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we've got over here and I'll get I'll get mark to tell us a little more about it is a micro ATX built here featuring the Kaveri chipset which was unveiled was that a mill and they said it should be releasing on the 14 yeah so you guys have you guys have heard the rumors about the future of FX chipset and you know AMD has a really strong apu and its really good for builders on a budget so MSI has gone out and included the gaming line of motherboards into the AMD Kaveri chipset so that now you can get the features that you expect out of a gaming motherboard while moving forward with the evolution of AMD and that's what we're looking at right here so go mark go and tell us little bit more about what we're looking at okay so this is our first ever gaming motherboard for the AMD I know like a lot of MSI fan was asking of so when are you guys coming out with the gaming series for AMD right so I see yes we're announcing that this is you know we're coming out first of course will be the micro ATX board and that seems to be the most commonly asked for solution I get asked all the time for micro ATX solutions for AMD and and they're really there's like one or two on the market now and they're not great solutions actually there yeah there is one or two in the market but the thing the good unique thing about this is that this is a there's no other people in the market that's still retaining like all the features like let's say like the killer NIC card audio boos and you know and military components on it so it's the same quality of the intel brother but with the m2 AMD fm2 chipset yes right so it's C or the FM 2 socket excuse me maximum memory on this is 32 megabytes sorry 32 gigs we just went back about 20 years guys at least ok 32 gigs maximum you mentioned the killer NIC crossfire and SLI capability yes yeah so if you're an AMD fan and I see here we have a you know 8 pin CPU power on there now what about onboard raid capability of this I see we have six looks like we have six SATA ports on here so I'm assuming there's going to be onboard raid support which we'll know more about as the chip as the chipset launches and the board comes out and the the actual chip from AMD is available but the bottom line guys it's a full function AMD motherboard introduced through the gaming line giving you all the features that you'd expect as a gamer now the last question I have is about onboard audio what does it have on both on both otto we have audio booths so let's say if if you go to like here you can see oh yeah so you can see the path here where they're trying to separate the signal for the audio from the main components - we have so many capacitor right there right and they're all on this side of the of the separation so theoretically what that does is it separates your sound from the the power signals on the motherboard so you get less noise hiss and interference pops that sort of things okay so if you're interested in building an AMD system but you don't need some of those features that would be on a high-end motherboard like that we do have another product here we're looking at what is this in the blue the same thing as the the microbe stripped down so it's more like but today if you're you know you're more like on a budget right now you you don't want all the bells and whistles you know you just want to just plug it in and and web server for know like that this will be a perfect board right and see it still has an old-school PCI slot on there so two PCI Express does it do SLI or crossfire it does crossfire but I'm not sure about a soul I but for sure I know it does crossfire yeah I see a 16 X and an 8 X I don't see any PCI oh I wit one one X right there one thing to note on the other board is you do have a 16 and ATX as well but two PCI 1 X for additional sound cards or NIT cards or whatever you want to maybe add to the board now you have a couple of really small options here which are the mini ITX so let's go ahead and talk about this so this one is also the Kaveri chipset which is a 88x using AC Intel Wireless so it's AMD board but still yeah we're using a Intel Wireless on in there because reason why is a pretty popular with a lot of the fans they still like to Intel chip yeah and and until makes a really good wireless setup I love the fact that you guys include Wireless built onto the mini ITX boards because if you're building a system based on portability it makes no sense to be tethered down to an rj45 or something like that the the board that I'm using here on the CES build which you guys saw the video of is my z87 I Gaming Mini ITX motherboard provided by MSI and that built-in Wireless is an amazing feature that is serving me really well in the hotel room so I'm very thankful for the built-in Wireless on there so guys if you're building an AMD system you need something small compact but full-featured coming out this year msi has got you covered here with the gaming series you've got your mid-range mini are extremely micro 8 ITA micro ATX so many acronyms and then you've got your mini ITX as well now a question I asked you before we started rolling was if you're going to be including a mini ITX version of the intel gaming board I'm pretty sure in the future are coming up soon we might include that in but right now we don't have any plans yet at the moment we have to see how the market reacts to the gaming board you know we still have the the standard ATX which are about to show you on the next clip you guys heard it if you want it you have to speak up guys they respond to the things that they want it from the fans and the enthusiasts and that's you guys so if you guys are interested in these products speak up let these companies know what you're interested in and it doesn't stop there I mean we're gonna take a look at in another motherboard now if you're a hardcore AMD gamer and you want to jump on to the new platform we're gonna take a look at a really awesome full-sized ambi motherboard so don't go away okay guys so as I promised if you're an AMD fan and you want to build a full-size AMD board you know there's very limited options when it comes to being a gaming enthusiast when it comes to AMD now what I'm looking at right here is the g45 gaming for AMD now mark go ahead and tell us about what we're looking at right here right now you know as we heard from 2013 a lot of fans was complaining like how come you guys didn't come out with AMD gaming series board you know with all the with features and everything so yeah we definitely you know hear what you have to say and we Came As Seen yes this year we're announced that this will be the first gaming series for the AMD motherboard so it has it retains all of the features like the audio boost military components and also the killer NIC card what I like about this board here is it features all the functions that you'd expect from a high-end motherboard but with the AMD chipset I mean we've got our onboard controls you've got your OC Genie button your power your reset I see eight SATA ports on here so obviously we're gonna have a built in raid I don't know why maybe because I'm an old-school builder I love that there's a PCI slot on there because I still have some PCI peripherals that I don't use because there's no slots to support them but the chips that still support to PCI so they put it in there you've got three PCI Express looks like you have one 16 X 2 8 X and you have 2 PCI Express 1 X on there a fan looks like we have our on board queue code right here so that you can troubleshoot it gives you eight boot options on there it tells you the status of the board but I see tons of fan control because you guys know me I'm all about noise control and water cooling and if you have more control over your fans that's that's awesome but it's it's a full-functioning full-sized gaming AMD motherboard if you're an AMD fan we've certainly got you covered here through MSI when it comes to options on building gaming systems you guys have spoken up over the last couple of years saying why are we the black sheep why don't we have any any gaming motherboards for for AMD builds well there you go guys they've you've spoken up they've listened and this is going to be also available for the the 88 it's the Kaveri chipset that's coming out soon here at CES when it comes to AMD and their brand new chipset so they've got you covered on day one once those chips are available thank you Mark for showing us this CES 2014 coverage brought to you by J's two cents follow on Twitter we've got a ton of tweets going out just so much information to try and cover and as always I will see you guys in my next video