today we're going to be having a look at the Zotac h55 ITX Wi-Fi mind you that's
not really the whole story today this is the whole story now with USB 3.0 because
they had a board called this before but this is the C- e revision which features
USB 3.0 now I don't think we ever actually unboxed the original board so
why don't we run through all of the aspects of this board since this is an
unboxing in First Look it's an h55 board
so it does feature an LGA 11 56 socket with support for core I3 Core i5 and
even core i7 quad cores up to a Max TDP
of 95 Watts we have Intel quick path technology Intel HD graphics ready
although this is the big one PCI Express 16x because HD graphics is not quite as
impressive as being able to put a GTX 480 on a motherboard that's smaller than
a GTX
480 there it is okay hold on there's more though dual Channel DDR3 up to 13
33 MHz two dims up to 8 gigs of RAM six SATA to stop moving the what are you
doing oh I guess that makes sense 10 USB 2.0 ports 2 USB 3.0 ports that's a lot
of USB gigabit Lan 802.11 n Wi-Fi that
is n standard Wi-Fi up to 300 megabits
per second and that is one featur rich
board so here this is your antenna plug
PCI bracket thing so you will use this
to plug in your antennas which are also included with the board like they really
do include everything it's kind of neat how sometimes you know when you compare
like a a of like a small product it seems to
come with a big accessory
package there's two antennas there is a
DVI to VGA adapter that is an I/O back
plate very solid feeling here's an
extension cable in just case you need to extend your CPU four pin connector to a
longer CPU four pin connector then you've got three SATA cables which is an
odd amount and finally a quick installation guide and finally again a
users manual with a DVD that you should CD rather that you should throw away and
download the latest from Zotac check that out lifetime warranty in USA Mexico
Canada and Latin American so Latin America so uh yeah eat it Europe Middle
East and APAC that's Asian Pacific asan
I believe something like that anyway we
win we get a lifetime warranty you get only a 5year warranty which is actually
still pretty freaking good for a
motherboard five years is uh is is
actually outstanding compared to some of the tier one motherboard
manufacturers so here we are let's have a look at the overall board layout I
thought this was actually I thought I was showing you the board right side up
but it looks like I'm not it looks like now I'm showing you the board right side
up so let's start with the CPU socket as I mentioned before this is an LGA 1156
socket with all the latest Intel processors supported that is the ones on
this socket not the LGA 1366 processors
we have a PCI Express 16x slot we have a
four pin CPU power connector we got a heat sink right about here you can see
this had to be kind of machined down in order to make room for the CPU fan but
that means it's going to get a lot of incidental air flow from whatever fan you do install and you better make sure
whatever CPU heat sink you install it's giving that some airf flow because this
is meant to be installed in cramped cases where cooling isn't always the
best and if it's designed to work this way make sure it works this way we have
a battery we have our h55 chipset six
SATA 2 ports two USB headers I mean really this thing has like a ton of USB
I mean what is that 10 USB 2.0 on the back let me just verify that really
quick No 1 2 3 4 5 6 no no that included
the the the four here okay so 10 total and then two USB 3.0 so it's all good
all right we have our Wireless N PC mini PCI Express card as well as our dual
Channel DDR3 slot supporting up to 8 gigs of RAM and a 24 pin connector here
is your CPU no this is system fan and
this is your CPU fan connector so you have two four pin pwm fan connectors on
this particular board here is your front panel connector headers and then that
looks like your front audio connector right there this board does not include
fire wire which is fine because fire wire is mostly useless anyway and let's
have a look at the io on the back here we go we have a reset SEO switch that is
Hardcore I want you to look closely at that cameraman clear SOS on the back
panel I love this on a board like that's
barely as big as a simos battery it's
epic it's awesome if that doesn't call for overclocking then I don't know what
else does so we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB
2.0 ports as I mentioned before two USB 3.0 ports a PS2 Port which I do still
like to see DVI HDMI eat gigabit
Ethernet optical audio out as well as 7.1 audio and then this is another thing
that I just think I should call attention to I talked about this uh
previously on an ASUS video card look at
the matte black PCB I mean that is
awesome everything should come with a matte black PCB I mean look at it it
makes everything look way cooler I mean if if Batman was in like glossy piano
black or you know that that color that's like more like brown than black like if
Batman wore that color he wouldn't look as cool but he wears matte black and
that's why he looks awesome unless you watch the really old show where he wears
like gray and it's like
tights Batman was less cool then thank you for watching lus Tech tips and don't
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