today I'm going to be unboxing a military Class 2 motherboard from MSI
even though it is military class this is not part of their gaming series of
products it's a cboard which means it's part of their I believe it stands for
classic series of products so since this
is a socket 1155 board it means we have full support well not full support hold
on I'll get more more on that later we have support for Intel's core I3 Core i5
and core i7 processors on the lg1155
platform supports Windows 7 it has a p 67 chipset so what that means is that it
does not support the onboard graphics on
said CPUs so it does support the unlocking overclocking K series chips
but no onboard Graphics support it features OC gen2 which will overclock
your K series CPU at the push of a button and it features USB 3 and SATA 3
6 GB perss we have super farite chokes
as well as solid caps as part of the military Class 2 concept and let's flip
over to the back and see what else MSI has to say for themselves pretty much
the same stuff we got a couple things that weren't covered on the front such as click bio so that is a ufi graphical
BIOS and we have winky 3 which is their
software that allows you to use your computer before booting into the OS and
that's pretty much it so why don't we flip this over and have a look at the
board itself in terms of accessories we got a pretty basic package here drivers
and utilities don't use this download the latest off the MSI website we have a
quick installation guide a user's guide
for the software applications as well as a users guide for this board as well as
a couple of other boards no one other board three other boards we have an IO
Shield which oh okay on a value board like this it's rare to see it colorcoded
but here you have it it is color coded and then we've also got two SATA 3 6
gbit per second cable so well I don't know they could be anything yeah they're
called 6 G per second cables but there's no actual physical difference between
these and 3 gbit per second cables one is right angle and one is straight we
have M connectors which allow you to connect your front panel power speaker
all that stuff uh more easily and then
we've also got one for USB environmentally friendly cardboard
packaging allows us to not see the board yet although we will soon come on ah
there we go that's pretty difficult to remove there
all right so what I'm going to do is I'm going to close the motherboard box I'm going to put the board on top and then
we're going to have a look at the p67a
c45 sticker comes off and the motherboard comes
out so we got a pretty standard board layout here it's an ATX form factor
board it has the full complement of seven slots I'm just going to take off
the OC Genie sticker as well as the
military Class 2 sticker so we can see exactly what we've got to work with here
guys that's a little challenging to remove there we are okay so let's look
at the overall layout oh once again value board 8 pin connector so MSI is
allowing for some serious overclocking going on if they're expecting us to need
an 8 pin connector to deliver all of the potential current we could need to the
CPU itself so go ahead and throw that back on there remember these little
Stoppers are here because you can use a four pin connector just by leaving the
stopper on there so it shows you which set to plug your four pin ATX connector
into if you don't have the full 8 pin ATX connector we've got a couple of
military Class 2 themed mosfet heat sinks on here so one on that side one on
the top surrounding the CPU socket which is pretty pretty bare space around it so
you should be able to mount pretty much any heat sinks you want on there as I mentioned before this is an LGA 1155
socket which means support for cor I 3s cor 5s and cor I 7s do not try to put an
1156 in here it will not work we have
full support for dual Channel DDR3 memory and then moving down the right
hand side of the board we've got our 24 pin ATX connector and we have some
storage so here we have two SATA 3 6 GB
per second connectors running off of the Intel chipset and then we have four SATA
2 3 GB per second connectors also running off of the Intel chipset lots of
fan headers on this board oh no maybe not that many okay four fan headers
reasonable number of fan head headers on this board moving down the board we've got
our front panel connectors as well as front USB 3.0 a front USB 2.0 header uh
front fire wire as well as front audio in terms of slot layout we've got three
PCI slots this is a more value oriented board so it doesn't surprise me to see
PCI slots included and you may need them if you have a board like this we've also
got three PCI e1x slots so one of them
would be covered if you were to use a dual slot graphics card which would
leave you with two PCI e1x and three PCI
E slots finally moving on to the io
Shield we've got one of those combo PS2 keyboard/mouse ports that I'm a big fan
of we have eight USB 2.0 ports a clear
seos button look at that clear seos button on a value board looks like MSI
does have some overclocking in mind with this guy all right we've got our coax
seal as well as optical audio out fire wire gigb Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports as
well 7.1 audio and look at that they're
even using screws on the back to fix all of the heat sinks happy to see that I
hate to see push pins on any board that's uh that's that's like pretty
decent cuz screws are just more secure
there's no ifs SS or butts about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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