Specification
I usually cover specification first, but since it's a well trodden path with the SB61G2, I've slipped it in just before the benchmarks.| Shuttle XPC SB61G2 v3.0 | |
| CPU Support | All Northwood and Celeron Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors. Additional support for 3.2 Extreme Edition, 2.4A Prescott and 2.8E Prescott. |
| Northbridge | Intel i865G 'Bayfield' |
| Memory Support | 2 slots, DDR400, 2GB max, dual-channel |
| AGP | 8X |
| On-board Graphics | Intel Extreme Graphics 2 |
| Southbridge | Intel ICH5 |
| Audio | Realtek ALC650 from ICH5 feed |
| Audio Connectivity | 3 port backplane speaker |
| PCI | 1 x 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.1 slot |
| IDE | 2 ATA133 compliant ports from ICH5 |
| IDE RAID | None |
| SATA | 2 ports from ICH5 |
| SATA RAID | None |
| Networking | Realtek RTL8100C, Fast Ethernet 10/100Mbit |
| USB | ICH5, 4 x backplane USB2.0, 2 x front panel USB2.0, 2 x header ports |
| FireWire | 2 FW400 ports, 1 powered, 1 unpowered, VIA VT6307 controller |
| Other I/O | PS/2, Parallel header, 1 x Serial, Gameport |
Intel's Bayfield bridge, 2 port SATA, 8 possible USB2.0 ports with 6 physically fitted, FireWire400, on-board networking and the Intel Extreme Graphics 2 are the highlights.
It's actually remarkably similar in specification to a recent Albatron i875P 'power user' motherboard I reviewed, in terms of peripheral features, but obviously the main MCH bridge is different. Such is the range of features that Shuttle manage to cram onto the FB61.
