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well it's been a while since I've unboxed an MSI board and the reason for

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that is that I haven't had any sort of really interesting like really

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interesting news stuff to unbox from them lately but today I've got the NF

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750 G55 motherboard this is an NVIDIA

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enforce SLI board it's an enforce 750

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board which is something there's almost none of on the market so that's why I

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grabbed this because right now this seems to be the best value SLI board on

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the market so it's uh it's a pretty unique motherboard in that respect why

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don't we get this thing opened right up let's do a quick sort of highlight of

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what features they are going to call out here so you got your easy OC switches

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for successful OC active phase switching

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okay power saving and then some some something about lossless audio awesome

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okay so let's get this open it is oh it's also Windows 7 ready check that out

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very good so it supports Phenom 2x4s and

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uh everything under that I'm going to go ahead and assume you've got support for

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DDR3 memory on this motherboard but we'll get to that later first of all we

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will find the drivers and utilities DVD

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uh pretty much don't use anything on there you're going to want to download the latest off the MSI website then here

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we will find the quick installation guide which is quite big but the reason oh no wow

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they've actually got like everything on here they show you how to do the CPU how

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to do the RAM how to do the IDE and SATA Optical how to install graphics cards

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how to do the front panel connectors that's great they give you a little diagram there that's really handy okay

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they show you the power set settings installation hey they only show you the

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24 pin power don't forget to do your eight pin all right so we'll go ahead and

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close that up um yeah I'll do that later

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okay then we have the MSI NF 750 G55

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user guide so that's the detailed guide again it's in a bunch of languages shows

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you all of the ins and outs of this motherboard oh that's yeah is's in

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different languages okay good then we have an SLI Bridge what kind of SLI

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motherboard would it be without an SLI Bridge you can see the spacing looks like a four slot spacing based on that

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bridge but since it's a flexi Bridge who knows then we have our IO

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Shield then we have a a gray IDE cable

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that's just hideous then we have a Molex to SATA adapter and one SATA cable so

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the Assumption MSI seems to be making here is that users will be using a DVD

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Optical uh IDE drive and then a SATA uh

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hard drive or SSD drive I guess all right then we've got our little

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environmentally friend paper packaging followed up with some environmentally

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not friendly foam but what are you going to do we got some plastic here let's

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take this off and have a look at the layout of this board now like I said

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this is one of the most aggressively priced SLI boards on the market right

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now so you're not going to find necessarily all of the features you'd

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find on a more um on a more high-end board but you do have the easy OC switch

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all right so I'm not actually sure where that is but here's the little button for

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it it shows like a little gear shifter thing that's pretty cool and then you've

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got the power saving features okay active pH switching so let's take that

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off all right General layout your SLI slots are one two three four oh they're

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only three apart but you've got two PCI Express 16 you have two usable PCI

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Express 1X and one PCI slot that you're

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only really going to be able to use if you're not using another card so you

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don't have much on this board in terms of expansion slots especially if you're

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running SLI however if you're only running one card you're going to end up

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with a couple PCI E 1's of PCIe 16 which can be used as 1684 or one and then

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you've got a PCI slot so that's not actually too bad down here you've got

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three USB headers which I really like to see I hate seeing only one then you've

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got a onboard power switch you know what MSI has really stepped up to the plate

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here they are putting onboard power switches on most of their boards which

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is incredibly handy when you're troubleshooting I love that all right

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then over here we've got five SATA ports which may seem like an odd amount but

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I'm going to go ahead and guess yeah there we go that we have esad on the

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back and that's where your sixth Port is here is our chipset you're Pro I'm just

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taking a wild guess here this is an enforce chipset you're probably going to want to do what you can to keep it cool

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all right then you've got support for like I said before dual Channel DDR3

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memory here along the right hand edge of the board in its ideal location is your

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24 pin power and then up here I mistakenly said this would have an8 pin

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this has a four pin power connector this is an am3 ready board obviously because

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you do have support for DDR3 and you do need an am3 chip in order to take

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advantage of DDR3 this is actually oh I really like this check this out this is

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a really sort of beefy looking uh vrm cooling solution for such a an

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entrylevel board and I really like the way that they've sort of built it around

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everything in there it's it's the little touches you know that's where uh that's

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where a motherboard can really stand out because they've all got the same basic

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features but it's just those little things right here is the EOC switch

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which I'm not sure how to use I've never seen this one before their new thing is

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OC Genie so it seems like this is kind of the more value option okay this

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supports SLI and hybrid SLI oh yeah so this has Onboard video check that out

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okay we got a couple PS2 ports one for the mouse one for the keyboard we have

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VGA DVI and HDMI out then we have six

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USB ports 1 GB Ethernet and 7.1 audio

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there's the back of the board you got your am3 back plate and there is your

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serial sticker thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NF 750 G 55