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In the name Of Allah, Salam alaykoom.
welcome dear viewers. Today we will continue
what we have started on our last episode and we will make a first impression
and quick review on the Mainboard from MSI.
it is the Military Class 3
we will see its main features.
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as you can see the model is X79A-GD65 8D
and its a gen3 Mainboard, meaning that it has the PCI-E 3.0 Technology.
also it also has the Click Bios feature, As you can tweak it from your OS.
also we see the large logo Military Class 3
and what special about this series is the use of high quality components.
at the top here its has logos indicating, one click overclocking in one second.
Support for SLI and Crossfire, windows 7 OS and I7 processors.
from the back, we see the main features for this Mainboard.
first and most important, it says high performance
and the use of DrMos2, which means it will run much better than before
from all those features the most important is this feature.
and it is, when the Mainboard reaches to 115°C
the Mainboard will give you a warning.
and when reaching 130°C the mainboard will shut down to prevent damage.
so lets now jump in to the Unboxing.
we get a quick guide in various languages to show you main features of the MB.
inside you get a detailed chart of the various places of its components.
next is the over clocking Guide. very nice to get started in OC.
Let's go through the paperwork, we have here the quick installation guide
strange, a military class 2 booklet, whereas the MB is class 3. Maybe it's there by mistake?
the MC3 guide, shows you what the mainboard is all about.
finally, a quality certificate that this MB is very efficient and good.
This is the Driver CD, I always advise on downloading the latest drivers.
Also don't update the Bios unless you have to.
this is the M-connect you can do without it.
an SLI strip cable, very good length, makes it easy to install more one VGA card.
the rear I/O shield.
this is a PCI plate for a USB3.0 expansion.
cables and more cables, this is the an additional E-sata PCI plate
with its own cable set to connect it to your MB.
one, two and three bags of serial ATA sata cables
a total of 6 SATA 3 cables to connect to the MB.
now we get to the mainboard. Very good packing.
And please don't forget to be careful with static electricity in order not to damage the MB.
now let's start from the top.
from this side there is a sticker covering the CPU socket
to indicate that the MB is MC3.
here is the cooler labeled with the MC3 logo Very nice.
This is the CPU socket and it's the 2011 socket that supports the 2nd gen processors
from i7 extreme to I7 3960
here are the Ram Slots, a total of 8. You can go up to 64BG
from bellow here, a sticker to show that the PCI-E slots are Gen 3
where we have a total of 5 PCI-E slots, the 1st, 3rd and 5th run at 16X
and the 2nd and 4th run at 8X.
finally, one PCI-E slots running at 1X
lets start from here. This is the connector for the USB 2.0 also used for
charging your devices like the I Phone or the I Pad.
also here is an other USB2.0 connector and a USB3.0 connector.
those are the front headers, then there is the voice header. don't know much about it
I think this is optional.
Here is the Quick Over Clock button.
and On/Off button and +/- buttons to increase or decrease the MB
an external port for USB
and an external power port to provide the MB with the power it needs
for example when mounting more than one VGA.
and I think you can only go for triple VGA's only
from this side you have an indicator for post errors
from the front here we have 4 SATA 3 ports with a transfer rate of 6GB/s
and 4 posts for SATA 2
the 24 pin connector for power.
here is a small switch for the dual Bios.
to switch between them in case of bios corruption
also you can save settings and revert to default.
for the fan ports we see two one for System and the other for CPU fan (total of 5 fan ) headers
from the back, we see the PS2 port.
8 USB2.0 and two ports for USB3.0
the RJ45 for the lan and the analog 7.1 sound system.
for the Audio we have the we have the SPDF and the Coaxial
and finally the Cmos rest button, where you can
reset the Cmos.
that was the quick overview for this Mainboard and the Unboxing of it.
this is your Bro Bander. catch us on the next episode
good bye.
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