Shuttle XS35 GT Barebone PC Review

Others/All-in-one PC by stefan @ 2010-10-27

The XS35 GT Barebone from Shuttle, after equipping it with the necessary hardware, can be used as a media center, little server or seedbox; its main advantages are that it is completely silent and consumes very little power, so we can leave it on 24/7 without caring about the energy costs.

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The BIOS

The BIOS that comes with this barebone is very simple and has very few options that we can modify; in the Info tab, we can see the currently installed BIOS information, the processor name and the speed at which it operates, but also the manufacturer (which is named for an unknown reason “Standard”) and product name:

 

 

 

In the Main tab, we can set the time/date, modify SATA operation as IDE or AHCI, but we can also see the installed HDDs/optical disk drives:

 

 

 

The Advanced tab allows us to enable/disable the Execute Disable Bit function, but we can also set the wireless card to be controlled by the included “ControlAP” utility; unfortunately, this ControlAP application is Windows-only and people that install Linux on this computer will need to wait a little more till they will be able to activate the onboard Wireless LAN adapter:

 

 

 

In the Security tab, we can set a supervisor or user password:

 

 

 

In the Boot tab, we can enable LAN Boot, but we can also set the priority for the boot devices:

 

 

 

Finally, in the Exit tab, we can choose to save our changes and exit, discard them or load the optimal defaults:

 

 

 

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