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Shuttle launches barebones with Skylake

by on12 October 2015


SH170R6 can manage all Skylake processors 

Shuttle computers have released its latest barebone that now supports Intel 170 series chipset and Skylake processor. 

Shuttle mini PC with heatpipe cooling for LGA1151 processor continues a long tradition getting the performance machines in a small form factor. This is a 14.2 liter black aluminum chassis but it can definitely pack high end desktop components and offer a small form factor PC with little compromises.

This is a PC that will support dual slot graphic card and that can run all Skylake processors including the fastest Intel Core i7-6700K at 4.0GHz. The new machine supports DDR4 memory  with four slots that can accommodate up to 64GB memory.

The new H170 chipset brings the DDR4 support to this form factor and the machine also comes with  a PCIe16X v 3.0 for any high end GPUs, one PCIe x4 version 3.0, one M.2 2290 that supports PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 3 storage devices and 1x Mini PCIe half size that supports W Lan cards.

The box comes with 4x SATA 3.0 6Gb/s drive supports with RAID and RST support as well as one eSATA or one M.2 SSD drive connector.

The SH170R6 comes with a HDMI 1.4 and 2X Display Port 1.2 graphics connector, 7.1 line out, line in and microphone as well as Gigabit LAN. The machine has total of 10 USB ports eigh of them being USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0. The machine comes with 300Watt 80 Plus bronze power supply unit and there is an option to upgrade to with Shuttle Accessory PC63J, essentially a 500W  power supply for higher end gaming.

This is a great system for people who like smaller PC's and still want the desktop class performance. Things do get cosy in the case but you can put a few SSD drives, a high end GPU, a top class CPU as well as 64GB DDR3L memory .  

The suggested price starts from 299 eur. 

Last modified on 12 October 2015
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