today I've got a short unboxing of an MSI Motherboard this is the p67a c43 so
it's very similar to the c45 except for a couple small things and
that couple small things is pretty much
one small thing it doesn't have uh as
many USB 3.0 ports so we're going to go through the overall features of this
board this is an 1155 board which means you've got support for Intel core I3
Core i5 and core i7 processors on
the uh of the second generation variety
so only 1155 chips don't try to use an 1156 chip in here it will not work so
we're talking 2500k will work 2600k will
work 875k will not work okay features
the military Class 2 concept with super farite chokes solid caps it's got OC
gen2 for One Touch overclocking of K series processors as well as a ufi click
BIOS let's flip this over it features a three-year warranty in the USA and
Canada and there's nothing under there
cat let's see what else they have to say for themselves we've got winky 3 which
is their software that allows you to chat with friends maintain hard drive
data edit docs and photos without any OS and you can also surf the Internet and
that's pretty much it for the back of the box yeah that's pretty much it so
let's open this guy up and have a look
see oh this is
interesting huh fascinating cable okay well we'll talk
about that in a minute first we've got our drivers and utilities DVD throw it
away download the latest off the MSI website here is a quick installation
guide you might need that if you want to install it quickly software application
user guide actual motherboard user
guide ooh color inside
uh uh inside cover that who is that a
what board is that oh that is an x58 board okay that's not a popular x58
board anymore that's their Eclipse very old very discontinued it's okay all
right we've got a couple SATA cables one right angle one straight we've got some
M connectors these are for easily connecting your front panel connectors
we've got an IO Shield which is look at that colorcoded very nice very very very
nice all right and we've got what appears to be a
usb3 header to USB 2
mail header so you can if I can get it to focus you'll be able to see the pins
on this thing so if you want to turn your internal USB 3.0 header into an
internal USB 2.0 header you could do
that if you wanted okay so let's grab the board
itself just going to close the Box real quick
here so we can see what we're
doing
take that tape off come
on ah there you go you can cooperate Mr
baggie and here is the board itself so it looks very similar to its
uh well very similar brother the P wait
hold on just a darn
moment oh oh okay I get it hold on I'll
be back in a minute okay here is the difference so you see that NC chip there
there's some other board components around it that are see here this guy
right here okay hold on I'm going to turn my manual focus off actually no
that's fine not present here so this is
a USB 2 header see how it's colorcoded
black and see how it's colorcoded blue on the other board and it's called well
here it's called USB 3 inside see USB 3.0 here it is not called any such thing
because and now I'm going to turn my manual focus off the c43 only
features come on Focus manual focus is
off uhoh I'll be back in a minute okay
manual focus is off now okay so because
this board only features two USB 3.0
ports that's why I got confused as soon as I saw the USB 3.0 port on the back
and I saw a header here I was like well how does this work it only has two ports
cuz this is a USB 2.0 header but rather
than redesigning the PCB they just haven't included the usb3 chipset here
the NEC chipset we saw on the higher end board and that is why it has this funky
adapter because now this is a USB 2.0 header so there's another USB 2.0 header
for a total of two okay so the overall layout of the this board is very similar
we've got our LGA 1155 socket right here in the middle we've got lot of room
around it you can see this lower end board also doesn't include the heat
sinks around the CPU area that are cooling see you can see the outlines for
where they would normally belong that are cooling the voltage regulation
modules we have an 8 Pin power connector up here in the top left as well as
support for four sticks of DDR3 running in dual Channel our 24 pin power is
along the right hand edge of the board in its optimal location and moving down
we have full support for SATA 3 6 GB per second running off of the Intel chip set
come on Focus there you go as well as four SATA 2 3 GB perss
ports here is the heat sink for the Intel chipset itself and continuing to
move down the board we have all of our front panel connectors our USB 2.0
header that I have now talked about endlessly and we've also got front no
front fire wire which The Other Board did have we have no rear fire wire
either for that matter but we'll get to that in a moment and we also have our
front front panel audio connector now in terms of the slot layout it is the same
as its big brother so we have three PCI
e1x one PCI e6x and three PCI slots so
if you were to install a dual slot graphics card in the PCI e6x slot then
you would still have access to two PCI e1x and three PCI slots so on a lower
end board that's what I would consider optimal because most people are going to
be carrying over their PCI adding cards
when they're not buying like a super expensive motherboard all right here we
go so we got a PS2 us PS2 uh yes it is
PS2 but it's not us anything it's a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port we've got
eight USB 2.0 ports it's still got the clear seos button very nice very handy
for this looks like a good budget overclocking board with that clear seos
on the back we've got uh coaxial audio out optical audio out gigb Ethernet USB
3.0 and 7.1 audio nothing really
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