Shuttle AB60/RS (865PE) Motherboard

Company: Shuttle
Product: AB60/RS
Street Price: Unknown
Date Reviewed: June 30, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey Chao

Introduction:

Shuttle is a well known motherboard manufacturer among the community. More recently you may know them from their very successful XPC line, which revolutionized the small form factor industry. Today, we are not going to be looking at their XPC line but a motherboard based on the Intel 865PE chipset. The 865PE chipset supports many nice features such as Serial ATA, 800 MHz FSB, and dual 64-bit memory controllers. So far, this chipset has been a great success for motherboard manufacturers as well as Intel.

We have done quite a few reviews on motherboards based on the i865PE and i875P chipsets. Let us look at the Shuttle AB60/RS to see what it brings to the table. We will also see how it compares to all of the 865PE and 875P motherboard we have reviewed. Usually, performance is pretty close to the same for motherboards based on the same chipset. So for this review we will focus more on the features bundled with the board as well as the onboard features. Besides, who really notices the difference in performance between two motherboards on the same chipset?

Specifications:

Processor:
 - Intel Pentium 4 / Celeron in the 478 pin package with 400/533/800MHz FSB
Chipsets:
 - Intel 865PE + ICH5
 - Support Pentium 4 System bus
 - Support DDR266/333/400 Dual Channel DDR interface
Memory:
 - 4 x 184 pin DDR SDRAM DIMM slots
 - Support PC2100/2700/3200 compliant Dual Channel DDR SDRAM up to 4GB capacity
AGP:
 - 1 AGP V3.0 , 1.5V , 2X/4X/8X mode Slot
PCI Slots:
 - 5 PCI
Audio:
 - On board ALC650 six channel digital audio
IEEE 1394a:
 - VIA 6306 built in supports two IEEE1394a ports
Serial ATA:
 - Intel ICH5 built in supports two Serial ATA ports
SATA RAID:
 - Onboard Silicon Image 3112A supports RAID function 0 ,1,0+1
I/O Interface:
 - Intel ICH5 built in UDMA 33/66/100 IDE interface
On board ITE 8712:
 - Built in Hardware Monitor functions
 - 1 Serial Port
 - 1 Parallel Port (SPP, EPP, ECP)
 - 1 PS/2 Keyboard Port
 - 1 PS/2 Mouse Port
 - 4 USB2.0 Ports
 - 1 LAN Port
 - 1 Line in, 1x Line out, 1x Mic
BIOS:
 - Award PnP BIOS
 - Stored in 2 Mb flash memory
 - Bootable from Floppy, ATAPI device, USB device,SCSI device, LAN device
Form Factor:
 - ATX (305mm x 245mm)