WEBVTT 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:16.279 so today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the MSI 00:00:11.360 --> 00:00:18.720 z68a gd80 B3 motherboard so the z68a 00:00:16.279 --> 00:00:23.480 gd80 B3 motherboard features their military Class 2 concept which means 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:27.800 they have the super farite chokes the high SE caps with the tantalum core 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:33.680 which is very rare evidently you have solid caps with up to a 10year life time 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:38.079 of solid use as well as their OC Genie 00:00:33.680 --> 00:00:40.440 technology USB 3 SATA 6 SLI Crossfire X 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:47.760 and full support for Intel's full lineup of Intel core I3 I5 i7 processors on LGA 00:00:45.239 --> 00:00:52.480 1155 it features a three-year warranty in Canada and the US and in other 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:58.199 regions I have no idea so here there's just a little bit more explanation of 00:00:54.680 --> 00:00:59.680 what military Class 2 means as well as a 00:00:58.199 --> 00:01:05.799 list of their features including their win key3 which is uh like a quick OS you 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:10.360 can log into in the BIOS if you want to browse the internet or go on Skype or 00:01:08.119 --> 00:01:13.920 not load Windows for whatever reason uh Supercharger so you can charge your iPad 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:17.360 iPhone and mobile at high speed even when your PC is shut down that's a cool 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:21.320 feature as well as their instant overclocking which is obviously tied 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:25.119 into OC Genie which is their one button overclocking press the button you're 00:01:22.759 --> 00:01:29.920 overclocked remember OC gen only works with K series processors though okay 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:35.840 three PCI Express 16x slots for up to the three-way Crossfire or two-way 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:39.200 SLI and finally overclock in 1 second OC 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:41.200 gen2 yes so Auto detect overclock CPU 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:46.520 memory oh and the integrated GPU now remember with the z68 chipset the 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:49.680 integrated GPU clock speed is actually going to matter even if you're using a 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:56.119 dedicated graphics card and the reason for that is that the z68 chipset allows 00:01:53.880 --> 00:02:01.360 you to use the integrated GPU to accelerate video encoding so that's 00:01:59.479 --> 00:02:06.240 pretty cool so that will affect that performance okay here we have extreme 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:11.319 power design so 12 phases uh we have Dr Moss as well as an extra six pin VGA 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:16.440 power connector for providing more power to the PCIe slots we have two BIOS chips 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:21.680 just in case one of them has some kind of a problem maybe during flashing or 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:27.519 whatever the case may be you will have no problem restoring from the second 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:29.400 BIOS chip let me just pull the board out 00:02:27.519 --> 00:02:35.040 see we've got some nice environmentally friendly packaging going on here just 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:36.640 going to move that there camera okay see 00:02:35.040 --> 00:02:40.560 if there's anything I'm missing here so there's another note about tur 00:02:38.239 --> 00:02:43.640 supercharger oh okay so the supercharger USB ports are marked you know what I'll 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:50.879 show you the uh the accessories first and then we'll go through any other features so here's a little map of the 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:52.519 board as well as some key points about 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:56.000 the board that you could find on the box if you so desired drivers and utilities 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.319 DVD throw it away download the latest off the MSI website you've got M 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:04.920 connectors which are an easier way to plug in your front USB uh and front panel connectors quick 00:03:03.519 --> 00:03:10.560 installation guide 1 2 3 4 sat 3 6 GB per second 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:17.080 cables which are not different except that they are white and then you have 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:19.560 two Molex to SATA power cables IO Shield 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:23.239 uh vck cables so this board features vck which means that you can use a digital 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:26.000 multimeter to uh manually check the voltages going to some of the key 00:03:24.480 --> 00:03:33.200 components we have an SLI Bridge remember your Crossfire bridge should be included with your graphics card USB 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:36.480 three rear panel header with an internal 00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:38.000 uh internal pinout okay just in case 00:03:36.480 --> 00:03:41.879 your case doesn't have extra I have front USB 3 and you still want to use 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:49.120 the extra ports so you've got a user guide as well as a software user guide 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.120 all right the board 00:03:54.920 --> 00:04:01.959 itself there we are so military Class 2 sticker comes off and oh this is 00:03:59.799 --> 00:04:09.200 interesting looks like they've changed the uh they've changed the socket cover 00:04:06.519 --> 00:04:14.760 from what they were using before which was uh a piece that goes 00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:20.519 under so I don't even know how this one works look at that there okay that's how 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:22.400 it works take off our ocg E2 thing and 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:27.800 let's have a look at the board so why don't we start in the CPU socket area so 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:29.880 here's where your LGA 1155 CPU goes that 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:34.240 will give you uh full support as I I said before for core I3 Core i5 and core 00:04:31.840 --> 00:04:38.240 i7 processors here's your 12-phase power design as well as your tantalum core 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:42.560 little guys here so that's part of the military Class 2 concept which is 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:46.000 prominently featured on The Branding on the board we've got our 8 Pin CPU 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:51.360 connector up here and it's ideal location in the top left corner big fan 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:54.520 of that personally as well as four DDR3 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:56.440 slots for dual Channel memory we've got 00:04:54.520 --> 00:05:00.919 our 24 pin connector in its ideal location along the right hand Edge as 00:04:58.520 --> 00:05:10.080 well as V check points here so we have checkpoints for the vccp CPU VT CPU gfx 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:12.520 so that's the onboard VGA VCC DDR as 00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:19.960 well as PCH what is that pch1 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:23.680 p05 interesting as well as two ground 00:05:19.960 --> 00:05:26.440 points all right moving down we have two 00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:34.600 SATA 3 6 G oh rather hold on hold on just a minute SATA 56 sat 3 4 yeah two 00:05:30.919 --> 00:05:35.960 SATA 3 6 gbit per second four SATA 2 3 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:40.520 gbit per second then we have an additional SATA 3 6 GB per second 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:44.440 running off of a third-party controller all right here are our front USB ports 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:47.199 this is the one with supercharge the one with the red background behind it I 00:05:46.039 --> 00:05:55.800 don't know if you can see that red background can you um okay and then we've also got our 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:58.919 USB 3 front panel header OC Genie button 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:01.560 power reset another oh no this is a fire 00:05:58.919 --> 00:06:09.880 wire front panel header our front audio as well as our PCIe slot so PCI slot 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:13.240 layout we've got uh one two 3 PCI e6x 00:06:09.880 --> 00:06:16.240 slots we have two PCI e1x slots and two 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:19.199 PCI slots so if you are installing three 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:22.440 dual Slot Cards you will have left now you got to make sure you have a case 00:06:20.479 --> 00:06:27.599 that has an additional PCI slot because it's going to hang over the edge but you 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:29.560 will be left with one PCI e1x slot and 00:06:27.599 --> 00:06:33.520 one PCI slot so that's very rich EXP expansion capabilities if you running a 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:36.080 three-way graphics card configuration if you're running a two-way graphics card 00:06:34.960 --> 00:06:43.880 configuration you're going to be left with one PCI E1 one PCI and one PCI e16 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:45.240 here's that uh PCI Express six pin power 00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:49.560 connector right here so if you are running a few graphics cards you're probably going to want to plug that in 00:06:48.039 --> 00:06:54.319 to make sure that you're providing all the juice you need to your graphics 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:59.960 cards here on the back the io Shield we have one of those PS2 uh keyboard mouse 00:06:56.800 --> 00:07:02.400 combo ports we have optical audio out a 00:06:59.960 --> 00:07:09.360 reset Simo switch I love the reset Simo switch on the back IO I'm a big fan of 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:14.479 that okay we have 1 2 3 4 really four 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:17.560 USB 2.0 ports that's it okay four USB 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:20.280 2.0 ports uh we have eSATA fire wire 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:25.479 dual gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports so that is still a total of six USB 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:29.120 ports we have DVI out as well as HDMI 00:07:25.479 --> 00:07:32.240 out and 7.1 audio out so thank you for 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:34.800 checking out out my unboxing of the z68a 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:38.199 gd80 B3 and let me just see if there's anything that I missed here I don't 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:44.000 think there is don't forget to subscribe to lus detectives for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos