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so today I'm going to be doing an unboxing of the msi a 75 m8 g 55 this is part of their military class to standard of motherboards so this although it is a micro ATX board is not a low-end board in terms of a build quality or the features ok let's see what kind of badges they've got here on the front of it so it's Windows 7 ready good AMD vision ok aim D recommended USB 3 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second and they've got a really shiny certified military standard stamp on here that actually looks looks really cool ok let's go on look on the back what do we have here some more about military class so we've got highly conductive out that guys highly conductive polymerized capacitors with tantalum cores up to 8 times longer lifetime we've got super ferrite chokes with up to 30% higher current capacity and all solid caps giving you 10 plus years of ultra long lifetime next we've got the msi control center which allows you to monitor and tune your computer system click BIOS which means it is UEFI that means you can use the mouse in the BIOS and I charger so you can charge your iPad or iPhone or mobile at high speed yes you can charge your iPad off of the USB ports on this motherboard although only certain ones em flash allows you to easily flash your BIOS and USB safeguard allows you to that's interesting so dual current protection allows you to protect your USB chipset from static damage which can happen on some cases if the the ports aren't properly configured this is interesting okay what do we got here so in terms of package we have an i/o plate this is a PCI backplate with USB 3 so if you don't have front USB 3 well least you can have a couple more ports to the back we've got to say 2 3 6 gigabit per second cables remember these are the same as SATA 2 3 gigabit per second cables except they have white tips so there's a both straight to right angle we have a molex to SATA power adapter we have an i/o shield that is helpfully color-coded we have a military class quick installation guide showing you how to install your APU how to install your memory all that good stuff here we go next we have drivers and utilities download the latest from MSI we have their M connector which allows you to easily plug in your front panel switches as well as your front USB to talk quality and stability this is your user guide so that's basically the quick user guide in a book form with some other stuff now on to the board itself this is an FM 1 socket board so what that means is that it is not compatible with phenols and Athlon x' cpus this is compatible with apu so in this case I have an AMD a8 series APU that I will be using with this particular board and that means that it has both a CPU component and a GPU component highly integrated into this socket so let's look at the overall layout here so we have our fm1 socket right here we've got what looks like a perfectly normal AMD mounting bracket and it is so these are all the same mounting holes and mounting clips that we've seen in the past you can use your old heat sinks no problem we've got our power delivery as well as our PWM heatsink here we have a four pin CPU power connector and it's ideal location at the top left corner we've also got for ddr3 dual channel sockets so you can plug in up to four sticks of memory running in dual channel we've got our 24 pin power connector in its ideal location a four pin pwm system fan connector 6 SATA 3 6 gigabit per second ports very cool to see that we've got it's not really a parallel port header okay there's our front panel connector so that's your power and hard drive and reset and all that good stuff ok we've got our front USB another front USB front USB 3 off a header this is great to see so in addition to the 2 USB 3 ports at the back of the board we've also got two more supplied at the front or with the piece see I bracket at the back we've our front panel audio and then in terms of slot layout we've got dual PCIe 16x slots those are both wired for 16x but if you are going to run crossfire X I believe they're going to run at 8 X 8 X we have our PCIe 1x slot as well as a PCI slot got another fan header here that's a three pin fan header so we have two four pin and one three pin fan headers on this motherboard let's move around to the back of the board where we have one two three four USB 2.0 ports one ps2 u.s. mouse keyboard combo port we've also got HDMI DVI and VGA out so of note is the fact that okay two things this supports dual link DVI so up to 2560 by 1600 resolution and of note is the fact that on the fm1 socket every chip that fits in here an APU chip is going to enable the use of these ports Gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports and 7.1 Audio one of the other features that is highly touted for this platform is dual graphics which works similar to how hybrid crossfire used to work but better so basically you plug in your APU you plug in a supported GPU and they will actually have the two graphics cores the two graphics structures work together for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 compatible games and applications to increase performance so it's a pretty good value way to upgrade your APU system if you just need a little bit more kick so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the a 75 na g55 don't forget to subscribe to learn is tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos