 So I believe this is one of the first h61 boards that I'm unboxing so the h61 is basically like the h67 Except cheaper, so there's a couple small changes like it only supports two memory slots unlike the h67 which supports four And I'm pretty sure there's something else too Oh, yeah, I don't believe there's any support for SATA 3 6 gigabit per second which to anyone buying sort of an L Cheapo chipset board probably doesn't matter that much so this is a gigabyte board it features ultra durable too Which is like sort of last generation ultra durable? Including Japanese solid capacitors 4 plus 1 plus 1 phase power, which is pretty basic I mean that okay, let's set our expectations somewhere realistic for this board. It is 2011 select Uses the b3 stepping which means that there are no issues with the SATA 2 ports So that is really important basically any H61 h67 p67 board you buy you want to make sure it's using the b3 stepping and it features a place I know the guarantee or 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 3 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 hub or if you're using a high powered device That requires more energy to charge then a gigabyte board will be more capable of charging it than another board So here there's a little warning don't use socket 1156 CPUs. Thanks to good bite users manual as well as a driver's and utilities DVD one IO shield Silver two SATA cables one right angle one straight blue and some environmentally 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 ports you can see it has four slots like standard and ATX But it's not as wide as a normal and ATX board. Let me grab one just to actually here. Here's an ATX board No, this is an mATX board, which is also a no no this may be a standard with one No, I think this one's a little bit narrow too. Okay. Give me give me a sec. Give me a sec here guys There's a standard width board so that's an ATX board, but they should be the same width So basically what gigabytes 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 h61 chipset does not support any overclocking So you're not going to need a whole lot more than the 4 plus 1 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 4 pin power connector up here in the top left in its 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 axe 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 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 hardware 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 upgrade or 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 PS two ports once again aimed at that upgrade market VGA as well as DVI HDMI and display port won't be necessary six USB two ports so that coupled with the two headers It gives you a total of ten USB two ports Wow, I guess it's gigabit Ethernet. Why don't we double check that because 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. 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