 So today we'll be doing a quick unboxing of the MSI Z68A GD80B3 motherboard. So the Z68A GD80B3 motherboard features their military class 2 concept, which means they have the super ferrite chokes, the high C caps with the tantalum core, which is very rare evidently. We have solid caps with up to a 10 year lifetime of solid use, as well as their OC Genie technology, USB 3, SATA 6, SLI, Crossfire X, and full support for Intel's full line up of Intel Core i3, i5, i7 processors on LGA 1155. It features a 3 year warranty in Canada and the US, and in other regions I have no idea. So here there's just a little bit more explanation of what military class 2 means, as well as a list of their features, including their Winky 3, which is like a quick OS you can log into in the BIOS if you want to browse the internet or go on Skype or load Windows for whatever reason. Super charger, so you can charge your iPad, iPhone, and mobile at high speed, even when your PC is shut down. That's a cool feature, as well as their instant overclocking, which is obviously tied into OC Genie, which is their one button overclocking. Press the button, you're overclocked. Remember OC Genie only works with K series processors though. Okay, 3 PCI Express 16X slots for up to 3-way Crossfire or 2-way SLI. And finally, overclocking 1 second OC Genie 2, yes. So auto-detect and overclock CPU memory, oh, and the integrated GPU. Now remember, with the Z68 chipset, the integrated GPU clock speed is actually going to matter even if you're using a dedicated graphics card. And the reason for that is that the Z68 chipset allows you to use the integrated GPU to accelerate video encoding. So that's pretty cool. So that will affect that performance. Okay, here we have extreme power design. So 12 phases. We have Dr. Moss as well as an extra 6-pin VGA power connector for providing more power to the PCIe slots. We have 2 BIOS chips, just in case one of them has some kind of a problem, maybe during flashing or whatever the case may be, you will have no problem restoring from the second BIOS chip. Let me just pull the board out. See, we've got some nice environmentally friendly packaging going on here. Just going to move that there, camera. Okay. If there's anything I'm missing here. So there's another note about turbo, supercharger. Oh, okay, so the supercharger USB ports are marked. You know what? I'll show you the accessories first and then we'll go through the other features. So here is a little map of the board as well as some key points about the board that you could find on the box if you so desire. Drivers and utilities DVD, throw it away, download the latest off the MSI website. You've got M connectors, which are an easier way to plug in your front USB and front panel connectors. Quick installation guide. 1, 2, 3, 4 SATA 3, 6 gigabit per second cables, which are not different except that they are white. And then you have 2 Molex 2 SATA power cables. I.O. shield. V-check cables. So this board features V-check, which means that you can use a digital multimeter to manually check the voltages going to some of the key components. We have an SLI bridge. Remember your crossfire bridge should be included with your graphics card. USB 3 rear panel header with an internal pin out. Just in case your case doesn't have front USB 3 and you still want to use the extra ports. So you've got a user guide as well as a software user guide. All right. The board itself. There we are. So military class 2 sticker comes off and oh, this is interesting. Looks like they've changed the they've changed the socket cover from what they were using before, which was a piece that goes under. So I don't even know how this one works. Look at that. There. OK. That's how it works. So let's get this thing and let's have a look at the board. So why don't we start in the CPU socket area. So here's where your LG 1155 CPU goes. That will give you full support, as I said before, for core i3 core i5 and core i7 processors. Here's your 12 phase power design as well as your tantalum core little guys here. So that's part of the military class 2 concept, which is prominently featured on the branding on the board. We've got our 8 pin CPU connector up here in its ideal location in the top left corner. Big fan of that personally, as well as four DDR three slots for dual channel memory. We've got our 24 pin connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge as well as V checkpoints here. So we have checkpoints for the VCCP CPU VTT CPU GFX. So that's the onboard VGA VCC DDR as well as PCH. What is that? PCH 1P05 interesting as well as two ground points. All right, moving down, we have two SATA three, six gigabit. Oh rather, hold on. Hold on just a minute. SATA five, six, SATA three, four. Yeah, two SATA three, six gigabit per second, four SATA two, three gigabit per second. Then we have an additional SATA three, six gigabit per second running off of a third party controller. All right, here are our front USB ports. This is the one with supercharged, the one with the red background behind it. I don't know if you can see that red background. Can you? Okay. And then we've also got our USB three front panel header, OC Genie button, power reset, another, oh no, this is a firewire front panel header, our front audio as well as our PCIe slot. So PCIe slot layout. We've got one, two, three PCIe 16 X slots. We have two PCIe 1X slots and two PCI slots. So if you are installing three dual slot cards, you will have left, now you got to make sure you have a case that has an additional PCI slot because it's going to hang over the edge, but you will be left with one PCIe 1X slot and one PCI slot. So that's very rich expansion capabilities if you're running a three-way graphics card configuration. If you're running a two-way graphics card configuration, you're going to be left with one PCIe 1, one PCI, and one PCIe 16. Here's that PCI Express six-pin power connector right here. So if you are running a few graphics cards, you're probably going to want to plug that in to make sure that you're providing all the juice you need to your graphics cards. Here on the back, the IO shield, we have one of those PS2 keyword mouse combo ports. We have optical audio out, a reset SEMO switch. I love the reset SEMO switch on the back IO. I'm a big fan of that. Okay, we have one, two, three, four, really? Four USB 2.0 ports? That's it? Okay. Four USB 2.0 ports. We have eSATA, Firewire, dual gigabit ethernet, two USB 3.0 ports, so that is still a total of six USB ports. We have DVI out as well as HDMI out and 7.1 audio out. So thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Z68A GD80B3. 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