Shuttle SH67H3 Performance

SimonMaltby

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Just wanted to give a heads up on this...
Shuttle have just put out a new bios which includes Turbo mode. This means that even though the machine is not overclockable with the H67 chipset the CPU will now boost to 3.8GHz (2600).

I have to say that I am very, very impressed with the performance of this machine. My setup is...

Shuttle SH67H3
Intel i7 2600K (Yea I know the K is pointless, but I had the chip before the shuttle)
8GB Gskill 1600 Ram @ 1300
MSI GTX 570 GPU @700 core
Vertex 3 240GB SSD
1TB normal SATA 3 Hard drive
BluRay burner

The machine does super-Pi in 9.25s
Copes with any game I throw at it at 1920x1080 maxed
Sits idle at 45w and full load at 290w

Its not the nicest looking of machines, but boy is it fast and quiet.
 
caffeinedreamer said:
Hmm. I've never applied thermal paste before though. I can't mess it up too badly can I?
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It it really easy. The shuttle will come with a little pouch of thermal paste which is non conductive so you can't really go wrong.

All you have to do is buy the shuttle barebones, the CPU, some DDR3 memory (ram), hard drive, DVD drive and optionally a graphics card.

The shuttle comes with instructions on how to put it all together, but it is very easy. If you get into trouble we can help you on the forum, but you should find it very easy.
 
WoZZeR said:
Any idea what the idle temps are for the CPU and GFX card please?
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Idle temps are:
CPU sits at 35-39c
GPU sits at 45c

I have just tried running 3DMark11 to provide this information.
The machine is set with silent cooling in the bios and during the test the fan speeds of both the GPU and CPU increased by 1 level, but remained virtually silent.

Room temp was 22c
GPU maxed at 75c
CPU maxed at 64c on the third core

Please note that it normally does a 3dMark11 score at about P6600 - the image shows a lower score due to the monitoring running in the background.

SH67H3_Load_Temps.jpg
 
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_Jimlad_ said:
simon what do you think is a good cpu for this shuttle, i want to get the best that can fit it, within price reason, but i presume i don't need an overclockerable one. (only ever had amd shuttles)
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The 2600K or 2500K are useless in this as you cant overclock so the best to get are the standard 2600 or 2500, and OEM is just as good because you don't need the heatsink.

So best would be the i7 2600 Quad core with Hyperthreading which is 3.4GHz and turbo boosts to 3.8GHz

Next would be the i5 2500 Quad core (No HT) 3.2GHz (I think)
 
Bradmax57 said:
Hi

Quite fancy one of these myself, was thinking more of a 560 to go in as i didnt think the 300w would be anywhere near enough to power a 570 but thats great to know, does the psu come with one or two 6 pin plugs? got any internal pics with components installed? Either this or a itx self build but have to say I like the fact you can use a standard optical and card reader compared to something like a sg05 that you have to use a slimline

Just out of interest i see your ram is at 1300 in op, is there any reason for this? or is it just that there are no options to change it
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Away for the weekend, but will do some internal pics on my return.
The PSU only has 1 VGA power connector I use a splitter 6Pin to 2 6Pin
The H67 chipset will only run ram at a max of 1333MHz
 
Bradmax57 said:
Just wondering about the h67 and itx boards, it looks like it possibly has a removable i/o shield so might be possible to use, i looked at the J series ones and they do actually state that they can take itx boards so it could be safer to do that, the reason i want to know about this one is ideally a 5.25" and 3.5" for my card reader would be perfect :)
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J Series is the only one that can take ITX boards.. but, as far as I know, all the J series are Steal Chassis instead of Aluminium, so i'm not sure you would really want one anyway :(

The H3 and H7 series do not take ITX boards they are back to bespoke Shuttle format. Basically the screws are in unique possitions and, more importantly the back plate is narrower than ITX because Shuttle have 2xPCI-e slots ITX only has 1.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
im quite excited in a geeky way. anyone know what bios settings will need to be changed, this is my 6th shuttle and first ever intel shuttle/pc
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You will want to update the bios - the latest on the Shuttle site includes Turbo Boost, where as the one that you will get with the shuttle does not. Turbo boost takes it from 3.4 to 3.8GHz under load.

Other than that there is little you can do in the bios. There are no real voltages to adjust and no overclocking, so very very simple.

Just to annoy you... I only paid £225 for mine :)
 
_Jimlad_ said:
cheers mate, how do you flash on these ones, on my old one it was not that easy if i remember!

well done on that price, best i found posted was £230 but postage was 5 days, so £235 next day was ok for me

i used the shuttle power consumption chart and it reckons the 300w will handle all i wanna stick in it

edit... simon what do you think of the front panel? does not look as good as my current sn78sh7, do you no if i can swap them?
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I can't remember if the bios update was windows or DOS :(, but i dont recal it being difficult.

I agree the front is not as nice as the H7. I been thinking along the same lines - moving the Sh67 internals into an H7 chassis, however the front USB arrangement is different... The H3 has USB3 and Esata and they don't match the layout of either of my H7 chassis. Personally i am more anoyed at the DVD drive spoiling the look... I am toying with a stealth modification.

I never understood the costs, originally Shuttle launched an SH67H7 as well as the H3, but the H7 was nearly double the cost of the H3 and now seems to have disapeared.
 
_Jimlad_ said:
Thanks Simon, yeah I may try a mod myself. Is the Usb technology contained in the port end or the mobo? I just got an email from the place I ordered my shuttle from so will have to look around for another good place. I wonder why the h7 disappeared it looks so much better
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The H7 is also no on the Shuttle site anymore and disappeared quite awhile ago... I don't know, for sure, if it ever really existed.
 
I just had a look at the mod.
The front USB panel is not too hard as they are interchangable with a sick on front cover.
The issue are switches and LED's which are all controlled by wires that differ between the two machines (SH67H3 and SN78H7). Personally i'm going to stick with the H3 front.
 
I needed a new 300W PSU for one of my other shuttles, so i brought the 500W one for the SH67H3 as the cost difference was not great between the 300 and 500w.

So now I have plenty of power :)
 
To answer the question about noise.
I find the SH67H3 to be very quiet with regards the ICE (CPU) cooler and PSU fan.
The graphics card is the loudest part for me GTX570 std nvidia cooler.

When watiching a BluRay everything remains very quiet.
Playing Crysis2 maxed out 1920x1080 I find graphics heat is a problem and therefore the GPU fan has to work hard and then it does get rather loud... But it is really only the GPU as I say.
 
Hi hans_solo,

sorry for not answering sooner...

Regards looks and the front... The H3 looks nice and the Aluminium front is good quality but you do have the front USB ports visible all the time which spoils the look, but is much more practical. The other point is the DVD drive bay. My plastic fronted DVD / BluRay R/W drive really spoils the look and I can't find a drive with a nice aluminium front to it... In this respect the H7 would be much nicer. I'm sure the H7 is all Aluminium on the front... I have a couple of other H7 models and they are all aluminium including the DVD and USB bay covers.

PSU... Yes I did get the 500W PSU in the end, although I still don't really think I need it. I decided to get it in the end because one of the H7 shuttles needed a new 300W PSU, so I had to order one anyway.

Ram settings in the Bios are really non existant... you can't overclock and you can't set Ram speed, so it will be at 1333MHz... Also the Ram voltage is at 1.55V, you can increase the voltage but you can't lower it.

Hope this helps.
 
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Countcussy said:
I just have to keep the noise in check.
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I tried a REVO and found it was just too slow for playing blu-rays.
I have to say that the SH67Hx is a world away from the Revo, really a fundamentally different type of machine.

the Shuttle is much bigger, of course. It will use more power, but is much more powerful.
 
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