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welcome to yet another motherboard unboxing on latest tech tips this is the msi 990 FX AGD 80 so the title tells us a few things it tells us this is a 990 FX motherboard it tells us it has USB 3 as I recall correctly is what that suffix means and it is a GD 80 which means it is part of their premium line of boards so it has a three year warranty in Canada Mexico and the USA it features their military class 2 concept which means higher quality components for longer lifetime cooler operation and better reliability it features full support for AMD unlocked FX series processors these are not yet released but they will be supported on this board once they are full support for AMD crossfire x nvidia sli and windows 7 pretty much takes for granted it features OC Genie 2 which is OneTouch overclocking USB 3 and say the 3 6 gigabit per second on the back of the board we see a few things here hi-c caps with tantalum cores for 8 times longer lifetime anticipated Superferry chokes for 30% higher current path paths at capacity and solid capacitors for 10 plus years of ultra long lifetime we also have that's funny it doesn't say anything about click BIOS on here although I would think this particular board support it but I have no way of knowing for sure rather than firing it up so here is the quick guide which gives us a look at the oh here we go BIOS setup no it does not feature click BIOS I guess unless they just haven't updated this document ok there is a layout of the board itself showing you where everything is and what everything is but that's ok we're gonna show you the board itself anyway drivers and utilities DVD download the latest from the MSI website multi-gpu sli video link card I think they mean cable but that's ok another SLI connector and another sli connector now mixing and matching these connectors I am assuming you would be able to run four-way SLI so I guess that's what they mean for you to do we've also got 6 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second connectors all of them are right angle as well as 2 molex to SATA power adapters next we have an internal USB 3 header to a PCI USB 3 bracket with two ports on it we have the unconnected to make your front panel connectors and front USB a little bit easier to hook up next we have a black eye Oh she'll we have a harddrive backup utility user guide a quick installation guide certificate of quality and stability shiny as well a software application user guide and a motherboard user guide and it looks like based on everything in this user guide yeah this is a standard like older style of BIOS board although correct me if I am wrong on that one guys nope its foot BIOS there we go yeah we found it so that means you can use the mouse inside the vial so though that looks kind of weird so it looks like an older-style blast with a mouse cursor on it but I don't know what they're going for here also feature super charger so you can charge your iPad iPhone and or mobile phone at high speed even while the computer is shut down very very useful feature so let's go ahead take the board out of the packaging and we can have a look at it might even draw some little conclusions I can tell you right now GD 80 is gonna be a very high-end board very overbuilt you can see there's a boatload of power phases over here to the left of the CPU socket I'm just gonna move the military class-2 sticker here and you can also see that that is a socket am3+ so that means that with this bracket you can put any am-3 or am3+ compatible cpu in there that includes the upcoming bulldozer CPUs from AMD you can also use any a M 2 M 3 M 2 plus any am whatever CPU cooler as long as it supports the heat output of the CPU that you put inside all right we've got a nice little military class to styled PWM heatsink here we've also got a heat sink for the chipset and another heatsink for the other more different chipset our 8 pin power connectors in the top left in its ideal location and our 24 pin power connector is along the right-hand edge of the board in its idea location we've got support for a dual channel ddr3 memory it is color-coded for easy dual channel operation and moving down the board we have six SATA three six gigabit per second ports all supported by the AMD chipset so unlike Intel chipsets that are currently out there all six are running off the AMD chipset and they are all running at SATA 3 6 gigabit per second this is great this is the first right-angle USB 3 front panel header that I have seen and I like it that's a great location for it because as great as it is to have your front panel headers down here where most of them still are this is actually closer to the front of the case and thus more convenient here are our front panel connectors as well as our an LED readout so there's a post readout if you're having any issues with the board it'll give you an error code here that will help you fix it here's the front powered USB so that is the one that is good for super charger for the iPad or any other tablet charging them we will require that higher powered port and there's a regular front USB front firewire front panel audio a little thx sticker going on here alright let's have a look at the PCIe layout so we have one PCIe 1x 2 to are sorry 2 PCIe 1x 4 PCIe 16x and one PCI but let's have a look at what these are actually wired for if you're gonna run in 16 X 16 X mode you are going to want to use these two slots because those are running at full bandwidth these two right here are only running at 8 X mode so what that means is if you're running 3 GPUs you're gonna want to go this one this one this one so 8 X are probably 16 8 8 8 16 something along those lines would be my guess and if you're running for GPUs it'll run 8 X 8 X 8 X 8 X two GPUs 16 X 16 X so if you do install two graphics cards you're gonna be left with one PCI 1 PCIe 8 X and one PCIe 1x 4 expansion moving along for the back of the board we've got two dedicated ps2 ports for keyboard and mouse respectively a clear CMOS button optical and coaxial digital audio out we've got 1 2 3 4 USB 2.0 ports we've also got ya sorry that was six USB 2.0 ports right there is one of those funky eSATA USB to combo ports very handy fire wire port Gigabit Ethernet USB 3.0 two of those and 7.1 audio out I want to show you guys where the fan headers are on this particular board here's our CPU fan header that is a four pin pwm we've also got a three pin here a three pin here a three pin here a three pin right here and that is about it so appropriate build for something like this would be a couple high end cards probably somewhere in the 750 to 850 watt power supply range and a high-end six core or 8-core processor thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 990 FX a GD 80 from MSI don't forget to subscribe to line this tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos