Review on 💻 Shuttle XPC Cube SH310R4V2 Barebone PC with Intel 8th/9th Gen 95W Coffee Lake CPU Support, 300W PSU, No RAM, No HDD/SSD, No CPU, No OS by Shah Nelson

Some of my PCs are heavily built, but I needed a fairly fast, full-stock workstation to work with. I have built many Shuttle XPCs (older models) in the past but decided the Shuttle XPC Cube SH310R4V2 would work for my purposes. My build consisted of i7-8700K, M.2 Samsung 970 EVO NVMe. and 2 x 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX PC4-21300 (C16). To insert the CPU, the heat pipe plate has to be removed, for which the heat sink, the fan and the cover mounted on the back have to be unscrewed. There is some thermal paste included, but you can use something better (I did). The NVMe is easy to reach, but the case makes it difficult for clumsy hands to rotate the M.2. Please note that there is NO M.2 cooling, so you can use your own heatsink and/or fan. The DIMMs were also easy to access - I used low-profile DIMMs and that's probably a good idea since some of the DIMMs with HUGE RGB heatsinks might not clear the bottom of the drive bay. The entire assembly took less time. than 5 minutes to assemble. Wait a few more minutes if you want to add an optical drive or SATA HD (3.5" or 2.5"). A few notes: the shuttle is said to be good for a 95W TDP, so a thermal solution should be able to handle it. When all cores are fully loaded I have no problems (overheating, throttling etc.) The PSU is only 300W. That's good for my build but you have to think about what to do with the graphics. Machine, I'm fine with IGP. However, if you need an external graphics card, you should know that you can get a 500W power supply for this machine. It's relatively expensive, so you might be better off getting one of the higher-end XPC chassis with a 500W power supply. Also, you're limited to a shorter card with this chassis, but you can get decent GPUs in half-length cards (there are various XPCs that are better suited for full-length cards). length maps) If you need an assembly like mine, this is a good place to start. closed.