well it's been a while since I've unboxed an MSI board and the reason for
that is that I haven't had any sort of really interesting like really
interesting news stuff to unbox from them lately but today I've got the NF
750 G55 motherboard this is an NVIDIA
enforce SLI board it's an enforce 750
board which is something there's almost none of on the market so that's why I
grabbed this because right now this seems to be the best value SLI board on
the market so it's uh it's a pretty unique motherboard in that respect why
don't we get this thing opened right up let's do a quick sort of highlight of
what features they are going to call out here so you got your easy OC switches
for successful OC active phase switching
okay power saving and then some some something about lossless audio awesome
okay so let's get this open it is oh it's also Windows 7 ready check that out
very good so it supports Phenom 2x4s and
uh everything under that I'm going to go ahead and assume you've got support for
DDR3 memory on this motherboard but we'll get to that later first of all we
will find the drivers and utilities DVD
uh pretty much don't use anything on there you're going to want to download the latest off the MSI website then here
we will find the quick installation guide which is quite big but the reason oh no wow
they've actually got like everything on here they show you how to do the CPU how
to do the RAM how to do the IDE and SATA Optical how to install graphics cards
how to do the front panel connectors that's great they give you a little diagram there that's really handy okay
they show you the power set settings installation hey they only show you the
24 pin power don't forget to do your eight pin all right so we'll go ahead and
close that up um yeah I'll do that later
okay then we have the MSI NF 750 G55
user guide so that's the detailed guide again it's in a bunch of languages shows
you all of the ins and outs of this motherboard oh that's yeah is's in
different languages okay good then we have an SLI Bridge what kind of SLI
motherboard would it be without an SLI Bridge you can see the spacing looks like a four slot spacing based on that
bridge but since it's a flexi Bridge who knows then we have our IO
Shield then we have a a gray IDE cable
that's just hideous then we have a Molex to SATA adapter and one SATA cable so
the Assumption MSI seems to be making here is that users will be using a DVD
Optical uh IDE drive and then a SATA uh
hard drive or SSD drive I guess all right then we've got our little
environmentally friend paper packaging followed up with some environmentally
not friendly foam but what are you going to do we got some plastic here let's
take this off and have a look at the layout of this board now like I said
this is one of the most aggressively priced SLI boards on the market right
now so you're not going to find necessarily all of the features you'd
find on a more um on a more high-end board but you do have the easy OC switch
all right so I'm not actually sure where that is but here's the little button for
it it shows like a little gear shifter thing that's pretty cool and then you've
got the power saving features okay active pH switching so let's take that
off all right General layout your SLI slots are one two three four oh they're
only three apart but you've got two PCI Express 16 you have two usable PCI
Express 1X and one PCI slot that you're
only really going to be able to use if you're not using another card so you
don't have much on this board in terms of expansion slots especially if you're
running SLI however if you're only running one card you're going to end up
with a couple PCI E 1's of PCIe 16 which can be used as 1684 or one and then
you've got a PCI slot so that's not actually too bad down here you've got
three USB headers which I really like to see I hate seeing only one then you've
got a onboard power switch you know what MSI has really stepped up to the plate
here they are putting onboard power switches on most of their boards which
is incredibly handy when you're troubleshooting I love that all right
then over here we've got five SATA ports which may seem like an odd amount but
I'm going to go ahead and guess yeah there we go that we have esad on the
back and that's where your sixth Port is here is our chipset you're Pro I'm just
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
all right then you've got support for like I said before dual Channel DDR3
memory here along the right hand edge of the board in its ideal location is your
24 pin power and then up here I mistakenly said this would have an8 pin
this has a four pin power connector this is an am3 ready board obviously because
you do have support for DDR3 and you do need an am3 chip in order to take
advantage of DDR3 this is actually oh I really like this check this out this is
a really sort of beefy looking uh vrm cooling solution for such a an
entrylevel board and I really like the way that they've sort of built it around
everything in there it's it's the little touches you know that's where uh that's
where a motherboard can really stand out because they've all got the same basic
features but it's just those little things right here is the EOC switch
which I'm not sure how to use I've never seen this one before their new thing is
OC Genie so it seems like this is kind of the more value option okay this
supports SLI and hybrid SLI oh yeah so this has Onboard video check that out
okay we got a couple PS2 ports one for the mouse one for the keyboard we have
VGA DVI and HDMI out then we have six
USB ports 1 GB Ethernet and 7.1 audio
there's the back of the board you got your am3 back plate and there is your
serial sticker thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NF 750 G 55