Gigabyte MIB T3140 Monitor Integrated Box & H55N-USB3 Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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2,112 words · ~10 min read
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in the mail today I got a sample this is from Gigabyte it is the Gigabyte Mi Men
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In Black t314 oh I'm sorry no this is
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the monitor integrated box my bad I got
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it wrong I'm sorry anyway this I you know what I'm going into this completely
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cold I have no idea what this is but it appears to be a computer case and then
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it has like a little uh stand on the top which I'm going to go ahead and assume
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ends in a Visa Mount so that you can mount a monitor to the top of a little
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desktop computer great for embedded applications or if you need like a
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little POS terminal for a retail store something like that all right so here we
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go ah yes that's exactly what it is so you have a Gigabyte case you got a
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little stand attached to it and then you can attach so you could put a touchscreen monitor whatever kind of
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monitor you need just like that that's kind of cool so here we go this
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is oh let's have a look at the back first so let's see the hinge design so
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it has a hinge lock cover flexible hinge enabling monitor horizontal and vertical
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adjustment it has cable and cord management it is Vasa standard so 17 to
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22 in recommended monitors with 100x 100
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mm or 75x 75 mm monitor holes okay on
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the back or on the the case design so it is an ITX case supporting a slim optical
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drive although for most people buying a a case like this you probably wouldn't
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even have a DVD drive it would just be set up once and then sit there forever
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it has an integrated power supply oh thumb screws for more convenience
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assembly and it has a 60 mm cooling fan
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so this is space saving that's their whole pitch by replacing the monitor
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stand with a computer I'll buy that okay
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so here's the overall specifications of the case it's made of ABS plastic on the
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front bezel it's available in Black it's weighs 4 kg um okay 1 3 and 1 12 in
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internal drive and then you've got two USB 2.0 ports on the front as well as
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one HD audio setup so I don't think this is
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sealed cuz it's like a it's a sample product so it's not really this isn't
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exactly how it'll come at retail but I believe this one also has a motherboard
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inside that I'm supposed to have a look at as well so we're just going to we're
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just going to kind of go and find out what happens here we'll have this
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adventure together so I'm going to take out the cardboard thing oh it's falling
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apart okay excellent so here is the uh
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the Vasa Mount so this sits up at the end of the ARM which is here oh this is
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kind of cool so the case by default
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doesn't actually like you're not required to have the uh the mounting ARM
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on it that's just an optional accessory that it looks like um where does this
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attach okay this is kind of smart so we got the case here all right so let's put
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the case aside for now I guess and let's
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have a look at sort of the accessory Focus first so here we've got a manual
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which may or may not be a a final manual because like I I said this is uh sample
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Hardware so here we go so they give us a
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little introduction to the the case structure itself so here's your hinge
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cable cord management okay we already covered most of this and then they give
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you oh they give you a little installation guide so they show you how to remove the top cover install the
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motherboard install the hard drive and slim optical drive and then that's
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pretty much all that's involved because when you're putting in an ITX motherboard it'll have Onboard video
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onboard sound uh so you need to install the CPU and RAM on the motherboard and
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other than that it's pretty much grabbing go so then you install okay
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here's the installation of the LCD monitor to the case you connect the
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hinge onto the chassis and then Mount the monitor before adjusting the angle
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of the hinge so let me see the back of the case is over here so these two thumb
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screws right here come out and then that
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is where you actually attach the Hing ARM so it slides into oh here cameraman
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look up here so it slides into place at the front
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and then you could also use um there you go Clips right in you could also use
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like some kind of security screws at the back you could replace the default ones
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and then you could make it so that your employees or customers can't remove the
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I'm not actually going to put this in now cuz I want to open up the case but
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you could make it so that they can't remove the motherboard from or the uh
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the monitor from the case so that's kind of cool and then Gigabyte has also
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included a motherboard inside for us to have a look at here so let's take the
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case apart we can have a look at the internals so the top is all ventilation
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which is kind of cool because that means if you're using a fan it's actually
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going to have somewhere to pull air from and then on this side which side ah on
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this side right here we've got the vent holes for the 60 mm fan that it comes
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installed in the case so that's pretty useful as well there we go why don't we
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have a look at the power supply no you know what let's take a closer look at
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the case first I'm sorry okay so here's the front of the case it's a it's a
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glossy plastic there's your power button there's your slim optical drive and then
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you got your front panel connectors it has kind of a it's plastic but you know
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what it actually looks pretty nice in person it feels not bad it's not that
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kind of plasticky like this is horrible sort of feel so then we go around to the
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side this is obviously a y loon fan just like yeah it says y loon Electronics
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right on it and then yeah it's all steel construction I'm missing an IO plate I
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already knew about that just because this is a a sample board so it's not
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100% retail Hardware they might not even have the io plate yet in the power
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supply that is a tiny fan so this is using like a special small form factor
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style power supply and we'll have a look at the power supply next here's the
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bottom nothing interesting there we'll have a look at the power supply next to
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find out just what's going on with it so
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it is a 160 wat power supply which is okay 10
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amps on the 12vt rail and then the 5
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combined are 61 Watts so 10 amps I'm
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going to do the quick math time 12 is about it can do about 120 watts on the
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12vt rail alone okay so something to remember now inside this motherboard is
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actually fairly high-end this is an LGA
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1156 Mini ITX motherboard but even if
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you're using a high-powered CPU and you got like a couple sticks of RAM and all
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that good stuff even if you're doing that a power supply like this is still
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okay because a lot of the power that gets used up by bigger boards is all the
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extra stuff that's built onto them so where you might need a 300 wat power
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supply for an ATX board you might get away with a 150 W power supply if you're
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using the same CPU in a mini ITX board
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it's just a different platform and everything is optimized for low power
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consumption so let's have a look at the overall layout of this board itself you
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can see obviously it integrates very very well into this particular chassis
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where you can mount your slim Optical here and then your hard drive goes in
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this cage which removes by these screws on the bottom here so that's where your
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hard drive goes that's where your optical drive goes that was simple very
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cool okay so then let's have a look at the layout of this motherboard I'm just
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going to go ahead and unplug it so that
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uh we can have a better look here this is very cool though Mini ITX LGA 1156
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board there are a couple on the market but this is obviously gigabytes offering
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it's an h55 board so the part number is
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the ga H5 5 n USB 3 as I said a few
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times it's got support for LGA 1156 CPUs so that means core i3s Core i5 and I
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guess you could put a core i7 on it although it's not really recommended
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with most ITX boards due to heat output considerations I mean look at this case
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as well as power considerations because what are you doing buying an ITX board
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if you're trying to use high power components it doesn't make good sense so
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then you've got also this is cool a PCI Express 16x connector so while this
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motherboard with the h55 chipset does
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feature Onboard video you could also take it and put it in something like
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that Silverstone case that accepts a ful length graphics card and you could
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install a fulllength graphics card in this as well very cool for a motherboard
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that's basically like the size of a a hand okay so you got your four pin
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connector uh I guess right where it belongs in the normal configuration but
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the a lot of the other stuff is pretty weird so while on an ATX board your CPU
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socket would be kind of here and then North Bridge here and a South Bridge sort of here this board just has the one
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chipset up above the CPU socket here I'm going to orient this the way it would
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normally be so the top of the io Shield is here then you've got your SATA two
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ports up at the top you've got your front panel ports as well as your USB
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2.0 headers up at the top of the board and then your 24 pin power rather than
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being along the right hand Edge is actually up at the top of the board dual
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Channel DDR3 is supported by this motherboard and that pretty much does it
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for the onboard features because you know like I said it's a very very small
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very compact board very cool so let's go
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around to the back and have a look at what we have for onboard connectivity
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we've got a built-in PS2 combo Port so you can use a mouse or a keyboard there
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you've got 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports and uh
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then you've got VGA DVI and HDMI output
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as well as uh digital audio out that's
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optical digital and then here this is
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what is this that's neat hm I don't know what that is it
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looks like a USB port but it's it's the
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color of their uh it's the typical color of their ESAT ports but I'm looking at
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the uh the connection fingers inside you know what I'm sorry that's an eSATA Port
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wow that was a blonde moment for me eSATA then we have two USB 3.0 ports 1
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GB Ethernet and then 7.1 audio so thank you for checking out my combined
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unboxing of the h55 and USB 3 as well as
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the Men in Black t314