1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:07,440 Today I'll be unboxing a product that may not seem interesting at the outset. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:13,759 This is the Foxcon G41SK. It is an LG75 3 00:00:09,599 --> 00:00:16,160 CPU motherboard and it uses DDR2 RAM. So 4 00:00:13,759 --> 00:00:20,800 it's got a fairly bog standard set of features. Here is the full specs on the 5 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:26,160 side. So it uses a G41 chipset. It supports up to 1333 front side bus. It 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:31,119 has support for for PCI Express 16x. It has onboard video. It has six channel 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:38,640 audio. So that's 7.1 audio gigabit LAN and SATA 2. So it's got basically 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:43,520 everything you need for a super basic PC 9 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:47,039 and it is tiny. So this is a microATX 10 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,440 board. Bear that in mind. A microATX 11 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:54,480 board, not a miniITX board, even though it is about the same size as one. 12 00:00:52,480 --> 00:01:00,160 And it's got pretty much everything you need to build a fully functional PC with 13 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:02,160 just uh RAM, hard drive. Well, okay, you 14 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:05,920 have to actually build a PC around it. But the thing that's interesting about 15 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:09,920 it is for to me the size and the price. It's super cheap. Comes with an IO 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,400 shield, a SATA cable, and then a Molex to SATA power adapter. It comes with 17 00:01:12,159 --> 00:01:18,880 some motherboard drivers and a quick installation guide. So, fairly basic 18 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:23,280 accessory package, but that's what you'd expect from a board in this sort of 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:30,080 price range, where really I haven't seen anything else in literally years. Okay, 20 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:32,320 so here we've got the LGA 775 socket. 21 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:36,320 We've got the power delivery system around the socket. We've got our four 22 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:40,720 pin connector in its almost ideal location near the top left. And then 23 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:45,520 we've got our 24 pin power in its ideal location on the far right. Now, you may 24 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:51,680 have noticed already this is a super super basic board. You've got one one 25 00:01:48,479 --> 00:01:53,759 slot for DDR2 and that supports up to 26 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,520 hopefully four gigs, although I'm kind of guessing here. Please leave a comment 27 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:02,560 under the video for our viewers if you find out how much memory is supported in 28 00:01:59,439 --> 00:02:04,640 that one slot. You've got a PCI Express 29 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:09,200 16x graphics slot, so you can actually install a full-size graphics card in 30 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:14,480 this board if you wanted to. a PCIe 1X slot so you can put sort of one other 31 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:16,640 expansion card in here, two SATA drive 32 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,879 interfaces, and then you've got your front panel connectors, your onboard 33 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:27,680 speaker header, you've got front panel audio here, you've got um 34 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:34,200 hopefully there's a front USB header somewhere. Hold on a minute. Let me 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,200 figure this out. 36 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:42,080 Huh. I don't see. Oh, there they are. Okay, 37 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:46,160 there you've got support for up to four more ports with front panel USB and 38 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:50,480 you've also got some other pretty useful stuff like an IR header here. So, that 39 00:02:48,959 --> 00:02:55,120 would make this a great little media board. All right, so here on the back we 40 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:59,360 find more mediacentric features. So, you've got digital audio out. That's a 41 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:04,239 pretty good thing to have on such a value board. You've got two PS2 ports, 42 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:07,840 one VGA out. So, I would recommend adding a graphics card if you are going 43 00:03:06,159 --> 00:03:13,760 to use this as a media center. Maybe something like an uh a low-end ATI HD 44 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:15,519 5000 series like a 5450. That would be a 45 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:20,159 great choice because with that you can do all of your decoding uh on the video 46 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:23,680 card. You can put a low-end CPU in here, a little bit of RAM, you use your uh 47 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:28,560 digital audio, and you've got yourself a heck of a little HTPC for super cheap. 48 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:33,519 And then you've got four USB 2.0 0 ports, 1 GB Ethernet, and then uh 49 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:37,680 apparently that's 7.1 audio somehow, but you won't be able to use a microphone 50 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:42,319 while you're using uh those audio ports for 7.1 audio. Uh I hope I said this is 51 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:46,239 Gigabit. And thank you for checking out my simple unboxing, I suppose, of the 52 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:49,760 G41S-K from Foxcon. And then the last thing I 53 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:55,040 wanted to do is just compare it really quickly against MiniITX. 54 00:03:52,720 --> 00:04:01,680 So this is a MiniITX board. You can see the miniITX board is actually only um 55 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:07,680 like a centimeter and change shorter. And then in terms of width, the miniITX 56 00:04:04,959 --> 00:04:11,680 board is exactly the same width. So the only major difference is the positioning 57 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:16,959 of the mounting holes. So you can see this top left one is the same. Okay, you 58 00:04:14,959 --> 00:04:22,479 can see the one over here is the same in this corner. And then where we start to 59 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:28,720 run into differences is here. So, the miniITX board has one right under the IO 60 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,240 uh the IO uh panel. And then this other 61 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:36,639 board has actually no, that looks like it's in the same spot, too. Hold on a 62 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:38,639 minute. Oh, well, there you go. Okay, so 63 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:43,680 the only reason it's not miniITX is cuz it's not short enough. Then there you 64 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:48,400 have it. Foxcon G41SK miniatx motherboard 65 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:51,680 unboxing. 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