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ASUS E35M1-M E-350 AMD Fusion mATX Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-02-27
today I've got another AMD fusion product to unbox I already unboxed one Mini ITX board but this is a larger AMD fusion board so this is a micro ATX motherboard from a soos it's the e35 m1m pro and i'm going to show you guys what asus has to say about themselves with respect to this board so they've got their protect 3.0 technology which is about ok protecting the earth which means it's eco friendly and i'll tell you right now AMD fusion is definitely eco friendly it uses very very very little power ok protects your devices apparently it has anti surge protection which detects over voltage conditions and prevents voltage surges from spreading in real time and also protects you so they say they have special low radiation design shields that a special low radiation design that shields you from harmful electromagnetic exposure by eliminating 50% of radiation so that's their protect 3.0 they've also got serial ata 6 gigabit per second that is say two three six gigabit per second as well as USB three solid capacitors on this board a I sweet 2 which is their software as well as an EFI oh interesting it's got an EFI BIOS neat ok so here we go integrated dual core AMD is a kate that cat is a kate sure we're gonna call it as a kate 18 watt processor the chipset is AMD hudson m1 and we're gonna find out all the rest of that stuff about the board once we open it up it does feature HDMI says that's there and let's see what we've got in terms of accessories so the first thing we find is a SATA cable a rather two SATA cables for total so these are are Seuss's SATA 3 6 gigabit per second cables which are identical to say 2 to 3 gigabit per second cables other than the white mark on them so there's two right angle and two straight we've got an i/o shield we've got a user guide and we have a driver DVD which as well as a masseuse sticker so you should throw this away download the latest off of the assist website inside we find the motherboard itself and a cat okay so let's take it out so this is a very small micro ATX motherboard you can actually tell from the fact that it is not really very square at all so here I'm gonna get directly over top of it so you can see that the like the proportions are more like an ATX board in that it is quite a bit longer than it is wide whereas an MN ATX board would normally be more like about here it would be more square but it is a micro ATX board so it only has the mounting holes for micro ATX and it has four expansion slots instead of the seven expansion slots that are standard on ATX in the middle of the board where I would normally expect to find a CPU socket I actually find only a heatsink so this CPU is actually pre soldered onto the board we've got a nice passive heatsink on here so you can see the overall design of the heatsink it's got a lot of fins on it now sue says for the sake of branding thrown a little a sous label on the top of it although that looks like that would come off fairly easily if you wanted to get slightly better cooling out of it you didn't care about the nice little asou symbol on it okay we've got what appears to be a three-phase power design with our four pin power connector in the top left location it's ideal location we have a CPU fan connector for reasons unknown well I guess if you wanted to just you know we'll slap an 80 mil fan on there you could plug it in there and then it would be controlled by the CPU fan options in the BIOS we've got to do ddr3 slots so those are going to support up to 8 gigs of memory we've got turbo key 2 up here we've also got a 24 pin power connector at the right-hand edge of the board in its ideal location and 5 it seems like an odd number but I'll explain why in a moment 5 say 2 3 6 gigabit per second ports here's our clear CMOS as well as our BIOS chip moving down we've got our front panel connectors 4 USB 2.0 front panel headers firewire as well as front panel audio the expansion slots on this board look fairly optimal so we've got a PCIe 16x if you were to use a dual slot graphics part although I can't imagine why you'd want to do that on a board like this it would cover up this PCIe 1x slot and leave to PCI slots however if you were using something more normal like let's say let's say you wanted to use this for a low-power at-home server and you wanted to throw like a 24 24 Drive raid card in here or something then you'd still have access to these three slots I really can't imagine any reason you'd use a dual slot card in there on the back of the board we've got 4 USB 2.0 we've got a ps2 port cat attacking my leg which is distracting to say the least we've got optical audio out HDMI out DVI and VGA are also other video options we have available to us we have firewire eSATA 2 USB 3.0 ports Gigabit Ethernet and 5.1 audio although remember guys 5.1 audio with three jacks as if you're using 5.1 you will not have access to the microphone in so bear that in mind thank you for checking out my unboxing of the azuz e 35 m1 - M actually hold on hold on that's not exactly the MA the e 35 m1 - M that's correct and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings and reviews and other videos don't forget this is an APU so that is a CPU and a GPU in here it is a DirectX 11 GPU and a dual-core CPU thanks for watching subscribe go do it now don't be lazy
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