MSI H67MS-E43 H67 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today I'm going to be unboxing a value motherboard from MSI although it is a
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value sort of tiered board part of their E series of boards it has a number of
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features that we've come to expect including a three-year warranty military
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Class 2 concept components so we have super farite chokes as well as solid
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capacitors that's going to give you more current delivery and a longer lifetime
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so they say 10 years lifetime here but if you flip the box over to the back you
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can see that they figure for gaming it can operate for up to 12 years non stop
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and for office use up to 40 years so yes in the year 2050 you could still be
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using your h67 rig should all of the
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other components that last that long and should you so desire pretty cool so we
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got OC gen2 THX true Studio Pro which
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gives us an ultimate audio experience okay so basically it looks like there's
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a few different settings that are supported by the THX audio got winky 3
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which allows you to surf the Internet chat with friends maintain hard drive
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data edit docs and photos without any OS although I still recommend installing an
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OS for the best possible functionality
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of this board you can see it is compatible with Windows 7 okay uh here
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we've got instant overclocking oh yeah that's right that's with their Control
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Center Software as well as click BIOS so it supports UEFI BIOS just like all of
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MSI's p67 and h67 Boards here we have a
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drivers and utilities DVD here we have a
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quick installation guide showing you how to use use some of the basic uh things
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that plug into other things with this particular board here we've got some of
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those convenient uh M connector
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things those are for plugging in your front panel connectors more easily here
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we've got a user guide couple SATA cables as well as a Molex to SATA power
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adapter and we have an IO Shield all right we got some
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environmentally friendly cardboard packaging here and then we have the board itself so this is an h67 board
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which means it is compatible with all Intel LGA
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1155 processors from their 4 i5 and 4 i7
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families here we go let's just take this guy
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out okay and it is not compatible with
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LGA 1156 processors bear that in mind
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and another thing is that no matter what kind of a CPU you're using you will have
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support for the onboard Graphics but if you're using an un locked CPU you will
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not have support for unlocked overclocking on an h67 chipset board so
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bear that in mind so here we go let's take this sticker off and let's start
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with the CPU socket in the center of the board as I am apt to do so there's your
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lg1155 socket supporting all the latest second generation Intel Core i series
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processors here we've got our four pin power connector and it's almost ideal
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location on the top left I wouldn't mind seeing it a little bit further up here
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we got our CPU fan okay we've we've got
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uh dual Channel DDR3 support we've got
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Clips on both sides some in some ways I actually prefer this system to the easy
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uh one side clip mechanism cuz it always feels a little weird putting the RAM in
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the one side and kind of squeezing it in there and then putting it down and
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clipping it shut I kind of prefer to open up two clips put in the RAM and
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then clip them both shut anyway next we've got our 24 ping connector in its
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ideal location along the right hand edge of the board and here we have four SATA
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2 3 GB per second ports and two SATA 3 6
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gbit per second ports so those are going to be what you want to use for like an
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SSD boot drive if you get a new SATA 3 SSD or any other performance drives you
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have attached to this board and these ones would be more like for your storage drives your Optical drives all that kind
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of good stuff here's our chipset heat sink which is using a pretty stylish
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overall look very angular in design
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looks very nice see if we can get it to actually focus on it there you go all
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right next here we we've got wow four front USB headers 1 2 3 4 here's our
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front panel connectors okay moving over we've got uh
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front panel audio connector right here in terms of expansion options this is
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kind of a this is kind of a new one for me on a more value oriented board oh
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please Focus come on on a more value oriented board we've got a PCI Express
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16x slot here and three PCI e1x slot
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slots so there is no Legacy PCI support
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on this motherboard you will be expected to use all updated PCI Express addin
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cards which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing all right next we've got a I
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don't think I've ever seen an optical audio port up there so we've got a combo
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PS2 Port we have digital audio supported
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bya Optical and then we've got 1 2 3 4 5
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6 USB 2.0 ports no USB 3.0 on this board
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guys we have HDMI gigabit Ethernet VGA
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DVI Okay so we've got quite a range of
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output options for display and then we've got onboard 7.1 audio thank you
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