What is the real thing about MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 Hydra Motherboard

[Svana]

From the past several days I have been collecting up-to-dare information from the internet for creating a good gaming rig. I have found the most excellent rigs. But the one good motherboard I ever found on that is MSI Big Bang Marshal P67+Hydra motherboard. The main thing I liked about this board is it has 8 PCIe slots. I have doubt that why we really need 8 PCIe slots. Seeing as whichever GPU worth its load is a dual slotted card, therefore essentially, it is a 4-way SLI / Crossfire board IMO. You might need to check on that.

[KennedII]

MSI created the Big Bang Marshal, a monster of a motherboard that features no fewer than eight x16 PCIe slots into an XL-ATX form aspect. The foremost and mainly noticeable query is how MSI handled to obtain sufficient bandwidth for eight x16 PCI-E slots and the straightforward reply is, they didn't. The further compound reply is that the motherboard has 4 slots with x16 bandwidth and if you would like to make use of all 8 slots, they function at x8 bandwidth. This is at rest approach further bandwidth than the Sandy Bridge CPUs present and MSI didn't utilize a couple of nF200 chips moreover, in its place the Big Bang Marshal utilizes a innovative Lucid Hydra chip.

[Christina 80]

It's not stiff to observe that MSI has attempted its top to produce something away of the usual by way of the Big Bang Marshal and up to now it's one of the mainly striking P67 boards we've noticed in terms of features. One obsession that trapped our concentration was 4 dip buttons at the face of the motherboard which are labeled PCIe Ceasefire. Every switch matches to one of the four x16 PCIe slots and permits the slots to be physically toggled off. This is destined to be a quality that several overclockers have demanded in support of when they're using numerous graphics cards on a board.

[Chakradev]

MSI isn't chatting up that multi-GPU technology this point in time and is in its place exploiting the Hydra chip to perform like a PCIe bridge to permit additional lanes to be adjoined to this absurdly lane-heavy motherboard. The NVIDIA NF200 chip may perhaps furthermore have been used as a bridging chip, however talking through an MSI envoy he gave details the Lucid chip was being utilized in as a substitute as it presented advanced thermal efficiency and consequently lesser temperatures.

[Langward]

Without a doubt this motherboard carries complete SLI as well as CrossFire guarantee. Therefore you'd only in fact necessitate it to function power up if you required keeping clutch of that elder card and combining it with one from the differing retailer. There is a small puzzlement in the middle of a few of the MSI folk we spoke to regarding the board even if by means of one considering the board may perhaps drive 4 dual-slot cards in full PCIe x16 flavor and the further asserting that wasn't probable and that you'd be appearing by the side of x8 only.

[Laramie]

The Big Bang Marshl features a 24 stage DrMOS PWM plan and a few of the gears have been stirred to the back of the PCB, an extremely strange answer on a big motherboard such like this. Besides the standard eight-pin 12V connector, MSI has adjoined a second 8-pin 12V connector as well as a 6-pin 12V connector close to the PCIe slots. The power directive workings crosswise the board seems to be approach over spec. There are yet a only some potentiometers extend in the region of the board demonstrating some type of physical control above at slightest various of the power ruling circuitry.