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here we've got a mini ITX motherboard from ASUS this is the at5 i n t-i

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motherboard it features a few different things one it is fanless two it is

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Slim I guess what they mean is ITX okay

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it has USB 3.0 eat and it is amplifier

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friendly interesting okay this is a Mini

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Max so home entertainment center branded motherboard let's go ahead and flip it

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over and see what it's got to say for itself on the back so it features the

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Intel atom d525 dual core processor as

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well as Next Generation NVIDIA ion chipset and GPU it has a silent thermal

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solution with fanless heat dissipation at 0 DB okay I think that means silent

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and thermal and solution Solutions are generally effective okay accelerates

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heat transfer with a heat pipe design very nice bigger area for heat dissipation and completely silent so yes

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it's silent got it home theater PC high definition experience if and audio yes

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the NVIDIA ion Next Generation chipset is capable of accelerating highdef

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decoding so that means you can watch high def content on this tiny little

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fanless motherboard here we've got a users's guide along with some along with

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a DVD with your drivers and utilities and all that good stuff powered by assus

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sticker so throw this away accept the sticker download the latest off the

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assus website we've got an IO Shield pretty much what we're used to seeing

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and we have two SATA cables both of which are straight SATA cables not right

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angle ones in our environmentally pack

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friendly packaging we will find the motherboard next put that there and let's go ahead

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and get that opened

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up okay ooh that's actually pretty nice

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looking okay so the first thing we notice about this is that it has an

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enormous heat pipe cooler on it that not

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only has fins for heat dissipation

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inside but it also has through the back

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of the io Shield see when you put this on it actually also has some external

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access so uh I guess they're expecting you to get a little bit of you know air

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flow through there to get some additional cooling so that's an

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interesting approach to take to something like this okay there's our

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assus logo on that heat sink it's actually quite nice looking looks uh

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looks very expensive in terms of cooling solutions that I've seen on Micro ATX

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motherboards in the past I got three heat pipes going on

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there all right let's take a look at the layout of the rest of this board so

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we've got a few fan headers that's kind of nice to see as well that's a lot of

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fan headers for a Micro ATX board we got three including CPU fan although I don't

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see anywhere to mount a CPU fan you could always just kind of Bolt one on

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after the fact there is no four pin CPU

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power connector so this is powered entirely by the 24 pin

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connector we've got two sodium memory

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slots so those are for oo I actually

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don't know is that going to be ddr2 or DDR3 those are going to be DDR3 sodium

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memory slots okay so they' got little Clips here don't need those looks like

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there's an extra power port that you could they could potentially solder on

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here if they need it here's a clear SEO switch here's our BIOS chip uh we've got

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two SATA ports so those are SATA two ports then we've got a PCI

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Express 4X slot okay but that's an open

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slot so what you could potentially do I mean if you really wanted to is you

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could take a full 16x card and install

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it in there so I'll show you guys what I mean by an open slot so go ahead and put

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that on the edge of the table and

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then position the video card so that it's in the right spot there you go so I

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can actually install that pull that back out and it would run

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just at reduced bandwidth and obviously the atom CPU in there probably isn't

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really powerful enough to really play any games with a GPU of that caliber but

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yeah it just means the back of the slot is not closed off so you can install

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whatever size cards you want they'll just run with reduced bandwidth we have

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a USB header right here and then let's have a look at what we've got in terms

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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

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have dedicated PS2 ports for mouse and keyboard we have an optical audio out

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HDMI and DVI out no VGA on this particular board there's those heat

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pipes we were seeing before two USB 2.0

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ports an eSATA Port two USB 3.0 Port

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gigabit Ethernet as well

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as sorry about that and on the back we've got 5.1 audio although if you do

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want to use a microphone then you'll probably be limited to just headphones

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or uh 2.0 2.1 speakers here the heat

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pipe cooling solution is attached via screws I like to see that it's just more

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secure than push pins and I do appreciate it so thank you for checking

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out my unboxing of the ASUS at

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51 51 5 IO n t-i so that's the at5 I on

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