this is a very value oriented board from Gigabyte it has a three-year warranty it
is an h55 board and it supports their 3x
USB power feature which is pretty cool because it means that you can run a
bunch of USB devices off a hub and they will all receive sufficient power it
also has support for onoff charge which allows you to charge your iPhone or
other eye accessory not ey glasses from the USB
port even when the system is powered down
wow they really don't list a whole lot on the back like I said this is a very
value oriented board the reason I'm doing this video is primarily just to
let people who are shopping for this board have a look at it oh this is a new
one warning wow that's like a bright yellow warning isn't it Onboard video
output is not available unless paired with an Intel Core i5 core I3 processor
with Intel Graphics technology okay okay
thank you wow that's in like every language Portuguese Hungarian Indonesian
what's fun you know this is always funny to me like when they uh when they list
what language it is but don't but list that in English rather than the language
it's actually in so like they say French instead of
France here we have an IO Shield here we
have two SATA cables hey hey they finally did it right check this out two
SATA cables not one SATA and one
IDE nice a black and white cover on the
wow they're really like this is they're they're hitting a price point here black
and white cover on the manual included uh drivers and utilities DVD don't use
this download the latest off the Gigabyte website and then the board
itself so they are not uh no frills no gimmicks just motherboard you know what
to be perfectly honest with you even the anti-static bag feels thinner than usual
I'm not even kidding like okay here here here here
here this B this bag is from another Gigabyte
motherboard let me see oh yeah oh yeah
beyond a shadow of a doubt this is a different bag and the one that I'm
holding here from The Other Board is thicker the other one's actually from a
uh an h55m s2h so this is the S2 because
it does not have H which is HDMI so this
is VGA output only it is like super ultra value let's start in the Middle
where we see our socket 1156 so that supports core i3s core i5s and core
i7s you've got your four pin connector up here in the top left where it belongs
and your 24 pin connector over here on the right and that is something that I'm
really impressed to see because a lot of the time you see value boards sacrifice
the layout because it is cheaper to engineer a board with the power sources
closer to where they actually need to be delivered but it is way more convenient
for someone trying to build a system to have them located here and here so kudos
to Gigabyte even though this is a value board they are not cheaping out where it
actually counts we've got two dims sorry
you got to pay a little bit more if you want to install four dims but with four
dim with four gig single dims getting so cheap these days you can actually equip
this with 8 gigs of RAM even though you've only got two slots so without
paying much of a premium you can just go that route six SATA drive supported
again very cool to see them not uh skimping on those because six are
supported by the chipset so put six pieces of plastic on there and
everybody's happy all right down at the bottom we've got our front panel
connectors we've got a couple of USB headers no comp Port we have
one two two fan ports uh on board on the
motherboard which is about what I'd expect on something like this you've got
a PCI Express 16x slot you can see it is wired for full PCIe 16x two PCIe slots
and one PCIe 1X slot there's your front audio connector and then for our back
iio we've got pretty much Bare Bones although I'm very happy to see a ton of
USB ports on this board that is absolutely thrilling because that's a
valuable feature for someone who's just looking to build a value system and they
tend to like a lot of USB ports I can't explain why okay we have PS2 keyboard
and mouse VGA out eight USB ports gigabit Lan and 5.1 audio although if
you want to use a mic then you'll need to only use a 2.0 audio
that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the G h55m
S2 value motherboard from Gigabyte