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welcome to my unboxing your first look at a sample motherboard that's too early for packaging that comes with a driver disk that looks like this evaluation 9-3 yes this is MSI's military class 3 answer to the AMD FM 2 socket and I actually still don't even know what the model number of this board is it's actually not on here we'll be back in a moment right so we found it this is the a 85 X 8 g 65 from msi this is a performance board based on the new FM 2 socket from AMD which comes along with a few really cool thing so number one is this supports trinity apu so remember an APU is AMD's nomenclature for a CPU and a GPU on one chip so basically a CPU now since both of the majors TP you guys have GPUs built in however AMD's AP use have much more powerful GPUs built into them then Intel's equivalent as we'll show you in an upcoming video on the NCIX tech tips channel you've got a pretty bog-standard layout so you got your CPU socket in the middle you've got these beastly-looking drm coolers all around here that actually look outstanding so i'll get you a bunch of different angles of those those look awesome get slick to keep your threats like sorry sorry it's not slick filming today it's diesel so there's your a pin CPU connector and the top left there's your dual channel ddr3 compatible slots on the right so this is pretty pretty standard again OC Genie button for easy 1 button overclocking bond board power switch on board reset switch v checkpoints so if you're looking to like break some overclocking records on the FM 2 socket compared to other FM 2 users then you'll use this to monitor your voltages with a multimeter rather than relying on software 24-pin connector along the right-hand edge 8 say the three six gigabit per second connectors six of them are right angle and the other two are your standard connectors that right out of the word and those are all running off the AMD chipset unlike Intel chipsets we have full support for SATA 3 16 bit per second our USB 3 header is here for whatever reason that seems like an odd place for it but I guess I won't question it your clear CMOS button is here which again seems like a bit of an odd placement for it but not going to question it do much front panel there's all your front panel connectors right there there is your front USB - here is your front USB - with their supercharger feature which allows you to charge your tablet or whatever else in terms of fan connectors we've got one two three four pin fan connectors and two three pin fan connectors so you can plug a total of five fans into the board no problem remember guys Trinity GPUs actually have use for all these video outputs on the back of the board so we got VGA dual link DVI DisplayPort and HDMI you can use up to three of them at a time so you can drive three displays off of a single onboard graphics card which is very cool stuff for USB 2.0 ports ps2 I have never seen a Gigabit Ethernet port this high up on an i/o shield I've just never seen that before no it's nothing it's just I don't know it's just the placement stuff okay optical audio out two USB 3.0 ports and 7.1 audio out I think that pretty much wraps it up now I'm gonna have to remind myself thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 885 XA g65 from MSI don't forget to subscribe fly this tech tips from unboxings reviews another computer videos that we didn't get for the PCI Express slots one two three PCIe 1x slots two PCI slots and then two PCIe 16x slots however this one is only wired for 8x operations so if you were running crossfire X you'd get to eight X slots which is more than enough especially given on a platform like this you'd probably be running like 7800 series or lower and don't forget guys using that onboard GPU in the APU you can add a low end video card here and you can use them together in like a hybrid crossfire type thing that will allow you to get slightly better performance versus running this alone or the graphics card alone