ZOTAC GF9300-G-E Mini ITX WiFi Intel Motherboard

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Works great with Hauppauge 2250 dual TV tuner card and Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit.

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Great little mobo for an HTPC system. I put mine in a Lian Li Q07. Very cramped so you can only install the stock cpu cooler. Anyways, this board has pretty much everything you could need. Wifi, plenty of usb, 3 sata + 1 esata, hdmi/vga/dvi, pcix16. Works fine with either XP or Win7 however I had a problem with the wifi in XP. The download speed was always capped at 6Mbps and wouldn't go higher no matter what I did. Tried it with Win7 and it was fine, doing around 13Mbps. When I opened it for the first time, the back of the board had this white sticky substance all over that looked like sticker residue. I cleaned it all off with rubbing alcohol. One thing that i didn't like was that after installing the stock cooler, the board is noticeably warped. A stiffer pcb would have been nice or some kind of backplate like the one the new Gigabyte H55N-USB3 mITX board has.

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I would have given it a higher quality rating, if the first one I received actually worked. I had to rma the board after trying everything to get it to work. Zotac promptly sent a new board, and I almost thought it was having the same problem of not posting, however after booting with 1 ram stick, i was finally able to load the os. It works beautifully as a home theater pc with windows 7, and has a bit more horsepower for gaming on my big screen, than an atom solution would have. Also this board plugged right in to my shuttle k45 case that the motherboard fizzled out in.

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Specs great but motherboard was faulty. Not sure whether I want to try again with a product from this manufacturer. Kudos to customer service dept.