Gadgetory

well it's been a while since I've unboxed an msi board and the reason for that is that I haven't had any sort of really interesting like really interesting new stuff to unbox from them lately but today I've got the NF 750 G 55 motherboard this is an nvidia nforce sli board it's an enforced 750 board which is something there's almost none of on the market so that's why I grabbed this because right now this seems to be the best value SLI board on the market so it's a it's a pretty unique motherboard in that respect why don't we get this thing opened right up let's do a quick sort of highlight of what features they are gonna call out here so you got your easy OC switches for successful OC active phase switching okay power saving and then some something about lossless audio awesome okay so let's get this open into though it's also Windows 7 ready check that out very good so it supports phantom 2 X force and everything under that I'm going to go ahead and assume you've got support for ddr3 memory on this motherboard but we'll get to that later first of all we will find the drivers and utilities DVD pretty much don't use anything on there you're gonna want to download the latest off the MSI website then here we will find the quick installation guide which is quite big but the reason oh wow they've actually got like everything on here they show you how to do the CPU how to do the RAM how to do the IDE and see the optical how to install graphics card how to do the front panel connectors that's great we give you a little diagram there that's really handy ok they show you the power settings installation Hey they only show you the 24 pin power don't forget to do your 8 pin all right so we'll go ahead and close that up I'll do that later okay then we have the MSI NFS 750 G 55 user guide so that's the detailed guide again it's in a bunch of languages shows you all of the ins and outs of this motherboard oh that's yeah isn't differently we just take it then we have an SLI bridge what kind of SLI motherboard would it be without an SLI bridge you can see the spacing looks like a 4 slot facing based on that bridge but since it's a flexi bridge who knows then we have our i/o shield then we have gone gray IDE cable house idiot then we have a molex to SATA adapter and one SATA cable so the assumption MSI seems to be making here is that users will be using a DVD optical IDE drive and then a SATA hard drive or SSD drive again alright then we've got our little environmentally friendly paper packaging followed up with some environmentally not friendly phone but what are you gonna do you got some plastic here let's take this off and have a look at the layout of this board now like I said this is one of the most aggressively priced SLI boards on the market right now so you're not going to find necessarily all of the features you'd find on a more on a more high-end board but you do have the EZ OC switch alright so I'm not actually sure where that is but here's the little button for it it shows like a little gear shifter thing that's pretty cool and then you've got the power saving features okay activation so let's take that off alright general layout your SLI slots are one two three fo they're only three apart but you've got two PCI Express 16 you have two usable PCI Express One X and one PCI slot that you're only really going to be able to use if you're not using another card so you don't have much on this board in terms of expansion slots especially if you're running SLI however if you're only running one card you're gonna end up with a couple PCIe ones of PCIe 16 which can be used as 16 8 4 or 1 and then you've got a PCI slot so that's not actually too bad down here you've got three USB headers which I really like to see I hate seeing only one then you've got a onboard power switch you know what MSI has really stepped up to the plate here they are putting onboard power switches on most of their boards which is incredibly handy when you're troubleshooting I love that alright then over here we've got five SATA ports which may seem like an odd amount but I'm gonna go ahead and guess yeah there we go that we have eSATA on the back and that's where your sixth port is here is our chipset your prime I'm just taking a wild guess here this is an end force chipset you're probably gonna want to do what you can to keep it cool alright then you've got support for like I said before a dual channel ddr3 memory here along the right-hand edge of the board in its ideal location as your 24-pin power and then up here I mistakenly said this would an 8-pin this has a four pin power connector this is an AM three ready board obviously because you do have support for ddr3 and you do need an AM three chip in order to take advantage of ddr3 this is actually oh I really like this check this out this is a really sort of beefy looking valve erm cooling solution for such an entry-level board and I really like the way that they've sort of built it around everything in there it's it's the little touches you know that's where that's where a motherboard can really stand out because they've all got the same basic features but it's just those little things right here is the EZ OC switch which I'm not sure how to use I've never seen this one before their new thing is OC Genie so it seems like this is kind of the more value option okay this supports SLI and hybrid SLI oh yeah so this has onboard video check that out okay we've got a couple ps2 ports one for the mouse one for the keyboard we have VGA DVI and HDMI out then we have six USB ports one Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio there's the back of the board you got your a m3 backplate and there is your serial sticker thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NF 750 G 55