Shuttle XPC Barebone SZ87R6 Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2014-01-27

Shuttle has refreshed its latest XPC Barebone with a new configuration featuring the Z87 chipset, for allowing installation of the Intel Haswell processors and also features plenty of connectivity options. Thanks to the 500W power supply, we should not have a lot of issues when choosing a high performance video card, two 3.5’’ drives and a CPU with a rated TDP up to 95W.

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The Board BIOS Part I

The latest XPC Barebone from Shuttle does not sport a nice graphical interface, but has a regular Aptio Setup Utility. On the top we have the menus, some of which come with sub-sections. Inside the Main menu we will be able to see the current BIOS date/version, the installed CPU, total RAM quantity but we can also set the system date/time:

 

 

 

Inside the Advanced menu we will find sub-sections like Power Management, CPU Configuration, SATA Configuration and so on:

 

 

 

Power Management contains some of the usual options like selection of Suspend Mode, Wake up by USB, EuP:

 

 

 

CPU Configuration menu allows us to see more technical details and adjust functions like Intel VT, EIST, Turbo, C State Support or the number of Active Processor Cores:

 

 

 

 

The SATA Configuration menu shows us the currently connected storage devices and from there we can also enable the Hot Plug functionality or SATA mode:

 

 

 

The USB Configuration menu only has one option which allows us to disable the USB 3.0 controller:

 

 

 

Inside the Hardware Health configuration menu we will be able to customize the fan control, see the live system temperatures/fan speeds but also the voltages:

 

 

 

Onboard Device Configuration menu allows us to enable or disable the audio, LAN, video interfaces and more. Here we can also enable the Intel Rapid Start Technology:

 

 

 

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