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welcome to my unboxing and first look at a sample motherboard that's too early

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for packaging that comes with a driver disc

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that looks like this evaluation 93 yes

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this is MSI military class 3 answer to

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the AMD fm2

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socket and I actually still don't even know what the model number of this board

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is it's actually not on here we'll be back in a

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moment right so we found it this is the a85 XA

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g65 from MSI this is a performance board

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uh based on the new fm2 socket from AMD

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which comes along with a few really cool things so number one is this supports

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Trinity Apu so remember an APU is a D's

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nomenclature for a CPU and a GPU on one chip so basically a CPU now since both

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of the major CPU guys have gpus built in however AMD's apus have much more

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powerful gpus built into them than Intel's equivalent as we'll show you in

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an upcoming video on the NC Tech tips Channel you've got a pretty bog standard

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layout so you got your CPU socket in the middle you've got these beastly looking

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vrm coolers all around here that actually look outstanding so I'll get

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you a bunch of different angles of those those look awesome get slick to or slick

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sorry sorry it's not slick filming today it's diesel um so there's your 8 Pin CPU

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connector in the top left there's your dual Channel DDR3 compatible slots on

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the right so this is pretty pretty standard again OC gen button for easy

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one button overclocking onboard power switch onboard reset switch the

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checkpoint so if you're looking to like break some overclocking records on the

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fm2 socket compared to other fm2 users

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then you'll use this to monitor your voltages with a multimeter rather than

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relying on software 24 pin connector along the right hand Edge eight SATA 3 6

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GB per second connectors uh six of them are right angle and the other two are

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your standard connectors that come right out of the board and uh those are all

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running off the AMD chipset unlike Intel chipsets we have full support for SATA

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360 gbit per second our USB 3 headers

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here for whatever reason that seems like an odd place for it but I guess I won't

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question it your clear seos button is here which again seems like a bit of an

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odd placement for it but not going to question it too much uh front panel

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there's all your front panel connectors right there there is your front USB 2

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here is your front USB 2 with their supercharger feature which allows you to

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charge your tablet or whatever else uh in terms of fan connectors we've got one

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two three four pin fan connectors and two three pin fan connectors so you can

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plug a total of five fans into the board no problem remember guys Trinity gpus

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actually have use for all these video outputs on the back of the board so we

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got VGA dual link DVI DisplayPort and

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HDMI you can use up to three of them at a time so you can drive three displays

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off of a single onboard graphics card which is very cool stuff it's four USB

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2.0 ports uh PS2 I have never seen a gigabit Ethernet port this high up on an

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IO Shield I've just never seen that before um you know it's nothing it's

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just I don't know it's just the placement stuff okay uh Optical audio

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out two USB 3.0 ports and 7.1 audio out

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I think that pretty much wraps it up now I'm going to have to remind myself thank you for checking out my unboxing of the

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a85 XA g65 from MSI don't forget to

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subscribe find as TCH tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos I we didn't cover the PCI Express

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slots 1 2 3 PCIe 1X slots two PCI slots

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and then two PCIe 16x slots however this one is only wired for 8X operations so

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if you were running Crossfire X you'd get two 8X slots with which is more than

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enough especially given on a platform like this you'd probably be running like

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7800 series or lower and don't forget guys using that onboard GPU in the

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Apu uh you can add a low-end video card here and you can use them together in

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like a hybrid Crossfire type thing that will allow you to get slightly better

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performance versus running this alone or

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the graphics card alone