 Welcome to my unboxing of another shuttle xpc barebones 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. 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 an enthusiast 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 xpc barebones 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 they also include a colored quick start guide to help you get started. So here is the general basic shuttle chassis that they're using these days. It has a 5.25 inch bay which is with a matter of a couple minutes you can get it hooked up to the front button on your optical drive. You've got a 3.5 inch front base you can use for like a card reader or something like that, power switch, hard drive indicator led, as well as your front panel ports. So you have two USB 3, two USB 2, 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 brushedness? Yep, 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 intaken in order to be, oh is he trying to look at those? Sorry guys. And then it will be exhausted by the 92mm fan at the back as well as the 40mm fan built into the power supply. There's your power connector, here are your onboard display outs, so there's DVI which supports VGA via an adapter, you can tell because it's a DVI-I. And then HDMI, we've got USB 2x, 4x as well as 1e SATA, 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. Did I say 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 builders 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 bays so you can see there's our 5.25 inch as well as our two 3.5 inch drive bays. So if you do install an external 3.5 inch device like I showed you before, you will sacrifice one of your potential internal 3.5 inch mounting bays. Hold on, there we go, got it. So there you go, just an aluminum 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 you. So things like the front panel USB 3, the front panel connectors like your power switch, your reset switch, or there is no reset switch, pardon me, but your front LEDs and what nots. You've also got, what else is plugged in, your 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 XPCs. So you've got three heat pipes going up here to the 92mm fan that does most of the exhaust for the system. So due to the fact that they use a single fan here and then one small fan in the power supply, Shuttles are actually quite quiet even 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 SATA upgrade options we've got one, two, three, four SATA ports, two of them are SATA 3, 6 gigabit per second, so fully ready for the latest high performance SSDs, and two of them are SATA 2, 3 gigabit per second. Now speaking of high performance SATA SSDs, you can install an M-SATA 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 4x, 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, 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 7970 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 going to do it. I'm going to do it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Taking it 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. Three rails on the 12 volt rail. Neat. 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 for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Sorry guys, I was just firing this up 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 four pin peripheral connectors. We have four SATA power connectors, and finally we have a six plus two and a six pin connector. So we have full support for high performance graphics cards. Another thing that I totally forgot to show you guys is the fact that it includes a power cord. It includes, I didn't even go through the accessories, two 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 wow, look at that. They include it in a bunch of different languages too. Which shows you how to do things in color. That is all.