WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:07.440 Today I'll be unboxing a product that may not seem interesting at the outset. 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:13.759 This is the Foxcon G41SK. It is an LG75 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:16.160 CPU motherboard and it uses DDR2 RAM. So 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 00:00:18.240 --> 00:00:26.160 side. So it uses a G41 chipset. It supports up to 1333 front side bus. It 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:31.119 has support for for PCI Express 16x. It has onboard video. It has six channel 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 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:43.520 everything you need for a super basic PC 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:47.039 and it is tiny. So this is a microATX 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:49.440 board. Bear that in mind. A microATX 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:54.480 board, not a miniITX board, even though it is about the same size as one. 00:00:52.480 --> 00:01:00.160 And it's got pretty much everything you need to build a fully functional PC with 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:02.160 just uh RAM, hard drive. Well, okay, you 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:05.920 have to actually build a PC around it. But the thing that's interesting about 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 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:14.400 shield, a SATA cable, and then a Molex to SATA power adapter. It comes with 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:18.880 some motherboard drivers and a quick installation guide. So, fairly basic 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:23.280 accessory package, but that's what you'd expect from a board in this sort of 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:30.080 price range, where really I haven't seen anything else in literally years. Okay, 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:32.320 so here we've got the LGA 775 socket. 00:01:30.080 --> 00:01:36.320 We've got the power delivery system around the socket. We've got our four 00:01:34.320 --> 00:01:40.720 pin connector in its almost ideal location near the top left. And then 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 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:51.680 have noticed already this is a super super basic board. You've got one one 00:01:48.479 --> 00:01:53.759 slot for DDR2 and that supports up to 00:01:51.680 --> 00:01:57.520 hopefully four gigs, although I'm kind of guessing here. Please leave a comment 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:02.560 under the video for our viewers if you find out how much memory is supported in 00:01:59.439 --> 00:02:04.640 that one slot. You've got a PCI Express 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:09.200 16x graphics slot, so you can actually install a full-size graphics card in 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 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:16.640 expansion card in here, two SATA drive 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:20.879 interfaces, and then you've got your front panel connectors, your onboard 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:27.680 speaker header, you've got front panel audio here, you've got um 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:34.200 hopefully there's a front USB header somewhere. Hold on a minute. Let me 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:34.200 figure this out. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:42.080 Huh. I don't see. Oh, there they are. Okay, 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.160 there you've got support for up to four more ports with front panel USB and 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:50.480 you've also got some other pretty useful stuff like an IR header here. So, that 00:02:48.959 --> 00:02:55.120 would make this a great little media board. All right, so here on the back we 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:59.360 find more mediacentric features. So, you've got digital audio out. That's a 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:04.239 pretty good thing to have on such a value board. You've got two PS2 ports, 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:07.840 one VGA out. So, I would recommend adding a graphics card if you are going 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 00:03:10.720 --> 00:03:15.519 5000 series like a 5450. That would be a 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:20.159 great choice because with that you can do all of your decoding uh on the video 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 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:28.560 digital audio, and you've got yourself a heck of a little HTPC for super cheap. 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 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 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 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:46.239 Gigabit. And thank you for checking out my simple unboxing, I suppose, of the 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:49.760 G41S-K from Foxcon. And then the last thing I 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:55.040 wanted to do is just compare it really quickly against MiniITX. 00:03:52.720 --> 00:04:01.680 So this is a MiniITX board. You can see the miniITX board is actually only um 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:07.680 like a centimeter and change shorter. And then in terms of width, the miniITX 00:04:04.959 --> 00:04:11.680 board is exactly the same width. So the only major difference is the positioning 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 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 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:28.720 run into differences is here. So, the miniITX board has one right under the IO 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.240 uh the IO uh panel. And then this other 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 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:38.639 minute. Oh, well, there you go. Okay, so 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 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:48.400 have it. Foxcon G41SK miniatx motherboard 00:04:46.320 --> 00:04:51.680 unboxing. Don't forget to subscribe to my video blog.