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you know guys I've decided that having the big powerful PC behind me is just overkill and why would anyone need such a powerful PC why does anyone need two gtx 780 s that are hacked bios hacked over voltage and overclocked and three monitors I mean that's just for poor people right barn achlys don't sue me I decided that you know I'm going to ditch all that crap but I'm going to go ahead and build myself a AMD APU based system because we all know Andy APU sits where it's at right I mean it's that's what I've been told anyway now my Mini ITX system that I currently have doesn't get a whole lot of use but I want to change that I currently have it powered by the MSI z87 I gaming motherboard this is a mini ITX intel board obviously but they've gone ahead and supplied for review the a 88x IAC motherboard so basically this is like the APU version of that board for the most part it does have any in the gaming design or nominal Eicher or scheme on there but you know AMD says hey why don't you check out Kaveri and I figured well the only way to really do that and have a true opinion of Kaveri is to use it in a real-world situation and give you guys some performance reviews of that so today we're going to be taking a look at this MSI military class Mini ITX motherboard from MSI and then we in a later video we're going to do the build and then I'll probably do something custom with it you guys know me and then we will go ahead and formulate you know in a little series how I feel about AMD Kaveri you guys have been asking for this for a long time ever since CES and we're finally going to do that so inside the box yeah you've got all your normal stuff you've got your software you've got your antenna because it is does have a built-in Wireless your back plate all that stuff but we don't care about really that this is obviously what we care about so here it is right here looks an awful lot like the one for Intel only it's an FM 2 Plus socket now it is I love mini ITX builds I mean obviously I've built a pretty big computer and I'm building a bigger computer now with project red mist and I'm going to be building an even bigger computer for myself after project red mist so it's kind of fun every now and then take a step back and do these tiny little I mean these these little like nuggets of PC components and there's there's just so much fun so what I like about this motherboard immediately upon looking at it is the fact that even though this is a not really an enthusiast level board it's pretty much just you know it's got all the functions you need but that doesn't have any of the glamour that goes along with it is the fact that it has that nice matte black PCB so it doesn't have that kind of a brown looking PCB that we've seen from MSI it is a nice matte black okay now because this is the a 88x now I've actually had a hard time saying that I already had to cut out like six different takes of saying that now because it's an 888 now because this is the a 88 kind of hard one now because this is the 88 x i motherboard or a ATX a 88 X this means this is base for Kaveri it's got all the functions that needs for the Kaveri which is am these most recent generation APU system now for the RAM right here we do have dual channel dims and a and B on there so Ord M 1 and M 2 is they call it so you do have dual channel Ram I remember with ap use if you're going to be using the APU built into the processor or the graphics built in the processor you're going to want the fastest Ram you that you can because it will affect your overall gaming performance it's got the standard retention bracket on there for AMD it's got some vrm cooling going on right here with some nice matte black PCB I kind of like the way that those look and then we've got a tiny tiny little chip set cooler right there it's so adorable I do think the blue vga is a little bit out of place in fact I'm not even I might even take that off there and wrap some electrical tape or something around it because believe it or not that bothers me so I don't really like that for SATA ports we do have 4 SATA 6 gigabits per second ports right there USB 3.0 2 fan extension r2 fan pwm headers on there can control three or four pin fans we've got a four pin CPU APU auxiliary power right there 24-pin power over here and pretty much one PCI Express 16x slot on the back now when it comes to i/o of course we have got our optical right there SP di if optical we've got our ps2 port VGA port which is again kind of interesting I think we do have HDMI DVI our wireless antenna ports right there and we have got four USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 Gigabit LAN and then built-in audio right there so it's pretty basic but it's got all the functions that you pretty much need for a nice compatible portable take the back nice portable gaming system so this is going to be pretty much entry-level mid-range gaming we're going to go ahead and put Kaveri APU in there as I mentioned and we're going to do a couple of different tests I'm going to be doing it with just APU performance where me doing it with APU and dual graphics with the r7 250 and then we're going to be putting my MSI gaming 270 on here we'll kind of compare performance in those three configurations and then we'll go ahead and stick it in my note 304 maybe we'll do some water cooling or something with it I don't know but we're going to go ahead and we'll make good use of this I think this is going to be a fun build and I think it's going to help me be a little bit less of a PC snob or a high-end hardware snob because you know let's face it not everyone can afford you know this level of motherboard right here so guys this has been the MSI a ATX i AC mini ITX FM 2 FM 2 + md APU Kaveri motherboard holy crap that's a long way of putting it all out there anyway guys there's your overview of this motherboard here from MSI tell me what you think when I put this picture out on Instagram you guys seem pretty excited because you've been asking me for about the last 4 months now to do something with Kaveri and I think it's going to be very fun to do yeah yeah I'm recycling that joke go ahead and sue me and by that I mean don't sue me because I don't make very much money on YouTube at all so now that now I'm depressed you