MSI P67A-C43 LGA1155 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today I've got a short unboxing of an MSI Motherboard this is the p67a c43 so
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it's very similar to the c45 except for a couple small things and
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that couple small things is pretty much
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one small thing it doesn't have uh as
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many USB 3.0 ports so we're going to go through the overall features of this
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board this is an 1155 board which means you've got support for Intel core I3
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Core i5 and core i7 processors on
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the uh of the second generation variety
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so only 1155 chips don't try to use an 1156 chip in here it will not work so
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we're talking 2500k will work 2600k will
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work 875k will not work okay features
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the military Class 2 concept with super farite chokes solid caps it's got OC
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gen2 for One Touch overclocking of K series processors as well as a ufi click
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BIOS let's flip this over it features a three-year warranty in the USA and
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Canada and there's nothing under there
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cat let's see what else they have to say for themselves we've got winky 3 which
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is their software that allows you to chat with friends maintain hard drive
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data edit docs and photos without any OS and you can also surf the Internet and
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that's pretty much it for the back of the box yeah that's pretty much it so
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let's open this guy up and have a look
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see oh this is
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interesting huh fascinating cable okay well we'll talk
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about that in a minute first we've got our drivers and utilities DVD throw it
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away download the latest off the MSI website here is a quick installation
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guide you might need that if you want to install it quickly software application
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user guide actual motherboard user
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guide ooh color inside
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uh uh inside cover that who is that a
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what board is that oh that is an x58 board okay that's not a popular x58
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board anymore that's their Eclipse very old very discontinued it's okay all
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right we've got a couple SATA cables one right angle one straight we've got some
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M connectors these are for easily connecting your front panel connectors
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we've got an IO Shield which is look at that colorcoded very nice very very very
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nice all right and we've got what appears to be a
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usb3 header to USB 2
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mail header so you can if I can get it to focus you'll be able to see the pins
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on this thing so if you want to turn your internal USB 3.0 header into an
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internal USB 2.0 header you could do
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that if you wanted okay so let's grab the board
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itself just going to close the Box real quick
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here so we can see what we're
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doing
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take that tape off come
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on ah there you go you can cooperate Mr
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baggie and here is the board itself so it looks very similar to its
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uh well very similar brother the P wait
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hold on just a darn
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moment oh oh okay I get it hold on I'll
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be back in a minute okay here is the difference so you see that NC chip there
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there's some other board components around it that are see here this guy
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right here okay hold on I'm going to turn my manual focus off actually no
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that's fine not present here so this is
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a USB 2 header see how it's colorcoded
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black and see how it's colorcoded blue on the other board and it's called well
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here it's called USB 3 inside see USB 3.0 here it is not called any such thing
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because and now I'm going to turn my manual focus off the c43 only
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features come on Focus manual focus is
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off uhoh I'll be back in a minute okay
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manual focus is off now okay so because
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this board only features two USB 3.0
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ports that's why I got confused as soon as I saw the USB 3.0 port on the back
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and I saw a header here I was like well how does this work it only has two ports
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cuz this is a USB 2.0 header but rather
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than redesigning the PCB they just haven't included the usb3 chipset here
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the NEC chipset we saw on the higher end board and that is why it has this funky
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adapter because now this is a USB 2.0 header so there's another USB 2.0 header
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for a total of two okay so the overall layout of the this board is very similar
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we've got our LGA 1155 socket right here in the middle we've got lot of room
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around it you can see this lower end board also doesn't include the heat
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sinks around the CPU area that are cooling see you can see the outlines for
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where they would normally belong that are cooling the voltage regulation
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modules we have an 8 Pin power connector up here in the top left as well as
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support for four sticks of DDR3 running in dual Channel our 24 pin power is
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along the right hand edge of the board in its optimal location and moving down
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we have full support for SATA 3 6 GB per second running off of the Intel chip set
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come on Focus there you go as well as four SATA 2 3 GB perss
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ports here is the heat sink for the Intel chipset itself and continuing to
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move down the board we have all of our front panel connectors our USB 2.0
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header that I have now talked about endlessly and we've also got front no
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front fire wire which The Other Board did have we have no rear fire wire
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either for that matter but we'll get to that in a moment and we also have our
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front front panel audio connector now in terms of the slot layout it is the same
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as its big brother so we have three PCI
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e1x one PCI e6x and three PCI slots so
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if you were to install a dual slot graphics card in the PCI e6x slot then
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you would still have access to two PCI e1x and three PCI slots so on a lower
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end board that's what I would consider optimal because most people are going to
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be carrying over their PCI adding cards
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when they're not buying like a super expensive motherboard all right here we
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go so we got a PS2 us PS2 uh yes it is
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PS2 but it's not us anything it's a PS2 keyboard mouse combo Port we've got
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eight USB 2.0 ports it's still got the clear seos button very nice very handy
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for this looks like a good budget overclocking board with that clear seos
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on the back we've got uh coaxial audio out optical audio out gigb Ethernet USB
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3.0 and 7.1 audio nothing really
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