1 00:00:01,360 --> 00:00:08,720 So today I'm going to be unboxing MSI's shiniest motherboard box out of their 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:14,719 updated packaging. You can see that the 890 FXA wording lettering rather is 3 00:00:11,759 --> 00:00:19,359 actually like sparkly. Very cool. Anyway, this is the 890 FXA GD70 4 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:26,800 motherboard. It is the replacement for the very popular 790 FX GD70. So the A 5 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:30,960 means that it has support for USB 3.0 as well as SATA 3 or SATA 6 Gbit per 6 00:00:29,199 --> 00:00:35,920 second. You can see that down here. It still features their OC Genie easy 7 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:41,920 overclocking technology along with core unclocking and support for six core CPUs 8 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:47,120 out of the box. So that means you've got full support for AMD's Phenom 2 X6. Over 9 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,320 here we've got everything else. So oh yeah, this is the first time I've seen 10 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:56,800 this on their motherboards, but they've been doing this on video cards for a couple generations now. Military class. 11 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:00,719 So that means they're using uh well top components as military quality uh 12 00:00:58,719 --> 00:01:05,600 whatever. So basically that means that they're using only military grade 13 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:09,680 components. So high CC cap eight times longer lifespan. They're using icy choke 14 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:13,040 20C lower temperatures and then all solid caps for 10 years ultraong 15 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:17,600 lifetime. Basically what they're going for is the best possible stability and 16 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:22,000 longevity with this motherboard. Everything there we've already covered. 17 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,920 It has Dr. Moss and MSI's claim and I haven't seen anything to disprove this 18 00:01:23,439 --> 00:01:31,360 is that one phase of Dr. Moss is greater than or equal to four standard phases of 19 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:35,200 MOSFETs. So they switch very fast. They 20 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:37,200 are Oh, I just did it again. Uh yeah, 21 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:41,280 basically Dr. Moss is really good. That's what they say. Flat heat pipe 22 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:44,479 best radiating solution. Oh, okay. So basically it keeps the heat pipe nice 23 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:48,479 and low profile as it comes along the motherboard. Okay, let's get this opened 24 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:53,200 up. have a quick look at the accessories and then have a look at the A90 FXA 25 00:01:50,720 --> 00:01:57,200 GD70. Here is our quick guide. I love these MSI quick guides. They give you a 26 00:01:55,360 --> 00:02:01,520 full size, actually it looks a little bit larger than life uh model of the 27 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,680 motherboard and then labels everything for you to make life really easy. And 28 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:10,080 then there's a more marketing on the back. Thank you. All right. Then for 29 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:14,720 other included accessories, we have a drivers and utilities DVD. Don't install 30 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:19,360 this. Download the latest off the MSI website. Here is a little uh user guide 31 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:23,440 on their hard drive backup solution. Great. We got a quick installation guide 32 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:27,599 which is kind of like that other thing except uh more detailed. So, it shows 33 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:32,080 you how to install your CPU, RAM, drives, front panel connectors, power, 34 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:36,560 set up the BIOS, all that good stuff. Next, we have the BIOS code unlock 35 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:41,840 technology. So, a quick guide on how to use their core unlocking utility. Very 36 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:45,519 nice. Then, their control center for overclocking. Oh, here's a little user 37 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:49,760 guide for that. Very nice. All color. Look at that. All English. Wow. 38 00:02:48,319 --> 00:02:55,280 Recommended CPU coolers for overclocking. Hm. Okay. These are some 39 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:57,840 interesting um Well, I hope they're going somewhere with that. I don't have 40 00:02:56,319 --> 00:03:01,760 time to read it, though. Next, we've got the users guide, which is not all in 41 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:07,040 English. It contains a number of different languages and lots of details 42 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:09,040 about stuff. We have an IO shield. We 43 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:14,000 have a fairly complete accessory package overall. So, we've got four SATA cables, 44 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:19,599 two Molex to SATA adapters, one IDE cable. Then we have two USB 2.0 back 45 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:23,599 panel connectors via an uh one of those headers. Oh, here's a bit of a Oh, M 46 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:28,319 connector. I was going to say it's kind of like a Q connector, but M. Okay, 47 00:03:25,920 --> 00:03:31,760 there you go. So, this has a way for you to plug in all of your front panel stuff 48 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:35,920 and then plug the whole thing in as a brick to the motherboard. Very neat. 49 00:03:33,519 --> 00:03:43,360 Then we have a Crossfire bridge. So, this motherboard being a an AMD chipset 50 00:03:38,959 --> 00:03:46,239 motherboard 890 FX chipset is not SLI 51 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:49,760 compatible. However, this is probably the coolest thing about this 52 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:52,959 motherboard. And so, I'm going to skip the usual stuff that I show you right 53 00:03:51,599 --> 00:03:58,080 away and I'm going to show you this right off the bat. This motherboard is a 54 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:05,040 standard ATX motherboard and it supports one, two, three, four dual slot graphics 55 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:11,200 cards. So you can actually use quad Crossfirex on a standard ATX board. MSI 56 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:16,000 has pulled an engineering coup here in order to enable that. Now it's going to 57 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:18,720 run 8X 8X 8X 8X in all likelihood, 58 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:22,639 although I haven't checked, but 90 90% will, but that doesn't actually have an 59 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:27,280 impact on any of the high performance GPUs these days, including the 5870. 60 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:31,120 Very cool feature. So we've got their active phase switching technology. This 61 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:36,560 is for power saving. What it does is it actually turns off CPU power phases that 62 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,040 are not in use in order to get the most efficiency whether you're at idle or 63 00:04:38,639 --> 00:04:45,440 load on your CPU. There's your AM3 socket supporting triple or rather 64 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:49,040 triple dual channel DDR3 memory. And it looks like MSI has taken another page 65 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:53,680 out of one of their competitors books here and they have their single side 66 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:57,600 installation for the memory module. So you just slide it in the one side and 67 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:00,800 then clip it shut on the other side. Dr. Moss. Okay. Green Power Express. Cool. 68 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:05,600 Rapid boost. Okay, we already talked about this on the back. Let me see if there's anything under this sticker of 69 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:11,360 note. And no, there isn't. Oh, yes, there is. 70 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:14,639 There is a voltage checkpoint for your RAM right in there. I don't know if the 71 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:18,400 cameraman can see that or not. He says not really, but it's in there. I assure 72 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:22,720 you it is. Okay, what else do we have? I'm going to see if I can find any other 73 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:26,240 voltage checkpoints here. And uh I'm just going to put this down on the table 74 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:31,919 so we can have a better look under the good light. Um hm. Not so much so far. 75 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:34,639 Well, I'm not going to worry too much about that for now. Why don't we have a 76 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:38,320 look at what else this board has to offer? Our eight pin connector is in its 77 00:05:36,479 --> 00:05:44,880 ideal location up at the top left of the board, right next to this huge, huge, 78 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,240 beefy looking chipset and MOSFET cooler. 79 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,520 It looks like the north bridge is actually under this part. And then this 80 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:52,960 part is dedicated to cooling the MOSFETs. Here's that flat thick heat 81 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:58,000 pipe that they talked about going down to the south bridge there. And then we 82 00:05:55,759 --> 00:06:02,960 have our 24 pin power connector right where it belongs. One IDE connector. 83 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:07,520 Here is a SATA 2 port running off a J Micron controller as as is this IDE port 84 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:13,520 and probably an E SATA port on the back. Then on this side we have six SATA 3 6 85 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:18,800 Gbit per second ports. So those are running off the SB850 Southbridge. Next 86 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:22,639 we have our easy button. I love these. I love these touch sensitive buttons. The 87 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:25,840 first time I saw this was on the P-55 GD80, and I'm glad that they're 88 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:30,400 continuing to do this cuz I think it's so cool. Then we have a little OC dial, 89 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:36,240 so that seems pretty self-explanatory. Plus and minus depending on how fast you 90 00:06:32,479 --> 00:06:37,680 want the uh CP CPU to go. Then there's 91 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:41,680 an OC dial button. I'm guessing that enables it. And then we have their green 92 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:47,840 power button. Okay. Then we have three USB 2.0 front headers. We have FireWire, 93 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:52,319 two FireWire front headers. And then in addition to that, we have not a whole 94 00:06:49,919 --> 00:06:57,199 lot else. I'm going to have one more quick scan here and see if I can find 95 00:06:54,160 --> 00:07:00,240 like a a CPU voltage readout point or 96 00:06:57,199 --> 00:07:02,560 anything like that. No, no, there's 97 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:05,919 nothing. Well, you know what? It might be there somewhere. If you can find it, 98 00:07:04,319 --> 00:07:10,080 feel free to leave a comment on my video and let me know where it is. Let's have 99 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:15,440 a look at the back panel connectors. Oh, cameraman wants to look at that sweet uh 100 00:07:13,039 --> 00:07:18,800 VRM and Northbridge cooling solution. I think that is very cool. I really like 101 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:23,199 it actually. Here, get it from this angle. Get it from this angle. See, 102 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:27,680 these are actually wavy in order to give it slightly more surface area and a 103 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:33,280 little bit better turbulence for any air flow that does happen to go through there. Very cool. Okay. Oh, yeah. I 104 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,840 guess the rest of the slots I didn't even talk about. There's one more PCIe1x 105 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,960 slot in a PCI slot. As if anyone cares. If you buy this motherboard, do me a 106 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:45,599 favor. Load it up with a bunch of graphics cards cuz that is what it is 107 00:07:43,039 --> 00:07:49,120 for. Okay, let's have a look at our connectors. On the back, we got PS2 108 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:53,280 mouse and keyboard, two dedicated ports. We have a clear SIMOS button in its 109 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:58,960 very, very ideal location. Right on the back, we have optical as well as coaxial 110 00:07:55,919 --> 00:08:02,160 audio out, so digital formats both. Then 111 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:05,599 we have one of those USB ESATA ports, so 112 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:08,879 six USB 2.0 ports, one ESATA. Then we 113 00:08:05,599 --> 00:08:11,199 have 2 GB Ethernet, two USB 3.0, as well 114 00:08:08,879 --> 00:08:16,240 as 7.1 audio out. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 890 FXA GD70.