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today I'm going to be unboxing a military class to motherboard from MSI even though it is military class this is not part of their gaming series of products it's a sea board which means it's part of their I believe it stands for classic series of products so since this is a socket 1155 board it means we have full support but not full support hold on I'll get more and more on that later we have support for Intel's Core i3 Core i5 and core i7 processors on the LGA 1155 platform supports Windows 7 it has a p67 chipset so what that means is that it does not support the onboard graphics on said CPUs so it does support the unlocking overclocking k-series chips but no long board graphics support it features OC Genie 2 which will overclock your k-series CPU at the push of a button and it features USB 3 and SATA 3 6 gigabit per second we have super ferrite chokes as well as solid caps as part of the military class 2 concept and let's flip over to the back and see what else in maasai has to say for themselves pretty much the same stuff we got a couple things that weren't covered on the front such as click BIOS so that is a UEFI graphical bios and we have Winky 3 which is their software that allows you to use your computer before booting into the OS and that's pretty much it so why don't we flip this over and have a look at the board itself in terms of accessories we've got a pretty basic package here drivers and utilities don't use this download the latest off the MSI website you have a quick installation guide a user's guide for the software applications as well as a user's guide for this board as well as a couple of other boards note one other board three other boards we have an i/o shield which are okay on the value board like this it's rare to see it color coding but here you have it it is color coded and then we've also got to say 2 3 6 gigabit per second cable so well I don't know there could be anything yeah they're called 6 gigabits per second cables but there's no actual physical difference between these and three gigabit per second cables one is right angled and one is straight we have M connectors which allow you to connect your front panel power speaker all that stuff more easily and then we've also got one for us be environmentally friendly cardboard packaging allows us to not see the board yet although we will soon come on there we go pretty difficult to remove there all right so I'm gonna do is I'm gonna close the bulb or glass when you put the board on top and then we're gonna have a look the p67 8:45 sticker comes off and the motherboard comes out so we've got a pretty standard board layout here ATX form factor board it has the full complement of seven slots I'm just gonna take off the OC Genie sticker as well as the military plastic sticker so we can see exactly what we've got to work with here guys a little challenging to leave there we are okay so let's look at the overall layout once again value board 8 pin connector so MSI is allowing for some serious overclocking going on if they're expecting us to need an 8 pin connector to deliver all of the potential current we could need to the CPU itself and go ahead and throw that back on there remember these little Stoppers are here because you can use a four pin connector just by leaving the stopper on there so it shows you which set to plug your 4 pin ATX connector into if you don't have the full 8 pin ATX connector we've got a couple of military class 2 themed MOSFET heat sinks on here so one on that side one on the top surrounding the CPU socket which is pretty pretty bare space around it so you should be able to mount pretty much any heat sinks you want on there as I mentioned before this is an LGA 1155 socket which means support for core i3 squads and core i7s do not try to put an 1156 CPU in here it will not work we have full support for dual channel ddr3 memory and then moving down the right-hand side of the board we've got our 24 pin ATX connector and we have some storage so here we have two say 2 3 6 gigabit per second connectors running off of the Intel chipset and then we have 4 SATA 2 3 gigabit per second connectors also running off of the Intel chipset lots of fan headers on this oh no movie not that many okay for fan headers reasonable number of fan headers on this board moving down the board we've got our front panel connectors as well as front USB 3.0 a front USB 2.0 header front firewire as well as front audio in terms of slot layout we've got three PCI slots this is a more value oriented board so it doesn't surprise me to see PCI slots included and you may need them if you have a board like this we've also got three PCIe 1x slot so one of them would be covered if you were to use a dual slot graphics card which would leave you with two PCIe 1x and three PCIe slots finally moving on to the i/o shield we've got one of those combo ps2 keyboard / Mouse ports that I'm a big fan of we have eight USB 2.0 ports a clear CMOS button look at that clear CMOS button on a value board looks like MSI does have some overclocking in mind with this guy alright we've got our coaxial as well as optical audio out firewire Gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports as well as 7.1 audio and look at that they're even using screws on the back to fix all of the heat sinks happy to see that I hate to see pushpins on any board that's that's that's like pretty decent because screws are just more secure there's no ifs ands or buts about it so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p67 ac45 from MSI don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from Ron boxing's reviews and other computer videos