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today we're gonna be having a look at the zotac age 55 ITX Wi-Fi mind you that's not really the whole story today this is the whole story now with USB 3.0 because they had a board called this before but this is the c dash e revision which features USB 3.0 now i don't think we ever actually unboxed the original board so why don't we run through all of the aspects of this board since this is an unboxing and first look it's an aged 55 board so it does feature in LGA 1156 socket with support for core i3 Core i5 and even core i7 quad cores up to a max TDP of 95 watts we have intel quickpath technology until HD graphics ready although this is the big one PCI Express 16 X because HD graphics is not quite as impressive as being able to put a GTX 480 on a motherboard that's smaller than a GTX 480 there it is okay hold on there's more though dual channel ddr3 up to 1333 megahertz 2 dims up to 8 gigs of ram 6 SATA 2 stop moving what you doing I guess that makes sense 10 USB 2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports that's a lot a USB Gigabit LAN 802.11 n Wi-Fi that is n standard Wi-Fi up to 300 megabits per second and that is one feature-rich board so here this is your antenna plug PCI bracket thing so you will use this to plug in your antennas which are also included with the port like they really do include everything it's kind of neat how sometimes you know when you compare like a sounds like a small product it seems to come with a big accessory package there's two antennas there is a DVI to VGA adapter that is an i/o backplate very solid feeling here's an extension cable into case you need to extend your CPU 4 pin connector to a longer CPU 4 pin connector then you've got three SATA cables which is an odd amount and finally a quick installation guide and fine again a user's manual with a DVD that you should CD rather that you should throw away and download the latest from ZOTAC check that out lifetime warranty in USA Mexico Canada and Latin American so Latin America so I yeah eat it Europe Middle East and a pack that's hidden Pacific Asia I believe something like that anyway we win we get a lifetime warranty you got only a five-year warranty which is actually still pretty freakin good for a motherboard five years is is is actually outstanding compared to some of the Tier one motherboard manufacturers so here we are let's have a look at the overall board layout I thought this was actually I thought I was showing you the board right-side up but it looks like I'm not it looks like now I'm showing you the board right-side up so let's start with the CPU socket as I mentioned before this is an LGA 1156 socket with all of the latest Intel processors supported that is the ones on this socket not the LGA 1366 processors we have a PCI Express 16x slot we have a four pin CPU power connector we've got a heatsink right about here you can see this had to be kind of machined down in order to make room for the CPU fan but that means it's gonna get a lot of incidental airflow from whatever fan you do install and you better make sure whatever CPU heatsink you install it's giving that some airflow because this is meant to be installed in cramped cases where cooling isn't always the best and if it's designed to work this way make sure it works this way they have a battery we have our age fifty-five chipset six SATA two ports two USB headers I mean really this thing has like a ton of USB anyone is that ten USB 2.0 on the back let me just verify that really quick than one two three four or five six no no that included the four here okay so 10 total and then two USB 3.0 so it's all good alright we have our wireless end PC mini PCI Express card as well as our dual channel ddr3 slot supporting up to 8 gigs of ram in a 24-pin connector here is your CPU no this is system and and this is your cpu fan connector so you have two four pin pwm fan connectors on this particular board here is your front panel connector headers and then that looks like your front audio connector right there this board does not include firewire which is fine because firewire is mostly useless anyway and let's have a look at the i/o on the back here we go we have a reset CMO switch that is hardcore I want you to look closely at that camera man clear CMOS on the back panel I love this on a board like that's barely as big as a C Mo's battery it's epic it's awesome if that doesn't call for overclocking and I don't know what else does so we've got one two three four five six USB 2.0 ports as I mentioned before two USB 3.0 ports a ps2 port which I do still like to see DVI HDMI eSATA Gigabit Ethernet optical audio out as well as 7.1 audio and then this is another thing that I just think I should call attention to I talked about this previously on Anna soos video card look at the matte black PCB I mean that is awesome everything should come with a matte black PCB I mean look at it it makes everything look way cooler I mean if if Batman was in like glossy piano black or you know that that color that's like more like brown than black like if Batman wore that color he wouldn't look as cool but he wears matte black and that's why he looks awesome unless you watched the really old show where he wears like gray and it's like tights Batman was less cool then thank you for watching Linus tech tips and don't forget to subscribe