WEBVTT 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:06.000 well it's been a while since I've unboxed an MSI board and the reason for 00:00:04.319 --> 00:00:08.800 that is that I haven't had any sort of really interesting like really 00:00:07.359 --> 00:00:14.759 interesting news stuff to unbox from them lately but today I've got the NF 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:18.600 750 G55 motherboard this is an NVIDIA 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:20.560 enforce SLI board it's an enforce 750 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:24.720 board which is something there's almost none of on the market so that's why I 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:30.320 grabbed this because right now this seems to be the best value SLI board on 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:33.800 the market so it's uh it's a pretty unique motherboard in that respect why 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:37.079 don't we get this thing opened right up let's do a quick sort of highlight of 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:42.320 what features they are going to call out here so you got your easy OC switches 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:44.200 for successful OC active phase switching 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:48.239 okay power saving and then some some something about lossless audio awesome 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:54.359 okay so let's get this open it is oh it's also Windows 7 ready check that out 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:56.359 very good so it supports Phenom 2x4s and 00:00:54.359 --> 00:01:00.840 uh everything under that I'm going to go ahead and assume you've got support for 00:00:58.399 --> 00:01:05.400 DDR3 memory on this motherboard but we'll get to that later first of all we 00:01:02.280 --> 00:01:06.880 will find the drivers and utilities DVD 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:11.640 uh pretty much don't use anything on there you're going to want to download the latest off the MSI website then here 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:17.280 we will find the quick installation guide which is quite big but the reason oh no wow 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:21.799 they've actually got like everything on here they show you how to do the CPU how 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:25.840 to do the RAM how to do the IDE and SATA Optical how to install graphics cards 00:01:24.119 --> 00:01:30.240 how to do the front panel connectors that's great they give you a little diagram there that's really handy okay 00:01:28.960 --> 00:01:34.040 they show you the power set settings installation hey they only show you the 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:40.600 24 pin power don't forget to do your eight pin all right so we'll go ahead and 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:44.360 close that up um yeah I'll do that later 00:01:40.600 --> 00:01:46.840 okay then we have the MSI NF 750 G55 00:01:44.360 --> 00:01:50.119 user guide so that's the detailed guide again it's in a bunch of languages shows 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:54.000 you all of the ins and outs of this motherboard oh that's yeah is's in 00:01:52.399 --> 00:01:57.280 different languages okay good then we have an SLI Bridge what kind of SLI 00:01:55.719 --> 00:02:02.439 motherboard would it be without an SLI Bridge you can see the spacing looks like a four slot spacing based on that 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:09.319 bridge but since it's a flexi Bridge who knows then we have our IO 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:12.040 Shield then we have a a gray IDE cable 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:17.200 that's just hideous then we have a Molex to SATA adapter and one SATA cable so 00:02:15.239 --> 00:02:24.920 the Assumption MSI seems to be making here is that users will be using a DVD 00:02:20.200 --> 00:02:27.879 Optical uh IDE drive and then a SATA uh 00:02:24.920 --> 00:02:31.400 hard drive or SSD drive I guess all right then we've got our little 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:35.440 environmentally friend paper packaging followed up with some environmentally 00:02:32.959 --> 00:02:39.280 not friendly foam but what are you going to do we got some plastic here let's 00:02:37.519 --> 00:02:43.280 take this off and have a look at the layout of this board now like I said 00:02:41.319 --> 00:02:47.360 this is one of the most aggressively priced SLI boards on the market right 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:51.640 now so you're not going to find necessarily all of the features you'd 00:02:48.879 --> 00:02:56.519 find on a more um on a more high-end board but you do have the easy OC switch 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:00.560 all right so I'm not actually sure where that is but here's the little button for 00:02:58.760 --> 00:03:04.120 it it shows like a little gear shifter thing that's pretty cool and then you've 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:08.200 got the power saving features okay active pH switching so let's take that 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:12.560 off all right General layout your SLI slots are one two three four oh they're 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:19.239 only three apart but you've got two PCI Express 16 you have two usable PCI 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.799 Express 1X and one PCI slot that you're 00:03:19.239 --> 00:03:25.280 only really going to be able to use if you're not using another card so you 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.959 don't have much on this board in terms of expansion slots especially if you're 00:03:26.959 --> 00:03:33.280 running SLI however if you're only running one card you're going to end up 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:38.080 with a couple PCI E 1's of PCIe 16 which can be used as 1684 or one and then 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:42.480 you've got a PCI slot so that's not actually too bad down here you've got 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:46.920 three USB headers which I really like to see I hate seeing only one then you've 00:03:44.519 --> 00:03:50.519 got a onboard power switch you know what MSI has really stepped up to the plate 00:03:49.040 --> 00:03:53.760 here they are putting onboard power switches on most of their boards which 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.799 is incredibly handy when you're troubleshooting I love that all right 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:01.319 then over here we've got five SATA ports which may seem like an odd amount but 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:05.040 I'm going to go ahead and guess yeah there we go that we have esad on the 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:08.840 back and that's where your sixth Port is here is our chipset you're Pro I'm just 00:04:07.400 --> 00:04:13.879 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 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:18.079 all right then you've got support for like I said before dual Channel DDR3 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:22.440 memory here along the right hand edge of the board in its ideal location is your 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:26.960 24 pin power and then up here I mistakenly said this would have an8 pin 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:32.160 this has a four pin power connector this is an am3 ready board obviously because 00:04:29.440 --> 00:04:36.400 you do have support for DDR3 and you do need an am3 chip in order to take 00:04:33.919 --> 00:04:40.479 advantage of DDR3 this is actually oh I really like this check this out this is 00:04:38.039 --> 00:04:44.280 a really sort of beefy looking uh vrm cooling solution for such a an 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:48.000 entrylevel board and I really like the way that they've sort of built it around 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.600 everything in there it's it's the little touches you know that's where uh that's 00:04:49.880 --> 00:04:55.000 where a motherboard can really stand out because they've all got the same basic 00:04:53.479 --> 00:04:59.080 features but it's just those little things right here is the EOC switch 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:02.919 which I'm not sure how to use I've never seen this one before their new thing is 00:05:00.960 --> 00:05:07.759 OC Genie so it seems like this is kind of the more value option okay this 00:05:05.440 --> 00:05:11.600 supports SLI and hybrid SLI oh yeah so this has Onboard video check that out 00:05:09.880 --> 00:05:16.919 okay we got a couple PS2 ports one for the mouse one for the keyboard we have 00:05:13.320 --> 00:05:20.960 VGA DVI and HDMI out then we have six 00:05:16.919 --> 00:05:22.120 USB ports 1 GB Ethernet and 7.1 audio 00:05:20.960 --> 00:05:26.400 there's the back of the board you got your am3 back plate and there is your 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:32.880 serial sticker thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NF 750 G 55