ECS H67H2-I Motherboard
On-Board Peripherals
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The Intel H67 chipset is a single-chip solution, and is also known as PCH (Platform Controller Hub). This chip supports two SATA-600 ports and four SATA-300 ports, but it doesn’t support RAID. One of the SATA-300 ports was routed to the rear panel, using the eSATA format. The manufacturer decided to offer only two SATA-300 ports to the user.
You have to pay close attention, because on the H67H2-I the SATA-300 ports are white, and all other manufacturers use white to identify the SATA-600 ports. On this motherboard the SATA-600 ports are gray.
Figure 5: SATA-300 (white) and SATA-600 (gray) ports
The motherboard has an eSATA-300 port, as mentioned above.
This motherboard has 10 USB 2.0 ports, six soldered on the rear panel and four available though two headers located on the motherboard. It also has two USB 3.0 ports controlled by an EtronTech EJ168A chip.
No FireWire (IEEE1394) ports are available.
The H67H2-I comes with eight-channel audio, generated by the chipset using a Realtek ALC892 codec. Unfortunately Realtek doesn’t publish technical data about this chip, so we can’t comment on the quality of the on-board audio. The board comes with an optical SPDIF connector, but it doesn’t come with an SPDIF header, so there is no way to have a coaxial SPDIF connector with this motherboard.
The analog audio jacks are independent only if you use a 5.1 analog speaker system. If you use a set of 7.1 analog speakers you will have to “kill” either the “mic in” or the “line in” jack.
The portrayed motherboard has one Gigabit Ethernet port, controlled by a Realtek RTL8111E chip.
One of the highlights of the H67H2-I is the presence of a Bluetooth controller and antenna.
In Figure 6, you can see the motherboard rear panel, with six USB 2.0 ports, HDMI output, VGA output, DVI-D output, eSATA-300 port, Gigabit Ethernet port, two USB 3.0 ports (blue ones), Bluetooth controller and antenna, optical SPDIF output and shared analog 7.1 audio outputs.
Figure 6: Motherboard rear panel
This motherboard has a legacy serial port available through a header, but you will need to buy an adapter to use it.
In Figure 7, you can see all the accessories that come with this motherboard.
Figure 7: Accessories