 So today I'll be doing a quick motherboard unboxing. This is from MSI's gaming line of motherboards. You can tell because it has a big red G on it. Wow, I actually just realized as I was saying that that this is a G. I knew about the color coding, but I had no idea. See look, it's the same stylized G for gaming series. This is a micro ATX motherboard built on AMD's 890GX chipset. So it uses one of the latest chipsets from AMD. It is a G65 suffix, so the M means micro ATX. G65 denotes fairly high end, probably about as high end as you're going to go on MATX. Okay, we've got a few logos on the front, so why don't we have a look here. It's HDMI, so it has HDMI out. Excellent, thank you. It has security by Norton. Okay. EUP MSI ready, some kind of green thing based on that it's a tree. And we have auto overclocking OC Genie. This is actually a pretty cool feature. I had this, I covered this in my Core i5 overclocking guide. Then we have SATA 6 gigabit per second or SATA 3, as well as USB 3.0. Let's go around to the back. It has a heat pipe and it supports lossless audio. Okay, let's open this thing up. So accessories. MSI does a pretty good job as far as their accessory packages go, but this is a micro ATX board, so you expect to find a little bit less. First we've got an IO shield, so we can already see basically what we're going to have on the back of the board, but I'm not going to give away any surprises now. Then we have a drivers and utilities DVD. Don't use it. Download the latest off the MSI website. The quick installation guide is about three feet wide and shows us all of the basics. So they show us CPU, RAM, drive, graphics card, front panel headers, power, BIOS, OS, and driver installation. So you could in theory, oh, the cameraman's trying to look at this for some reason. There you go. Okay, you could in theory set up your computer with this quick start guide. So thank you MSI for that. And then if that guide is not enough for you, then there is a full user's guide, which is thick and let's see, French. What else we got here? German and oh wow, I don't know. Russian, I think. I'm not sure. And also English at the beginning. So it's a fairly thin manual actually. There's not a whole lot to it. Okay, great. Next we have IDE one Molex to SATA adapter and one SATA cable. This, yeah, you're probably going to want more than one SATA cable with a high end board like this. I would have liked to see a couple more included, but the reality of it is SATA cables don't cost a whole lot and if you're anything like me, you've probably got a couple hundred of them lying around anyway. So given that you don't need any kind of special SATA cable for say the six gigabit per second, I think it doesn't make much of a difference how many they include. Okay, next we have the board itself. So first of all, we have the power savings. So APS, active phase switching. So the unique power saving design for NEOS, basically what they're doing is they're switching how many phases of power the CPU uses depending on the load of the system. And it will actually use less power overall that way than if say they had a 16 phase CPU power delivery design. If you actually run all 16 phases at all times, it is going to hurt your power consumption, although it'll be delivering very clean power. So when you're delivering less power, you can actually turn off some of the phases. Okay, so here why don't we start in the middle of the board where all the action is. This is an AM3 socket. So you have support for all the latest AMD quad cores. And since this is an 890 GX, I would fully expect there to be support for the upcoming AMD six core CPUs. Next we've got a four pin power connector up at the top left. So you can tell that they're not expecting to deliver a whole ton of power to the CPU. So you're not going to be doing any extreme like liquid nitrogen overclocking on this board, but it's going to be more than adequate, obviously for even the highest TDP CPUs from AMD, which is 140 watt. Speaking of which, this is cooling your voltage regulation modules. And then you've got one small heat pipe going down to the chipset. So that's your 890 GX chipset. And then down here is your Southbridge, which is running, I did it again, five SATA six gigabit per second ports. So something to note about this AMD board versus any Intel board out there right now is that you've got six SATA six gigabit per second ports, including your E SATA port on the back. And that is more than you'd see on almost any Intel board because they're actually running off the AMD chipset rather than running off a third party chipset added by the motherboard manufacturer. So that's pretty cool. You've only got five here. So the sixth one is actually on the back panel. DDR3. So we have support for dual channel DDR3 and they're color coded. So you would install the modules side by side. So if you have two modules, you'd put them both in the blue and then both in the black. Your 24 pin connectors and its ideal location along the right hand edge of the board. And let's see what else we've got here for regular, or rather regular, for interesting features. Easy OC switch. Let me see what kind of a switch they've implemented. I have never seen this particular switch before. So I would love to comment on how it works, but I actually don't know. The OC Genie switch I've seen before is just a push button. But yeah, no, it looks like they've implemented a slightly different system this time around. So yeah, you just switch it back and forth like that. Oh, I hope I can put those back. Yeah, there we go. Okay. So you've got USB headers for, so you could hook up like four front USB ports, card reader, some other thing. Oh, here we go. Hey, hey, hey, here's the manual. Easy OC switch. It's right there on the motherboard. So default is both up. So for a 10% overclock, you push down switch number two. For a 15% overclock, you push down switch number one. And then for a 20% overclock, you push down both switches. There you go. That's your easy OC switch. So let's put those back to no overclock. Okay. Expansion cards. So you can put in two PCI express 16X graphics cards, one PCI express 1X and one PCI. Now I would have liked to see these two switched around because if you're buying a relatively high end, although micro ATX and thereby lower end board, you'd probably want to be using a dual slot video card. And if you're doing that, then you'd probably want to have an additional PCI E slot. That said, what they have done with this particular layout is they've given you a way to install one graphics card, one PCI E other card. So if you're not using two graphics cards and then one PCI. So it seems like kind of a flexible layout and there's always compromises that you have to make on a micro ATX board as far as expansion slots are concerned because there's only four. Let's have a look at the back of the board. So we've got one of those mouse keyboard PS2 combo ports. We have optical audio out. Then we have DVI, VGA and HDMI. Then we have four USB 2.0 ports, one HDMI, one eSATA running at six gigabit per second. Then we have two USB 3.0 ports. Those are running at about 10 times the speed of the USB 2.0 ports. One gigabit ethernet and then 7.1 onboard analog audio. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 890GXM G65 from MSI.