Gigabyte H55M-S2 H55 Core i3 DDR3 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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868 words · ~4 min read
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this is a very value oriented board from Gigabyte it has a three-year warranty it
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is an h55 board and it supports their 3x
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USB power feature which is pretty cool because it means that you can run a
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bunch of USB devices off a hub and they will all receive sufficient power it
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also has support for onoff charge which allows you to charge your iPhone or
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other eye accessory not ey glasses from the USB
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port even when the system is powered down
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wow they really don't list a whole lot on the back like I said this is a very
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value oriented board the reason I'm doing this video is primarily just to
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let people who are shopping for this board have a look at it oh this is a new
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one warning wow that's like a bright yellow warning isn't it Onboard video
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output is not available unless paired with an Intel Core i5 core I3 processor
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with Intel Graphics technology okay okay
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thank you wow that's in like every language Portuguese Hungarian Indonesian
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what's fun you know this is always funny to me like when they uh when they list
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what language it is but don't but list that in English rather than the language
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it's actually in so like they say French instead of
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France here we have an IO Shield here we
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have two SATA cables hey hey they finally did it right check this out two
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SATA cables not one SATA and one
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IDE nice a black and white cover on the
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wow they're really like this is they're they're hitting a price point here black
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and white cover on the manual included uh drivers and utilities DVD don't use
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this download the latest off the Gigabyte website and then the board
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itself so they are not uh no frills no gimmicks just motherboard you know what
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to be perfectly honest with you even the anti-static bag feels thinner than usual
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I'm not even kidding like okay here here here here
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here this B this bag is from another Gigabyte
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motherboard let me see oh yeah oh yeah
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beyond a shadow of a doubt this is a different bag and the one that I'm
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holding here from The Other Board is thicker the other one's actually from a
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uh an h55m s2h so this is the S2 because
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it does not have H which is HDMI so this
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is VGA output only it is like super ultra value let's start in the Middle
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where we see our socket 1156 so that supports core i3s core i5s and core
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i7s you've got your four pin connector up here in the top left where it belongs
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and your 24 pin connector over here on the right and that is something that I'm
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really impressed to see because a lot of the time you see value boards sacrifice
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the layout because it is cheaper to engineer a board with the power sources
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closer to where they actually need to be delivered but it is way more convenient
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for someone trying to build a system to have them located here and here so kudos
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to Gigabyte even though this is a value board they are not cheaping out where it
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actually counts we've got two dims sorry
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you got to pay a little bit more if you want to install four dims but with four
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dim with four gig single dims getting so cheap these days you can actually equip
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this with 8 gigs of RAM even though you've only got two slots so without
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paying much of a premium you can just go that route six SATA drive supported
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again very cool to see them not uh skimping on those because six are
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supported by the chipset so put six pieces of plastic on there and
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everybody's happy all right down at the bottom we've got our front panel
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connectors we've got a couple of USB headers no comp Port we have
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one two two fan ports uh on board on the
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motherboard which is about what I'd expect on something like this you've got
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a PCI Express 16x slot you can see it is wired for full PCIe 16x two PCIe slots
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and one PCIe 1X slot there's your front audio connector and then for our back
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iio we've got pretty much Bare Bones although I'm very happy to see a ton of
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USB ports on this board that is absolutely thrilling because that's a
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valuable feature for someone who's just looking to build a value system and they
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tend to like a lot of USB ports I can't explain why okay we have PS2 keyboard
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and mouse VGA out eight USB ports gigabit Lan and 5.1 audio although if
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you want to use a mic then you'll need to only use a 2.0 audio
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that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the G h55m
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S2 value motherboard from Gigabyte