The Taiwanese company Shuttle launches its first barebone entirely without active cooling system for a total silence. The consideration: the necessarily limited performance.
A steel case 20 x 16.5 x 3.95 cm, a motherboard on which is soldered CPU, and power supply. That’s what Shuttle offers with its DS57U. A traditional barebone, in short? Not really.
Because it lacks this description a fan which cools the processor. And this is not an oversight, since this model does not. The DS57U is the first reference Shuttle to be completely devoid of ventilation.
It obviously has to the Celeron 3205U he embarks. This processor, including the two cores operate at 1.5 GHz is Broadwell generation. Engraved in 14 nm, it releases only 15 watts maximum. That a single fanless heatsink can dissipate without too much concern.
This barebone has a 2.5-inch slot reserved for the storage (HDD or SSD), two SO-DIMM slots supporting up to 16 GB of memory DDR3L and mini-PCI-E slot which allows the addition an expansion card as a mSATA module. A second mini PCI-E slot is already equipped with a Wi-Fi module.
Connectivity, found on this barebone two Gigabit Ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports, a displayPort output and a second to the HDMI format.
The facade has a card reader, four USB 2.0 ports and, more surprisingly, two RS-232 serial ports.
This barebone can be arranged vertically or mounted via VESA mounting supplied with the camera. It is marketed to 230 euros. You can find out in the video below.