So today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an isus minia Max home
entertainment center what I think they actually mean is at 310 NT or 3 310 3 I
on t-i so this is a mini ITX motherboard
that is designed as you may or may not be able to figure out for home
entertainment use it is fanless and quiet it is amplifier friendly okay it
will run full HD video it has home theater gate and it is Slim I think by
they mean Mini ITX let's flip it over to the back where we can see a picture of
the board we can see that this board runs with dual channel uh DDR3 it has
full HD playback fan list design o and DTS so that's what they mean by
amplifier friendly it is Windows 7 ready it features an Intel atom dual core 330
processor and NVIDIA ion so here it has
a users's guide with a um with a drivers
and applications DVD which you should throw away and download the latest from
the uh well I guess the assus website then we have an IO
Shield we have two SATA cables so it's a
fairly barebones accessory package but ASUS has not skimped when it comes to
the actual quality of the product itself
fanless as you guys may or may not know is actually far more expensive to
produce than something with a fan and the reason for that is that this hunk of
metal costs an awful lot more than a much smaller hunk of metal and a little
whiny fan on top of it so I applaud ASUS for making an effort to make their home
theater Solutions run fanless all right
so let's have a look at the overall layout of the board we have our CPU and
GPU both situated under this fanless heat sink we've got our
DDR3 memory slots two of them over here
on the right hand Edge we have a 24 pin
power connector and what I imagine is probably a fairly decent location for it
although many ITX cases have very
different uh internal layouts so it's hard to say what is the ideal location
we have a PCI Express 16x slot down here at the bottom although I really can't
imagine that you'd install a high powered graphics card in a motherboard
such as that but just for Giggles because this is my video blog and
because I do as I please I am going to install a GTX 580 on this motherboard so
the GTX 580 as you can plainly see is about the size of the mother board and
fits in pretty nicely so if you have a mini ITX case that supports uh you know
video cards that are like 4 and 1/2 in longer than the motherboard itself then
you can go ahead and you can install a GTX 580 in your AT3 I on
t-i if I could get it out that would be great there we go all right so let's
keep going we've got SATA 2 3 GB per
second ports four of them we have two front USB headers and what I cannot
imagine would be an ideal location because it's going to be pretty hard to
access those you know but that's okay I'm sure you'll only have to do it once
we have three fan connectors which are also in very very very odd location but
you like I said you're probably only going to access it once so I wouldn't worry too much about it on the back
we've got our output options so we have PS2 well input two I suppose we have a
PS2 keyboard Port we have six USB 2.0
ports VGA and HDMI this is actually a
pretty good mix because it gives you that Legacy connection and then it also
gives you HDMI which can easily be adapted to DVI we have optical audio out
gigabit Ethernet and then we have SIMPLE
um ancient 5.1 audio which I actually don't mind because on a system like this
you're probably going to be using the audio out over HDMI anyhow so thank you
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