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so we finally have the whole lineup of p55 boards from MSI now we already showed you the g65 when I got my early review sample now let's take a look at the p55 CD 53 now you'll notice that the box color is a little bit different from the GD 65 and the GD 80 and that's because this is their mainstream series okay so it has a C in the title and it's a green box that's how you can tell that it's a mainstream or classic series board so let's get this box open here and see what we can find inside so you've got a still pretty good accessory package so you've got your CD you've got your drivers and utilities MSI extras user guide quick installation guide OC Genie manual that's cool the one I had didn't come with a manual for that so I still don't know what it does Winky is also included which is I didn't know last time here's the manual but Winky is like an instant-on feature for the board okay then we got a floppy cable IO cover couple SATA cables an IDE cable nothing particularly exciting on the accessory front you can tell this is a lower-end board then the GD 65 and the GD 80 so now let's get the board out of the anti-static baggie here if I can get this tape to release on the back there we go and here we have it the p55 CD six five so let's have a look at the i/o shield first so we don't have any eSATA we don't have any digital audio it's a far more bare-bones board but we do have 10 USB ports ps2 Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1 audio and then let's have a look at the expansion slots that we've got on this board so you've got your 1 second overclocking OC Genie let's get that sticker off so we've got three PCI 3 PCIe 1x and a PCIe 16x slot now the layout is otherwise very similar including down here we've got the OC Genie button right there we've got an onboard power button which is very exciting to see on such an entry-level sort of price point board you've also got your base clock adjustment buttons here which we did a blog video showing the the use for then you've got your chipset heatsink eight SATA ports if I could just get the camera around here so these are off the Southbridge and these are off the J micron chipset that also powers the IDE port your power ports are in their ideal locations along the right-hand edge of the board and up at the very top left corner and then here you've got your typical LGA 1156 socket you can put four dims of ddr3 memory and this board even at this low price point while there's a truck going past there's a purely inter truck headed to our warehouse behind me here so I'm gonna have to speak pretty loudly I think or maybe we'll just wrap it up we've got dr. Moss and there you have it that is the p55 CD 53 motherboard from MSI thanks for watching