Thread: Shuttle SH61Riv

The Shuttle SH67Hiii was the first Intel LGA1155 bare bones we had look. Its HDMI video and Visual S/PDIF outputs created it desirable for constructing a media center computer with an Intel Sandy Bridge processor, and its twin drive bays and RAID support meant you could back up your media documents simply.

This SH61Riv is a somewhat cheaper edition, with a same spec but some subtle alters that create it more desirable as a common-purpose home or office computer. Gone are the HDMI and S/PDIF slot, but you do acquire together DVI-I and DVI-D slots, so you can link 2 DVI monitors, or one DVI and one VGA monitor, and function them from the Sandy Bridge processor's incorporated graphics.

There is too no RAID support, and while the SD67H3 had 2 USB3 slots on the front and rear, the SH61R4 just has rear-mounted USB3 and creates do with USB on the front.



The SH61Riv has room for an optical drive and 2 hard disks, and is simple to insert together - the drive tray arrives out simply to create it easy to screw in your memory, and the SATA cables are routed neatly around the high of the case.

The barebones' CPU board is a custom plan, but it is potential to set a substitute Mini-ITX Intel example - the SH61R4's processor cooler has standard LGA1155 mounting feet. This basically turns the bare bones into a so costly case, but it is useful to have the choice of an promote in the future.

There are just 2 RAM ports, equated to the 4 in the SH67H3, so you are set to 8GB instead than 16GB RAM - most individual should not have a trouble with this, though. If you search the limited graphics function of a Sandy Bridge chip is not sufficient, you can set a double-slot PCI Express graphics board, and the case is long sufficient for any ATI or Nvidia cards recently available. However, you will lose the single PCI Express x1 expansion port if you do this, and the case just arrives with a single six-pin PCI Express power link.

You could utilize a Molex-to-PCI Express power adaptor, but as the power supply is just rated at 250W (equated to 300W in the SH67H3) you would not be capable to utilize particularly strong cards such as the AMD Radeon HD 6950.