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Saturday we're going to be doing an unboxing of Anna soos minimax a home entertainment center what I think they actually mean is 8310 n tr3 310 3 on t - i so this is a mini ITX motherboard that is designed as you may or may not be able to figure out for home entertainment use and his fan less and quiet is amplifier friendly okay it will run full HD video it has home theater gate and it is slim I think by slim they mean Mini ITX let's flip it over to the back where we can see a picture of the board we can see that this board runs and we have dual channel ddr3 it has full HD playback fanless design oh and DTS so that's what they mean by amplifier friendly is Windows 7 ready it features an Intel Atom dual core 330 processor and Nvidia ion so here it has a user's guide with it with the drivers and applications DVD which you should throw away and download the latest from the well I guess the Isuzu website then we have an i/o shield we have two SATA cables so it's a fairly bare-bones accessory package but a soos has not skimp when it comes to the actual quality of the product itself fanless as you guys may or may not know is actually far more expensive to produce than something with a fan and the reason for that is that this hunk of metal costs an awful lot more than a much smaller hunk of metal and a little whiny fan on top of it so I applaud a soos for making an effort to make their home theater solutions run fanless alright so let's have a look at the overall layout of the board we have our CPU and GPU both situated under this fanless heatsink we've got our ddr3 memory slots two of them over here on the right-hand edge we have a 24 pin power connector and what I imagine is probably a fairly decent location for it although many ITX cases have very different internal layouts so it's hard to say what is the ideal location we have a PCI Express 16x slot down here at the bottom although I really can imagine that you did install a high-powered graphics card in a motherboard such as that but just for giggles because this is my video blog and because I do as I please I am going to install a GTX 580 on this motherboard so the GTX 580 as you can plainly see is about the thighs of the motherboard and fits in pretty nicely so if you have a mini ITX case that supports uh you know video cards that are like 4 and 1/2 inches longer than the motherboard itself then you can go ahead and you can install a GTX 580 in your 83 ion see - I if I can get it out without a degree there we go alright so let's keep going we've got SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports 4 of them we have 2 front USB headers and what I cannot imagine would be an ideal location because it's going to be pretty hard to access those yeah but that's ok I'm sure you'll only have to do it once we have three fan connectors which are also in a very very very odd location but you like I said you're probably only going to access at once I wouldn't worry too much about it on the back we've got our output options so we have ps2 well input 2 I suppose we have a ps2 keyboard port we have six USB 2.0 ports VGA and HDMI this is actually a pretty good mix because it gives you that legacy connection and then it also gives you HDMI which can easily be adapted to DVI we have optical audio out Gigabit Ethernet and then we have simple ancient 5.1 audio which I actually don't mind because on the system like this you're probably going to be using the audio out over HDMI anyhow so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 83 ion T - I don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips or unboxings reviews and other computer videos