"Congratulations to Shuttle for having the first barebone in BTX-format on the market," wrote the editors of K Hardware. "Even among manufacturers of desktop PC-systems, only a few offer BTX systems." And these congratulations were justified: the "impressive cooling" contributes to "stable operation along with the kind of performance we expected." Even at full load the Shuttle XPC barebone SB86i ran "clearly quieter than competing products." Yet the cooling and the low noise level weren't the only advantages of the Shuttle XPC barebone SB86i, as the editors also praised its "good workmanship" and "stable operation."
