1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:08,760 here we've got a mini ITX motherboard from ASUS this is the at5 i n t-i 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:16,000 motherboard it features a few different things one it is fanless two it is 3 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:20,519 Slim I guess what they mean is ITX okay 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:24,279 it has USB 3.0 eat and it is amplifier 5 00:00:20,519 --> 00:00:26,920 friendly interesting okay this is a Mini 6 00:00:24,279 --> 00:00:30,039 Max so home entertainment center branded motherboard let's go ahead and flip it 7 00:00:28,679 --> 00:00:35,559 over and see what it's got to say for itself on the back so it features the 8 00:00:32,119 --> 00:00:38,320 Intel atom d525 dual core processor as 9 00:00:35,559 --> 00:00:43,079 well as Next Generation NVIDIA ion chipset and GPU it has a silent thermal 10 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:48,360 solution with fanless heat dissipation at 0 DB okay I think that means silent 11 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:52,199 and thermal and solution Solutions are generally effective okay accelerates 12 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:58,879 heat transfer with a heat pipe design very nice bigger area for heat dissipation and completely silent so yes 13 00:00:56,359 --> 00:01:03,840 it's silent got it home theater PC high definition experience if and audio yes 14 00:01:01,359 --> 00:01:08,439 the NVIDIA ion Next Generation chipset is capable of accelerating highdef 15 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:12,520 decoding so that means you can watch high def content on this tiny little 16 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:18,439 fanless motherboard here we've got a users's guide along with some along with 17 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:21,479 a DVD with your drivers and utilities and all that good stuff powered by assus 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,799 sticker so throw this away accept the sticker download the latest off the 19 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:30,360 assus website we've got an IO Shield pretty much what we're used to seeing 20 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:34,280 and we have two SATA cables both of which are straight SATA cables not right 21 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:38,119 angle ones in our environmentally pack 22 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:46,000 friendly packaging we will find the motherboard next put that there and let's go ahead 23 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,000 and get that opened 24 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:55,159 up okay ooh that's actually pretty nice 25 00:01:52,799 --> 00:02:00,039 looking okay so the first thing we notice about this is that it has an 26 00:01:56,960 --> 00:02:03,520 enormous heat pipe cooler on it that not 27 00:02:00,039 --> 00:02:07,039 only has fins for heat dissipation 28 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:09,440 inside but it also has through the back 29 00:02:07,039 --> 00:02:15,599 of the io Shield see when you put this on it actually also has some external 30 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:19,360 access so uh I guess they're expecting you to get a little bit of you know air 31 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,760 flow through there to get some additional cooling so that's an 32 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,480 interesting approach to take to something like this okay there's our 33 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:31,319 assus logo on that heat sink it's actually quite nice looking looks uh 34 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:35,959 looks very expensive in terms of cooling solutions that I've seen on Micro ATX 35 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:41,800 motherboards in the past I got three heat pipes going on 36 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:45,080 there all right let's take a look at the layout of the rest of this board so 37 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:49,640 we've got a few fan headers that's kind of nice to see as well that's a lot of 38 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:53,640 fan headers for a Micro ATX board we got three including CPU fan although I don't 39 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:58,440 see anywhere to mount a CPU fan you could always just kind of Bolt one on 40 00:02:55,400 --> 00:03:00,000 after the fact there is no four pin CPU 41 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:06,519 power connector so this is powered entirely by the 24 pin 42 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:11,120 connector we've got two sodium memory 43 00:03:06,519 --> 00:03:12,720 slots so those are for oo I actually 44 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:17,840 don't know is that going to be ddr2 or DDR3 those are going to be DDR3 sodium 45 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:21,599 memory slots okay so they' got little Clips here don't need those looks like 46 00:03:19,959 --> 00:03:25,000 there's an extra power port that you could they could potentially solder on 47 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:30,640 here if they need it here's a clear SEO switch here's our BIOS chip uh we've got 48 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:37,360 two SATA ports so those are SATA two ports then we've got a PCI 49 00:03:33,799 --> 00:03:39,640 Express 4X slot okay but that's an open 50 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:46,080 slot so what you could potentially do I mean if you really wanted to is you 51 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,439 could take a full 16x card and install 52 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:53,400 it in there so I'll show you guys what I mean by an open slot so go ahead and put 53 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,959 that on the edge of the table and 54 00:03:53,400 --> 00:04:01,480 then position the video card so that it's in the right spot there you go so I 55 00:03:59,519 --> 00:04:07,519 can actually install that pull that back out and it would run 56 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:12,120 just at reduced bandwidth and obviously the atom CPU in there probably isn't 57 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:15,959 really powerful enough to really play any games with a GPU of that caliber but 58 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,359 yeah it just means the back of the slot is not closed off so you can install 59 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:23,479 whatever size cards you want they'll just run with reduced bandwidth we have 60 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:26,800 a USB header right here and then let's have a look at what we've got in terms 61 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:32,560 of oh here's our front audio header as well let's look at what we've got in terms of rear panel connectivity so we 62 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:37,800 have dedicated PS2 ports for mouse and keyboard we have an optical audio out 63 00:04:34,919 --> 00:04:42,759 HDMI and DVI out no VGA on this particular board there's those heat 64 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:46,360 pipes we were seeing before two USB 2.0 65 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:51,039 ports an eSATA Port two USB 3.0 Port 66 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:51,039 gigabit Ethernet as well 67 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:57,600 as sorry about that and on the back we've got 5.1 audio although if you do 68 00:04:55,919 --> 00:05:03,080 want to use a microphone then you'll probably be limited to just headphones 69 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:05,000 or uh 2.0 2.1 speakers here the heat 70 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:09,520 pipe cooling solution is attached via screws I like to see that it's just more 71 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:15,720 secure than push pins and I do appreciate it so thank you for checking 72 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:22,479 out my unboxing of the ASUS at 73 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:25,120 51 51 5 IO n t-i so that's the at5 I on 74 00:05:22,479 --> 00:05:31,240 t-i don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 75 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:31,240 other computer videos