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so I believe this is one of the first h61 boards that I'm unboxing so the h-60 one is basically like the h 67 except cheaper so there's a couple small changes like it only supports two memory slots unlike the aged 67 which supports four and I'm pretty sure there's something else too oh yeah I don't believe there's any support for say two three six gigabit per second which to anyone buying sort of an el cheapo chipset board probably doesn't matter that much so this is a gigabyte board it features ultra durable pou which is like sort of last generation ultra durable including Japanese solid capacitors four plus one plus one phase power which is pretty basic I mean that ok let's set our expectations somewhere realistic for this board it is 2011 select it uses the b3 stepping which means that there are no issues with the SATA 2 ports so that is really important basically any h61 age 67 p67 board you buy you want to make sure it's using the b3 stepping and it features a twice on most Gontier something spanish which is interesting because this is something that i pulled out of our warehouse but i think what they mean is three year warranty and that applies to North America as well as Latin America as far as I know so there you go nothing different other than the language here we got dual BIOS as well as three terabyte plus hard drive support with hybrid EFI technology which means it doesn't use a fully UEFI BIOS but it does have some of the benefits 108 decibel sound to noise ratio okay three times USB power which is a really neat feature basically allows gigabyte boards that feature that feature to deliver more power to the USB ports which means if you have multiple devices plugged into a hob or if you're using a high-powered device that requires more energy to charge then a gigabyte board will be more capable charging it than another board so here there's a little warning don't use socket 1156 CPU thanks gigabyte users manual as well as a driver of utilities DVD one IO shield silver Jew SATA cables one right angle one straight blue and some environments they friendly cardboard packaging and finally the motherboard itself so basic board like this we're not going to find any fancy-schmancy heat sinks or you know gaming features or SLI or crossfire we're going to find a basic board that does what it sets out to do it is also kind of a smaller than standard micro ATX port so you can see it has four slots like standard m ATX but it's not as wide as a normal n ATX board let me grab one just to actually here here's an ATX board no this is an m-80 export which is also a no-no this might be a standard with one now I think this one's a little bit narrow too okay give me give me a sec give me a sec your guys there's a standard width board so that's an ATX board but they should be the same width so basically what gigabites doing is they're saving a little bit of money on the materials and also making it so you don't have to put in as many screws because it's a fairly basic board design especially now that motherboards don't really have memory controllers on them or North bridges there's a lot less logic so you can easily build it onto a smaller PCB so let's go and have a look at the layout so here's our 1155 socket the 861 chipset does not support any overclocking so you're not going to need a whole lot more than the four plus one phase power design that it is designed to deliver I mean you can't overclock okay even if you have an unlocked CPU you can't overclock it so bear that in mind we've also got a four pin power connector up here in the top left and it's ideal location we've got two ddr3 memory slots a 24 pin power connector over here on the right in its ideal location we have four SATA to three gigabit per second ports we have one PCIe 16x slot and it claims ATI crossfire X although I can tell you guys now it's not going to perform very well because you can see that this PCIe 16x slot is only actually wired up to 4x so you're not going to get all the bandwidth to that bottom slot although apparently it will work in crossfire mode it should you so desire here we have two PCI slots which is appropriate for a board like this because many people using these entry-level boards are going to have legacy PCI bird that they would want to install your front panel USB is here there's no USB 3 on this particular motherboard you've even got look at that you've got a parallel printer port header so this is really for the upgrader market there's your front ports so your power reset LEDs front panel audio they've moved it this is a good location for it compared to up here which we're used to seeing on gigabyte motherboards in the past here we go we've got two ps2 ports once again aimed at that upgrade market VGA as well as DVI HDMI and DisplayPort won't be necessary six USB 2 ports so that coupled with the two headers gives you a total of 10 USB 2 ports I well I guess it's Gigabit Ethernet why don't we double-check that because uh it's like I said pretty entry-level so it may not actually be Gigabit Ethernet so we are going to consult a user's manual which happens not very often on my show we're going to find out yeah Gigabit Ethernet there you go real tech Gigabit Ethernet and finally 5.1 audio out thank you for checking out this unboxing on Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos