On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

Alright, let's take a look at the product. Here we have the entire bundle. The product is in the sub-100 USD market. Typically motherboard manufacturers therefore skimp a little on the little extras but it's quite okay. Next to the motherboard you'll receive the backplate, driver CD, a SATA cable and a Parallel ATA (IDE) cable.

Hey now, look at all the slots and connectivity... can you believe this is a budget mATX motherboard with integrated Radeon series 4 graphics?

So here we have the back panel connectivity. Immediately I'm impressed. We spot combo PS2 mouse and keyboard connector, then one D-Sub (VGA), DVI and HDMI connector (great connectivity!). We see (and I love this) an optical TOSLINK sound output, a total of 6x USB 2.0 ports, 1x eSATA, firewire, a Gigabit Ethernet LAN connector and then the 8.1 channels of analog audio as well.

The Radeon HD 4200 is HDMI 1.3 compliant, so it also supports higher bandwidth and greater colour depth for future video standards.

The onboard audio for the MSI 785GM-E65 motherboard is provided by a Realtek ALC889 CODEC. This is a fully High Definition Audio 1.0 compliant CODEC that supports ten DAC channels that can split into 7.1+2 Channel Front Panel Audio simultaneous output amnd comes with a 104dB signal to noise ratio.

When we flip the board 90 degrees counter clockwise we look at socket AM3, and also see quality Japanese capacitors and quality Ferrite core chokes though. The 4-pin CPU fan header is located below the CPU Socket.