The box face
The box dons the ZOTAC amber and black livery with the product name emblazoned across the centre with a few points of interest, being the Intel Atom logo, a sign to tell us about the onboard NVIDIA GeForce GT 520 GPU and ZOTAC's extended warranty badge.
Rear side of the box
On the reverse we have the product description, an image of the product itself and a foundation of compliance certificates that are supporting information tiles detailing some of the product features.
Included accessories
Bundled in the box we find The Manual, an installation guide, driver CD, 2x WiFi Antenna, two of those lovely amber SATA cables, and a DVI-VGA adapter. Everything you need to get started.
The D2700-ITX WiFi Supreme
The most striking thing we see is the 80mm fan atop the heatsink. Sticking out the side of the heatsink we see the two 6mm heatpipes that run across both the Atom CPU and the NVIDIA GT 520 GPU. The only real points of colour come from the PCIe lane, in the a familiar orange hue and the red SATA ports. The motherboard is attractive and nothing ghastly jumps out. The PCB is riddled with solder points, SMDs, ports and headers, you certainly wouldn't want to pour your toolbox on to this by mistake.
Fan & fan clips
The 80mm x 15mm fan appears to be CoolerMaster branded and takes on the the challenge (hardly) of dissipating the heat from the heatsink. As the fan is only 15mm thick, it would seem ZOTAC have intentionally made the cooler low profile enabling this ITX motherboard to fit in some very tight spaces.
Underside of the fan
The OEM is Pyrotechnic Magic, it has a 4pin PWM connector and draws a max of 0.23A. Detailed specs seem somewhat non-existant but it is likely to be a ball bearing type fan. In testing the fan never changed its speed from 1600rpm even in our 'power consumption' burn test to find peak power draw. The sound emitted by this fan is very quiet, to further my point, the system is less than 500mm away from my ear on an open test bed so I have no issue in claiming that this fan will be virtually inaudible in an enclosure and in a more conventional situation. (Yes virtually inaudiable means, 'I cannot say it is silent because I know it makes sound even if it cannot be heard.')
