ZOTAC GF9300-G-E Mini ITX WiFi Intel Motherboard

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This board has fantastic flexibility with all the a variety of ports, and the onboard video is gorgeous on my 32 inch Television. Haven't tried to do something more intensive than watching DVD's, however... The GPU indicates a temperature of virtually 80C. I comprehend this is fairly high, given that it is reporting this temperature from standstill, not soon after gaming. Getting study the other testimonials on this page, I'm going to try to greater secure the heatsink, but I'm loathe to take the machine apart once more. Mini ITX isn't entertaining to assemble in the initially location. I realize I could just put a discrete card in, but I thought the point of outstanding onboard graphics was that I wouldn't need to place in a discrete card.Also, the WIFI module is useless. I don't suggest selecting this board more than an additional for it. The four eggs are for the prospective of the board, the ding was for me worrying it's going to melt by way of the case and the hassle of trying to repair that.Technique setup is:This board / Rosewill mini ITX case / Core2 E7500 / Stock cooler w/arctic 5 / Hitachi 500gb / Plextor burnerEverything reads 30-40C when the GPU is 80C.

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excellent specs for current generation mini-itx board I had a lot of challenges until I found stock cooler pushing against northbridge heatsink. Half of the feasible orientations of the stock heatsink press on the northbridge heatsink which explains the percentage of poor ratings on this board. The manual isn't extremely valuable. You'll be far better off using Google for any concerns you have during installation.AMD's new platform is coming quickly which will have superior integrated graphics.

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Good motherboard. Operates as expected with no problems. This is my second Zotac motherboard and I have been quite pleased with both of them. It took 3 tries to get 1 that was not broken in shipping. Vibration had triggered the chip heatsink to break loose and knock the crystal off the board. I don't think the shipper was to blame as the boxes had been in perfect situation. Perhaps Zotac desires to safe the heatsink much better. In any event, Newegg handled the RMA's quite rapidly and efficiently. Excellent RMA procedure on Newegg's element. Not certain why the harm occurred as the chip heatsink is not that heavy. Just terrible luck I guess. Anyway, it performs fine now.

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Fully featured ITX board that can socket a quad core if you need to have it. Low energy usage at wall from the board itself. Integrated nVidia 9300 operates flawlessly with five.1 audio and video over HDMI. Dual channel memory, three SATA ports, and solidly constructed. Northbridge (which homes the 9300) runs a little warm, but not a problem passively cooled in a Silverstone Sugo 05 (with the fan not running). Just make certain when you're handling the board and running cables that the somewhat flimsy heatsink unit on the Northbridge is not becoming pushed on by cables or turn out to be unbalanced. Has been running steady in 24ǝ operation because I bought it. Couldn't ask for much more for the characteristics.

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Incredibly well built smaller mother board. Set up was incredibly uncomplicated documentation was very good and help from internet sight outstanding drivers, bios, e-mail help from Zotac and on.Newegg Wonderful Fantastic and constantly on time Fantastic Cust Service. Zero none, I create about 10 – 15 systems per year and have located by means of the college of challenging bumps its a lot significantly less high priced and a lot less discomfort, just do your analysis and choose the finest good quality parts you can afford. Pay interest to detail O did I say Pay Focus TO DETAIL when you are assembling the hardware and DO NOT let your mother board just guess what setting your hardware wants SET THEM yourself in bios to manufacture spec for your components to start off. Install your OS and drivers adequately. Spend interest to detail!!!!!! This technique is a key Pc for the property components list Rosewood case W/PSU 150W, four GIG ram Patriot, Western Digital green 500 GIG challenging drive, Samsung DVD burner, Blue Tooth important board, 22” Samsung monitor, xp32, Windows 7 64.

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Little kind aspect. Superb capabilities for an htpc. Wake from S3 does perform. I am in a position to wake with my Gyration remote and keyboard as effectively as my Logitech Dinovo Edge keyboard which utilizes a proprietary bluetooth dongle. Won't wake with a generic bluetooth dongle and my wacom bluetooth tablet, but I assume that has to do with the bluetooth dongle and not the board. Alas, I can't use S3 since of the fan issue (see cons). I don't have any heat troubles (gpu stays around 50c and cpu 35-40c). I have the board in an Apex MI-008 case with a 120mm case fan, 4GB pny ram, stock psu and wd black 640GB hdd running windows 7 64 bit rtm, no dvd/cd drive. I don't have any heat concerns (gpu stays around 50c and cpu 35-40c). I have the board in an Apex MI-008 case with a 120mm case fan, 4GB pny ram, stock psu and wd black 640GB hdd operating windows 7 64 bit rtm, no dvd/cd drive. I would have provided 5 eggs if not for the cpu fan challenge. The cpu fan is underpowered immediately after waking from S3, regardless of bios setting, so a lot so that some fans won't even come on. Even if the fan comes on it is at a incredibly low setting that may well not be adequate. If you use a PWM fan you'll want to verify you technique temp and make confident that it is running cool enough right after S3. Most probably with a 4 pin cpu fan S3 is out of the query. Zotac is conscious of this difficulty and they say they are functioning on a bios update to fix it. Thre are perform-arounds. For me, correct now I'm just not utilizing S3. Also smartfan setting in bios doesn't do anythig (fan stays at prior setting soon after turning smartfan on). I have the GF9300-G-E rev 04. My cpu fan is the Silverstone NT07 775. Various people have reported that the SS NT07 will not come back on after waking from S3 with this board. Fans that have been reported to come back on are the stock intel fan and the Zerotherm Atom, which is stated to fit the rev 04 version superior than it did earlier versions. One particular person reported removing the pwm wire on their NT07 then it will start out up immediately after resuming from S3, but it will run full bore 񢈊 rpms) which could be too loud (I know it is for me) and also could wear the fan out mainly because it isn't meant to run that rapid. For the discussion that this info came from google the AVS forum and come across the gf9300-d-e thread. Also, all reports so far indicate that the rev 04 board is what individuals are receiving which has a spdif header on board.

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Typically performs as advertised. A excellent platform for folks who want a smaller media Computer operating Windows 7 but need to have more energy than a thing like an Atom-based solution. There is WAY also much thermal grease caked onto the GPU/northbridge!!! Out of the box, I was receiving GPU temps as higher as 80 C. So I took off the integrated heatsink, cleaned off all of the grease with alcohol, and replaced it with a thin layer of Arctic Silver 3 I had laying around from earlier builds. Now my GPU temps max out about 65 C when pushed hard, a significant improvement! I wonder if this is why so quite a few men and women are experiencing latent board failures?The wifi module spontaneously disconnects whenever I begin a Netflix streaming movie, which is a genuine disappointment because I constructed this machine to be a media Computer. Going wired for now. Check THE THERMAL GREASE. Clean it and replace it with your own. Much better but, take the push-pins off of the integrated heatsink and replace them with real nuts/bolts/washers for added reliability.The on board graphics are fine for lighter gaming which serves my purposes just fine, but if you like to ramp up the detail, invest in a genuine graphics card.

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Great board. No hiccups of any type so far for last three months. Every thing just operates. More than two months and not a peep about my rebate, even though I did each the mail in and on the web registration of the rebate. Had read all the testimonials about the rebate troubles but bought it anyway simply because it seems other than the rebate and DOA difficulties it sounded to be a very good motherboard. So far it's been operating fantastic for me, so fantastic that I would like to buy yet another but I won't until Zotac sends me the rebate for this one particular. The way I figure it is if Zotac is prepared to shed a satisfied client more than a ฤ rebate then so be it, I'll just acquire from a different manufacturer.

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worked nicely until it didn't. soon after about two months of use. the network connection on the motherboard dead...

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NONE due to the truth that this board has extremely higher failure rates. Definitely is not encouraged for gamers or high end something. Higher Failure price!!! DO NOT WASTE YOUR Income!!! Get the Gigabyte Mini-ITX Board...it is excellent. Remain away from Zotac, it's poor good quality and poor performing.

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Board is fantastic, I appreciate it.Best fit in the Antec Mini Skeleton case. I has been serving as a media Computer in my living space for two months. Zotac client service stinks. I referred to as about my rebate (which I may possibly under no circumstances see) and was initial told to get in touch with back in ten minutes. Named back and a person took my name and telephone number and stated that I would receive a call either right now or tomorrow. Not holding my breath.Buyer service is outsourced. Get the board if fits your requirements, it is a good solution and does match a niche. Just don't factor the rebate into your final expense, it's only been two months for me but I have read some pretty bad items about Zotac rebates. Manufacturer Response:we are operating extremely tough and enhancing the rebate challenge. sorry for any delays.

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The motherboard has a lot to supply in such a compact package. See 'Cons' as to why I can't list anything else. The a single I ordered came defective and I have been dealing with Zotac for ****ƪ MONTHS***** attempting to get it replaced. The firm is HORRIBLE to deal with in each and every respect. If you get a working motherboard shipped, hope you under no circumstances have to deal with any person in their firm. They've lost my paperwork, no one calls back (if you can get in touch in the very first location), processing something takes a minimum of 30 days. Purchaser BEWARE! Wish I could have at least played with the motherboard for a little when prior to dealing with the worst firm in my 14+ years of this line of operate.Buyer BEWARE!

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Runs windows 7 ultimate in a HTPC, blue ray is awesome on the plasma with this unit. e8400 4gigs ram lan li cube. wish it had alot more sata ports for raid, wifi operates but not that rapidly. nevertheless want to try the hybrid SLI on this with a tiny 9300 card and see what it does...

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Sophisticated board with good onboard graphicsProperly supported by Vista (hardly needed any drivers to function)Tiny...of courseEffortlessly accessible connections, good BIOS Exactly where are the fan controllers? I only see one particular for the CPU.Zotac pulled the 20 rebate when my item shipped. All I could discover in a Newegg search is a 15 rebate (and it's at the moment ten).Zotac rebate expediting is broken Zotac genuinely wants to straighten out their rebate reputation. Following all my trouble it sounds like I most likely won't get something.

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Wake from USB... but isn't that expected? Doesn't boot, gets stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool", can\'t boot to any device. Worked for a few weeks, could under no circumstances finish my make. Help will not return my emails relating to an advance RMA that they provided, so now I'm even additional behind on my develop.

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On paper the board looks excellent. Permits you to use a 775 processor in an itx enclosure. On paper it is the best design for HTPC applications when you want much more punch than an Atom processor. The board does not enable for smartfan manage and s3 suspend to be applied in conjunction. If the program goes to standby then the fans will be undervolted upon resume ans at times will not spin up. Couple that with a sub-par northbridge cooler (could you at least have incorporated copper and some heat pipes) and you will run into extreme complications attempting to use this board in a low noise HTPC application. I attempted everything, from deciding upon the processor with the lowest thermal signature, to drilling a port for an additional case fan, to updating the Bios, to using high top quality thermal paste, disabling s3 suspend. Absolutely nothing resulted in a stable method temperature over time. I am going to keep away from this manufacturer's merchandise from now on. I have spent weeks attempting to get this method to work with no luck. I applied a Lian Li itx case. It is huge and must have outstanding airflow compared to other ITX cases, specifically with my modded intake fan on the front of the case.Thankfully I have returned the board for a refund. Out of the 100's of computers I have built and the 1000s far more I have serviced, this 1 board is my all-time least preferred.

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Tiny. Fantastic idea for HTPC. Just about any connectionyou can think of which includes PCIE x16 expansion. 1st board had to be RMA. Would not pass BIOS Verify Sum. (Quick replacement from Newegg) 2nd board worked for 1 month until CPU began going to one hundred% on boot till Windows 7 entirely stopped responding. Event viewer showed problem loading network services. I disabled on board ethernet in BIOS (turn off LAN MAC address) the issue was solved. I was employing WIFI so it was not a bid deal. Following two month USB ports started getting complications. Now the back USB header is dead. Never ever received my บ rebate from ZOTAC. I will not purchase one more ZOTAC product.I will be replacing ZOTAC with an Intel Mini itx board and cutting the losses. Manufacturer Response:I apologize for the poor practical experience you are having with our item. For Technical Assistance please contact our Tech Support team and they will be joyful to help you. In addition, your motherboard need to still be beneath warranty (please refer to our website for warranty particulars). If you need a replacement please, request for an RMA. For status inquiries of rebates, please get in touch with our rebate department by 1) e-mail at rebate@zotacusa.com or 2) Help Ticket.Thanks!External Link(s): Techincal Support| ZOTAC Warranty Details| ZOTAC RMA Request| Submit a Help Ticket|

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This Mobo is brilliant. Correct HD video out through onboard HDMI operates perfectly. No need for a pci GPU. Dolby digital up to 7.1 out sounds amazing. I put this into an HTPC create for my household theater such as an Optoma HD65 with 92" screen, Yamaha A/v receiver and 6.1 Klipcsh surround sound and this tiny Mobo sends the A/v program totally great picture and sound high quality with out any glitch or lag! I've put a Celeron E3200 Duel core two.4 CPU and only 2 gig memory stick on this board and it run fantastic. Even plays WoW on med-high settings just fine. No added GPU required. Plays BlueRay HD motion pictures completely. If you can't get this on sale, its a small pricey. If you can't get this on sale, there are other Mobo's that are a lot cheaper but are not mini/itx size.

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Basically the finest 775 mini board on the marketplace, spec wise. Within a week the board would fail to POST, hanging on "Verifying DMI Pool Data" message...there is a BIOS update to fix this problem, which doesn't do you a entire lot of very good when you can't even boot to any devices. Incredibly lame. Returned it and going to give Zotac one more shot at redemption with the subsequent revision which they've already announced, due to the fact there aren't a lot of options.

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Mini ITX type aspect with all you need to have for a smaller HTPC. Works fantastic when it works.This would have been a five star item if i hadn't knowledgeable the challenges listed in cons Poor high quality manage. My revision had no power supplied to the USB ports through standby so working with a wireless USB KB to wake it up is not doable.Arrived with a defective WiFi module that would function intermittently. RMA'd the module and overcame that hurdle.Numerous months later the program began hanging at "Verifying DMI Pool........" Apparently there is a fix for this in a newer bios nonetheless it does me no excellent taking into consideration it can't even boot to a floppy or CD-ROM to update it.Board will have to be removed and RMA'd now.