Shuttle AB60/RS (865PE) Motherboard

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

Bundled Features:

Bundled with the motherboard, you get what one would expect with their board. Drivers, manuals, floppy and IDE cables, and an I/O shield plate are included. The floppy and IDE cables could have been rounded, since rounded cables seem to be what the enthusiasts want because of the looks and the fact they restrict less airflow than the flat cables. A single Serial ATA cable is provided with the bundle and Shuttle could have added a few more since the board supports up to four SATA drives. No SATA power cables were supplied like we have seen with Gigabyte and ABIT motherboards.

The bracket pictured above is used as the center base channel for the onboard sound.

These are the brackets we were discussing earlier. The brackets pictured above provide for two extra USB ports and two IEEE 1394 FireWire ports. This makes a total of six USB ports found on the whole entire system. Of course, these are nice additions to the bundle considering there are so many devices that use a USB or FireWire interface. The only bad thing about using these extra brackets is that you will have to give up a PCI slots on the case to hook the brackets up properly. There are probably a few users out there who actually use every single PCI space on the case but most will be able to use the extra brackets.