Stefan Mileschin

Shuttle is largely considered to be the farther of the modern barebones mini PC market, as the company was the first to mass produce such products in the early 2000s. Nowadays Shuttle has numerous rivals and its positions are not as strong as they used to be. Meanwhile Shuttle is gradually recovering ground by developing competitive products aimed at performance-demanding users. At Computex, the company demonstrated a lineup of new barebones mini PCs for Intel’s Coffee Lake processors.

Shuttle’s lineup of Coffee Lake-powered PCs demonstrated at Computex consisted of four systems: two smaller and thinner computers that are designed for CPUs with mainstream TDP, as well as two more traditional XPC Cubes for PCs with expansion capabilities. The systems are based on Intel’s H310 and H370 chipsets, so they are not intended for enthusiasts who would like to overclock their CPUs. Though as SFF PCs are not generally designed for overclocking to begin with, using the H370 is hardly a downside for a compact system.

The ultra-compact XPC slim DH310 and DH370 barebones come in a chassis measuring 190×165×43 mm and support Intel’s 65W LGA1151 v2 processors, up to 32 GB of DDR4-2666 memory (two SO-DIMMs), an M.2-2280 SSD, and a 2.5-inch/12.5-mm SSD. Both systems rely on custom motherboards that cannot be upgraded, but which are key to how Shuttle is able to make the PCs so miniature. I/O capabilities of the systems are pretty regular: two GbE ports (driven by Intel controllers), an optional 802.11ac Wi-Fi, an SD card reader, four USB 3.1 Gen 1 headers, four USB 3.1 Gen 2 connectors, two DisplayPort 1.2, and one HDMI 2.0 output, and so on. As for power. the UCFF barebones are outfitted with 90 W PSUs.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12999...bones-mini-pcs