 Today I've got a short unboxing of an MSI motherboard. This is the p67 a C43 so it's very similar to the c45 except for a couple small things and that couple small things is pretty much One small thing it doesn't have As many USB 3.0 ports, so we're gonna go through the overall feature this board This is an 1155 board which means you've got support for Intel core i3 core i5 and core i7 processors on the Of the second generation variety so only 1155 chips don't try to use an 1156 chip in here It will not work so we're talking 2500 K will work 2600 K will work 875 K will not work Okay features the military class 2 concept with super ferrite chokes solid caps It's got OC Genie 2 for a one touch overclocking of K series processors as well as a UEFI click BIOS let's flip this over it features a three-year warranty in the USA and Canada and Okay, there's nothing under there cat Let's see what else they have to say for themselves We've got Winky 3 which is their software that allows you to chat with friends maintain hard drive data I had a docs and photos without any OS and you can also surf the internet And that's pretty much it for the back of the box. Yeah, that's pretty much it So let's open this guy up and have a look see oh This is interesting Huh Fascinating cable okay, well we'll talk about that in a minute first We've got our drivers and utilities DVD throw it away download the latest off the MSI website Here is a quick installation guide you might need that if you want to install it quickly software application user guide Actual motherboard user guide Ooh color inside uh inside Cover that whoa is that it what board is that oh? That is an x58 board. Okay. That's not a popular x58 board anymore. That's their eclipse very old very discontinued Okay, all right. We've got a couple SATA cables one right angle one straight We've got some end connectors. These are for easily connecting your front panel connectors We've got an IO shield which is hey look at that color-coded very nice very very very nice All right, and we've got what appears to be a USB 3 header to USB 2 Mail header so you can I can get it to focus you'll be able to see the pins on this thing So if you want to turn your internal USB 3.0 header into an internal USB 2.0 header You could do that if you wanted Okay, so let's grab the board itself. I'm just gonna close the box real quick here We can see what we're doing Tape off Oh There you go you can cooperate mr.. Baggie and Here is the board itself, so it looks very similar to its Well very similar brother the P. Wait hold on just a darn moment oh Oh, okay, I get it hold on I'll be back in a minute, okay here is the difference So you see that any C chip there? There's some other board components around it better see here this guy right here, okay? Well, I'm gonna turn my manual focus off actually no that's fine Not present here, so this is a USB 2 2 header see how it's color-coded black and see how its color-coded blue on the other board, and it's called Well here. It's called USB 3 inside see USB 3.0 Here it is not called any such thing because and now I'm gonna turn my manual focus off the C43 only features Come on focus manual focus is off. Oh I'll be back in a minute. Okay, then you'll focus is off now, okay? So because this board only features two USB 3.0 ports That's why I got confused as soon as I saw the USB 3.0 ports on the back, and I saw a header here I was like well How does this work it only has two ports because this is a USB 2.0 header, but rather than redesigning the PCB they just haven't included the USB 3 chip set here the any C chips that we saw on the higher end board and That is why it has this funky adapter because now this is a USB 2.0 header So there's another USB 2.0 header for a total of two okay, so the overall layout of the this board is very similar We've got our LGA 1155 socket right here in the middle. We've got lots of room around it You can see this lower end board also doesn't include the heat sinks around the CPU area that are cooling So you can see the outlines for where they would normally belong that are cooling the voltage regulation modules We have an 8 pin power connector up here in the top left as well as support for Four sticks of DDR3 running in dual channel our 24 pin power is along the right hand edge of the board in its optimal location and moving down we have full support for SATA 3 6 gigabit per second running off of the Intel chipset Come on focus there you go as well as four SATA 2 3 gigabit per second ports here is the heat sink for the Intel chipset itself and Continuing to move down the board we have all of our front panel connectors our USB 2.0 header that I have now talked about endlessly and we've also got front No front firewire, which the other board did have we have no rear firewire either for that matter But we'll get to that in a moment And we also have our front panel audio connector now in terms of the slot layout it is the same as its big brother so we have three PCIe 1x one PCIe 16x and Three PCI slots so if you were to install a dual slot graphics card in the PCIe 16x slot then you would still have access to two PCIe 1x and Three PCI slots so on a lower end board That's what I would consider optimal because most people are going to be carrying over their PCI Add-in cards when they're not buying like a super expensive motherboard All right here. We go, so we got a ps2 us ps2 yes It is ps2, but it's not us anything. It's a ps2 keyboard mouse combo port. We've got eight USB 2.0 ports It's still got the clear CMOS button very nice very handy for this looks like a good budget overclocking board with that clear CMOS on the back We've got coaxial audio out optical audio out gigabit ethernet USB 3.0 and 7.1 audio Nothing really interesting to speak of on the back. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the p67 a c43 Don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos