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Shuttle XPC slim Barebone DL20N6 Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2021-12-20

The DL20N series from Shuttle is an impressive jump in performance versus the older DL10J, while the choice to have installed a Pentium N6005 4-core SKU while retaining the 10W TDP is great! The whole system is passively cooled, so it is virtually noiseless if we do install only SSDs as storage devices. We have found that using the chassis horizontally is not stellar for the nearby M.2 SSD, because it tends to share a bit of heat from the Intel SoC heatsink, but in vertical position the issue is fully solved so purchasing the vertical stand is a must in our book!

A Closer Look Part III

The 2.5’’ drive mounting system features the same design as on other XPC slim barebones we have tested in the past:

The Pentium Silver N6005 quad-core SoC is cooled by a passive heatsink and judging by the fins orientation and test results we found the DL20N6 to have better thermals while used in a vertical position:

Just nearby, we do have two SODIMM memory slots, to install up to 16GB (as Shuttle does recommend); however, we have tried with a 2x16GB memory kit and the system booted just fine:

The M.2 2280M expansion slot does support M.2 drives with a width of 22mm and a length of 42, 60 or 80mm (2242, 2260 or 2280 standards):

The SuperIO chip on the board is an ITE IT5571E-128:

The BIOS chip capsule is also nearby:

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