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so I've done quite a few videos of the asou and the gigabyte updated p55 lineups but I haven't actually covered the one that MSI did so they took their original P 55 G dat they added five no what they actually added is SATA 3 which is six gigabit per second as well as USB 3.0 which is 10 times the speed of USB 2.0 at five gigabit per second so that's the most important change it still features crossfire SLI and OC Genie as well as the super pipe and dr. Moss just like the p55 G dat but it does come with these additional updated features it's a little bit more expensive but without further ado let's get into the package so oh it looks like MSI has started including the N connector which is kind of like the asou some I think they call it Q connector either way it's an easy way to plug in your front USB and front connectors if you don't have the bunched up the bunched up block cables okay next we have a crossfire oh well that's neat okay well they're actually including a crossfire bridge I guess because the spacing is more than the standard crossfire spacing that's pretty nice normally you're only going to get a crossfire bridge with your video card now we have an SLI video cable so that is something that we definitely need if we are running us-ally I'm kind of rambling here okay I've got an IDE cable it's red and yellow so it's stylus next we have two molex to SATA connectors and four red SATA cables with locking connectors awesome next we have two USB ports for the back of your case these are both high-speed USB not super speed USB so that's USB 2.0 and we've got an i/o shield oh it looks like we've also added a clear CMOS switch to the back of the board thumbs up for that I love that next we have their V chat cables so these cables plug in to various spots on the board and allow you to use a multimeter hmm use the multimeter to measure the current voltage there you go just like that msi explains exactly what it does drivers and utilities DVD don't use anything on there download everything the latest from the msi site a hard disk storage backup and or utility okay cool next we have a quick installation guide which looks like it's gonna unfold to about the size of the camera man's office yeah okay so that gives you a quick guide to CPU Ram SATA and optical installation or hard drive and obstacle installation graphics card installation front panel this is the useful stuff showing you how to hook up your front panel connectors and all that good stuff power and some basic final settings so that's kind of nice okay so that quick installation guide is covered in logos like Auto GSE okay next we have wow they have so many accessories ins sheesh okay so control center guide about MSI is a useful motherboard useful software okay that's nice then we have Winky which is their quick on feature then we have an OC Genie guide okay Wow they've included so many more little guides versus the original G dat it's funny that they actually even include an OC Genie guide because OC Genie is by definition of like a one button function this is like thick and there's your user guide in umpteen billion different languages alright finally we get down to the board so let's get this out of here let's get this out of here and let's get this baby opened up just pull the motherboard out being careful not to actually touch the PCB on the back I'm actually touching the back plate there okay so the motherboard itself like all p55 boards we are going to find an LGA 1156 socket in the middle you can see it's got like a black mirrored finish on it much like EVGA high-end boards you can see it's using a load socket which is the one that is rated for more even contact with the CPU so you're not gonna burn out your CPU and your socket with even extreme overclocking okay we've got a couple stickers on here one of them is for one second overclocking with OC Genie and the other one is for super pipe and dr. Moss okay let's see what else we got here so like all p55 boards we have support for dual channel ddr3 up to 16 gigs then we've got our 24-pin connector and our 8 pin power connectors in their ideal locations along the right-hand edge and top left of the board next we've got out this is good okay so we've got our V check so this is going to allow us to check our CPU CPU vtt ram PCH and then we've got a couple of ground connections so that we can actually check up to two at a time next we've got okay we've got our six SATA 2 connectors so those are all running off of the MSI chipset our MSI Intel chipset then we have SATA 7 and say 2 8 so those are both SATA 36.0 gigabit per second connectors next we have an additional connector I don't even know what that's running off of probably running off the same day micron chipset as this IDE connector here as well as the I'm going to go ahead and assume that there's an eSATA port on the back that is also running off it and it's right there ok so next we've got all these I love so oh they've actually improved this so you've got your power button your reset button and these are touch sensitive buttons very cool and then you've actually got the direct OC buttons which used to be a physical button kind of like the OC Genie button here but now these are touch sensitive to increase or decrease the base clock pretty cool then we have three USB 2.0 headers one firewire header there's our CMOS battery and then here we've got our slot so it looks like they've actually reduced the number of slots off to Gd 80 but honestly I mean ok you're going to install 2 graphics cards so you're gonna still be ending up with a PCI slot as well as a PCIe 1x slot even if you have to double slot graphics cards so really it's enough expansion options for 99% of people out there now they've actually cut down on the heat pipe cooling a little bit which I can understand because they're adding features but I mean really I would like to see something at least as beefy as the GD 80 I mean if they're saying it's enough I mean look at this thing it's huge you've got like this huge heat pipe you've got all these fins to dissipate heat realistically it's not gonna get that hot anyway so MSI seems to have done a pretty good job there with that thick heat pipe now let's go around to the back of the board and have a look at what we got so we've got two ps2 ports one for the keyboard one for the mouse a clear CMOS which I love that I love having a switch on the back of the board for that you screw something up you just press that button and sets everything back to factory default next we have optical as well as coaxial audio out then we have firewire four six USB 2.0 ports remember this is one of those SATA esata/usb combo ports very cool ports then we have 2 USB 3 ports 2 Gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 audio so this is a fully featured board SLI crossfire the works and thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p55 GT 85