{"video_id":"ldLnq4Lp8pU","title":"MSI E350IA-E45 Zacate AMD Fusion ITX Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2011-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":380,"segments":[{"start_s":0.32,"end_s":6.919,"text":"now this is a product that AMD has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.64,"end_s":14.4,"text":"pretty much been talking about since the ATI acquisition this is Fusion so let's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.36,"end_s":20.92,"text":"uh let's start with who this is from so this is an MSI products it's the E350 I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.199,"end_s":24.92,"text":"A- e45 this is compatible with Windows 7","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.92,"end_s":26.32,"text":"it is AMD Vision certified it has HDMI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.92,"end_s":31.92,"text":"and apparently it comes with Norton which don't bother installing just download Windows 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to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":371.44,"end_s":377.039,"text":"subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"now this is a product that AMD has pretty much been talking about since the ATI acquisition this is Fusion so let's uh let's start with who this is from so this is an MSI products it's the E350 I A- e45 this is compatible with Windows 7 it is AMD Vision certified it has HDMI and apparently it comes with Norton which don't bother installing just download Windows Microsoft whatever Security Essentials okay it's got all solid caps runs with SATA 6 GB per second as well as USB 3.0 for high-speed peripherals and internals and it has a threeyear warranty and let's see we got all solid caps this is a military class motherboard so it should last a long time uh USB Safeguard so it has an ESD protection chip you can rest assur to stay on the safe side with dual current protection chip static electricity whatever that is so you can safely plug in USB things okay say 6 gig 3 USB 3 m flash is a cool feature it allows you to update the BIOS easily although this has been around for a while so I suspect they had run out of things to talk about here all right bough all solid capacitors that's a great thing this is an mitx board and it supports AMD Fusion processors zate zakti I actually don't know somebody educate me this is the E350 it has support for two dims for up to DDR3 1066 up to 8 gigs Max check it out yeah yeah one PCI Express x16 slot so this will support full speed graphics cards eight channel 7.1 audio gigabit Ethernet four SATA 6 gbit per second ports from the AMD Hudson M1 as well as two USB 3.0 ports 10 USB 2.0 ports and there's an IO overview which we won't need because we are going to open the box bam Box is open okay so we got a driver and utilities DVD throw it away download the latest uh we got MSI talking about all their good stuff like big bang Fusion military class as well as a quick installation guide which looks to unfold into about the size of a poster okay we've got an IO Shield which is helpfully color coordinated thanks for that and then we've got a couple SATA 6 GB per second cables top quality and stability here's a little manual for you in bunch of languages EXC excuse me guys sorry okay so then in our environmentally friendly cardboard packaging we have the E350 I a e45 itself so this is a very cool looking board it has on it a Heat snc fan combo in the middle that is cooling the Apu so what you're going to notice immediately about this board if you're like me and you notice these things is that it doesn't have a chipset visible anywhere on it so what that means is that either there's something under that heat sink oh which there is okay so that's that's pretty boring but that chipset is only handling IO I can tell you guys that much because the CPU is actually soldered onto the board includes the memory controller includes the GPU includes the GPU so this is Fusion finally here and is full fly capable of playing back HD movies and all of that good stuff you might even get a little bit of low-end gaming going on on a platform like this so that's pretty cool so let's start with the overall layout of the board which is what we usually do with motherboards here on my blog we've got our CPU GPU and chipset all under this massive heat sink massive compared to the ITX board that it's taking up about a quarter of the surface area so it's not really all that big but then we've got our four pin CPU power connector up here and I have no idea what the ideal location is on an ITX board so let's assume that's pretty good we've got a couple of headers here we've got some what appears to be three-phase power design okay we've got our CPU fan plugged in Via three pin fan header all right we've got two DDR3 slots up to DDR3 1066 and then we have wait really 1066 maybe I forget yeah DDR3 1066 huh there you go okay we've got our 24 pin power over here on the right hand side there's our four SATA 36 GB per second ports we got a couple front USB we've got uh front panel audio we've got where are our front panel connectors hm where are those they must be here that must be them although I'm not 100% sure no that doesn't look like them where are they now this is audio this is front panel sorry guys that's audio that's front panel okay so here's our PCI Express 16x connector which I'm a little bit although not all that disappointed to a report is not actually PC e6x you can actually see the metal contacts in here that only goes up to 8X although 8X is enough for any graphics card that's going to uh you'll you'll be able to overpower this CPU long before you're going to run into that PCI e8x bottleneck all right here we go so we got a combo PS2 Port big fan of these we've got 1 2 3 4 4 56 USB 2.0 ports HDMI VGA gigabit Ethernet 2 USB 3.0 ports optical audio out as well as uh optical audio out as well as coaxial audio out and 7.1 audio here is the seos uh battery which is kind of glued to the io panel for some reason there's the NEC chip set that's running our usb3 ports and gee I guess that's all there is to really say about it it's revolutionary actually it doesn't look like much it just looks like you know another mitx board a pretty slick looking one but this could change everything thank you for checking out lus Tech tips and don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}