Shuttle Fanless Slim-PC DS57U Review

Name: Shuttle Fanless Slim-PC DS57U
Brand: Shuttle

crmaris

on May 13th, 2015,

in Media Players.

Manufacturer: Shuttle

Value & Conclusion »

BIOS

The DS57U, like all other Shuttle barebones we have evaluated so far, uses a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS named Aptio Setup Utility; it uses an old interface that doesn't support mouse input, and its available options are also fairly limited.

As expected, there are no voltage-control options, nor any overclocking features.

Here are the BIOS' hardware monitor, security, and boot options.

Performance

To conduct the following tests, we equipped the DS57U with a kit of Kingston HyperX Impact 2x 8 GB SO-DIMM DDR3 modules with 1.35 V support and a Plextor M5 Pro 128 GB SSD.

PC Mark 07

Futuremark PCMark 07 Full Bench
	Shuttle DS57U	Shuttle XH97V (Pentium G3258)	Shuttle DS81 (Pentium G3258)	Shuttle DS437T	Shuttle DS47	Shuttle DS61 (Pentium G2020)	ASRock VisionX 321B HTPC	ZOTAC ZBOX nano XS AD11 PLUS	ARCTIC MC001-BD
PCMark 07 Score	2775	4167	4674	2874	2126	3526	2358	1429	984
Lightweight score	3919	3611	5688	4159	3211	4278	1955	1553	984
Productivity score	2626	3159	4354	2902	2030	3680	1543	1185	549
Entertainment score	1914	3261	3184	1867	1311	2485	2839	1184	1009
Creativity score	3517	5864	7737	3756	2834	3736	3410	1544	1328
Computation score	1877	10361	10835	2210	1250	3998	4569	727	751
System storage score	5236	3618	5235	4222	5089	4710	1409	2798	1676
Video playback	23.97 fps	23.97 fps	23.96 fps	23.96 fps	23.97 fps	23.95 fps	23.98 fps	22.99 fps	22.86 fps
Video transcoding - downscaling	1490.55 kB/s	12604.28 kB/s	13165.54 kB/s	1867.87 kB/s	988.14 kB/s	7756.94 kB/s	2546.71 kB/s	638.41 kB/s	717.22 kB/s
System storage - gaming	27.91 MB/s	16.35 MB/s	16.38 MB/s	15.76 MB/s	15.49 MB/s	15.42 MB/s	3.19 MB/s	10.47 MB/s	4.13 MB/s
Graphics - DirectX 9	18.52 fps	19.94 fps	18.89 fps	11.58 fps	8.18 fps	11.72 fps	58.86 fps	8.83 fps	8.38 fps
Image manipulation	11.20 Mpx/s	17.24 Mpx/s	20.02 Mpx/s	12.09 Mpx/s	7.03 Mpx/s	9.43 Mpx/s	10.04 Mpx/s	2.77 Mpx/s	2.52 Mpx/s
System storage - importing pictures	27.91 MB/s	10.83 MB/s	27.62 MB/s	27.55 MB/s	27.68 MB/s	19.97 MB/s	5.15 MB/s	10.38 MB/s	5.68 MB/s
Web browsing	5.28 pages/s	14.08 pages/s	14.24 pages/s	6.76 pages/s	4.69 pages/s	10.65 pages/s	12.94 pages	2.97 pages/s	2.58 pages/s
Data decrypting	33.02 MB/s	82.59 MB/s	81.30 MB/s	43.03 MB/s	19.48 MB/s	73.59 MB/s	93.42 MB/s	26.02 MB/s	9.72 MB/s
System storage - Windows Defender	5.33 MB/s	5.55 MB/s	5.48 MB/s	5.30 MB/s	5.21 MB/s	5.33 MB/s	1.13 MB/s	4.17 MB/s	1.42 MB/s
Web browsing with 3 tabs	5.68 pages/s	15.91 pages/s	16.26 pages/s	7.67 pages/s	5.15 pages/s	13.36 pages/s	12.91 pages/s	3.88 pages/s	2.83 pages/s
System storage - adding music	1.40 MB/s	1.41 MB/s	1.41 MB/s	1.40 MB/s	1.39 MB/s	1.39 MB/s	1.14 MB/s	1.32 MB/s	1.21 MB/s
Text editing	6.27 operations/s	12.72 operations/s	12.59 operations/s	6.96 operations/s	3.88 operations/s	10.29 operations/s	10.54 operations/s	3.20 operations/s	1.65 operations/s
System storage - starting applications	59.46 MB/s	10.64 MB/s	54.32 MB/s	53.25 MB/s	51.81 MB/s	43.61 MB/s	1.77 MB/s	7.94 MB/s	2.48 MB/s
Web browsing 1	3.15 pages/s	8.75 pages/s	8.37 pages/s	4.37 pages/s	5.15 pages/s	6.40 pages/s	9.37 pages/s	2.32 pages/s	2.04 pages/s
Web browsing 2	4.32 pages/s	10.95 pages/s	10.85 pages/s	5.38 pages/s	4.69 pages/s	8.89 pages/s	9.61 pages/s	2.45 pages/s	2.11 pages/s
Graphics - DirectX 10 - texture fill	5.21 fps	3.98 fps	3.24 fps	2.64 fps	1.43 fps	2.77 fps	24.31 fps	4.21 fps	3.62 fps
Graphics - DirectX 10 - color fill	0.89 fps	1.01 fps	0.87 fps	1.05 fps	0.76 fps	1.02 fps	3.16 fps	0.49 fps	0.64 fps
Graphics - DirectX 10 - POM	3.45 fps	3.45 fps	3.91 fps	1.42 fps	0.90 fps	1.52 fps	29.65 fps	2.89 fps	1.96 fps
Graphics - DirectX 10 - GPU cloth	19.03 fps	22.58 fps	20.24 fps	13.78 fps	3.08 fps	13.03 fps	29.66 fps	11.26 fps	5.26 fps
Graphics - DirectX 10 - GPU particles	12.91 fps	17.81 fps	16.13 fps	11.01 fps	2.72 fps	9.90 fps	32.13 fps	4.73 fps	5.92 fps
Graphics - DirectX 10 - Perlin noise	9.43 fps	9.92 fps	8.44 fps	3.32 fps	1.49 fps	3.46 fps	52.81 fps	6.01 fps	1.55 fps
Video transcoding - high quality	300.30 kB/s	3905.56 kB/s	3884.44 kB/s	363.82 kB/s	203.75 kB/s	651.06 kB/s	2791.99 kB/s	163.75 kB/s	176.78 kB/s
System storage - video editing	22.09 MB/s	21.97 MB/s	22.62 MB/s	22.27 MB/s	22.05 MB/s	21.52 MB/s	13.38 MB/s	17.29 MB/s	17.15 MB/s
System storage - Windows Media Center	8.17 MB/s	8.26 MB/s	8.26 MB/s	8.22 MB/s	8.21 MB/s	7.92 MB/s	7.44 MB/s	7.91 MB/s	7.72 MB/s

In PCMark 07, the DS57U didn't manage to beat the performance of the also passively cooled DS437T with a dual-core Intel Celeron 1037U clocked at 1.8 GHz, which is 300 MHz higher than the Celeron 3205U.

3DMark 06

Leaving the integrated graphics solution of the (Ivy) Bridge Intel Celeron 1037U far behind, the Broadwell Intel HD Graphics solution fared very well in 3D Mark 06.