Connectors and I/O

Totally MSI equipped the P67A-GD65 with eight angled SATA ports which should be enough for any office PC or gaming system. You'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. MSI didn't put a debug display onto the board which would be very useful if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. It is quite common that the last PCI-Express x16 slot is also the expansion slot the closest to the bottom edge of the board. That has the consequence that the connectors at this place aren't accessible anymore. With the P67A-GD65, MSI took this into account and placed the last PCI-Express x16 slot as the third last expansion slot and therefore there wont be any complications.

  

Totally you'll find five fan headers on the MSI P67A-GD65 which is more than enough, to provide a well equipped midrange or even a high-end-system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located around the CPU and their also spread over the whole board which makes them easily accessible from any position in an enclosure.

  

Looking at external connectors and buttons directly at the back-panel MSI equipped the P67A-GD65 with a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, two USB 3.0/2.0 ports, two eSATA ports eight SATA2.0/1.1, one gigabit ethernet ports, a coaxial optical audio connector and an analogue audio panel as well as a Clr CMOS button.