okay so we're continuing our coverage of the entire MSI p55 lineup this is our
last video with the p55 gd80 this is
their flagship p55 board you can tell
because it actually oh there goes another pure later truck crying out loud
it's like five minutes apart okay you can tell because the extreme speed is
actually shiny they have a better quality box as the cameraman pointed out
to me so let's get this thing open
here we go so starting with the quick guide
this is actually a pretty nice looking uh little quick guide that shows you
everything about this board i mean we're gonna show you the board in a minute so we don't need to spend much time on this
but we thought it was a pretty cool addition it's in like eight different
languages which is pretty sweet okay so here we go this is a huge accessory
package so we've got okay uh crossfire
bridge here we'll just go through these in order crossfire bridge we have a huge
sli bridge that's the longest sli bridge i've seen we have two more sli bridges
okay and we've got an i o shield we've got your usual drivers and MSI extras
cds hard drive backup user guide here's
the quick installation guide then MSI winky again okay MSI winky then we've
got the oc genie um guide as well and then the regular
motherboard manual so there you go there's a lot of stuff on that side and
then we've got an esata bracket along with um
with a SATA to molex power adapter that's pretty cool
and then we've got oh this is neat this is the little adapters to do the direct
voltage readouts right from your motherboard so we'll show you what these
plug into in just a minute those are really cool though then we've got these
little bricks so that you can easily plug things into them and then plug the
entire brick right into the board tons of SATA cables a bunch of molex to
SATA adapters ide cable and then we've got a usb io panel it's a huge accessory
package that comes with this board very impressive so here we have it the gd80
this is the cream of the cream for MSI's p55 motherboards let's get it out of the
box here and uh if i could just figure out how to
do that then we'd be moving right along there we go
more trucks going by we really didn't choose this location very well that was
um bad planning but there you go so we've got oc genie sticker and the
extreme speed which includes dr moss and the super pipe super pipe basically
means that it's got a ridiculously thick heat pipe running from the chipset up to
the dr moss mosfets if you actually look from this angle you can see just how
huge this thing is it's kind of ridiculous so then other than that
you've got your usual stuff for a p55 motherboard so you've got your four
dimms your lga 1156 socket and i shouldn't say oh yeah i should say p55
but you can't just say core i5 because there is a core i7 or a couple models of
core i7s for this socket so then we've got our power connector up here for the
8 pin and then way over here for the 24 pin in their usual locations we've got
eight SATA ports we've got our base clock adjustment buttons and then a
couple features that this has that are unique our a the lcd readout here so
that's your postcode and then these are actually touch sensitive power reset and
green power buttons i'm not sure what green power does yet but we'll get into
that more later in our overclocking guide actually this is the first time i've referenced it we do have an
overclocking guide that we'll be releasing for the p55 and the new lga
1156 core i5 and core i7 cpus now last
thing about this board let's talk about the expansion ports a little bit so
we've got three pci e16x slots but only
two of them are going to be actually running at 16x one of them should be a
4x slot and then on the back we've got our i o so you can see here we've got
ps2 digital audio firewire a couple usb
and then we've got one of those neat esata usb combo ports a few more usb 2
gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio thank you for checking out my blog on the MSI p55
gd 80.