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The Zotac H55-ITX WiFi board arrives in a miniscule orange coloured box with details of the product on the front and back.
The bundle contains a well written manual, a handy installation guide, WiFi antenna (2), several converter cables, 3 orange sata cables (no 90 degree unfortunately) and a motherboard connectivity fascia for the rear of the chassis.
The motherboard is passively cooled and if it is the first time you have seen a Mini ITX board, be prepared to be blown away by the diminutive size of everything!
We listed the connectivity on the last page, but as you can see above there are more than enough ports, even for the most demanding of enthusiast user, we particularly like to see eSATA included – we use this a lot in the KitGuru offices.
The board is passively cooled, this is a good move, as KitGuru hates small, high speed fans. The Wi-Fi card can be seen above next to the ram slots on the right of the picture.
The mobo is 1156 slot which means it can handle Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors from Intel. We will delve more into the system build later in the article.
The Bios is fully featured and we have taken a plethora of screenshots to show you below.
Well those products are a match made in heaven, thats for sure. Great review, thanks.
Those are the chassis designs I love – subtle, yet beautiful. very sexy case.
Cant believe the way they have built the case to take the biggest cards on the market, some full size cases can’t. Great work from Silverstone there.
Saw a review of this a few days ago on bit tech and almost ordered it. This is the tipping point. Love it, thanks for the thorough testing.
Damn, good timing, was looking at this case last week and didnt know if there were any fitting issues. I have the SG05 and really rated it, but its a bit old in the tooth now. 600W PSU here I come !
Silverstone, you rock my world, what a beautiful piece of engineering!
havent had the time to thoroughly read this just yet, but what a lovely looking chassis. cable management looks a nightmare however in such a confined space.
havent had the time to thoroughly read this just yet, but what a lovely looking chassis. cable management looks a nightmare however in such a confined space.
Well that was a very enjoyable afternoon read over here, thanks for taking the time to mix and match such a good pairing.
That 655k is a decent price in the UK, and it seems to overclock without much effort. Might look into copying this system, but maybe using a Sapphire HD5670 ultimate and try and build something basically silent.
I really do love the fact silverstone prefit such a nice PSU into this chassis and it cuts out some of the build effort. the motherboard is a decent price, but are zotac really that good? I would think someone like DFI would offer a better overclocking product.
That is a very nice design from silverstone, im tempted to build something low power with a dual core i5 myself now.
Technically the design from Silverstone is stellar. they have a top mounting fan which is focused and directed in such a strong manner, this basically blasts all the components and forces air out the sides of the case reducing component and ambient temperatures, all in one. very impressive really.
Well while the silverstone chassis impressed me the motherboard caught my eye. 14 USB 2 ports? esata, 300mbit wireless, etc etc.
What a fucking killer product that is !
This system would be perfect for me. what a great idea Zardon. all the components are affordable (well 5870 is a bit much still but …) and they all work great. Excellent review and testing.
Wow…
This should be my next gaming machine – except that I like gigabyte better. Plus I would consider some quad core with NH-C12P-14S as cooler. But not sure if will fit (it is kind a bulky for ITX form factor
Hi Jordan I tried the NH C12p 14 which we also reviewed (great cooler) and while it fits, on this particular Zotac board it blocked the PCI express slot so you have to use the onboard graphics. We have been told by Silverstone since the review went live however that the DFI mini ITX board works fine with this cooler. might be worth looking into……
Thanks for the reply.
Indeed I will look at that one… 🙂
far too much bux for a case howver good. No wonder all the computer market is going downhill. Give me a good case for $40 and a great case for £70. Gold plated with Ahgel wings for a £100. Intels biggest hole in its lineup is an atome with integrated GPU .. I dont think they have anything that will compete against F350APU at least for another 6 months, even then their gfx are normally dreadul.