this is a pretty interesting looking product this is an AMD Fusion product
and it is powered by Gigabyte so this is the E350 n USB 3 it features 333 onboard
acceleration which we'll talk about a little bit more on the back a three-year
warranty in the US and Canada as well as Windows 7 support which it darn well
better support Windows 7 in this day and age it has Ultra durable 3 which
features a double thickness copper PCB and let's move along to the back where
we're going to discover some more stuff so USB 3 yeah that's fast okay s 3 6
gbit pers second also fast USB 3x power
this is a neat feature in addition to their onoff charge feature so you can
charge your devices up to 40% faster while the computer is on or off and the
3x USB power boost also allows you to run triple the number of USB devices per
Port that you would be able to off a regular USB port aha Ultra performance
so we have an APU an AMD dual core E350
processor with discrete graphics from
from the HD 6310 chipset I could call it a chipset
but it's not cuz it's all one unit so this is direct X11 graphics and a dual
core processor all in one we've got dual bio support with uh up to 3 tbte plus
hard drive support which is a good feature to have on a modern motherboard
let's see what we got inside so we got a users manual okay inside the users manual
probably find the usual stuff ooh including a block diagram here we've got
the Apu at the center of things power anything memory or PCI Express bus or
well okay PCI Express bus is powered off that as well as our outputs in terms of
video so there you go and then we've got the AMD Hudson M1 fch powering
everything else so that's your SATA your Lan your USB PS2 even all that good
stuff next we have the board itself we're not going to look at that just yet
let's have a look at what other accessories we have in the cleverly
packaged Gigabyte box here so we have an
IO Shield handily color coded for your
convenience and sure wish my camera would focus come
on focus focus there you go now you can even read all that stuff look at that
okay next we have two SATA cables one right angle not one not right angle we
have a Dolby Home Theater
sticker and then a multilingual installation guide book with a AMD
Fusion utility DVD so download the latest there's your chipset Serial ATA
network audio drivers Adobe Acrobat Reader just in case you don't have an
internet connection or you don't know how to download a goby reader okay let's
go ahead and put that stuff back in there and put that back in there and
let's get to the board cuz that's the part I think we're all interested in so
this is a fusion board which is very new
and very exciting it has an APU which is
both a CPU and a GPU roll gold into
one and the tape is incredibly stu oh
the tape is a lot longer than I had originally thought so it goes all the
way up here why we
just wow that's some stubborn tape so
we'll just take that off there you go all right comes in an
anti-static bag that looks like the right size for a graphics card certainly
not the right size for uh this motherboard a little on the big side
that's okay we'll let it slide this time so let's Orient this right side up here
we go so we have our CPU Apu GPU thing
here in the middle under this we've also got our IO control center okay so that's
the Hudson M1 that is also under this heat sink which is cooled by a single 40
mm fan 40 m yeah 40 mm okay we've got in
terms of layout we've got our four pin connector and it's I suppose ideal
location at the top left we've got dual Channel DDR3 so this supports DDR3 up to
1066 if I recall correctly but I didn't see any mention of that on the outside
of the box I mean this is not meant to be a
performance platform so you're not going to be running like DDR3 2000 RAM in it
it would be kind of pointless so here we have our front panel connectors right
here we've got our 24 pin power connector here and at the bottom we will
find a PCI Express 6 16x physical
connector but actually this is only wired for 4X electrical you can see the
pins if I can get it to focus adequately
yeah you can see the pins in the in the socket so it doesn't go all the way up
to 8X or 16x it only goes to 4X we've got our front audio header
right there and then we've also got front USB 1 front USB 2 both of those
are USB 2.0 I'm just numbering them here's our SATA 3 6 gbit per second
connectors so those are full speed say to 6 GB per second so you got full
support for the latest ssds and all that kind of good technology hard drives up
to three terabytes okay on the back we
find four USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0
ports a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port
whichever you prefer to plug in VGA DVI and HDMI outputs optical audio out glad
to see this even though we do have HDMI gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio hey look
at that Gigabyte's using screws on the back of the board it's a nice touch I
appreciate that it's uh more secure than push pins especially when it's kind of a
full coverage sort of solution where you're actually cooling two separate
chips under there you want to make sure it's making good contact then use screws
good strategy all right thanks for checking out my unboxing of the GAE 350n
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