Gigabyte H61M-D2P-B3 H61 DDR3 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so I believe this is one of the first h61 boards that I'm unboxing so the h61
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is basically like the h67 except cheaper
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so there's a couple small changes like it only supports two memory slots unlike
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the h67 which supports
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four and I'm pretty sure there's something else too oh yeah I don't
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believe there's any support for SATA 3 6 gbit per second which to anyone buying
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sort of an L Cheapo chipset board
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probably doesn't matter that much so this is a Gigabyte board it features
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Ultra durable 2 which is like sort of last generation Ultra durable including
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Japanese solid capacitors 4 plus 1 plus one phase power which is pretty basic I
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mean okay let's set our expectations somewhere realistic for this board it is
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2011 select uh uses the B3 stepping
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which means that there are no issues with the SATA 2 ports so that is really
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important basically any uh h61 h67 p67
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board bu you want to make sure it's using the B3 stepping and it features
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uh something in Spanish which
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um is interesting because this is
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something that I pulled out of our warehouse but I think what they mean is
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three-year warranty and that applies to North America as well as Latin America
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as far as I know so there you go nothing different other than the language here
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we got dual BIOS as well as 3 tbte plus hard drive support with hybrid EFI techn
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technology which means it doesn't use a fully UEFI BIOS but it does have some of
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the benefits 108 D sound to noise ratio
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okay three times USB power which is a really neat feature basically allows
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Gigabyte boards that feature that feature to deliver more power to the USB
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ports which means if you have multiple devices plugged into a hub or if you're
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using a high powerered device uh that requires more energy to charge then uh a
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Gigabyte board will be more capable of charging it than another board so here
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there's a little warning don't use socket 1156 CPU thanks Gigabyte users
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manual as well as a driver and utilities
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dvd one IO Shield silver two SATA cables one right
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angle one straight blue and some environmentally friendly
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cardboard packaging and finally the motherboard itself so basic board like
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this we're not going to find any fancy schmancy heat sinks or uh
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you know gaming features or SLI or
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Crossfire we're going to find a basic board that does what it sets out to do
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it is also kind of a smaller than standard microatx Port so you can see it
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has four slots like standard matx but it's not as wide as a normal matx board
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let me grab one just to actually here here's an ATX
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board uh no this is an matx board which is also a no no this might be a standard
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width one no I think this one's a little bit narrow too okay give me give me a sec give me a sec here guys there's a
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standard width board so that's an ATX board but they should be the same width
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so basically what Gigabyte's doing is they're saving a little bit of money on the materials and also making it so you
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don't have to put in as many screws cuz it's a fairly basic board design especially now that motherboards don't
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really have memory controllers on them or North Bridges there's a lot less
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logic so you can easily build it onto a smaller PCB so let's go and have a look
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at the layout so here's our 1155 socket the h61 chipset does not support any
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overclocking so you're not going to need a whole lot more than the 4 plus one
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phase power design that it is designed to deliver I mean you can't overclock
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okay even if you have an unlocked CPU you can't overclock it so bear that in
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mind we've also got a four pin power connector up here in the top left in its
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ideal location we've got two DDR3 memory
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slots a 24 pin power connector over here on the right in its ideal location we
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have four SATA 2 3 GB per second ports
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we have one PCIe 16x slot and it claims
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ATI Crossfire X although I can tell you guys now it's not going to perform very
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well because you can see that this PCI e6x slot is only actually wired up to 4X
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so you're not going to get all the bandwidth to that bottom slot although apparently it will work in crossfire
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mode should you so desire here we have two PCI slots which is appropriate for a
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board like this because many people using these entry level boards are going
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to have Legacy PCI Hardware that they would want to install uh your front
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panel USB is here there's no USB 3 on this particular motherboard
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uh you've even got look at that you got a parallel printer port header so this
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is really for the upgrader market here's your front ports so your power reset
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LEDs uh front panel audio they've moved it this is a good location for it
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compared to up here which we're used to seeing on gigabite motherboards in the
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past here we go we've got two PS2 ports once again aimed at that upgrade Market
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VGA as well as DVI HDMI and DisplayPort won't be necessary six USB 2 ports so
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that coupled with the two headers gives you a a total of 10 usb2 ports uh wow I
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guess it's gigabit Ethernet why don't we double check that because uh this is
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like I said pretty entry level so it may not actually be gigabit Ethernet so we
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are going to consult a users manual which happens not very often on my show
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and we're going to find out yeah gigabit Ethernet there you go real Tech gigabit
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Ethernet and finally 5.1 audio out thank
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