ECS H55H-I Review: Mini-ITX at a Sensible Price
by Rajinder Gill on May 6, 2010 6:59 AM EST- Posted in
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The H55H-I follows Intel’s standard H55/H57 mini-ITX layout. CPU socket placement is very close to the PEG slot and the DIMM slots to the right, leaving most tower type coolers out of the equation if using tall DIMMs.
The SATA ports and front panel connecters are placed at the top left of the board along with the CMOS jumper. Given the overclocking options provided and the fact that ECS’ BIOS does not have any kind of safe-boot feature, a rear panel button would have been a better choice.
Power delivery is taken care of by a three phase circuit for VCC, while VTT and VAXG get one phase supplies repectively. We’d guess that all FETs used can pump out around 30 amps each, so not a lot of room for overclocking four core processors.
This is probably the most barren backside we’ve seen on a mini-ITX board to date. There's more than enough room to use coolers with backplates, although we can’t see many people wanting to do that.
Most of what you need is provided on the backplate, the only exception being PS/2 for those of you with older keyboards and mice.
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Mr Perfect - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Kill all the legacy ports already!The only reasonable reason anyone seems to come up with for needing PS/2 is old KVMs. We've been using PS/2 to USB converters for those at work, so even that's not a big problem.
jaydee - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
How did an i5-661 beat an i5-750 in the AutoCAD benchmark...Rajinder Gill - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Higher Turbo frequency I think.danger22 - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
so there is no raid whatsoever on H55? what mini-itx boards have decent raid support? anything on par with ICH10 that comes on full sized boards?MadMan007 - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
H57 has RAID, H55 doesn't.Rajinder Gill - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Anand compared SATA performance of a few chipsets here:http://www.anandtech.com/show/2973/6gbps-sata-perf...
Rajinder Gill - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Forgot to add - the Intel DH57JG will do RAID...takerangle - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Is that typo sir?http://anandtech.com/show/3699/ecs-h55hi-miniitx-a...
Rajinder Gill - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
Thanks, fixed!RustyRat - Thursday, May 6, 2010 - link
There is a continuous reference to "30 amps" .. is that a Typo? ... "30 amps" is a lotta power!