as if you installed it in a full-size case no will it work with the five hundred watt power supply and a non overclock CPU in a non overclocked graphics card guys this is not for overclocking this is for stock speed operation within small form-factor yes very cool guys so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the shuttle x79 bare-bones PC supporting up to 32 gigs of memory up to two beast PCI Express 3.0 graphics cards if you can you know put in like single slot coolers which doesn't seem that feasible I don't know where you put a radiator in here for example die you know it's just one of those things just throwing it out there um up to a six core processor and all within this tiny tiny form factor don't forget to subscribe for more videos like this unboxing is another cool computer stuff