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Product gallery MSI 890FXA-GD70

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Alright, as always let's get a little deeper into the hardware with a photo-shoot. We start off with packaging ... we always show it so you guys know what to look for in the store.

After unpacking you'll notice a well styled and stealthy designed motherboard. That's a good looking board with the all passively cooled heatsink. Two tone color, nice black PCB with blue MSI style coloring scheme and the usual complementary products. What kinda blows though is that the SATA cables are colored red, these would have had to be black as well.

You'll spot one motherboard and a manual that explains every aspect of the board. Other than that you'll find a back I/O panel protector, Crossfire bridge connector, four red colored SATA cables, one red colored IDE cable, USB and eSATA port headers, front panel jumper extenders and a manual + driver CD.

The motherboard definitely is good looking, heatpipe based passive cooling lead to all important parts of the motherboard, and well, it is an attractive product to look at.

From all angles that certainly is good looking motherboard alright. Not just that it's well thought through in even the most simple of things like easy to insert memory, proper PCIe lock hinges, connectors at the right places, many (five) FAN power headers.