Intel DH57JG “Jet Geyser” - Intel's First Mini-ITX H57
by Rajinder Gill on March 1, 2010 2:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Board Layout
Most of what you need is accessible, although you’ll need a case that has long leads for front panel switches as the front panel connector is placed in the top left corner of the board. BIOS jumper access gets a bit tricky once you plug in a few SATA cables and plug leads into surrounding connectors, the ideal place for the BIOS jumper would have been on the rear I/O panel.
Tall heatsinks are out because the CPU socket is placed very close to the DIMM slots and PCIe connector. That’s not a huge kicker though; CPU Vcore is supplied by a 3 phase circuit using small vertically mounted FETs, shattering any dreams of super-duper overclocks.
Moving over to the back, the CPU socket area is crowded with components. Intel definitely have stock heatsinks in mind as there’s no clearance for coolers that need backplates.
Zotac managed to cram 10 USB ports onto the rear I/O panel of their H55 board, Intel only supply six (the remaining six are available via onboard headers only). There are no PS/2 and VGA out ports either; space could certainly have been utilized better. As we mentioned above, the BIOS jumper should have been placed here for easy access.
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BansheeX - Monday, March 1, 2010 - link
This board is pretty much the successor to the DG45FC, so it would have been better to run performance and power consumption comparisons with that.It would also be worthwhile to explain the market for these boards and what they're capable of. These boards are for people who want silence and a small form factor, but don't want to sacrifice performance. True, an Atom box costs less and consumes significantly less power, but you might be surprised to know that an E8400 on a DG45FC with a few drives can still run on 80W DC adapter + 120W picoPSU. I'm doing this myself and have never had a hiccup. I'd imagine that 80W would not be enough if you added a video card, but I don't do that.
SKE4826 - Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - link
This board is nice overall. I have two of them with SSD's for HTPC and BRPC. Both overclock overclock my i5's nicely. 3.2Ghz 650 pushed to 3.6Ghz and 3.33Ghz 661 pushed to 4.Ghz.The BIOS update on these board is a nightmare - I cannopt stress this enough - I may never buy an Intel MB again. Not once has it worked right, via either of the mothods. It doesn't get much worse than this for a BIOS update. I have built several hundred systems over the past 25 years and never have I seen a BIOS update process worse than this. I would love to watch anyone try and say otherwise.
Other than that, I love this ITX setup with my tiny Antec 150 cases.
Teknoman117 - Monday, February 29, 2016 - link
I realize this is a necropost 6 years after the fact, but I've got an i7-870 on hand that i was trying to put in a mini-itx system. Does this board in fact lock out the i7? You guys said that an 860 was working but comments below report no-post with an 860? I forgot intel used to do these stupid locking things in 2010 and ended up buying one of these off ebay. Does it work or am i screwed?eagle63 - Monday, February 29, 2016 - link
Talk about timing - I just stumbled across this review today (feb 29 1016) because I have this motherboard and was hoping to be able to drop an i7-870 in it. But like you, the comments have me concerned that it won't work. I've been doing some googling but can't find any confirmation on whether or not that CPU will work with this board.Maybe this is a crazy idea, but you could mail me your CPU and I could drop it in my board and try it out? (then return it obviously) :) Only half kidding here..