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welcome to my unboxing of another shuttle XP see bare-bones pc i love these things as you guys have probably figured out by now i think they're a fantastic idea and a great way to build a small form factor pc in the most simple possible way and it's not just a great way to build a small form factor pc it's a great way to build a pc in general if you're enthusiasts who wants to build their own pc but you're an enthusiast who doesn't have the knowledge necessarily to do some of the more complicated parts of system assembly like installing the motherboard connecting the front panel headers connecting the power supply correctly to the motherboard all of this kind of stuff there we go so the shuttle XP see bare-bones kits actually make all of that stuff simpler while leaving the main configuration parts of the system so that is the CPU memory the drive the graphics card you want to use totally up to you and for you to install and then they also include a colored quick start guide to help you get started so here is the the general basic shuttle chassis that they're using these days it has a five and a quarter inch Bay which is with them matter of a couple minutes you can get it hooked up to the front button on your optical drive you've got a three and a half inch hot front drive front bakes you can use for like a card reader or something like that power switch hard drive indicator LED as well as your fun panel head ports so you have two USB 3 2 USB two headphone and microphone ports all built into the front with a nice sleek brushed aluminum finish the top is also brushed aluminum the sides are also brushed aluminum and they look can you see the brush pneus yeah there you go and you got ventilation holes all along the sides because that is the only place where you're going to have air being in taken in order to be 0 is you trying to look at those sorry guys and then it will be exhausted by the ninety two millimeter fan at the back as well as the 40 millimeter fan built into the power supply there's your power connector here are your onboard display oh so there's DVI which supports vga Vienna doctor you can tell because it's a dvi-i and then HDMI we've got USB 2 times 4 times as well as one esata USB 3 that's running off the Intel chipset so that's going to be nice high speed USB 3 Gigabit Ethernet as well as 5.1 audio out that's the 5.1 that looks like 7.1 sorry guys alright let's open this up and see what shuttle has done on the inside in terms of configuration for this system you can see it's only three screws to get it opened up thumb screws of course shuttle does want to make this as simple as they can because they are designed for novice brothers and experienced builders alike on the inside it's pretty straightforward again all we need is a screwdriver here to take out all the drive base so you can see there's our five and a quarter inch as well as our two three and a half inch drive base so if you do install an external three-and-a-half inch device like I showed you before you will sacrifice one of your potential internal three and a half inch mounting Bay's hold on there we go got it there you go just on Luminum piece right there fairly straightforward once you get it bolted in at the top it loses a lot of that flex so it's going to be perfectly sturdy for installing your drives here inside you see they've already done most of the complicated connections for use but things like the front panel USB 3 the front panel connectors like your power switch your reset switch your there is no reset switch pardon me but your front LED than whatnots you've also got what else is plugged in the CPU fan is already plugged in although you'll probably have to take that off in order to install the CPU so to install the CPU is quite simple all you have to do is take out these four thumb screws pull out the custom heat pipe cooler that shuttle uses to cool their ex pcs so you got three heat pipes going up here to the 92 Mme turf and that does most of the exhaust for the system so due to the fact that they use a a single fan here and then one small fan in the power supply shuttles are actually quite quiet even compared to compared to something like a performance desktop in spite of the fact that you can still put a lot of performance inside a shuttle so in terms of say that upgrade options we've got one two three for SATA ports two of them are say 236 gigabit per second so fully ready for the latest high performance SSDs and two of them are SATA 3 say two to three gigabit per second now speaking of high performance a SSDs you can install an msata SSD if you want to use it here for Intel SRT caching to go along with your boot drive or any other drive in your system and then you can also install a mini PCIe card so they've got support for both of those built right into this very small form-factor motherboard now in terms of expansion slots we've got a pcie 16x as well as a PCIe for x so you can install up to a dual-slot high performance graphics card and we've actually been able to fit a radeon HD 7970 into one of these shuttles with no issues in fact side we never actually ran the card last time but we should totally do that with the z77 board we should throw a compatible intel processor inside here quad core and then we'll throw 79-78 and see how it fares actually here is the vrm cooling and here is one of the things about this machine that is most unique and most special this is a 500 watt 80 plus bronze power supply in this form factor look at how small this thing is oh I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it wait for it wait for it taken out of my battery case oh yeah this thing is so small that the only suitable comparison is the iphone comparison that is how big it is there you go Wow 33 rails on the 12 volt total real meat okay I think that pretty much covers the general unboxing and overview thank you for checking out this video and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos sorry guys I was just firing this up for the for the test that I want to do here and I realized I totally didn't show you guys some of the internals here so we've got a front floppy connector we've got two molex 4-pin peripheral connectors we have four SATA power connectors and finally we have a six plus two and a 6-pin connector so we have full support high-performance graphics cards another thing that I totally forgot to show you guys is the fact that it includes the power cord if you include didn't even go through the accessories to SATA cables a slot cover all the mounting screws you need as well as a couple cable ties thermal compound as well as never actually remembering which I intended to do although I didn't promise you guys I'd do it never actually remembering to take out the color installation guide which wall look at that they included in a bunch of different languages too which shows you how to do things in color that is all