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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 IV

We can fit up to 8GB of DDR3L SODIMM RAM into the memory slots:

The CMOS battery is carefully placed between the frontal USB 3.0 ports and the SD card reader:

On the PCB we could also spot the ASM1142, which is an ASMedia Universal Serial Bus 3.1 controller:

Near the left memory slot, we can find several additional headers for the interfaces:

The M.2 2280 slot does support high-speed storage (PCIe X4, SATA 6G):

The 2.5’’ drive (if installed) will be linked to a SATA Data/Power combo connector:

For testing the barebone and for obtaining an apples-to-apples comparison, we will use the same Transcend TS128GMTS400 SSD, along with a single 4GB RAM SODIMM stick of DDR3L memory:

After mounting the supplied antenna and placing the top cover back on, the system is ready to roll!

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