 Well, it's been a while since I've unboxed an MSI board and the reason for that is that I haven't had any sort of really interesting, like really interesting new stuff to unbox from them lately, but today I've got the NF750 G55 motherboard. This is an Nvidia NForce SLI board. It's an NForce 750 board, which is something there's almost none of on the market, so that's why I grabbed this, because right now this seems to be the best value SLI board on the market. It's a pretty unique motherboard in that respect. Why don't we get this thing opened right up? Let's do a quick sort of highlight of what features they are going to call out here. So you've got your easy OC switches for successful OC, active phase switching, okay, power saving, and then something about lossless audio. Awesome. Okay, so let's get this open. Oh, it's also Windows 7 ready. Check that out. Very good. So it supports Phenom 2 X4s and everything under that I'm going to go ahead and assume. You've got support for DDR3 memory on this motherboard, but we'll get to that later. First of all, we will find the Drivers and Utilities DVD. Pretty much don't use anything on there. You're going to want to download the latest off the MSI website. Then here we will find the quick installation guide, which is quite big, but the reason, oh no, wow, they've actually got like everything on here. They show you how to do the CPU, how to do the RAM, how to do the IDE and SATA optical, how to install graphics cards, how to do the front panel connectors. That's great. We give you a little diagram there. That's really handy. Okay, they show you the power settings installation. Hey, they only show you the 24 pin power. Don't forget to do your 8 pin. Alright, so we'll go ahead and close that up. Yeah, I'll do that later. Okay, then we have the MSI NF750 G55 user guide. So that's the detailed guide. Again, it's in a bunch of languages, shows you all of the ins and outs of this motherboard. Oh, that's, oh yeah, there's a different language. Okay, good. Then we have an SLI bridge. What kind of SLI motherboard would it be without an SLI bridge? You can see the spacing looks like a four slot spacing based on that bridge. But since it's a flexi bridge, who knows? Then we have our IO shield. Then we have a gray IDE cable. That's just hideous. Then we have a Molex to SATA adapter and one SATA cable. So the assumption MSI seems to be making here is that users will be using an EVD optical IDE drive and then a SATA hard drive or SSD drive, I guess. Alright, then we've got our little environmentally friendly paper packaging, followed up with some environmentally not friendly foam. But what are you going to do? We've got some plastic here. Let's take this off and have a look at the layout of this board. Now, like I said, this is one of the most aggressively priced SLI boards on the market right now. So you're not going to find necessarily all of the features you'd find on a more high end board. But you do have the easy OC switch. Alright, so I'm not actually sure where that is, but here's the little button for it. It shows like a little gear shifter thing. That's pretty cool. And then you've got the power saving features. Okay, active phase switching. So let's take that off. Alright, general layout. Your SLI slots are one, two, three, four. They're only three apart. But you've got two PCI Express 16, you have two usable PCI Express 1X, and one PCI slot that you're only really going to be able to use if you're not using another card. You don't have much on this board in terms of expansion slots, especially if you're running SLI. However, if you're only running one card, you're going to end up with a couple PCIe 1s of PCIe 16, which can be used as 16, 8, 4, or 1. And then you've got a PCI slot. So that's not actually too bad. Down here you've got three USB headers, which I really like to see. I hate seeing only one. Then you've got an onboard power switch. You know what? MSI has really stepped up to the plate here. They're putting onboard power switches on most of their boards, which is incredibly handy when you're troubleshooting. I love that. Alright, then over here we've got five SATA ports, which may seem like an odd amount, but I'm going to go ahead and guess, yeah there we go, that we have ESATA on the back, and that's where your sixth port is. Here is our chipset. I'm just taking a wild guess here. This is an NANDforce chipset. You're probably going to want to do what you can to keep it cool. Alright, then you've got support for, like I said before, dual channel DDR3 memory. Here along the right hand edge of the board in its ideal location is your 24-pin power. And then up here, I mistakenly said this would have an 8-pin. This has a 4-pin power connector. This is an AM3 ready board, obviously, because you do have support for DDR3, and you do need an AM3 chip in order to take advantage of DDR3. This is actually, oh I really like this, check this out. This is a really sort of beefy looking VRM cooling solution for such an entry level board, and I really like the way that they've sort of built it around everything in there. It's the little touches, you know, that's where a motherboard can really stand out, because they've all got the same basic features, but it's just those little things, right? Here is the easy OC switch, which I'm not sure how to use. I've never seen this one before. Their new thing is OC Genie, so it seems like this is kind of the more value option. Okay, this supports SLI and hybrid SLI. Oh yeah, so this has onboard video. Check that out. Okay, we've got a couple PS2 ports, one for the mouse, one for the keyboard. We have VGA, DVI, and HDMI out. Then we have 6 USB ports, 1 gigabit ethernet, and 7.1 audio. There's the back of the board, you've got your AM3 backplate, and there is your serial sticker. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the NF750G55.