in the mail today I got a sample this is from Gigabyte it is the Gigabyte Mi Men
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the monitor integrated box my bad I got
it wrong I'm sorry anyway this I you know what I'm going into this completely
cold I have no idea what this is but it appears to be a computer case and then
it has like a little uh stand on the top which I'm going to go ahead and assume
ends in a Visa Mount so that you can mount a monitor to the top of a little
desktop computer great for embedded applications or if you need like a
little POS terminal for a retail store something like that all right so here we
go ah yes that's exactly what it is so you have a Gigabyte case you got a
little stand attached to it and then you can attach so you could put a touchscreen monitor whatever kind of
monitor you need just like that that's kind of cool so here we go this
is oh let's have a look at the back first so let's see the hinge design so
it has a hinge lock cover flexible hinge enabling monitor horizontal and vertical
adjustment it has cable and cord management it is Vasa standard so 17 to
22 in recommended monitors with 100x 100
mm or 75x 75 mm monitor holes okay on
the back or on the the case design so it is an ITX case supporting a slim optical
drive although for most people buying a a case like this you probably wouldn't
even have a DVD drive it would just be set up once and then sit there forever
it has an integrated power supply oh thumb screws for more convenience
assembly and it has a 60 mm cooling fan
so this is space saving that's their whole pitch by replacing the monitor
stand with a computer I'll buy that okay
so here's the overall specifications of the case it's made of ABS plastic on the
front bezel it's available in Black it's weighs 4 kg um okay 1 3 and 1 12 in
internal drive and then you've got two USB 2.0 ports on the front as well as
one HD audio setup so I don't think this is
sealed cuz it's like a it's a sample product so it's not really this isn't
exactly how it'll come at retail but I believe this one also has a motherboard
inside that I'm supposed to have a look at as well so we're just going to we're
just going to kind of go and find out what happens here we'll have this
adventure together so I'm going to take out the cardboard thing oh it's falling
apart okay excellent so here is the uh
the Vasa Mount so this sits up at the end of the ARM which is here oh this is
kind of cool so the case by default
doesn't actually like you're not required to have the uh the mounting ARM
on it that's just an optional accessory that it looks like um where does this
attach okay this is kind of smart so we got the case here all right so let's put
the case aside for now I guess and let's
have a look at sort of the accessory Focus first so here we've got a manual
which may or may not be a a final manual because like I I said this is uh sample
Hardware so here we go so they give us a
little introduction to the the case structure itself so here's your hinge
cable cord management okay we already covered most of this and then they give
you oh they give you a little installation guide so they show you how to remove the top cover install the
motherboard install the hard drive and slim optical drive and then that's
pretty much all that's involved because when you're putting in an ITX motherboard it'll have Onboard video
onboard sound uh so you need to install the CPU and RAM on the motherboard and
other than that it's pretty much grabbing go so then you install okay
here's the installation of the LCD monitor to the case you connect the
hinge onto the chassis and then Mount the monitor before adjusting the angle
of the hinge so let me see the back of the case is over here so these two thumb
screws right here come out and then that
is where you actually attach the Hing ARM so it slides into oh here cameraman
look up here so it slides into place at the front
and then you could also use um there you go Clips right in you could also use
like some kind of security screws at the back you could replace the default ones
and then you could make it so that your employees or customers can't remove the
I'm not actually going to put this in now cuz I want to open up the case but
you could make it so that they can't remove the motherboard from or the uh
the monitor from the case so that's kind of cool and then Gigabyte has also
included a motherboard inside for us to have a look at here so let's take the
case apart we can have a look at the internals so the top is all ventilation
which is kind of cool because that means if you're using a fan it's actually
going to have somewhere to pull air from and then on this side which side ah on
this side right here we've got the vent holes for the 60 mm fan that it comes
installed in the case so that's pretty useful as well there we go why don't we
have a look at the power supply no you know what let's take a closer look at
the case first I'm sorry okay so here's the front of the case it's a it's a
glossy plastic there's your power button there's your slim optical drive and then
you got your front panel connectors it has kind of a it's plastic but you know
what it actually looks pretty nice in person it feels not bad it's not that
kind of plasticky like this is horrible sort of feel so then we go around to the
side this is obviously a y loon fan just like yeah it says y loon Electronics
right on it and then yeah it's all steel construction I'm missing an IO plate I
already knew about that just because this is a a sample board so it's not
100% retail Hardware they might not even have the io plate yet in the power
supply that is a tiny fan so this is using like a special small form factor
style power supply and we'll have a look at the power supply next here's the
bottom nothing interesting there we'll have a look at the power supply next to
find out just what's going on with it so
it is a 160 wat power supply which is okay 10
amps on the 12vt rail and then the 5
combined are 61 Watts so 10 amps I'm
going to do the quick math time 12 is about it can do about 120 watts on the
12vt rail alone okay so something to remember now inside this motherboard is
actually fairly high-end this is an LGA
1156 Mini ITX motherboard but even if
you're using a high-powered CPU and you got like a couple sticks of RAM and all
that good stuff even if you're doing that a power supply like this is still
okay because a lot of the power that gets used up by bigger boards is all the
extra stuff that's built onto them so where you might need a 300 wat power
supply for an ATX board you might get away with a 150 W power supply if you're
using the same CPU in a mini ITX board
it's just a different platform and everything is optimized for low power
consumption so let's have a look at the overall layout of this board itself you
can see obviously it integrates very very well into this particular chassis
where you can mount your slim Optical here and then your hard drive goes in
this cage which removes by these screws on the bottom here so that's where your
hard drive goes that's where your optical drive goes that was simple very
cool okay so then let's have a look at the layout of this motherboard I'm just
going to go ahead and unplug it so that
uh we can have a better look here this is very cool though Mini ITX LGA 1156
board there are a couple on the market but this is obviously gigabytes offering
it's an h55 board so the part number is
the ga H5 5 n USB 3 as I said a few
times it's got support for LGA 1156 CPUs so that means core i3s Core i5 and I
guess you could put a core i7 on it although it's not really recommended
with most ITX boards due to heat output considerations I mean look at this case
as well as power considerations because what are you doing buying an ITX board
if you're trying to use high power components it doesn't make good sense so
then you've got also this is cool a PCI Express 16x connector so while this
motherboard with the h55 chipset does
feature Onboard video you could also take it and put it in something like
that Silverstone case that accepts a ful length graphics card and you could
install a fulllength graphics card in this as well very cool for a motherboard
that's basically like the size of a a hand okay so you got your four pin
connector uh I guess right where it belongs in the normal configuration but
the a lot of the other stuff is pretty weird so while on an ATX board your CPU
socket would be kind of here and then North Bridge here and a South Bridge sort of here this board just has the one
chipset up above the CPU socket here I'm going to orient this the way it would
normally be so the top of the io Shield is here then you've got your SATA two
ports up at the top you've got your front panel ports as well as your USB
2.0 headers up at the top of the board and then your 24 pin power rather than
being along the right hand Edge is actually up at the top of the board dual
Channel DDR3 is supported by this motherboard and that pretty much does it
for the onboard features because you know like I said it's a very very small
very compact board very cool so let's go
around to the back and have a look at what we have for onboard connectivity
we've got a built-in PS2 combo Port so you can use a mouse or a keyboard there
you've got 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports and uh
then you've got VGA DVI and HDMI output
as well as uh digital audio out that's
optical digital and then here this is
what is this that's neat hm I don't know what that is it
looks like a USB port but it's it's the
color of their uh it's the typical color of their ESAT ports but I'm looking at
the uh the connection fingers inside you know what I'm sorry that's an eSATA Port
wow that was a blonde moment for me eSATA then we have two USB 3.0 ports 1
GB Ethernet and then 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my combined
unboxing of the h55 and USB 3 as well as
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