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so today I'm going to be unboxing MSI's shiniest motherboard box out of their updated packaging you can see that the 890 fxa were doing the lettering rather is actually like sparkly very cool anyway this is the 890 FX AGD 70 motherboard it is the replacement for the very popular 790 FX gd7 T so the a means that it has support for a USB 3.0 as well as SATA 3 or SATA 6 gigabits per second you can see that down here it still features their OC Genie easy overclocking technology along with korón clocking and support for 6 core CPUs out of the box so that means you've got full support for a muse phantom 2 X 6 over here we've got everything else so oh yeah this is a the first time I've seen this on their motherboards but they've been doing this on video cards for a couple generations now military class so that means they are using top components has military quality whatever so basically that means that they're using only military grade components so high C CAP eight times longer lifespan they're using IC Cho 20 C lower temperatures and then all solid caps for 10-years ultra long life time basically what they're going for is the best possible stability and longevity with this motherboard everything there we've already covered it has dr. Moss and MSI's claim and I haven't seen anything to disprove this is that one phase of dr. Moss is greater than or equal to four standard phases of MOSFETs so they switch very fast they are I just did it again oh yeah basically dr. Moss is really good that's what they say Vladdy eight pipe that's radiating solution oh okay so basically it keeps the heat pipe nice and low profile as it comes along the motherboard okay let's get this opened up have a quick look at the accessories and then have a look at the eight ninety F XA GD 70 here is our quick guide I love these MSI quick guides they give you a full sized actually it looks a little bit larger than life model of the motherboard and then labels everything for you to make life really easy and then there's a more marketing on the back thank you alright then for other included Suri's we have a drivers and utilities DVD don't install this download the latest off the msi website here is a little user guide on their hard drive back up solution great we got a quick installation guide which is kind of like that other thing except more detailed so it shows you how to install your cpu ram drives front panel connectors power set up the bios all that good stuff next we have the BIOS code unlock technology so a quick guide on how to use their core unlocking utility very nice then their control center for overclocking oh there's a little user guide for that very nice all color look at that all in English Wow recommended CPU coolers for overclocking hmm ok these are some interesting I hope they're going somewhere with that I don't have time to read it though next we've got the user's guide which is not all in English it contains a number of different languages and lots of details about yep we have an i/o shield we have a fairly complete accessory package overall so we've got four SATA cables two molex to SATA adapters one IDE cable then we have two USB 2.0 back panel connectors by a next one of those headers oh here's a bit of a end connector I was gonna say it's kind of like a cute connector but em ok there you go so this has a way for you to plug in all of your fun panel stuff and then plug the whole thing in as a brick to the motherboard very neat then we have a crossfire bridge so this motherboard being a an AMD chips that motherboard 890 FX chip set is not SLI compatible however this is probably the coolest thing about this motherboard and so I'm gonna skip the usual stuff that I show you right away I'm gonna show you this right off the bat this motherboard is a standard ATX motherboard and it supports one two three four dual slot graphics cards so you can actually use quad crossfire X on a standard ATX board MSI has pulled an engineering to here in order to enable that now it's gonna run 8 X 8 X 8 X 8 X in all likelihood although I haven't checked but ninety ninety percent will but that doesn't actually have an impact on any of the high performance GPUs these days including the 5870 very cool feature so we've got their active phase switching technology this is for power saving what it does is it actually turns off CPU power phases that are not in use in order to get the most efficiency whether you're at idle or load on your CPU there's your ham free socket supporting triple I'd rather triple dual channel ddr3 memory and it looks like MSI has taken another page out of one of their competitors books here and they have their single side installation for the memory module so you just slide it into one side and then clip it shut on the other side dr. Moss okay green power Express cool rapid boost okay we already talked about this on the back let me see if there's anything under the sticker of note and no there isn't oh yes there is there is a voltage check point for your REM right in there I don't know if the cameraman can see that or not he says not really but it's in there I assure you it is okay what else do we have I'm gonna see if I can find any other voltage check points here and I'm just gonna put this down on the table so we can have a better look under the good light um-hmm not so much so far well I'm not gonna worry too much about that for now why don't we have a look at what else this board has to offer our eight pin connectors and it's ideal location up at the top left of the board right next to this huge huge beefy looking chipset and mah MOSFET cooler it looks like the North Bridge is actually under this part and then this part is dedicated to cooling the MOSFETs here's that flat thick heat pipe that they talked about going down to the South Bridge there and then we have our 24 pin power connector right where it belongs one IDE connector here is a SATA 2 port running off a JMicron controller as we as is this IDE port and probably any SATA port on the back then on this side we have 6 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports so those are running off the SB 850 Southbridge next we have our easy button I love these I love these touch sensitive buttons the first time I saw this was on the p55 GD 80 and I'm glad that they're continuing to do this because I think it's so cool then we have a little OCD dial so that seems pretty self-explanatory plus and minus depending on how fast you want the CPP's tip cpu to go then there's an OC dial button I'm guessing that enables it and then we have their green power button okay then we have three USB 2.0 front headers we have firewire two firewire front headers and then in addition to that we have not a whole lot else I'm gonna have one more quick scan here and see if I can find like a CPU voltage readout point or anything like that you know what it might be there somewhere if you can find it feel free to leave a comment on my video and let me know where it is let's have a look at the back panel connectors oh cameraman wants to look at that sweet erm the Northbridge cooling solution I think that is very cool I really like it actually here get it from this angle from this angle see these are actually wavy in order to give it slightly more surface area and a little bit better turbulence for any airflow that does happen to go through there very cool okay oh yeah I guess the rest of the slots I didn't even talk about there's one more PCIe 1x slot and a PCI slot as if anyone cares if you buy this motherboard do me a favor and load it up with a bunch of graphics cards because that is what it is for okay let's have a look at our connectors on the back we've got ps2 mouse and keyboard two dedicated ports we have a clear CMOS button and it's a very very ideal location right on the back we have optical as well as coaxial audio out so digital formats both then we have one of those USB eSATA ports so six USB 2.0 ports one eSATA then we have two Gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 as well as 7.1 audio out thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 890 FX a GD 70