Zotac H67-ITX WiFi H67 Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
A Closer Look
The H67-ITX WiFi has a funky design using the Mini ITX form factor and an array of bright coloured ports and connectors. From first glance we can see the design and situation of main components has been laid out quite nicely.
Cooling on the board consists of a passive heatsink over the H67 chipset and passive fin design over the phase/VRM area. By being passive, it makes the board perfect for HTPC usage due to its ability to remain silent which when coupled with an SSD and silent CPU cooler, you’ll surely be onto a winner.
The board has two DIMM slots supporting up to 16GB of DDR3 1333MHz in dual channel mode. Obviously if faster modules are used it will downclock them to a lower speed. With a board like this, we suggest something like the LoVo series of memory from Kingston to give performance and low power draw.
Though this board is aimed at HTPC users in mind and has the functionality behind the H67 chipset and Sandybridge in general by offering up an all in one graphics solution, you may want to use a discrete graphics card at some point or another, especially if light gaming is your bag. This board caters directly for that with a single PCI-Express x16 2.0 slot.
There is another expansion slot which may not be obvious straight away but this board includes a Mini PCI-Express port which is taken up by a WiFi card, but can be removed if you wish.
Just between the memory slots and PCI-Express slot is where you’ll find the front panel headers for power, reset and various LEDs. There is also a 4-pin PWM fan header present for your CPU cooler and your typical 24-pin power connector.
Moving around the board we see a 4-pin power connector next to the SPDIF out and front panel audio headers.
Storage is quite plentiful on a board of this size and includes four SATA 3Gbps which support RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 as well as two SATA 6Gbps ports which sadly have no form of RAID support. There is also a 4-pin PWM fan header for any system case fans you may have.
Just next to the SATA connectors are a set of USB headers which include two USB 2.0 headers and a single native USB 3.0 header.
The rear I/IO includes a PS/2 combo port, two USB 3.0 ports, DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI-I. Just above the DVI-I port is two WiFI antenna connectors for use with the supplied aerials. There is also four USB 2.0 ports, an eSATA 3Gbps port, Intel Gigabit LAN, optical SPDIF and analog audio ports.
