WEBVTT 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:15.599 Welcome to yet another motherboard unboxing online tech tips. This is the 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:17.840 MSI 9990 FXA GD80. So the title tells us 00:00:15.599 --> 00:00:23.119 a few things. It tells us this is a 990 FX motherboard. It tells us it has USB 00:00:20.800 --> 00:00:29.039 3, as I recall correctly, is what that suffix means. and it is a GD80, which 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:31.359 means it is part of their premium line 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:35.520 of boards. So, it has a three-year warranty in Canada, Mexico, and the USA. 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:39.520 It features their military class 2 concept, which means higher quality 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:44.640 components for longer lifetime, cooler operation, and better reliability. It 00:00:42.239 --> 00:00:48.960 features full support for AMD unlocked FX series processors. These are not yet 00:00:46.879 --> 00:00:53.840 released, but they will be supported on this board once they are. full support 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:58.960 for AMD Crossfire X, NVIDIA SLI, and Windows 7. I pretty much take it for 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:01.600 granted. Um, it features OCG2, which is 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:05.840 one-touch overclocking, USB 3, and SATA 3 6 GB per second. On the back of the 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:10.479 board, we see a few things here. High Caps with tantelum cores for eight times 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:15.920 longer lifetime. Anticipated uh super far chokes for 30% higher current capac 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:22.400 capacity and solid capacitors for 10 plus years of ultraong lifetime. We also 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:24.560 have um Hm, that's funny. It doesn't say 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:28.520 anything about click BIOS on here, although I would think that this 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:33.680 particular board would support it, but I have no way of knowing for 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:37.200 sure other than firing it up. So, here is the quick guide, which gives us a 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:41.119 look at the Oh, here we go. BIOS setup. No, it does not feature click BIOS, I 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:45.920 guess, unless they just haven't updated this document. 00:01:43.479 --> 00:01:48.960 Okay, there is a layout of the board itself showing you where everything is 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:52.960 and what everything is, but that's okay. We're going to show you the board itself anyway. Drivers and utilities DVD. 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:59.280 Download the latest from the MSI website. Multi-GPU SLI video link card. I think 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.680 they mean cable, but that's okay. Another SLI connector and another SLI 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:09.200 connector. Now, mixing and matching these connectors. I am assuming you 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:10.560 would be able to run four-way SLI. So, I 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:14.879 guess that's what they mean for you to do. We've also got six SATA 3 6 GB per 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:21.200 second connectors. All of them are right angle as well as two Molex to SATA power 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:26.080 adapters. Next, we have an internal USB3 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:27.840 header to a PCI USB3 bracket with two 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:31.040 ports on it. We have the M connector to make your front panel connectors and 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:37.120 front USB a little bit easier to hook up. Next, we have a black IO shield. We 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:42.000 have a hard drive backup utility user guide, quick installation guide, 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:47.840 certificate of quality and stability. It's shiny as well. 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:49.800 a software application user guide and a 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:53.360 motherboard user guide. And it looks like based on 00:02:52.080 --> 00:03:00.319 everything in this user guide, yeah, this is a standard uh like older style 00:02:57.120 --> 00:03:02.959 BIOS board. Although, correct me if I am 00:03:00.319 --> 00:03:07.519 wrong on that one, guys. Nope, it's click BIOS. There we go. Yay, we found 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:11.360 it. Uh, so that means you can use the mouse inside the BIOS, although that 00:03:09.760 --> 00:03:14.720 looks kind of weird. So, it looks like an older style BIOS with a mouse cursor 00:03:13.519 --> 00:03:20.720 on it, but I don't know what they're going for here. Also features supercharger, so you can charge your 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:22.560 iPad, iPhone, or mobile phone at high 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:27.599 speed, even while the computer is shut down. Very, very useful feature. So, 00:03:25.440 --> 00:03:33.200 let's go ahead take the board out of the packaging and we can have a look at 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:36.640 it. Might even draw some little conclusions about what kind of board 00:03:34.959 --> 00:03:40.319 we're dealing with here. I can tell you right now, GD80 is going to be a very 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:44.720 high-end board, very overbuilt. You can see there's a boatload of power phases 00:03:42.640 --> 00:03:48.720 over here to the left of the CPU socket. I'm just going to move the military 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:54.239 class 2 sticker here. And you can also see that h that is a socket AM3 plus. So 00:03:52.640 --> 00:03:59.439 that means that with this bracket you can put any AM3 or AM3 plus compatible 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:03.120 CPU in there. That includes the upcoming Bulldozer 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:09.599 uh CPUs from AMD. You can also use any AM2, AM3, AM2 Plus, any AM whatever uh 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:14.319 CPU cooler as long as it supports the heat output of the CPU that you put 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:20.160 inside. All right, we've got a nice little military class 2 styled uh PWM 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:23.120 heat sink here. We've also got a heat sink for the chipset and another heat 00:04:21.919 --> 00:04:27.520 sink for the other more different chipset. Our eight pin power connector 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:31.840 is in the top left in its ideal location and our 24 pin power connector is along 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:35.280 the right hand edge of the board in its ideal location. We've got support for 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:39.520 dual channel DDR3 memory. It is colorcoded for easy dual channel 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:45.600 operation. And moving down the board we have six SATA 36 GB per second ports all 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:50.479 supported by the AMD chipset. So unlike Intel chipsets that are currently out 00:04:47.479 --> 00:04:52.000 there, all six are running off the AMD 00:04:50.479 --> 00:04:57.199 chipset and they're all running at SATA 3 6 Gbit per second. This is great. This 00:04:54.800 --> 00:05:01.199 is the first right angle USB 3 front panel header that I have seen and I like 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:05.440 it. That's a great location for it because as great as it is to have your 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:10.000 front panel headers down here, where most of them still are, this is actually 00:05:07.919 --> 00:05:15.680 closer to the front of the case and thus more convenient. Here are our front 00:05:11.919 --> 00:05:17.600 panel connectors as well as our an LED 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:20.000 readout. So, there's a post readout. If you're having any issues with the board, 00:05:18.880 --> 00:05:24.080 it'll give you an error code here that'll help you fix it. Here's the 00:05:21.919 --> 00:05:28.880 front powered USB. So, that is the one that is good for supercharger for the 00:05:25.919 --> 00:05:32.000 iPad or uh any other tablet charging them. You will require that higher 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:38.240 powered port. And there's a regular front USB, front FireWire, front panel 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:40.960 audio, little THX sticker going on here. 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:49.520 All right, let's have a look at the PCIe layout. So, we have one PCIe 1X, two, 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:51.199 sorry, two PCIe 1X, four PCIe 16X, and 00:05:49.520 --> 00:05:55.919 one PCI. But let's have a look at what these are actually wired for. If you're 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:59.919 going to run in 16x6 mode, you are going to want to use these two slots because 00:05:57.919 --> 00:06:03.680 those are running at full bandwidth. These two right here are only running at 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:07.600 8x mode. So, what that means is if you're running three GPUs, you're going 00:06:05.759 --> 00:06:13.840 to want to go this one, this one, this one. So, 8X or probably 168 or 8816. 00:06:12.400 --> 00:06:20.560 Something along those lines would be my guess. And if you're running four GPUs, 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:22.000 it'll run 8X 8X 8X 8X. Two GPUs 16x 16X. 00:06:20.560 --> 00:06:28.240 So, if you do install two graphics cards, you're going to be left with one 00:06:23.919 --> 00:06:30.319 PCI, one PCIe 8X, and one PCIe 1X for 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:34.319 expansion. Moving along to the back of the board, we've got two dedicated PS2 00:06:33.039 --> 00:06:39.440 ports for keyboard and mouse, respectively. A clear SIMOS button, 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:45.919 optical and coaxial digital audio out. We've got 1 2 3 four USB 2.0 ports. 00:06:43.520 --> 00:06:51.440 We've also got Yeah. Oh, sorry. That was six USB 2.0 ports. Right there is one of 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:53.680 those funky esata USB 2 combo ports. 00:06:51.440 --> 00:07:00.400 Very handy. FireWire port, gigabit Ethernet, uh USB 3.0, 0 two of those and 00:06:57.280 --> 00:07:02.080 7.1 audio out. I want to show you guys 00:07:00.400 --> 00:07:06.240 where the fan headers are on this particular board. Here's our CPU fan 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:11.840 header. That is a 4 pin PWM. We've also got a three pin here, a three pin here, 00:07:09.520 --> 00:07:17.120 a three pin here, a three pin right here, and that is about it. So, 00:07:15.919 --> 00:07:21.599 appropriate build for something like this would be a couple high-end cards, 00:07:19.280 --> 00:07:26.639 probably somewhere in the 750 to 850 watt power supply range, and a high-end 00:07:24.479 --> 00:07:31.360 6 core or 8 core processor. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 990 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.240 FXA GD80 from MSI. 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