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Shuttle XPC Slim DX30 Barebone Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2017-02-22

XPC Slim DX30 is one of the latest passively cooled Mini-PCs from Shuttle, which does sport the Intel Celeron J3355 Apollo Lake dual-core SoC. The barebone can be equipped with no less than 8GB of DDR3L SODIMM RAM, a M.2 SSD, one 2.5’’ HDD/SSD while the wireless connectivity is assured by the manufacturer thanks to the preinstalled M.2-2230 WLAN card with Realtek RTL8188EE Controller. The product does feature a lot of interfaces so it can be used at home, in offices but also for industrial applications; in all cases, the overall power consumption is very small thanks to the technological process of the new Intel cores.

A Closer Look Part III

The bottom area of the unit does contain some stickers with the product serial numbers, along with the power rating:

Small black feet are also present in the corners, so the unit will not slip on the surface:

Removing the top cover is an easy process and only involves two screws in the back:

The motherboard is covered on one side by the 2.5’’ HDD/SSD mounting bracket, which is also easy removable (it is held secure with a small black screw):

The said bracket does include a plastic layer so it will not make direct contact with the HDD electronics (to avoid short-circuits):

The motherboards presents itself with a central aluminum heatsink which covers the SoC, two DDR3L memory slots, two M.2 slots (one which is populated), multiple headers and more:

The heatsink is held in three screws and can be removed with ease:

Thanks to the efficient Intel design of Apollo Lake, an active cooling system is not justified:

The 2230 M.2 slot comes with the WLAN module, with Realtek RTL8188EE Controller:

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