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ZOTAC GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi Review
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The Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi
As we've mentioned earlier, the Zotac 9300-ITX comes in mini-ITX form and as such is really small, but that doesn't mean you have to sacrifice on usability as the board comes with a decent amount of options (as the technical specifications of the board would attest). It has six USB ports on the rear I/O bracket, and an additional six more can be enabled through onboard USB headers. If there's anything we could use more of, it's definitely SATA ports. The Zotac 9300-ITX only has two, and with one most likely already reserved by your, presumably, Blu-ray drive, that means you only have another for your hard drive. Clearly, an additional SATA port would have been very useful.
However, the Zotac 9300-ITX does redeem itself somewhat when we took a look at its generous video output options. With VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs, the board does seem to have all bases covered, and users should find it a breeze to hook it up to their existing living room systems.
You can't have your cake and eat it, so the super small Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi gets only a single PCIe x16 slot and two SATA ports. |
Again, because of space constraints, this board gets only two DIMM slots, but thankfully, it'll support up to 8GB of DDR2 memory. |
Despite its small size, the Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi manages to pack almost all the possible ports you need. No FireWire, however, but you do get six USB 2.0 ports, a PS/2 port for keyboards, a RJ-45 Gigabit LAN port, an all-important eSATA port and various video ports: DVI, HDMI and VGA. |
As its name suggest, the board comes with an optional wireless module, enabling WiFi connection and is made possible by a single VIA VT6656 Wireless LAN controller chip. |
To clear the CMOS, short the jumper as seen here. |
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