The Motherboard
Smaller than Flex ATX, yet larger than Mini-ITX, custom mounting holes prevent Shuttle’s motherboards from interchanging with more common standards.
Intel’s X58 chipset provides motherboard model S5165 with two full-bandwidth PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 x16 slots. However, space constraints forced Shuttle to place these directly next to each other, so builders must choose between dual mainstream (single-slot) or single high-end (dual-slot) graphics devices.
All six ICH10R-integrated SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports are also retained through three internal ports, two rear-panel ports, and one front-panel port. Shuttle's BIOS supports setting AHCI devices as removable, enabling the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon in Windows to empty drive cache prior to removal.
| Shuttle XPC SX58H7 (Motherboard: S5165 V1.0) | |
|---|---|
| Northbridge | Intel X58 Express |
| Southbridge | Intel ICH10R |
| Voltage Regulator | Six Phases |
| BIOS | SX58U10D (02/26/2009) |
| 133.3 MHz Base Clock | 133.0 (-0.25%) |
| Clock Generator | ICS 9LPRS918JKLF |
| Connectors and Interfaces | |
| Onboard | 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (Two with Shared Pathways) |
| 2 x USB 2.0 (2 ports per connector). | |
| 1 x Parallel Port | |
| 1 x CD-Audio In | |
| 1 x Front-Panel Audio | |
| 1 x S/PDIF I/O | |
| 1 x Ultra ATA (2 drives) | |
| 3 x Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s | |
| 2 x Fan 4-pin (CPU) | |
| 1 x FP Button/LED Connector (standard) | |
| 1 x FP Button/LED/USB/SATA Connector (proprietary) | |
| 1 x ATX Power (20-pin) | |
| 1 x EPS12V Power (8-pin) | |
| I/O panel | 1 x eSATA Power |
| 6 x USB 2.0 | |
| 2 x eSATA 3.0 Gb/s | |
| 2 x Gigabit Ethernet | |
| 1 x Digital Audio Out (Optical) | |
| 5 x Analog Audio Jack (8-channel out, Line-In) | |
| Mass Storage Controllers | |
| Intel ICH10R | 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) |
| JMIcron JMB368 PCIe | 1 x Ultra ATA-133 (2-drives) |
| Network | |
| 2 x RTL8111C PCIe | Dual Gigabit LAN with Teaming |
| Audio | |
| ALC888 HD Audio Codec | Eight-Channel (7.1 Surround) Output |
Several standard plugs are included, despite the S5165 motherboard’s proprietary design, so it’s possible to test most motherboard features outside of any case. JP1, for example, is a standard FP audio header, which exists in spite of a different multi-function front-panel header at the other end of the board.
The Realtek ALC888 HD Audio codec provides eight-channel output. A CLR_CMOS button behind it is accessible through a pinhole in the back of the case.
Two Realtek RTL8111C controllers use PCIe x1 interfaces to offer bi-directional Gigabit Ethernet.
A JMB368 controller adds Ultra ATA, but this standard is so outdated that we always disable it. Below it, pin block JP5 is a standard front-panel button/LED connector made redundant by the SX58H7’s custom multi-function interface block.
