welcome to my unboxing and first look at a sample motherboard that's too early
for packaging that comes with a driver disc
that looks like this evaluation 93 yes
this is MSI military class 3 answer to
the AMD fm2
socket and I actually still don't even know what the model number of this board
is it's actually not on here we'll be back in a
moment right so we found it this is the a85 XA
g65 from MSI this is a performance board
uh based on the new fm2 socket from AMD
which comes along with a few really cool things so number one is this supports
Trinity Apu so remember an APU is a D's
nomenclature for a CPU and a GPU on one chip so basically a CPU now since both
of the major CPU guys have gpus built in however AMD's apus have much more
powerful gpus built into them than Intel's equivalent as we'll show you in
an upcoming video on the NC Tech tips Channel you've got a pretty bog standard
layout so you got your CPU socket in the middle you've got these beastly looking
vrm coolers all around here that actually look outstanding so I'll get
you a bunch of different angles of those those look awesome get slick to or slick
sorry sorry it's not slick filming today it's diesel um so there's your 8 Pin CPU
connector in the top left there's your dual Channel DDR3 compatible slots on
the right so this is pretty pretty standard again OC gen button for easy
one button overclocking onboard power switch onboard reset switch the
checkpoint so if you're looking to like break some overclocking records on the
fm2 socket compared to other fm2 users
then you'll use this to monitor your voltages with a multimeter rather than
relying on software 24 pin connector along the right hand Edge eight SATA 3 6
GB per second connectors uh six of them are right angle and the other two are
your standard connectors that come right out of the board and uh those are all
running off the AMD chipset unlike Intel chipsets we have full support for SATA
360 gbit per second our USB 3 headers
here for whatever reason that seems like an odd place for it but I guess I won't
question it your clear seos button is here which again seems like a bit of an
odd placement for it but not going to question it too much uh front panel
there's all your front panel connectors right there there is your front USB 2
here is your front USB 2 with their supercharger feature which allows you to
charge your tablet or whatever else uh in terms of fan connectors we've got one
two three four pin fan connectors and two three pin fan connectors so you can
plug a total of five fans into the board no problem remember guys Trinity gpus
actually have use for all these video outputs on the back of the board so we
got VGA dual link DVI DisplayPort and
HDMI you can use up to three of them at a time so you can drive three displays
off of a single onboard graphics card which is very cool stuff it's four USB
2.0 ports uh PS2 I have never seen a gigabit Ethernet port this high up on an
IO Shield I've just never seen that before um you know it's nothing it's
just I don't know it's just the placement stuff okay uh Optical audio
out two USB 3.0 ports and 7.1 audio out
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
a85 XA g65 from MSI don't forget to
subscribe find as TCH tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos I we didn't cover the PCI Express
slots 1 2 3 PCIe 1X slots two PCI slots
and then two PCIe 16x slots however this one is only wired for 8X operations so
if you were running Crossfire X you'd get two 8X slots with which is more than
enough especially given on a platform like this you'd probably be running like
7800 series or lower and don't forget guys using that onboard GPU in the
Apu uh you can add a low-end video card here and you can use them together in
like a hybrid Crossfire type thing that will allow you to get slightly better
performance versus running this alone or
the graphics card alone