Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

| Source: Zotac Price: £130 Author: Bryan Waters

Introduction

Today we're taking a look at the latest motherboard from Zotac. Based around the recently released Z68 chipset this is a seriously compact ITX form factor board with built in WiFi.

Indeed there are a few features on the Zotac that make it worthy of a second look as a potential board. There is Intel's HD3000 GPU, room for a full-on discrete GPU should the mood take you and all the normal things we'd expect out of a Z68 based motherboard.

What really raises our eyebrows is the overclocking potential, something that isn't always available on such tiny boards, but we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Let's take a look at the specifications.

Technical Specifications

As you can see with support for 2133MHz DDR3, SATA 3, USB 3.0 and a x16 PCIe slot this isn't short of all the latest gadgets. It's especially nice to see the on-board WiFi is of the 802.11n variety so it should get a great signal wherever you choose to place it, vital as obviously ITX boards lend themselves to HTPC applications.

Model Z68ITX-A-E Manufacturer Intel Chipset Z68 Express GPU Intel® HD Graphics 2000/3000 ready

Name 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ series

2000 Series Intel® Core i3, i5 & i7 ready

Support up to 130-watt TDP

Socket LGA1155 Memory Type DDR3 Memory Speed 2133 MHz Slots 2 x 240-pin DIMM Capacity Up to 16GB Expansion Slots 1 x PCI Express x16

1 x Combo mini-PCI Express / mSATA (occupied by WiFi card)

DirectX DirectX 10.1 OpenGL OpenGL 2.1 Ethernet 2 x 10/100/1000 Mbps WiFi 802.11n/g/b (300 Mb/s) Analog 8-ch HD Digital S/PDIF

DVI NA HDMI 2 (HDMI 1.4a)

VGA NA DisplayPort 1 (min-DP) SATA 2 (SATA 6.0 Gb/s)

2 (SATA 3.0 Gb/s) eSATA NA IDE N/A PS/2 1 (keyboard/mouse) Serial Port NA USB Ports 4 USB 3.0 (2 on back panel, 2 on pin header)

8 USB 2.0 (4 on back panel, 4 on pin header) Firewire N/A Cooler Passive (without fan) Form Factor mini-ITX Windows Windows® Vista/7 premium ready SLI Supported No Maximum Resolution 2048x1536 Package Contents 4 x SATA cables

1 x I/O back plate

2 x WiFi antennas

1 x 8-pin power extension cable

1 x USB 3.0 header (full-size bracket)

1 x USB 3.0 low-profile bracket

1 x Vertical mini-PCI Express full height bracket (for mSATA SSDs)

1 x mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort adapter

1 - Introduction and Technical Specifications 2 - Up Close 3 - BIOS and Some Issues 4 - Test Setup and Overclocking 5 - AIDA64 6 - SiSoft Sandra 7 - PC Mark 8 - CineBench and 3D Mark 11 9 - Conclusion «Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next»

Most Recent Comments