Zotac H55ITX-C-E LGA1156 H55 Core i5 ITX Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we're going to be having a look at the Zotac h55 ITX Wi-Fi mind you that's
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not really the whole story today this is the whole story now with USB 3.0 because
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they had a board called this before but this is the C- e revision which features
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USB 3.0 now I don't think we ever actually unboxed the original board so
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why don't we run through all of the aspects of this board since this is an
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unboxing in First Look it's an h55 board
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so it does feature an LGA 11 56 socket with support for core I3 Core i5 and
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even core i7 quad cores up to a Max TDP
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of 95 Watts we have Intel quick path technology Intel HD graphics ready
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although this is the big one PCI Express 16x because HD graphics is not quite as
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impressive as being able to put a GTX 480 on a motherboard that's smaller than
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a GTX
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480 there it is okay hold on there's more though dual Channel DDR3 up to 13
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33 MHz two dims up to 8 gigs of RAM six SATA to stop moving the what are you
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doing oh I guess that makes sense 10 USB 2.0 ports 2 USB 3.0 ports that's a lot
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of USB gigabit Lan 802.11 n Wi-Fi that
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is n standard Wi-Fi up to 300 megabits
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per second and that is one featur rich
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board so here this is your antenna plug
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PCI bracket thing so you will use this
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to plug in your antennas which are also included with the board like they really
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do include everything it's kind of neat how sometimes you know when you compare
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like a a of like a small product it seems to
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come with a big accessory
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package there's two antennas there is a
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DVI to VGA adapter that is an I/O back
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plate very solid feeling here's an
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extension cable in just case you need to extend your CPU four pin connector to a
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longer CPU four pin connector then you've got three SATA cables which is an
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odd amount and finally a quick installation guide and finally again a
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users manual with a DVD that you should CD rather that you should throw away and
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download the latest from Zotac check that out lifetime warranty in USA Mexico
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Canada and Latin American so Latin America so uh yeah eat it Europe Middle
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East and APAC that's Asian Pacific asan
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I believe something like that anyway we
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win we get a lifetime warranty you get only a 5year warranty which is actually
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still pretty freaking good for a
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motherboard five years is uh is is
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actually outstanding compared to some of the tier one motherboard
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manufacturers so here we are let's have a look at the overall board layout I
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thought this was actually I thought I was showing you the board right side up
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but it looks like I'm not it looks like now I'm showing you the board right side
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up so let's start with the CPU socket as I mentioned before this is an LGA 1156
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socket with all the latest Intel processors supported that is the ones on
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this socket not the LGA 1366 processors
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we have a PCI Express 16x slot we have a
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four pin CPU power connector we got a heat sink right about here you can see
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this had to be kind of machined down in order to make room for the CPU fan but
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that means it's going to get a lot of incidental air flow from whatever fan you do install and you better make sure
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whatever CPU heat sink you install it's giving that some airf flow because this
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is meant to be installed in cramped cases where cooling isn't always the
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best and if it's designed to work this way make sure it works this way we have
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a battery we have our h55 chipset six
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SATA 2 ports two USB headers I mean really this thing has like a ton of USB
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I mean what is that 10 USB 2.0 on the back let me just verify that really
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quick No 1 2 3 4 5 6 no no that included
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the the the four here okay so 10 total and then two USB 3.0 so it's all good
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all right we have our Wireless N PC mini PCI Express card as well as our dual
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Channel DDR3 slot supporting up to 8 gigs of RAM and a 24 pin connector here
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is your CPU no this is system fan and
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this is your CPU fan connector so you have two four pin pwm fan connectors on
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this particular board here is your front panel connector headers and then that
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looks like your front audio connector right there this board does not include
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fire wire which is fine because fire wire is mostly useless anyway and let's
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have a look at the io on the back here we go we have a reset SEO switch that is
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Hardcore I want you to look closely at that cameraman clear SOS on the back
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panel I love this on a board like that's
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barely as big as a simos battery it's
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epic it's awesome if that doesn't call for overclocking then I don't know what
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else does so we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 USB
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2.0 ports as I mentioned before two USB 3.0 ports a PS2 Port which I do still
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like to see DVI HDMI eat gigabit
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Ethernet optical audio out as well as 7.1 audio and then this is another thing
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that I just think I should call attention to I talked about this uh
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previously on an ASUS video card look at
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the matte black PCB I mean that is
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awesome everything should come with a matte black PCB I mean look at it it
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makes everything look way cooler I mean if if Batman was in like glossy piano
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black or you know that that color that's like more like brown than black like if
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Batman wore that color he wouldn't look as cool but he wears matte black and
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that's why he looks awesome unless you watch the really old show where he wears
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like gray and it's like
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tights Batman was less cool then thank you for watching lus Tech tips and don't
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