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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus dotnet and we are at msi suite at CES 2014 this is our first official video at CES this year's are pretty exciting and i'm joined by mark tran a marketing specialist at msi so mark can you give us an overview of what you have here ok first of all I want to say that we heard a lot of our fans complaining that how come you keep released in the gaming series or until you know motherboards but nothing new for the AMD so we heard all the you know the all the complains and stuff like that yeah no just kidding but we heard all about the fans and you know we appreciate all the comments that they provide for us so we're coming out with on CES become with the first time ever the gaming series for the AMD board and it's for the new kavari chipset that's coming up the a 88 x we have two small form factor which is the first one is the standard ATX and the second one we have is the micro ATX that we are releasing soon and a major focus for this of course is for the gamers people who just like to mess around with maybe the audio booze or or sometime like overclocking we do have the overclocking ability on this one too and on that note as far as hard specs for these boards for the ATX board we'll just go into overclocking since that's what we're talking about we have an eight plus two phase power design over here which is of course more than enough for am the overclocking especially with the Kaveri products as far as we know and we have a pretty standard pci express layout we have three pcie slots on the ATX board 1 x16 2x8 and they are crossfire enabled no sli support we have a pci slot for anyone who wants to use that and i think we even have a serial slot somewhere so if you're using one of those then you are good to go have the standard dragon fin heatsinks that msi is doing with all their gaming boards they're all black and red branding there so that is our ATX board the micro ATX board is a is largely the same except micro ATX so we do have only two pcie slots here because you lose one when you go to micro ATX and the phase power design is I believe a that might actually be a 6 + 2 + and so it'll it'll do a basic overclocking just fine again the 888 chipset from AMD on kaveri and and that wraps up our motherboards here so we're going to move over to the new 290x video card and and it's gotta hustle 276 THX you want to talk oh and the 760 ITX it is a a pretty sweet tiny video card if you want like a steam box or something just sayin so so let's check this out so now we are looking at the 290x lightning also by msi this is their version of fixing the reference board design which is of course famous for overheating massively in producing 95 degrees celsius i believe on the reference design so here we have the 290x with three fans it has individually controlled sets of fans so the two larger fans on the the top and the bottom holding it this way are controlled separately from the center fan and you can set the RPMs for all of those through their software of course and as you can see it there is a massive heat sink with five heat pipes so we've got four here and then we have one more on the output side for heat pipes should resolve a lot of the cooling issues there is actually an extra power input there so anyone overclocking and running out of power and brushing up against that limit on the reference design you will have that solved by this extra power input so that is the 290x lightning that's that's about all we know about it now other than I guess I should mention actually this back plate is pretty pretty awesome it mounts the huge heatsink on it so you're not going to get any bowing of the board of the PCB hopefully and other than that it's all standard 290x same GPU everything that we already know so and finally for our last video card here we have a mini ITX 760 that will fit awesomely for any kind of steam box or something like that has a cool fan I want to talk about it has a blower / pushed and design so we will get a close-up on that and show you that it has two gigs of ram pretty standard 760 specs accepted as many I txo will easily fit and like a go SG 08 or something like that if you're building a steam box very powerful to couple with any kind of apu or or low end Intel mainstream CPU something like that so that wraps up all of our coverage of the MSI products here at CES 2014 including the 290x the 760 and of course the AMD motherboards and check out the links in the description below for the full article and we will see you all next time peace