ZOTAC G43ITX-A-E Mini ITX Intel Motherboard

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- Little - Onboard HDMI - Onboard WLAN - eSATA - PCI-E 2.This board operates wonderful for what I wanted it for. I'm creating a house "server"/HTPC and this is small sufficient that I can unplug three cables and bring it with me anyplace. - Size limits heatsink possibilities. I went with N82E16835426022 which works wonderful.

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-a lot of ports for a small board-hdmi is good function-fair price, cost-free shipping-plenty of cables came with board -none so far Fits into HP slimline 3507c, despite the fact that the power connector is in a diverse spot than the original mobo. I was able to cram every little thing in. had to splice a 24 pin atx connector onto original psu.

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Clean, HDMI, SATA external, built in wifi no Ethernet port! I didnt understand this at first but its not a big deal since it has wifi but it should be noted. I also have bought the zotac atom 330 with ion board and has worked good for a year now.

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exceptional board, pcie slot *does* operate with other cards besides video. i installed ati 650 pro combo and it works good..video drivers are good for win7, not so substantially for xp.[and i don't think ever will perform proper in xp, it's been years]no difficulty with win7 updates drivers either anymore. wifi is junk of course, it's atheros fault, but also zotac for deciding on it for their boards. only good factor is, you can replace it. [and hello, it requires Ʀ* antennas!]leave the wireless board off and leave room for a lot more than a half sized mini card and it might be of *some* use to someone..[capture cards, bigger wireless,etc] this will play blurays if you use software decoding, i use ffdshow and it has no challenge, in spite of not getting hardware acceleration, cuz it has semi-accelleration and ffdshow can take advantage of it..[hardware deinterlacing + computer software decoding] deinterlacing is 95% of playing video anyway..also accelerates mpeg2 totally in hardware.overall, a very useful board, upgradable, adequate ports and speed for anything.

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All chips with appropriate heatsinks. Full PCI-E x 16 slot. Contains wireless. Superb price. I had to download the audio drive from Zotac to get the standard sound jacks to function. Windows 7 did not install them. It is just a thing you will need to know.

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Size..duh. Built in wireless N. pci-e slot, plenty of usb to be so smaller. 4 sata cables, what the heck!? :) Frequency adjustment for the cpu only goes to 232!!!!!!!!!! What the heecckk!!! I know the E3300 that's on this board will do 250 with out batting an eyelash with no voltage raise. Disappointed that I'm stuck at 2.9 GHz. Even although the wifi has an external antenna, the range is not as superior as any laptop I've owned. I didn't use the G43 video mainly because I built the method with 2GB memory and didn't want to share memory. An HD 4350 on this mobo with the E3300 will run my 52" at 1080p and play all video content I threw at it flawlessly.

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A really capable mini ITX board. Supports PCI-e x16 two. video cards and Intel CPUs! The onboard wireless card is almost negative and doesn't perform at all on Windows 7. I say it's nearly bad, as the drivers for it included with the board are terrible. Following updating to the most recent XP drivers for it (I decided to reformat the laptop using XP instead of Windows 7 House Premium), it works just fine in XP. Could in no way get it to perform with Windows 7.But other then the wireless issue, it's a great motherboard! Manufacturer Response:Please check out our web page www.zotacusa.com for most updated drivers. Or you can call our tech assistance team at 1-877-599-6822.

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I picked this up for a NAS build, slapped in 2x2GB of ram, an old p4 chip, heatsink + PSU and it wouldn't boot, just black screen. The chip was over 65w and I wanted to grab a better one anyways so didn't pay to much attention.After it black screened with a 65w core2duo I was kinda pissed off, I had an inclination it was a BIOS setting so I pulled the CMOS chip then gave it a try. Sure enough the video popped up..I tried DVI, HDMI, VGA nothing would work, I don't know what they screwed up from the factory but that's pretty bad. The average buyer would've just returned it.That being said it's working like a charm now, doing exactly what I ask of it.. I can't buy a $50 motherboard and expect $200 features. For a cheap NAS box it's perfect.

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This board was was flaky from the get go, I really wish there was other reviews so I hadn't made this mistake. It appears to be a poorly designed board with horrible documention / support. The wifi card that comes with it (when you look online) requires 2 antennas, but they only include 1 and it has horrible connectivity (1Mb/s). For what ever reason, the PCI-E slot Only works with Video cards, nothing else (Network etc are not compatible). I know you get what you pay for, but this is normally almost $100. Beware

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Works wonderful. I freaked when I already ordered it, then saw that "there is no ethernet port" Some other do uche wrote that on here. It DOES have 1. None so far

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Board has every thing you could want for a modest NAS serverLike I stated in my prior evaluation, my 1st board was DOA but the 2nd 1 seems solid Can't feel of any

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Wonderful board lots of alternatives. EXCEPT WIFI CARD. The Atheros WiFi Board does not function. Bought two boards the WiFi Board does not function on either 1. Following spending hours attempting to get them to work I bought two Intel WiFi boards Intel 6200 IEEE 802.11n (draft) - Wi-Fi Adapter 622AN Half-Mini Cards, they work terrific. Just cost ME ะ Which includes shipping.