Shuttle H3 6700G Gaming Desktop released date , specification, price

Shuttle has finally released the brand new gaming desktop PC named Shuttle H3 6700G Gaming PC, the desktop has very unique design and coming with Intel’s second generation Core i processor. You have customization options for the desktop, so you can chose the power you want for you gaming PC.

The Shuttle H3 6700G Gaming PC is offered with 3.3GHz Intel Core i5 quad-core processor (up to 3.4GHz Core i7 2600K) under the hood and performance is made sure by NVIDIA’s GeForce performance graphics (up to GeForce GTX 580 or Radeon HD 6970). The desktop PC sports 4GB DDR3 performance memory (up to 16GB), a 500GB hard drive (which can be upgraded to SSD), and Windows 7 Home Premium (upgradeable to Windows 7 Ultimate) as the operating system of choice.

The Shuttle PC also provides its own next-generation I.C.E. 2 heat pipe technology to keep things running cool inside a small form factor design and this water cooling system will make sure low temperature for a long time. One thing to note that 300W power supply might not be enough if you want to dump in a GTX 580 card, but good thing you can always upgrade the power supply to 500W.

The Shuttle H3 6700G Gaming PC is  available for a starting price of $1,035.99 and may increase depending on your needs.

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Review: Shuttle SH67H3

You know that moment where you're sitting at the tiny desk your landlord provided, enduring the sickly warm vibration of your PC pressing against your thigh, knees firmly clamped together, feet bound hopelessly in cables, thinking, 'I'm unhappy with this'?

Well, you could always go and get a bigger desk I suppose, but that's letting the space-hogging PC win. It'll never respect you after that moment. The other option is to buy a PC like this, the catchy SH67H3 from Shuttle.

The system we have here is built by Ambros, and though the component choices are entirely customisable online, this particular spec falls into the 'gaming PC' category.

Smaller form factors than the standard ATX carry a reputation for being inappropriate for serious gaming. Overheating and lack of room are common concerns and, while not entirely unfounded, they are a bit outdated in today's market.

We saw a Shuttle PC with an X58 motherboard capable of keeping the i7 990 EE chip at sensible temperatures only last issue, which should shush anyone hating on mini-ATX. Small things come in small packages, as the saying goes. Wait, what's the saying?

So here we have a DirectX 11 gaming PC with a Sandy Bridge processor that's roughly the size of a toaster. In the graphics card department, Ambros has appointed the GTX 460 head of operations. The advantages of this are twofold; it's a compact card compared to beefier Nvidia and all decent AMD GPUs, and offers great value in its Fermi architecture and clock speeds. It always did run a little hot, though.

Happily Shuttle is a bit clever at cooling solutions in tiny spaces, and we didn't see load temperatures exceed 60°C in either CPU or GPU readouts.

The GTX 480 has similar pros and cons, but to greater extremes – the GTX 460 is as good a card for this diminutive system as any, then. Don't even think about SLI arrays further down the line though; this isn't the system for multi-GPUs.

i5 with my little eye

The stock Core i5 2500K is no surprise either. The H67 chipset is on the one hand more appropriate for diddy systems as owners are unlikely to harbour overclocking ambitions and might well use the system for video editing, making use of the quick-sync hardware-accelerated video conversion.

To that end, however much ground the GTX 460 concedes to fresher cards in gaming, it's still super-powered for handling video and image manipulation tasks. For all its compactness though, the price is high, and value is low if you're looking at the SH67H3 as a gaming PC.

We have also reviewed the Chillblast Fusion Rocket, which sports an i5 2500K overclocked to 4.5 GHz and an AMD HD 6950. How this reviewer fawned over it. The price? £750. That's £115 cheaper than this mini PC, and the Chillblast pwns it in all performance categories.

Benchmarks

CPU performance

Cinebench R11.5 Points: Higher is better
Shuttle SH67H3 - 5.14
Fusion Rocket - 7.12

X264 v3.0 Frames per second: Higher is better
Shuttle SH67H3 - 27
Fusion Rocket - 36

DirectX 11 tessellation performance

Heaven 2.5 Frames per second: Higher is better
Shuttle SH67H3 - 18.21
Fusion Rocket - 21.7

DirectX 10 gaming performance

Just Cause 2 Frames per second: Higher is better
Shuttle SH67H3 - 26.45
Fusion Rocket - 39.69

This means the only ace this machine has up its sleeve is the size. If such a compact machine is an absolute must, consider it. Anyone with more space can look elsewhere.

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