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today I have a rather interesting hardware combination this is an Intel server board ok and this particular one is the S 1200 KP and then I also have a matching Intel Xeon processor so this is an e 312 60 L so that's a 2.4 gigahertz xeon chip and what this is meant for is low power low heat output applications where you need server reliability so it's no secret that Intel makes motherboards I mean it's not something that I've really done too much of on my particular channel but they do make motherboards it's also no secret that Intel makes some of the most reliable knotted boards out there so if you were going to build something like a very small form-factor server machine whether it's for home use or SMB use you're going to throw it in a closet somewhere and basically forget about it I don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to use a configuration like this another possible application based on the motherboard itself which I'll actually here I'll get into that in a minute just look at the accessories would be something like a I like an AZ or a storage server if you don't want to use a pre box solution you want to use a custom software or something like that you could use a product like this so in terms of included accessories there's not a whole lot there's an i/o shield there are two SATA cables although I got to say they feel pretty darn high quality for included SATA cables nice we've got a little diagram of all the stuff on the board which you don't need because I'm about to tell you all the stuff on the board we've got Intel enabled acceleration server acceleration Alliance okay we've got the Intel server board quick reference which shows you how to install your stuff on the thing and finally we have a driver disk which you shouldn't use you should download the latest off the Intel website so now let's have a look at the board itself LGA 1155 socket so you're going to want to use a Z on on this particular board which is not really that different from a desktop core i5 or Core i7 processor other than the additional validation that a Xeon ship goes through so when you buy server grade opponents you are paying for reliability so that's what it brings to the table so you've got your Zeon pocket here you've got a PCI e 16x slot here which means you can use this for almost any number of things because that 16x lot gives you the potential to put a raid card in here it gives you the potential to put a very advanced network card in here or whatever else that you would want to do in terms of included RAM support we've got dual ddr3 dimms lodz so those are supporting dual channel memory and you can put up to 16 gigs in here so that's not bad considering the ITX form factor we've got a 24-pin power as well as a four pin power for the cpu directly you can see the CPU vrm circuitry is right here as well as the CPU fan header and in the CPU fan header and an additional fan header we've also got ah sorry we've got four SATA ports so two of them are SATA 3 6 gigabit per second and two of them are stated to three gigabit per second we've got front USB right here so that's USB 2 and then we've got our front panel connectors over here so everything's all laid out in a pretty straightforward fashion I would definitely recommend using an air cooling solution on this board that has a downdraft cooler so that you make sure your cooling these vrm components you can see what Intel's done is they've actually stood these components up with metal sinks on them in order to make sure that they get adequate cooling as opposed to laying them down directly on top of the motherboard so that has allowed them as long as you have decent airflow around them to adequately cool the vrm without installing an additional heatsink on it so here we've got the chipset heatsink and then on the back we see the i/o this is a server board so it's pretty basic we've got four USB to parts two gigabit ethernet ports and one DVI port remember this chip does have onboard video HD 2000 graphics so you're not going to need well yeah that's pretty much it so that'll power the DVI port so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Intel S 1200 KP server motherboard the ITX server motherboard and actually be looking at using this in an upcoming NCIX tech tips we're going to have a look at Windows Home Server with a fractal design define our sorry not define array case so that supports up to six hard drives which means we're going to need a storage controller to go with it and we'll be using the Xeon e3 1260 l in addition to that in order to power it don't forget to subscribe for more boxing's reviews and other computer videos