today I'm going to be unboxing a value motherboard from MSI although it is a
value sort of tiered board part of their E series of boards it has a number of
features that we've come to expect including a three-year warranty military
Class 2 concept components so we have super farite chokes as well as solid
capacitors that's going to give you more current delivery and a longer lifetime
so they say 10 years lifetime here but if you flip the box over to the back you
can see that they figure for gaming it can operate for up to 12 years non stop
and for office use up to 40 years so yes in the year 2050 you could still be
using your h67 rig should all of the
other components that last that long and should you so desire pretty cool so we
got OC gen2 THX true Studio Pro which
gives us an ultimate audio experience okay so basically it looks like there's
a few different settings that are supported by the THX audio got winky 3
which allows you to surf the Internet chat with friends maintain hard drive
data edit docs and photos without any OS although I still recommend installing an
OS for the best possible functionality
of this board you can see it is compatible with Windows 7 okay uh here
we've got instant overclocking oh yeah that's right that's with their Control
Center Software as well as click BIOS so it supports UEFI BIOS just like all of
MSI's p67 and h67 Boards here we have a
drivers and utilities DVD here we have a
quick installation guide showing you how to use use some of the basic uh things
that plug into other things with this particular board here we've got some of
those convenient uh M connector
things those are for plugging in your front panel connectors more easily here
we've got a user guide couple SATA cables as well as a Molex to SATA power
adapter and we have an IO Shield all right we got some
environmentally friendly cardboard packaging here and then we have the board itself so this is an h67 board
which means it is compatible with all Intel LGA
1155 processors from their 4 i5 and 4 i7
families here we go let's just take this guy
out okay and it is not compatible with
LGA 1156 processors bear that in mind
and another thing is that no matter what kind of a CPU you're using you will have
support for the onboard Graphics but if you're using an un locked CPU you will
not have support for unlocked overclocking on an h67 chipset board so
bear that in mind so here we go let's take this sticker off and let's start
with the CPU socket in the center of the board as I am apt to do so there's your
lg1155 socket supporting all the latest second generation Intel Core i series
processors here we've got our four pin power connector and it's almost ideal
location on the top left I wouldn't mind seeing it a little bit further up here
we got our CPU fan okay we've we've got
uh dual Channel DDR3 support we've got
Clips on both sides some in some ways I actually prefer this system to the easy
uh one side clip mechanism cuz it always feels a little weird putting the RAM in
the one side and kind of squeezing it in there and then putting it down and
clipping it shut I kind of prefer to open up two clips put in the RAM and
then clip them both shut anyway next we've got our 24 ping connector in its
ideal location along the right hand edge of the board and here we have four SATA
2 3 GB per second ports and two SATA 3 6
gbit per second ports so those are going to be what you want to use for like an
SSD boot drive if you get a new SATA 3 SSD or any other performance drives you
have attached to this board and these ones would be more like for your storage drives your Optical drives all that kind
of good stuff here's our chipset heat sink which is using a pretty stylish
overall look very angular in design
looks very nice see if we can get it to actually focus on it there you go all
right next here we we've got wow four front USB headers 1 2 3 4 here's our
front panel connectors okay moving over we've got uh
front panel audio connector right here in terms of expansion options this is
kind of a this is kind of a new one for me on a more value oriented board oh
please Focus come on on a more value oriented board we've got a PCI Express
16x slot here and three PCI e1x slot
slots so there is no Legacy PCI support
on this motherboard you will be expected to use all updated PCI Express addin
cards which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing all right next we've got a I
don't think I've ever seen an optical audio port up there so we've got a combo
PS2 Port we have digital audio supported
bya Optical and then we've got 1 2 3 4 5
6 USB 2.0 ports no USB 3.0 on this board
guys we have HDMI gigabit Ethernet VGA
DVI Okay so we've got quite a range of
output options for display and then we've got onboard 7.1 audio thank you
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