I got a pretty cool package in the mail today it's a p-55 gd65 motherboard from
MSI Let's uh do a quick unboxing here and show you all the cool accessories it
comes with uh mostly boring accessories we got an IO Shield okay we have those
little things that help you plug in your USB if you have a really old case we
have four SATA cables a couple SATA tamox power adapters a ribbon cable or
two floppy and IDE I don't have a lot of space on my SD card so we're going to
have to go fast drivers and utilities MSI extras I think it's like Norton and
something hard drive backup user guide quick installation guide which looks
absolutely huge and complicated we'll figure that out later uh SLI Crossfire
Bridges uh MSI winky I don't know what this is but yeah MSI winky p-55 gd65
user guide then we have a little USB uh
back plate thing okay so let's get the environmentally friendly packaging out
of here and let's get this board out cuz that's the uh that's the interesting
part so on the board we've got the OC
button which is like a one button overclocking utility it's a pretty nice
looking PCB uh OC Genie there that's what it's called it's a little button
right here and then you can change your base clock with the plus and minus
buttons kind of cool for such a an inexpensive board you've got seven SATA
ports right here along with oh let's show the back the back slot so this is
an 1156 board so we got PS2 digital audio eight USB ports two Ethernet one
eat no no eat we have fire wire okay so
there's no eat that's okay so it supports Crossfire and SLI now
I've ripped the sticker so we have to do it in one shot now and then you've got
superpipe Dr Moss which is MSI's mosfet
solution it uses fewer phasers phases but the switching frequency is faster so
they're saying it's quite a bit better than what other people are using and then here we have our 1156 pin socket
which I have never opened one before
but okay that's not working at all there we go so that's socket 1156 I'll get the
cameraman to have a look at it so there you have it you've got dual channnel
memory all the uh appropriate power adapter oh here's a cool feature you can
read your voltages using this little uh
interface right here very cool so this is the V checkpoints awesome awesome
feature so thank you for checking out my blog on the MSI p55 gd65 oh yeah and
this is like the coolest thing ever Intel Core i7 lunchbox we'll be giving
these away in some kind of promotion over the next little bit but I thought
it was pretty neat and inside oh yeah check it out we got PE whatever
chips for this