Shuttle SX79R5

23 reviews

Apr, 2024

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reliability (3)
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alaTest has collected and analyzed 23 reviews of Shuttle SX79R5. The average rating for this product is 3.2/5, compared to an average rating of 4.1/5 for other Desktops for all reviews. Comments about the price and design are on the whole positive, but reviews are divided on the reliability.

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We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other Desktops the Shuttle SX79R5 is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 83/100 = Very good quality.

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Consumer review (amazon.com)

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 9 user reviews of Shuttle SX79R5 from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 3.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.0/5 for other Desktops on Amazon.com. Comments about the price and design are on the whole positive. The usability and reliability also get good feedback.

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67% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Consumer review (reevoo.com)

Shuttle SX79R5

very power full, with 6 core cpu

came with old bios, so would not boot with latest genCPU had to spent £200 on older cpu to boot it then update the bios one unit failed bios update resovled by UK distributer sending me a new bios chip

Feb, 2014

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Consumer review (reevoo.com)

Shuttle SX79R5

Great feature filled compact design

All 4x that I have Recieved were DOA (won't POST) due to issues with the motherboard

Feb, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

disappointing

Shuttle products are normally great, but this bare-bones platform is one to stay away from if you want to run linux.

it is small

This machine is used as a linux workstation, bios has been updated, etc. The machine (successfully) reboots only 50% of the time and has to be powercycled more often that you'd expect for a $500 bare-bones machine. Stock Fan is also really loud - I had...

Apr, 2013

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Good Stuff

Great Shuttle ; The Build ; CPU: INTEL|CORE I7 3930K 3.2G 12MB ; MEM: 8G|GSKILL F3-12800CL10S-8GBXL ; DVD BURN: SONY OPTIARC ; SSD: CORSAIR CSSD-F240GBGS-BK ; Hard Drive:2T|SAMSUNG ST2000DL004 ; OS: WIN 7 PRO SP1 32BIT 1PK ; Video card: Q2000 ; One...

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Oct, 2012

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

SX79R5

The only issue I had was updating the BIOS which Shuttle gave me some help on, so everything is good to go on my unit.

This makes my 5Th Shuttle PC and I always had good ; luck with these little guys, and this one is no different. Shuttle has packed a lot of processing horse power under a small hood and everything works as advertised on this unit ; With an Intel 3820...

Non really, see other thoughts

Aug, 2012

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Not worth the extra money

Nice refresh on front face

We have ordered and built about 50 total shuttle systems and this new model has massive issues with Power supply and posting ; Even after we had exchanged all the parts and built another Shuttle system with this same model, the system will sometimes...

Jun, 2012

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