Shuttle XPC SZ170R8 Barebones PC Review

Performance

Benchmarking a barebones system is an extremely subjective matter, as the systems offer a few base components such as the motherboard, but overall, their performance will be based on the memory, CPU, storage and expansion cards of your choosing. We fired up a few simple benchmarks more as a method of showing everything works as expected.

WPrime

Using the Intel Core i3-6320 paired up with a set of Crucial DDR4 memory the XH110V managed a decent score on WPrime and this also proved a good test of the system, which didn’t get anywhere near as noisy as we were expecting, despite WPrime being extremely demanding on the CPU.

AIDA64

Memory performance is right where we would expect, so there’s certainly no problems here, and the switch from SO-DIMM DDR3 to DDR4 has given this model an edge over the XH110V.

The PCMark 8 scores do look low. However, keep in mind this was tested with the CPU only. With that in mind, I think that’s pretty respectable and there were zero issues throughout any of the tests. If you want faster performance, then simply plug in a faster CPU and the Shuttle will soon match your needs. The SZ managed to edge a lead on the XH110V, no doubt thanks to the faster memory performance.