1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:06,600 well I have to confess it's taken me far too long to get started on unboxing the 2 00:00:04,279 --> 00:00:11,480 h55 motherboards that are available to me but I'm going to get started today 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:13,480 we've got the h55m S2 this is a Gigabyte 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:18,880 board it has their three-year standard warranty as well as a host of other 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:21,600 features now this is an LGA 1156 board 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:26,560 okay it supports Core i5 and core I3 has an h55 chipset blah blah blah HDMI DVI 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:33,360 now what's interesting about those two things is that they only work if you're 8 00:00:29,359 --> 00:00:35,520 using a core I3 or a core i5 dual core 9 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:39,440 as of the time of filming this so even though you've actually got support for 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:45,600 the core i5 quad cores as well as the core i7 quad cores on LGA 1156 you 11 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:49,680 cannot use the Onboard video if you're using one of those processors so the 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,520 reason for that is that the Onboard video is actually on the CPU it is not 13 00:00:52,399 --> 00:00:57,719 on the motherboard chipset so this is a fairly low-end board we're going to get 14 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:02,239 started here we've got a users's manual inside Windows 7 support awesome good to 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:06,320 see all right then you've got your uh your driver installation DVD now this is 16 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:09,680 very strange they've got like features on here that this board totally doesn't 17 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,640 have which threw me off when I first opened this it does not have their 333 18 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:18,400 onboard acceleration it does not have Ultra durable 3 okay that's like a very 19 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:23,280 strange thing anyway don't use that DVD download the latest drivers off the Gigabyte website so then you've got your 20 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:27,360 smart 6 a smart way for PC system management it's got a bunch of utilities 21 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:31,079 and whatnot okay then you've got a multilingual installation guide book 22 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:37,479 okay so a bunch of different languages shows you how to install a CPU how to install RAM pretty good stuff okay then 23 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:40,880 you have an IDE cable and two SATA cables that is it for the cables 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:48,280 included with this board and then you have an IO Shield okay that was all not 25 00:01:46,119 --> 00:01:53,280 all that exciting so let's get this board 26 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:55,360 open all right so like I actually I 27 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:58,200 didn't say this it's a microatx board it's a fairly low-end board so you're 28 00:01:56,719 --> 00:02:03,640 not going to find a lot of the high-end features now the H50 5 is kind of like a 29 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:08,319 cut down p-55 in some ways so it has all the same basic support you've got 30 00:02:05,759 --> 00:02:14,680 support for the LGA 1156 socket you've got support for dual Channel DDR3 you've 31 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:17,400 got support for PCI Express 16x * 1 now 32 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:22,680 this board see this is a PCI Express 8X Port you can see that it's oh no this is 33 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:27,120 a 4X Port it's an 8X port with four okay so this is not a crossfire ready board 34 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:31,120 even though they've got a plastic 16x slot here it's actually only wired for 35 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:35,599 4X so wouldn't get satisfactory Crossfire support even though they do 36 00:02:32,959 --> 00:02:39,280 have a crossfire logo here so it will run but if you're running any kind of 37 00:02:37,599 --> 00:02:42,640 decent high-end cards it's not going to get the best performance mind you if 38 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:46,120 you're running Crossfire with decently high-end cards why are you buying this 39 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:50,720 board anyway you've got your voltage Regulators here so the no extra cooling 40 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:55,319 nothing like that all right let's just have a look at what we do have on this board stop talking about what it doesn't 41 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:58,840 have we still got a floppy Port got a couple USB headers there's your front 42 00:02:56,959 --> 00:03:03,680 panel connectors right there you've got six SATA 2 ports ports no SATA 3 ports 43 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:08,840 are included with this board okay despite what it said on the driver disc 44 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:12,640 the 24 Port the 24 pin power connectors on the right hand edge of the board in 45 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:15,799 its desired place along with an IDE port and then up at the top of the board 46 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,680 you've got your four pin power so this board does not have an 8 Pin power 47 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:22,599 connector because I guess they figure you just don't need it with the kind of 48 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:27,400 chips you should be putting in this board you've only got two slots for DDR3 49 00:03:25,959 --> 00:03:31,959 so that means you're going to be limited to a practical maximum of 8 gigs if you 50 00:03:29,799 --> 00:03:35,480 can afford 4 gig dims at this time which will likely go down in price but it is 51 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:40,840 going to be a bit of a limitation for some users okay then on the back we've 52 00:03:37,879 --> 00:03:46,159 got a PS2 um keyboard mouse combo Port I really like these then we have eight USB 53 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:49,040 2.0 ports no USB 3.0 ports and then we 54 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:54,200 have three video outputs one VGA one DVI and one HDMI please note you cannot use 55 00:03:52,079 --> 00:03:59,079 these outputs they are just dead connections unless you are running a 56 00:03:55,879 --> 00:04:02,000 core I3 or a core i5 dual core with 57 00:03:59,079 --> 00:04:07,280 integrated graphics on the CPU okay then we've got onboard optical audio out 58 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,400 onboard gigabit landan and 7.1 audio 59 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:15,040 thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Gigabyte gah h55m s2h