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MSI added USB 3.0 support for two ports, it also has six USB 2.0 ports, VGA and HDMI monitor outputs. Based on a Realtek CODEC we get 8 channel-audio, optionally driven though HDMI, Optical TOSLINK or analog jacks. Next to that a full Gigabit RJ-45 Ethernet jack is there for speedy internet and file-transfers.

With the mainboard flipped around we see the APU (E-350) and IO Hub (Hudson chipset) underneath a small heatsink with tiny fan. Not all ODMs (Original Device Manufacturer) use an active cooling solution though. We see one 4-pin power header for the APU.

Also located here are two DIMM DDR3 slots, we inserted 8GB in total and it ran fine, one downside here, this is a single channel memory controller.s

Flipped around we spot a x16 PCIe slot, unfortunately it really only has x4 PCIe lanes available, still it's a nice slot to have on such a small form factor product. Behind it we see no less than four SATA-600 (SATA3 / 6G) ports, nice.