so I believe this is one of the first h61 boards that I'm unboxing so the h61
is basically like the h67 except cheaper
so there's a couple small changes like it only supports two memory slots unlike
the h67 which supports
four and I'm pretty sure there's something else too oh yeah I don't
believe there's any support for SATA 3 6 gbit per second which to anyone buying
sort of an L Cheapo chipset board
probably doesn't matter that much so this is a Gigabyte board it features
Ultra durable 2 which is like sort of last generation Ultra durable including
Japanese solid capacitors 4 plus 1 plus one phase power which is pretty basic I
mean okay let's set our expectations somewhere realistic for this board it is
2011 select uh uses the B3 stepping
which means that there are no issues with the SATA 2 ports so that is really
important basically any uh h61 h67 p67
board bu you want to make sure it's using the B3 stepping and it features
uh something in Spanish which
um is interesting because this is
something that I pulled out of our warehouse but I think what they mean is
three-year warranty and that applies to North America as well as Latin America
as far as I know so there you go nothing different other than the language here
we got dual BIOS as well as 3 tbte plus hard drive support with hybrid EFI techn
technology which means it doesn't use a fully UEFI BIOS but it does have some of
the benefits 108 D sound to noise ratio
okay three times USB power which is a really neat feature basically allows
Gigabyte boards that feature that feature to deliver more power to the USB
ports which means if you have multiple devices plugged into a hub or if you're
using a high powerered device uh that requires more energy to charge then uh a
Gigabyte board will be more capable of charging it than another board so here
there's a little warning don't use socket 1156 CPU thanks Gigabyte users
manual as well as a driver and utilities
dvd one IO Shield silver two SATA cables one right
angle one straight blue and some environmentally friendly
cardboard packaging and finally the motherboard itself so basic board like
this we're not going to find any fancy schmancy heat sinks or uh
you know gaming features or SLI or
Crossfire we're going to find a basic board that does what it sets out to do
it is also kind of a smaller than standard microatx Port so you can see it
has four slots like standard matx but it's not as wide as a normal matx board
let me grab one just to actually here here's an ATX
board uh no this is an matx board which is also a no no this might be a standard
width one no I think this one's a little bit narrow too okay give me give me a sec give me a sec here guys there's a
standard width board so that's an ATX board but they should be the same width
so basically what Gigabyte's doing is they're saving a little bit of money on the materials and also making it so you
don't have to put in as many screws cuz it's a fairly basic board design especially now that motherboards don't
really have memory controllers on them or North Bridges there's a lot less
logic so you can easily build it onto a smaller PCB so let's go and have a look
at the layout so here's our 1155 socket the h61 chipset does not support any
overclocking so you're not going to need a whole lot more than the 4 plus one
phase power design that it is designed to deliver I mean you can't overclock
okay even if you have an unlocked CPU you can't overclock it so bear that in
mind we've also got a four pin power connector up here in the top left in its
ideal location we've got two DDR3 memory
slots a 24 pin power connector over here on the right in its ideal location we
have four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports
we have one PCIe 16x slot and it claims
ATI Crossfire X although I can tell you guys now it's not going to perform very
well because you can see that this PCI e6x slot is only actually wired up to 4X
so you're not going to get all the bandwidth to that bottom slot although apparently it will work in crossfire
mode should you so desire here we have two PCI slots which is appropriate for a
board like this because many people using these entry level boards are going
to have Legacy PCI Hardware that they would want to install uh your front
panel USB is here there's no USB 3 on this particular motherboard
uh you've even got look at that you got a parallel printer port header so this
is really for the upgrader market here's your front ports so your power reset
LEDs uh front panel audio they've moved it this is a good location for it
compared to up here which we're used to seeing on gigabite motherboards in the
past here we go we've got two PS2 ports once again aimed at that upgrade Market
VGA as well as DVI HDMI and DisplayPort won't be necessary six USB 2 ports so
that coupled with the two headers gives you a a total of 10 usb2 ports uh wow I
guess it's gigabit Ethernet why don't we double check that because uh this is
like I said pretty entry level so it may not actually be gigabit Ethernet so we
are going to consult a users manual which happens not very often on my show
and we're going to find out yeah gigabit Ethernet there you go real Tech gigabit
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