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here we've got a mini ITX motherboard from a soos this is the 85 IO n T - I motherboard it features a few different things one it is fanless - it is slim I guess what they mean is ITX okay it has USB 3.0 eSATA and it is amplifier friendly interesting okay this is a mini max so home entertainment center branded motherboard let's go ahead and flip it over and see what it's got to say for itself on the back so it features the Intel Atom d5 25 dual-core processor as well as next generation Nvidia ion chipset and GPU it has a silent thermal solution with fanless heat dissipation at 0 decibels ok I think that means silent and thermal and solution solutions are generally effective ok accelerates heat transfer with a heat pipe design very nice bigger area for heat dissipation and completely silent so yes it's silent got it home theater PC high-definition experience of video and audio yes the Nvidia ion next-generation chipset is capable of accelerating hi-def decoding so that means you can watch high-def content on this tiny little fanless motherboard here we've got a user's guide along with some along with the DVD with your drivers and utilities and all that good stuff powered by sue stickers so throw this away except the sticker download the latest off the Sue's website we've got an i/o shield pretty much what we're used to seeing and we have two SATA cables both of which are straight SATA cable if not right angles in our environmental attack friendly packaging we will find the motherboard next clip at there ok that's actually pretty nice-looking ok so the first thing we notice about this is that it has an enormous heat pipe cooler on it that not only has fins for just heat dissipation inside but it also has through the back of the i/o shield so when you put this on it actually also has some external access so I guess they're expecting you to get a little bit of you know airflow through there to get some additional cooling so that's an interesting approach to take to something like this okay there's our Seuss logo and that he'd say it's actually quite nice looking looks uh looks very expensive in terms of cooling solutions that I've seen on micro ATX motherboards in the past I've got three heat pipes going on there all right let's take a look at the layout of the rest of this board so we've got a few fan headers that's kind of nice to see as well that's a lot of fan headers for a micro ATX board we've got three not including CPU fan although I don't see anywhere to mount a CPU a fan you could always just kind of bolt one on after the fact there is no four pin CPU power connector so this is powered entirely by the 24 pin connector we've got two sodium memory slots so those are four I actually don't know is that gonna be ddr2 or ddr3 those are gonna be ddr3 sodium memory slots okay so we've got little clips here don't need those looks like there's an extra power port that you could they could potentially solder on here if they need it here's a clear CMOS switch here's our BIOS chip we've got two SATA ports so those are SATA 2 ports then we've got a PCI Express 4x slot okay but that's an open slot so what you could potentially do I mean if you have really wanted to is you could take a full 16 X card and install it in there so I'll show you guys what I mean by an open slot so go ahead and put that on the edge of the table and then position the video card so that it's in the right spot there you go so I can actually install that pull that back out and it would run just that reduced bandwidth and obviously the Atom CPU in there probably isn't really powerful enough to really play any games with the GPU of that caliber but yeah it just means the back of the slot is not closed off so you can install whatever size cards you want they'll just run with reduced bandwidth we have a USB header right here and then let's have a look at what we've got in terms of oh here's our front audio header as well let's look we've got in terms of rear panel connectivity so we have dedicated ps2 ports for mouse and keyboard we have an optical audio out HDMI and DVI out no VGA on this particular board there's those heat pipes we were seeing before two USB 2.0 ports an eSATA port two USB 3.0 ports Gigabit Ethernet as well as sorry about that and on the back we've got 5.1 Audio although if you do want to use a microphone then you'll probably be limited to just headphones or 2.0 2.1 speakers here the heat pipe cooling solution is attached via screws I like to see that it's just more secure than pushpins and I do appreciate it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the associate e5 ones v 1 v io n T - I so that's the 85 ion T - I don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos