WEBVTT 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:08.720 So today I'm going to be unboxing MSI's shiniest motherboard box out of their 00:00:06.560 --> 00:00:14.719 updated packaging. You can see that the 890 FXA wording lettering rather is 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:19.359 actually like sparkly. Very cool. Anyway, this is the 890 FXA GD70 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:26.800 motherboard. It is the replacement for the very popular 790 FX GD70. So the A 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 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:35.920 second. You can see that down here. It still features their OC Genie easy 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:41.920 overclocking technology along with core unclocking and support for six core CPUs 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 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 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. 00:00:54.480 --> 00:01:00.719 So that means they're using uh well top components as military quality uh 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:05.600 whatever. So basically that means that they're using only military grade 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:09.680 components. So high CC cap eight times longer lifespan. They're using icy choke 00:01:07.520 --> 00:01:13.040 20C lower temperatures and then all solid caps for 10 years ultraong 00:01:11.360 --> 00:01:17.600 lifetime. Basically what they're going for is the best possible stability and 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:22.000 longevity with this motherboard. Everything there we've already covered. 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 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 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:35.200 MOSFETs. So they switch very fast. They 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:37.200 are Oh, I just did it again. Uh yeah, 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:41.280 basically Dr. Moss is really good. That's what they say. Flat heat pipe 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:44.479 best radiating solution. Oh, okay. So basically it keeps the heat pipe nice 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.479 and low profile as it comes along the motherboard. Okay, let's get this opened 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 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:57.200 GD70. Here is our quick guide. I love these MSI quick guides. They give you a 00:01:55.360 --> 00:02:01.520 full size, actually it looks a little bit larger than life uh model of the 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:05.680 motherboard and then labels everything for you to make life really easy. And 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:10.080 then there's a more marketing on the back. Thank you. All right. Then for 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:14.720 other included accessories, we have a drivers and utilities DVD. Don't install 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:19.360 this. Download the latest off the MSI website. Here is a little uh user guide 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.440 on their hard drive backup solution. Great. We got a quick installation guide 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:27.599 which is kind of like that other thing except uh more detailed. So, it shows 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:32.080 you how to install your CPU, RAM, drives, front panel connectors, power, 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:36.560 set up the BIOS, all that good stuff. Next, we have the BIOS code unlock 00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:41.840 technology. So, a quick guide on how to use their core unlocking utility. Very 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:45.519 nice. Then, their control center for overclocking. Oh, here's a little user 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:49.760 guide for that. Very nice. All color. Look at that. All English. Wow. 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:55.280 Recommended CPU coolers for overclocking. Hm. Okay. These are some 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:57.840 interesting um Well, I hope they're going somewhere with that. I don't have 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 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:07.040 English. It contains a number of different languages and lots of details 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:09.040 about stuff. We have an IO shield. We 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:14.000 have a fairly complete accessory package overall. So, we've got four SATA cables, 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:19.599 two Molex to SATA adapters, one IDE cable. Then we have two USB 2.0 back 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 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, 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 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:35.920 and then plug the whole thing in as a brick to the motherboard. Very neat. 00:03:33.519 --> 00:03:43.360 Then we have a Crossfire bridge. So, this motherboard being a an AMD chipset 00:03:38.959 --> 00:03:46.239 motherboard 890 FX chipset is not SLI 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:49.760 compatible. However, this is probably the coolest thing about this 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:52.959 motherboard. And so, I'm going to skip the usual stuff that I show you right 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 00:03:55.280 --> 00:04:05.040 standard ATX motherboard and it supports one, two, three, four dual slot graphics 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:11.200 cards. So you can actually use quad Crossfirex on a standard ATX board. MSI 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:16.000 has pulled an engineering coup here in order to enable that. Now it's going to 00:04:12.720 --> 00:04:18.720 run 8X 8X 8X 8X in all likelihood, 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:22.639 although I haven't checked, but 90 90% will, but that doesn't actually have an 00:04:20.880 --> 00:04:27.280 impact on any of the high performance GPUs these days, including the 5870. 00:04:25.360 --> 00:04:31.120 Very cool feature. So we've got their active phase switching technology. This 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:36.560 is for power saving. What it does is it actually turns off CPU power phases that 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 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:45.440 load on your CPU. There's your AM3 socket supporting triple or rather 00:04:43.040 --> 00:04:49.040 triple dual channel DDR3 memory. And it looks like MSI has taken another page 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:53.680 out of one of their competitors books here and they have their single side 00:04:51.520 --> 00:04:57.600 installation for the memory module. So you just slide it in the one side and 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:00.800 then clip it shut on the other side. Dr. Moss. Okay. Green Power Express. Cool. 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 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:11.360 note. And no, there isn't. Oh, yes, there is. 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 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 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 00:05:19.840 --> 00:05:26.240 voltage checkpoints here. And uh I'm just going to put this down on the table 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. 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 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:38.320 look at what else this board has to offer? Our eight pin connector is in its 00:05:36.479 --> 00:05:44.880 ideal location up at the top left of the board, right next to this huge, huge, 00:05:41.520 --> 00:05:46.240 beefy looking chipset and MOSFET cooler. 00:05:44.880 --> 00:05:49.520 It looks like the north bridge is actually under this part. And then this 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:52.960 part is dedicated to cooling the MOSFETs. Here's that flat thick heat 00:05:51.520 --> 00:05:58.000 pipe that they talked about going down to the south bridge there. And then we 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:02.960 have our 24 pin power connector right where it belongs. One IDE connector. 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 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 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:18.800 Gbit per second ports. So those are running off the SB850 Southbridge. Next 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:22.639 we have our easy button. I love these. I love these touch sensitive buttons. The 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 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, 00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:36.240 so that seems pretty self-explanatory. Plus and minus depending on how fast you 00:06:32.479 --> 00:06:37.680 want the uh CP CPU to go. Then there's 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:41.680 an OC dial button. I'm guessing that enables it. And then we have their green 00:06:39.440 --> 00:06:47.840 power button. Okay. Then we have three USB 2.0 front headers. We have FireWire, 00:06:44.960 --> 00:06:52.319 two FireWire front headers. And then in addition to that, we have not a whole 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 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:00.240 like a a CPU voltage readout point or 00:06:57.199 --> 00:07:02.560 anything like that. No, no, there's 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:05.919 nothing. Well, you know what? It might be there somewhere. If you can find it, 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 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:15.440 a look at the back panel connectors. Oh, cameraman wants to look at that sweet uh 00:07:13.039 --> 00:07:18.800 VRM and Northbridge cooling solution. I think that is very cool. I really like 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:23.199 it actually. Here, get it from this angle. Get it from this angle. See, 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:27.680 these are actually wavy in order to give it slightly more surface area and a 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 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 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 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:45.599 favor. Load it up with a bunch of graphics cards cuz that is what it is 00:07:43.039 --> 00:07:49.120 for. Okay, let's have a look at our connectors. On the back, we got PS2 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:53.280 mouse and keyboard, two dedicated ports. We have a clear SIMOS button in its 00:07:50.960 --> 00:07:58.960 very, very ideal location. Right on the back, we have optical as well as coaxial 00:07:55.919 --> 00:08:02.160 audio out, so digital formats both. Then 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:05.599 we have one of those USB ESATA ports, so 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:08.879 six USB 2.0 ports, one ESATA. Then we 00:08:05.599 --> 00:08:11.199 have 2 GB Ethernet, two USB 3.0, as well 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.