1 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:15,719 so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of the MSI a75 ma 2 00:00:12,759 --> 00:00:21,000 G55 this is part of their military Class 2 standard of motherboards so this 3 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:25,519 although it is a microatx board is not a lowend board in terms of the build 4 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:29,160 quality or the features okay let's see what kind of badges they've got here on 5 00:00:27,119 --> 00:00:35,399 the front of it so it's Windows 7 ready good AMD Vision okay AMD recommended USB 6 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:39,760 3 SATA 3 6 GB per second and they've got a really shiny certified military 7 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,559 standard stamp on here that actually looks looks really cool okay let's go 8 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:47,800 and look on the back what do we have here so more about military class so 9 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:52,559 we've got highly condu sorry about that guys highly conductive polymerized 10 00:00:50,160 --> 00:00:56,680 capacitors with tantalum cores up to eight times longer lifetime we've got 11 00:00:54,359 --> 00:01:01,199 super farite chokes with up to 30% higher current capacity and all solid 12 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:05,119 caps giving you 10 plus years of ultra long lifetime next we've got the MSI 13 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:11,080 control center which allows you to Monitor and tune your computer system click BIOS which means it is UEFI that 14 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:15,759 means you can use the mouse in the BIOS and ey charger so you can charge your 15 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:18,080 iPad or iPhone or mobile at high speed 16 00:01:15,759 --> 00:01:22,360 yes you can charge your iPad off of the USB ports on this motherboard although 17 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:27,200 only certain ones M flash allows you to easily flash your BIOS and USB Safeguard 18 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:32,759 allows you to hm that's interesting so dual current protection allows you to uh 19 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:38,320 protect your USB chipset from static damage which can happen on some cases if 20 00:01:35,439 --> 00:01:42,640 the uh the ports aren't properly configured uh oh this is 21 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:51,840 interesting okay um what do we got here so in terms 22 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:55,920 of package we have an IO plate this is a PCI back plate with USB 3 so if you 23 00:01:54,320 --> 00:02:00,039 don't have front USB 3 well at least you can add a couple more ports to the back 24 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:04,759 we've got two SATA 3 6 GB per second cables uh remember these are the same as 25 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:08,280 SATA 2 3 GB per second cables except they have white tips so those are both 26 00:02:06,439 --> 00:02:14,080 straight to right angle we have a Molex TSA power adapter we have an IO Shield 27 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:21,280 that is helpfully colorcoded we have a military class 28 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,519 quick installation guide showing you how 29 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:27,080 to install your Apu how to install your memory all that good 30 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:34,120 stuff there we go next we have drivers in utilities download the latest from 31 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:37,760 MSI we have their M connector which allows you to easily plug in your front 32 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:43,920 panel switches as well as your front usb2 top quality and stability this is 33 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:46,319 your user guide so that's basically the 34 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:48,760 quick user guide in a book form with some other 35 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:55,680 stuff now on to the board itself this is 36 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:57,519 an fm1 socket board so what that means 37 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:02,879 is that it is not compatible with phenoms and athlons CP us this is 38 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:09,040 compatible with apus so in this case I have an AMD A8 series Apu that I will be 39 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:14,640 using with this particular board and that means that it has both a CPU 40 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:17,680 component and a GPU component highly 41 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,480 integrated into this socket so let's 42 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:25,760 look at the overall layout here so we have our fm1 socket right here we've got 43 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:29,519 what looks like a perfectly normal AMD mounting bracket and it is so these are 44 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:35,360 all the same mounting holes and mounting clips that we've seen in the past you can use your old heat sinks no problem 45 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:40,720 we've got our power delivery as well as our pwm heat sink here we have a 4 pin 46 00:03:38,319 --> 00:03:45,959 CPU power connector and it's ideal location at the top left corner we've 47 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:48,120 also got four DDR3 dual Channel socket 48 00:03:45,959 --> 00:03:52,360 so you can plug in up to four sticks of memory running in dual Channel we've got 49 00:03:50,159 --> 00:03:58,920 our 24 pin power connector in its ideal location a four pin pwm system fan 50 00:03:55,159 --> 00:04:01,920 connector six SATA 3 6 GB per second 51 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:04,879 ports very cool to see that we've got is 52 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:11,159 that really a parallel port header okay um there's our front panel connector so 53 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:13,760 that's your power and uh hard drive and 54 00:04:11,159 --> 00:04:19,320 uh reset and all that good stuff okay we've got our front USB another front 55 00:04:16,239 --> 00:04:21,720 USB front USB 3 off a header this is 56 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:25,800 great to see so in addition to the two USB 3 ports at the back of the board 57 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:30,039 we've also got two more supplied at the front or with the PCI bracket at the 58 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:35,639 back we have our front panel audio and then in terms of slot layout we've got 59 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:37,919 dual PCIe 16x slots those are both wired 60 00:04:35,639 --> 00:04:43,840 for 16x but if you are going to run Crossfire X I believe they are going to 61 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:46,520 run at 8X 8X we have our PCI e1x slot as 62 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:50,240 well as a PCI slot got another fan header here that's a three pin fan 63 00:04:48,039 --> 00:04:53,400 header so we have two four pin and one three pin fan headers on this 64 00:04:51,600 --> 00:05:00,440 motherboard let's move around to the back of the board where we have 1 2 3 4 65 00:04:56,479 --> 00:05:03,080 USB 2.0 ports one PS2 us uh mouse 66 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:08,759 keyboard combo Port we've also got HDMI DVI and VGA out so of note is the fact 67 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:15,240 that okay two things this supports dual link DVI so up to 2560 x600 resolution 68 00:05:12,759 --> 00:05:21,840 and of note is the fact that on the fm1 socket every chip that fits in here an 69 00:05:19,479 --> 00:05:27,600 APU Chip is going to enable the use of these ports gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 70 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:31,680 ports and 7.1 audio one of the other features that is highly touted for this 71 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:36,520 platform form is dual Graphics which works similar to how hybrid Crossfire 72 00:05:34,039 --> 00:05:42,120 used to work but better so basically you plug in your Apu you plug in a supported 73 00:05:39,479 --> 00:05:46,919 GPU and they will actually have the two Graphics cores the two Graphics 74 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,880 structures work together for directx10 and 75 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:54,919 directx11 compatible games and applications to increase performance so 76 00:05:52,639 --> 00:05:58,720 it's a pretty good value way to upgrade your Apu system if you just need a 77 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:03,840 little bit more kick so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the a75 78 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:09,960 m55 don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and 79 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:09,960 other computer videos