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Shuttle SB 65G2 ( SB65G2 ) | 
 enlarge | Brand: Shuttle
Category: CE
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 145728
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
CPU Type: None
System Bus Speed: 800
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Modem: None
MPN: SB65G2
Model: SB65G2
UPC: 811686000273
EAN: 0811686000273
ASIN: B0001I573Q
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Product Description
The SB65G2 XPC, based on the Intel 865PE + ICH5 Shuttle's latest performance-enhanced barebone SFF computer - the first to feature integrated 802.11b wireless networking and a 220W power supply, is designed to deliver exceptional value for the gamer/overclocker market.This PC barebone does not support Prescott CPUs from Intel. Only Northwood.
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Nice and easy November 5, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the SB65G2 to serve as the case for a computer I'm building for my mother. This is the first small-form factor case I've used, and only the third computer I've ever built. I thought the small form might make it tricky, but Shuttle's well-thought out cable placement anticipated all of my needs better than a generic ATX case. The manual comes with exact cable-threading diagrams, and a nifty twisted up optical drive cable. And having the motherboard pre-installed with all the power, LED, and USB/Firewire leads hooked up takes away the most fiddly bit of building a PC.
It took a little more than an hour to get the whole computer put together. And another hour to format the disk, install the OS and all the drivers, and get the network running.
In order, I only had to (a) take off the cover and remove the drive cage, (b) remove the CPU heatsink, (c) plug in the CPU, (d) cover with included thermal grease, (e) lock down the heatsink, (f) replace the fan and attach leads, (g) install two sticks of RAM, (h) screw in hard, floppy and optical drives, (i) attach the three drive's cables and power supplies to the board and to the drives, (j) replace the drive cage, (k) replace the cover.
This is a great value computer setup. It's still the older style socket 478 for Pentium, still PCI + AGP instead of the newer PCI-express, and there's neither RAID support nor gigabit ethernet. Note that there's also no built-in graphics support (and the AGP slot is close enough to the case cover that a really huge fan or Zalman heatsink won't fit), which didn't matter to me because I wanted DVI output and went with an inexpensive Sapphire Radeon model.
The end result is cute as a button, to boot (pun intended).
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