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Shuttle XPC Slim DH110 Barebone 4K Signage Player Review

Test System & Methodology

Testing a barebone is a lot like testing a motherboard. We don’t really test the system itself as much as we test its ability to use the components that we equip it with. Since the kind of systems that we’re testing here are designed for medium workloads, we will equip them with medium rated hardware as well. This will simulate a highly likely setup in the real world.

As CPU we got an Intel Core i3-6100. It is a dual-core CPU with four threads and a clock speed of 3.7GHz. The 51W TDP rating makes it compatible with the system and its a really good CPU. The storage drive in a system like this needs to read more than it writes and TLC-based drives are great in that respect. That’s why I asked Crucial for a BX200 SSD for operating system. Again, a highly likely choice by the end-user. The same goes for the memory, I’m using the maximum speed that the system supports, but I’m only adding 8GB of the 32GB supported.

The entire system will then be connected through our 10Gbps network setup and benchmarked with a wide variety of apps to give as clear a picture of the systems performance as possible.

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