Shuttle SA76G2 review

Out of the box, the AMD Phenon II x4 965 (140w TDP) works. The only feature disabled is AMD-V (virtualisation). This can be renabled using the CPU advanced features in BIOS for secure virtual machine.

I am not sure whether you need any BIOS upgrade, but I have noticed that there are two BIOS firmware released by Shuttle. The version listed on support page is SA76S10C.BIN. However I have discovered there is another version SA76U10C.BIN (obtained by google cache). The version U seems to be either beta or newer.

SA76U10C.BIN
CheckSum: 0C00 Date: 05/04/2009
Update Date: 20090610
http://image.shuttle.com/ResourceCenter/download_f
ile.jsp?file_id=13466

SA76S10C.BIN
CheckSum: 3200 Date: 04/28/2009
Update Date: 20090504
http://image.shuttle.com/ResourceCenter/download_f
ile.jsp?file_id=13227

I have yet to implement, but it is possible to undervolt the CPU to 125w (full load) and 0.80w (idle). The BIOS does not offer this function so CPU utilities may be able to provide this function.

By dragonuk on 23 Sep 2009

Another thing is the graphics card is sufficient to play Blu Ray movies. You need the drivers from ATI (AMD support site).

By dragonuk on 23 Sep 2009