Motherboards

MSI ''Big Bang'' Trinergy Pictured


Triple SLI High End P55 motherboard.

ERRATA: This motherboard is only based on NF200 and P55, Lucid's Hydra chip will be put on another motherboard, to be announced soon.

The MSI "Big Bang" motherboard was previewed a while back as the first consumer motherboard to feature the new Lucid Hydra chip. MSI seems to have expanded the "Big Bang" series to more enthusiast class models featuring high-end features.

MSI has partnered with Nvidia to bring Triple SLI support to a high-end P55 based motherboard, which can only support SLI in x8/x8 PCI-e slots when the NF200 chip is not in use. The use of the NF200 chip enables widths of x16/x8/x8 or x16/x16 for the cards but keep in mind that the upstream PCI-e bandwidth to the CPU will still only be the same as one x16 PCIe slot. The NF200 chips only increases bandwidth between the three cards when passing data through the NF200 chip. If you require more bandwidth from GPUs to the CPU, you will need to go for X58 solutions which offers 32 PCI-Express lanes to the chipset and from there to the CPU through the high-bandwidth QPI link.

The motherboard features only high quality components like expensive tantalum capacitors instead of electrolytic or solid ones, delivering a remarkable lifespan and high overclocking abilities. Not just on the CPU PWM mind you, it features these capacitors all around.
The NF200 chip itself sits below the CPU, with the P55 PCH next to the PCI slots.

Due to all these features the price is expected to be high, even for an enthusiast class motherboard.

Source: Donanimhaber (site apparently pulled the article, NDA violation?)

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