You've heard that prominent things arrive in little packages, and after peering over the spec sheet for Zotac's novel Fusion ITX Wi-Fi A-series CPU board, we accept no reason to doubt the wisdom in that statement. This also occurs to be Zotac's 1st Fusion CPU board, so perhaps the company was appearing to construct a statement. Mission accomplished.Let's beginning with the basics. The Fusion-ITX Wi-Fi A-series mainboard characteristics the AMD E-350 APU platform, which entails a 1.6GHz CPU with incorporated Radeon HD 6310 graphics. Standard stuff so far.


But what isn't so vanilla is the amount and character of elements and characteristics Zotac handled to stuff into an ITX package. For starters, Zotac chose all solid caps, a characteristic generally reserved for higher end boards. Passive cooling is component of the package, and so is wireless connectivity (2 Wi-Fi antennas admited), though we've just begun to scratch the surface.Even frustratingly absent on lots totally-sized CPU board, the Fusion ITX Wi-Fi A-series arrives with a pair of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, with the selection to hook up two more (via header) for a total of four.

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These are lay by 4 USB 2.0 ports (plus two more via header), HD sound port, S/PDIF end product, Gigabit Ethernet, front panel sound header, serial COM header, a pair of fan headers, HDMI, DVI, ScreenPort, and VGA (with admitted DVI-to-VGA adapter). You'll also detect 4 SATA 6Gbps ports, an eSATA 3Gbps port, two DDR3 SO-DIMM slots with defend for up to 8GB for DDR3-1066 storage, a PCI-E x4 slot, and mini PCI-E (occupied by the Wi-Fi module).


"We carefully planned our Zotac Fusion-ITX Wi-Fi A-series to incorporated as lots user-called for characteristics as potential. The result is a mini-ITX platform that offers most beneficial-in-class functioning, energy efficiency, characteristics, and expansion while only relying on passive-cooling for a silent computing go through," said Carsten Berger, marketing director, Zotac International.