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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.

The System BIOS Part I

Shuttle DX30 does ship with a plain looking Aptio Setup Utility, which means that we get the usual grey/blue color scheme along with the menus place on the top. The Main menu area does show the current BIOS version, the details on the installed CPU, but also the total system memory. The same area allows setup of the system date and time:

The Advanced area comes with the following sub-menus:

-TPM Configuration

-Power Management Configuration

-Hardware Health Configuration

-CPU Configuration

-USB Configuration

-OnBoard Device Configuration

-SATA Configuration

TPM Configuration menu does hold a single option:

Inside the Power Management Configuration menu, we do have some of the usual PM options available:

Hardware Health Configuration menu is giving us a quick insight on the live system temperatures and operating voltages:

From the CPU Configuration sub-section, we can look at more details regarding the installed CPU, but also work with some of its features such as EIST, Turbo Mode On/Off, C-States and so on:

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