Gigabyte GA-E350N-USB3 AMD Fusion ITX Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,113 words · ~5 min read
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this is a pretty interesting looking product this is an AMD Fusion product
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and it is powered by Gigabyte so this is the E350 n USB 3 it features 333 onboard
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acceleration which we'll talk about a little bit more on the back a three-year
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warranty in the US and Canada as well as Windows 7 support which it darn well
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better support Windows 7 in this day and age it has Ultra durable 3 which
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features a double thickness copper PCB and let's move along to the back where
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we're going to discover some more stuff so USB 3 yeah that's fast okay s 3 6
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gbit pers second also fast USB 3x power
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this is a neat feature in addition to their onoff charge feature so you can
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charge your devices up to 40% faster while the computer is on or off and the
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3x USB power boost also allows you to run triple the number of USB devices per
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Port that you would be able to off a regular USB port aha Ultra performance
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so we have an APU an AMD dual core E350
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processor with discrete graphics from
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from the HD 6310 chipset I could call it a chipset
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but it's not cuz it's all one unit so this is direct X11 graphics and a dual
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core processor all in one we've got dual bio support with uh up to 3 tbte plus
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hard drive support which is a good feature to have on a modern motherboard
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let's see what we got inside so we got a users manual okay inside the users manual
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probably find the usual stuff ooh including a block diagram here we've got
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the Apu at the center of things power anything memory or PCI Express bus or
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well okay PCI Express bus is powered off that as well as our outputs in terms of
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video so there you go and then we've got the AMD Hudson M1 fch powering
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everything else so that's your SATA your Lan your USB PS2 even all that good
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stuff next we have the board itself we're not going to look at that just yet
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let's have a look at what other accessories we have in the cleverly
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packaged Gigabyte box here so we have an
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IO Shield handily color coded for your
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convenience and sure wish my camera would focus come
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on focus focus there you go now you can even read all that stuff look at that
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okay next we have two SATA cables one right angle not one not right angle we
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have a Dolby Home Theater
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sticker and then a multilingual installation guide book with a AMD
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Fusion utility DVD so download the latest there's your chipset Serial ATA
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network audio drivers Adobe Acrobat Reader just in case you don't have an
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internet connection or you don't know how to download a goby reader okay let's
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go ahead and put that stuff back in there and put that back in there and
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let's get to the board cuz that's the part I think we're all interested in so
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this is a fusion board which is very new
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and very exciting it has an APU which is
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both a CPU and a GPU roll gold into
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one and the tape is incredibly stu oh
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the tape is a lot longer than I had originally thought so it goes all the
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way up here why we
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just wow that's some stubborn tape so
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we'll just take that off there you go all right comes in an
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anti-static bag that looks like the right size for a graphics card certainly
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not the right size for uh this motherboard a little on the big side
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that's okay we'll let it slide this time so let's Orient this right side up here
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we go so we have our CPU Apu GPU thing
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here in the middle under this we've also got our IO control center okay so that's
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the Hudson M1 that is also under this heat sink which is cooled by a single 40
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mm fan 40 m yeah 40 mm okay we've got in
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terms of layout we've got our four pin connector and it's I suppose ideal
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location at the top left we've got dual Channel DDR3 so this supports DDR3 up to
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1066 if I recall correctly but I didn't see any mention of that on the outside
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of the box I mean this is not meant to be a
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performance platform so you're not going to be running like DDR3 2000 RAM in it
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it would be kind of pointless so here we have our front panel connectors right
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here we've got our 24 pin power connector here and at the bottom we will
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find a PCI Express 6 16x physical
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connector but actually this is only wired for 4X electrical you can see the
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pins if I can get it to focus adequately
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yeah you can see the pins in the in the socket so it doesn't go all the way up
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to 8X or 16x it only goes to 4X we've got our front audio header
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right there and then we've also got front USB 1 front USB 2 both of those
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are USB 2.0 I'm just numbering them here's our SATA 3 6 gbit per second
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connectors so those are full speed say to 6 GB per second so you got full
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support for the latest ssds and all that kind of good technology hard drives up
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to three terabytes okay on the back we
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find four USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0
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ports a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port
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whichever you prefer to plug in VGA DVI and HDMI outputs optical audio out glad
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to see this even though we do have HDMI gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio hey look
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at that Gigabyte's using screws on the back of the board it's a nice touch I
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appreciate that it's uh more secure than push pins especially when it's kind of a
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full coverage sort of solution where you're actually cooling two separate
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chips under there you want to make sure it's making good contact then use screws
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good strategy all right thanks for checking out my unboxing of the GAE 350n
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