Interior Appearance
Interior appearance is dominated by the ICE cooler for the LGA775 socket. Retention is via four spring-loaded screws that are firmly secured to the base of the chassis. It's the easiest ICE cooler I've ever had the pleasure to fit and with the integrated heatspreader on the processor, you absolutely cannot make a meal of processor fitment.
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Looking in from the left side, you can see pretty much everything the SB77G5 has to offer, in terms of spaces to plug things in. A pair of DDR DIMM slots sit on the right, you can see the PCI and AGP8X slots in the foreground, and disk drive connectors, both ATA and SATA, on the right, past the DIMM slots. You can also see the yellow CMOS clear jumper, right underneath the ICH5 I/O bridge and in open space. A criticism of some other XPC mainboard layouts in the past has been difficult access to the CMOS clear jumper, but no such issue clouds the SB77G5.
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Looking at it from the PSU side, with the PSU installed, doesn't let you see much. The 250W silent unit used with the SB77G5 isn't quite as powerful as the 300W version in the SB81P, but it's perfectly fit for the job.
Intel's ICH5 is visible in the top photograph, uncooled, with the i875P MCH bridge passively cooled by a large multi-finned heatsink, such as you'd find on many a popular full-ATX desktop board from various vendors.
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