The back side comes with a lot of connectors and additional ventilation holes; here we can find the ports for 7.1 audio, along with a SPDIF, optical out; for video output we can find VGA and HDMI and for data transfer there are available 5 USB 2.0 ports and a Gigabit LAN connector; on the right side there is the power connector and the antenna port; the product can also come with a TV tuner preinstalled so the barebone comes with a covered pre-drilled hole:
After removing the plastic side, we can see the place where the storage drive gets installed; on this lateral we can also see part of the pre-installed optical drive:
The wireless interface supports IEEE 802.11 b/g/n standards and the controller is a Ralink RT3870L:
Near the 2.5'' drive connector, two Samsung K4W1G1646G-BC11 GDDR3 64Mx16 memory chips can be found:
The plastic lateral comes with some aluminum tape glued onto it and some thermal pads, to help evacuate the excess heat from the storage drive:
After opening the other aluminum lateral, we can discover the large heatsink and a smaller one, which are covered with thermal pads with protective film on them:
On this side we can find the Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit Ethernet controller:
The barebone comes with two memory slots and we can install up to 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 SODIMM of memory:
The smaller heatsink is held with a metallic clip secure on the PCB:
Near it there is the CR2032 CMOS battery and a good addition is the CLR_CMOS jumper, which is not seen a lot on such types of systems:
The larger heatsink also comes with two copper heatpipes: