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!

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The BIOS Interface Part II

The Power Management menu comes with the usual options:

 

 

The TPM configuration menu only comes with the enable/disable option:

 

 

From the Hardware Health Configuration menu, we can monitor the current SoC temperature and system voltages:

 

 

Next, we do have the Security menu which also comes with the Secure Boot Control option (useful for Windows 11 installs):

 

 

The Boot menu follows:

 

 

Finally, we do have the Exit menu, from where we can save, discard or load factory defaults:

 

 

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