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hey welcome back once again to the tech of tomorrow YouTube channel bringing you tomorrow's technology today now what are we gonna be looking at today you guys all know Ivy Bridge right around the corner very soon indeed today we're gonna look at the MSI z77 a - GD 55 now this is one of the introductory level of your bridge motherboard that's coming out this motherboard has a lot of new features including their military class 3 hardware which is basically a terminology they created for using really good hardware in the motherboard itself so that said let's jump in and let's check out some of the features and what comes in this box of the new MSI z77 a - GD 55 motherboard okay like all good unboxings we'll take a look at the outside of the box first now I don't know if you guys really noticed a theme but everything seems to be three this generation it's you know we got the new PCI 3 PCI gen3 military class 3 or 2 SATA 3 USB 3 everything is on the threes so you guys see in the further box supports the new 22 nanometer Ivy Bridge processors this is their one second overclocking their overclocking genie we'll take a look at that the motherboard they got their click BIOS to this is just basically UAF BIOS you can click through let's turn around let's take a look at the back of the box back the box shows more their features there dr. Moss - solid ferrite choke hi-c cat and solid cat all high-end Japanese components once again we have the overclock in one second booster overall system performance this is the OC Genie 2 is basically just cook a little button away you go they have over here their supercharger this is for plugging in all your stuff for us Beatle charge it all up they have this Winky 3 right here what basically the Winky 3 is is it is their own version of Linux software that works through their stuff actually works with their board developed from them kind of crazy txx true studio pro audio this is provided by the real tech chipset they actually show you the rear i/o here they talk about gen 3 PCI stuff you guys all know that's alga maining when I've your bitch gets there so without any further ado though let's take a look at what comes inside the box the cat first so as we pop the cap in the box we'll start off showing you guys all the stuff that comes in the box I'm gonna set it out here one by one so starting off we'll see right here we have the user's guide that's the first thing comes in the box then we have their software application guide shows all their stuff once again on there here's their certificate of quality and stability this is basically saying that their board is what it says it is we've got the drivers manual it's a beta you can see two SATA cables set those down one SLI bridge here's a giant unfolding thing I'm not gonna fold it off this is basically an instruction guide quick installation guide if you've never actually had a PC before this is your first build this could come in handy he gives you steps and installing your CPU your memory even install into the case so it's pretty much a pretty good users guide right there here are quick connect these are for our front panel connectors here's the rear i/o through and those is clearly labeled everything says what it is clear CMOS HDMI everything is well explained on this so if you go in there to plug your cables in you won't have to go or do I plug in a kit tells you very clearly on this rear i/o where to plug it in that way to set that down now here is something actually interesting a premium release MSI Intel z77 blah blah blah platforms overclocking guide so inside of here they give you a bunch of different things on overclocking these I'm just trying to get this thing out or so you guys in sealed kind of get it back so we got that the BIOS overclocking options then once finally in the CPU core speed overclocking and memory speed overclocking so this is basically all the content all the camera just shoot back down in the table real quick you guys can see it now we'll get this out of the way and let's take a look at the heart of the matter the motherboard ok so now we have the motherboard go ahead and remove it from its anti-static bag and I think I'm gonna go ahead and just set it down the table so let's start at the top of the board we see right here they have their OC Genie to their military class three hardware this is their cooling solution that's covering all the MOSFETs and everything else as far as the CPU fans go here on the very top of the board we see one right here we see another one here this is the OC Genie button right here then you have your power and your restart buttons right here these are all great when you're testing on a test bench I'm gonna go ahead and take this little sticker off here move over the ZIF socket here is our memory this takes dual channel ddr3 it'll take up to 32 gigabytes and then put back on the board let's talk a little bit about the power connections here's our first being right here this is the 8 pin power connector located to the left of the ZIF socket we have the 24 pin power we have another fan header right here and then right here on the board this is where you can check all of your voltage to get right in close up there this is where you could just hook a bolt into connector right here to this and read your motherboard great for overclocking or just testing the board and regulating it pretty cool stuff put the board back around again we have a giant sticker coming all the stuff on here so I'm gonna go ahead and remove this sticker now and just take it man set it off to the side somewhere as we start working our way down the PCI slots so the top we have one PCIe times one there's two more of those three more of those so we have one two three four PCIe 1x slots now these slots will either run 16 16 8 or they'll run 8 8 and 4 depending on how you set them up on the motherboard so you getting the thx audio right here provided by the realtek chipset and move back over across the board here we see another little MSI thing this is doing additional cooling and then let's pop back up here and let's go take a look by the ZIF socket now I'm gonna go ahead and just remove all this stuff you guys can see we actually have another fan header here which is very close to the ZIF socket now this is a socket we'll take all the previous generation Sandy Bridge processors and all the new Ivy Bridge processors which are based off the 20 nanometer process kind of flip back down again take a look down the side of the board we see right here our USB 3.0 connector and now we're going to get to a part of the board where I feel the board is kind of lagging now this board says that it has both Intel and as many controllers on board but let me get this sticker on here they put stickers all over everything let's board I actually find it kind of knowing because you guys sit there and rub all the plastic stuff off so let's check this out though there are three SATA connections SATA one and two these are based off the SATA 3 the other two right here are based off SATA 2 and there was another SATA 6 gigabits and it was supposed to be right here I believe this would have been with the as media controller but they've left it off the board you guys can see there clearly the chip is completely missing and it flipped down go to the bottom of board we have one two additional USB then we have the I Triple E has some additional ports over here including one more system fan over here and our final audio connections last but not least let's take a look at the rear i/o right here we have legacy ps2 and mouse combo port below that two USB 2.0 ports here's the reset seemed awesome I try to get this up by the Camerons you guys this closer a little button right here as you can see that pad let's keep the board up here here right here is optical and it spit it out now if you're on top we can see we have two more USB 2.0 connectors and then below that we have an HDMI connector now this board has no display port at all I find that disappointing is I use DisplayPort monitors but some of you that won't matter at all here right here we see additional USB ports these are the 3.0 variety we used to the rj45 LAN I was reading the manual and it said this thing support a lot of technology for shotgun you know lan and that's just not available here on the board so I don't know what that's about but here we see DVI standard VGA and then finally your analog connections alright folks so that's it this was the unboxing and first features review of the new msi z77 a - GD 55 look for more reviews next week