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
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