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today on Linus tech tips we're going to be unboxing the MS ip67 a DD 55 as you can see from the front of the box there's a few things that MSI has to say for themselves about this board right off the bat first of all military class - this is a hugely important concept for MSI on their motherboards as well as on their video cards so military class means they're using very high quality components on the board in order to enable a 10 plus year lifetime as well as excellent power delivery to your CPU which is one of the most important features for the p67 8 chipset boards it also has a three year warranty in the US Canada and Mexico and features their OC Genie - one button overclocking which is convenient if you want a like a quick and dirty overclock versus tuning it yourself although you will get more out of tuning it yourself we have four USB 3.0 ports 2 SATA 6 gigabits per second parts support for nvidia sli technology as well as well they're calling it ATI crossfire X but I guess it's AMD crossfire X these days I'm not a whole lot to speak of on the back they have their wink e3 BIOS utility for going online we actually tried it it's a Firefox browser in case you're wondering and then there's a also their UEFI BIOS so that is a graphical BIOS interface for this board versus the older like award style BIOS with just you know arrows and enter + + - to change all of your options we have a drivers and utilities DVD throw it away we have a quick installation guide we have a user guide for these software applications we have a full user guide for the motherboard itself this is the Europe version so I'm assuming that includes English somewhere along the line ok we also have an SLI bridge remember if you do need a crossfire bridge it should come with your graphics part we have an i/o shield which is black tie light like everything to be sorta you know black and sleek-looking we have four SATA cables included - right angle and - straight and then we also have a molex to SATA power adapter just in case you have an older power supply that only has a single harness with SATA power connectors on it we have there and connector which allows you to plug in all your front panel connectors to that and then plug the whole brick into your motherboard at one time for easier installation there is the board itself the p67 8dd 55 so the D in the name means that this is part of their gaming series from what I've seen so far the G Series boards what differentiates them from the C Series p67 boards is that they do have support for their dual 16x PCI Express slots to run in 8x8 X mode for SLI and crossfire I'm going to go ahead and remove this sticker and we're gonna start in the middle of the board where the LGA 1155 socket is around the edge of the board you're gonna see we have a six plus one phase power design on this particular military class board up in the top left we've got our eight pin power connector in its ideal location because most cases have routing optional all most high-end cases have routing options for that cable to come up this way we've got our CPU power connector and then we've got four ddr3 module slots supporting dual channel we have oh look at this this is interesting you come up in here and have a look at this so we have it looks like we have voltage read points but we don't have the convenient interface soldered on to it that you would see on the higher-end GD 65 board so you can probably still like put a multimeter on there and just not quite sure if that will work all right so we've got a 24 pin power connector in its ideal location on the right hand edge of the board and then we have our SATA ports so here we have all supported off of the Intel chipset 2 SATA 6 gigabits per second ports and 4 SATA 3 gigabit per second ports we have what is a very low-profile chipset cooler and then moving down the board we have our OCD knee button remember that is a toggle switch so on off we have our reset and power buttons and then we have support for front USB front firewire and front USB 3.0 so that's a pretty cool thing to have our slot layout is the same as the GD 65 version it's gonna move that we have to pee see I slots to PCIe 16x physical slot so those are going to run in either 16x mode or 8x8 X mode if you're running both and three PCI 1x slots so if you're using two dual slot graphics cards which is sort of the most likely configuration for crossfire SLI you're gonna be left with one two PCIe 1x slot and one PCI slot for any additional expansion that you want to do so now let's have a look at the i/o shield on the back this is one of my favorite things you got that combo mouse keyboard ps2 port you have one two three four five six seven eight USB 2.0 ports a clear CMOS switch which I love I love this feature although I have yet to need to clear the CMOS on a p67 board we have support for digital audio in both optical and coaxial flavors firewire Gigabit Ethernet two USB 3.0 ports on the back panel as well as 7.1 audio out cameraman wants to have a look at the cooling solution on the MOSFETs which is actually pretty slick looking I really like it once you peel off the plastic there's actually quite a shiny glossy finish to the blue that is on those and I really like the overall color scheme of this board although it seems trivial I am a shallow person what can I say the back of the board looks like the back of pretty much any LGA 1155 or 1156 board don't forget if you are buying a CPU for this motherboard make sure you're buying a core i3 i5 or i7 with 1155 contact points on the back not 1156 it only supports LGA 1155 CPUs thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other tech computer videos