SB77G5 Specification
| Shuttle XPC SB77G5 | |
| CPU Support | All Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 Processors |
| Northbridge | Intel i875P 'Canterwood' |
| Memory Support | 2 slots, DDR400, 2GB max, dual-channel |
| AGP | One slot, 8X, 1.5V |
| PEG16X | None |
| Southbridge | Intel ICH5-R |
| Audio | Realtek ALC658 CODEC from ICH5-R feed |
| Audio Connectivity | 6 port backplane speaker, 2 S/PDIF optical input and output, coax digital output, headphone output, microphone input |
| PCI | 1 x 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.1 slot |
| PCI Express | None |
| IDE | 2 ATA100 compliant ports from ICH5-R |
| IDE RAID | None |
| SATA | 2 ports from ICH5-R |
| SATA RAID | Both ports, RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1, JBOD |
| Networking | Broadcom BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet Controller, 10/100/1000Mbit |
| USB | ICH5-R, 2 x backplane USB2.0, 2 x front panel I/O USB2.0, headers for 4 more |
| FireWire | FireWire400, 1 backplane port (unpowered), 1 x front panel port (powered), from VIA VT6307 |
| Other I/O | PS/2, 2 x Serial, Floppy |
| Possible Storage | 1 optical and 2 HDD, or 1 optical, 1 HDD and a floppy drive |
The SB77G5 is pretty much everything a good i875P implementation should be, bar Shuttle forgoing the (admittedly dubious) benefits of a CSA-attached network controller in favour of the PCI-attached Broadcom chip. Realtek's ALC658 is more than passable, it's nice to see Shuttle continuing to offer FireWire on its XPCs, RAID is available on the SATA ports and there's the G5 chassis' usual capacity for disk drives and optical devices.
LGA775 and i875P means only Prescott or Gallatin-2M-based processors are supported. Low-latency DDR400 memory should be your weapon of choice, to pair with the processor you choose and the core logic that the XPC implements.
As The Tech Report note, it's a shame that ICH6R isn't an I/O bridge you can pair with i875P; its audio and disk controllers would enhance the SB77G5's appeal immensely.
Bundle, Presentation and Manual
The bundle, presentation and user manuals for the SB77G5 were like many other XPCs produced by Shuttle. The box art mimics that of SN95G5, while the bundle given includes small silver feet to raise the front of the unit up slightly and all the power and data cables needed to connect devices to the mainboard and chassis. The driver CD is Shuttle's usual fine attempt at making it easy to get up and running, the software menu on the CD helping you out with all the device drivers and utilities that you need.The manuals, one for the FB77 mainboard and one for the chassis and how you install devices into it, are present and correct and much like those found in previous Shuttle XPC products. That means concise, easy to read and easy to navigate to find the information that you need. Standard, high-quality presentation and bundling from Shuttle, as expected.
