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So today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an isus minia Max home

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entertainment center what I think they actually mean is at 310 NT or 3 310 3 I

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on t-i so this is a mini ITX motherboard

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that is designed as you may or may not be able to figure out for home

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entertainment use it is fanless and quiet it is amplifier friendly okay it

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will run full HD video it has home theater gate and it is Slim I think by

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they mean Mini ITX let's flip it over to the back where we can see a picture of

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the board we can see that this board runs with dual channel uh DDR3 it has

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full HD playback fan list design o and DTS so that's what they mean by

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amplifier friendly it is Windows 7 ready it features an Intel atom dual core 330

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processor and NVIDIA ion so here it has

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a users's guide with a um with a drivers

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and applications DVD which you should throw away and download the latest from

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the uh well I guess the assus website then we have an IO

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Shield we have two SATA cables so it's a

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fairly barebones accessory package but ASUS has not skimped when it comes to

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the actual quality of the product itself

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fanless as you guys may or may not know is actually far more expensive to

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produce than something with a fan and the reason for that is that this hunk of

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metal costs an awful lot more than a much smaller hunk of metal and a little

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whiny fan on top of it so I applaud ASUS for making an effort to make their home

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theater Solutions run fanless all right

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so let's have a look at the overall layout of the board we have our CPU and

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GPU both situated under this fanless heat sink we've got our

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DDR3 memory slots two of them over here

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on the right hand Edge we have a 24 pin

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power connector and what I imagine is probably a fairly decent location for it

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although many ITX cases have very

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different uh internal layouts so it's hard to say what is the ideal location

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we have a PCI Express 16x slot down here at the bottom although I really can't

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imagine that you'd install a high powered graphics card in a motherboard

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such as that but just for Giggles because this is my video blog and

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because I do as I please I am going to install a GTX 580 on this motherboard so

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the GTX 580 as you can plainly see is about the size of the mother board and

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fits in pretty nicely so if you have a mini ITX case that supports uh you know

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video cards that are like 4 and 1/2 in longer than the motherboard itself then

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you can go ahead and you can install a GTX 580 in your AT3 I on

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t-i if I could get it out that would be great there we go all right so let's

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keep going we've got SATA 2 3 GB per

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second ports four of them we have two front USB headers and what I cannot

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imagine would be an ideal location because it's going to be pretty hard to

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access those you know but that's okay I'm sure you'll only have to do it once

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we have three fan connectors which are also in very very very odd location but

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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

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we've got our output options so we have PS2 well input two I suppose we have a

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PS2 keyboard Port we have six USB 2.0

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ports VGA and HDMI this is actually a

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pretty good mix because it gives you that Legacy connection and then it also

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gives you HDMI which can easily be adapted to DVI we have optical audio out

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gigabit Ethernet and then we have SIMPLE

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um ancient 5.1 audio which I actually don't mind because on a system like this

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you're probably going to be using the audio out over HDMI anyhow so thank you

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for checking out my unboxing of the AT3 I on

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