MSI P67A-C45 LGA1155 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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today I'm going to be unboxing a military Class 2 motherboard from MSI
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even though it is military class this is not part of their gaming series of
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products it's a cboard which means it's part of their I believe it stands for
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classic series of products so since this
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is a socket 1155 board it means we have full support well not full support hold
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on I'll get more more on that later we have support for Intel's core I3 Core i5
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and core i7 processors on the lg1155
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platform supports Windows 7 it has a p 67 chipset so what that means is that it
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does not support the onboard graphics on
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said CPUs so it does support the unlocking overclocking K series chips
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but no onboard Graphics support it features OC gen2 which will overclock
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your K series CPU at the push of a button and it features USB 3 and SATA 3
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6 GB perss we have super farite chokes
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as well as solid caps as part of the military Class 2 concept and let's flip
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over to the back and see what else MSI has to say for themselves pretty much
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the same stuff we got a couple things that weren't covered on the front such as click bio so that is a ufi graphical
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BIOS and we have winky 3 which is their
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software that allows you to use your computer before booting into the OS and
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that's pretty much it so why don't we flip this over and have a look at the
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board itself in terms of accessories we got a pretty basic package here drivers
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and utilities don't use this download the latest off the MSI website we have a
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quick installation guide a user's guide
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for the software applications as well as a users guide for this board as well as
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a couple of other boards no one other board three other boards we have an IO
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Shield which oh okay on a value board like this it's rare to see it colorcoded
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but here you have it it is color coded and then we've also got two SATA 3 6
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gbit per second cable so well I don't know they could be anything yeah they're
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called 6 G per second cables but there's no actual physical difference between
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these and 3 gbit per second cables one is right angle and one is straight we
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have M connectors which allow you to connect your front panel power speaker
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all that stuff uh more easily and then
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we've also got one for USB environmentally friendly cardboard
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packaging allows us to not see the board yet although we will soon come on ah
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there we go that's pretty difficult to remove there
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all right so what I'm going to do is I'm going to close the motherboard box I'm going to put the board on top and then
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we're going to have a look at the p67a
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c45 sticker comes off and the motherboard comes
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out so we got a pretty standard board layout here it's an ATX form factor
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board it has the full complement of seven slots I'm just going to take off
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the OC Genie sticker as well as the
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military Class 2 sticker so we can see exactly what we've got to work with here
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guys that's a little challenging to remove there we are okay so let's look
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at the overall layout oh once again value board 8 pin connector so MSI is
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allowing for some serious overclocking going on if they're expecting us to need
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an 8 pin connector to deliver all of the potential current we could need to the
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CPU itself so go ahead and throw that back on there remember these little
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Stoppers are here because you can use a four pin connector just by leaving the
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stopper on there so it shows you which set to plug your four pin ATX connector
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into if you don't have the full 8 pin ATX connector we've got a couple of
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military Class 2 themed mosfet heat sinks on here so one on that side one on
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the top surrounding the CPU socket which is pretty pretty bare space around it so
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you should be able to mount pretty much any heat sinks you want on there as I mentioned before this is an LGA 1155
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socket which means support for cor I 3s cor 5s and cor I 7s do not try to put an
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1156 in here it will not work we have
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full support for dual Channel DDR3 memory and then moving down the right
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hand side of the board we've got our 24 pin ATX connector and we have some
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storage so here we have two SATA 3 6 GB
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per second connectors running off of the Intel chipset and then we have four SATA
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2 3 GB per second connectors also running off of the Intel chipset lots of
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fan headers on this board oh no maybe not that many okay four fan headers
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reasonable number of fan head headers on this board moving down the board we've got
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our front panel connectors as well as front USB 3.0 a front USB 2.0 header uh
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front fire wire as well as front audio in terms of slot layout we've got three
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PCI slots this is a more value oriented board so it doesn't surprise me to see
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PCI slots included and you may need them if you have a board like this we've also
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got three PCI e1x slots so one of them
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would be covered if you were to use a dual slot graphics card which would
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leave you with two PCI e1x and three PCI
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E slots finally moving on to the io
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Shield we've got one of those combo PS2 keyboard/mouse ports that I'm a big fan
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of we have eight USB 2.0 ports a clear
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seos button look at that clear seos button on a value board looks like MSI
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does have some overclocking in mind with this guy all right we've got our coax
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seal as well as optical audio out fire wire gigb Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports as
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well 7.1 audio and look at that they're
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even using screws on the back to fix all of the heat sinks happy to see that I
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hate to see push pins on any board that's uh that's that's like pretty
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decent cuz screws are just more secure
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there's no ifs SS or butts about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing
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