Published: Friday 30th October, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: Big Bang Trinergy
Companies: MSI (All MSI content)
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email to a friendMSI has been teasing its gamer-orientated Big Bang line of motherboards for over a month now, but the series is officially launching today with the introduction of the Big Bang Trinergy.
The first Big Bang series board, pictured below, makes use of Intel's P55 platform and claims to be "inspired by the mighty Big Bang". No, really, MSI reckons "the all-new Big Bang series will deliver the shock and awe of unprecedented experiences and expand into its own collection of galaxies".
We're not sure if the board is enough to change the universe, but it is packed with an arsenal of high-end features - including an NVIDIA NF200 chip used to facilitate a trio of PCIe x16 slots for for three-way SLI configurations.
Elsewhere, there's "QuantumWave" audio processing with support for THX TruStudio PC and Creative EAX Advanced HD 5.0, and overclockers are catered for, too - Trinergy is bundled with an external OC Dashboard and MSI's chip-driven OC Genie auto-overclocking feature.
There's no word on pricing or availability yet, and the board you really want to see - the Big Bang Fuzion equipped with LucidLogix multi-GPU HYDRA technology - is still on course to be "revealed before the end of 2009".
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Would have been nice to see the 3rd gen compatability too considering Asus and Gigabyte have announced it already.Quote
Will the NF200 chip allow full 16x bandwidth on all 3 of the slots?
Yup, should do.
edit: ah.. actually maybe not, should be equivalent to more like 16,8,8. Both that's gen2, so equivalent of 32,16,16 gen1 PCI-E.Quote
the thing is the link to the CPU is still ONLY 16x, so would we still not have a bottle neck?
It might help as without the NF200 chip if you had 2 pci-e slots they would operate at 8x. So with the NF200, best case card 1 gets data at 16x while card 2 is busy doing some processing then card 1 is busy doing some processing while card 2 gets data at 16x. I think the NF200 is the same chip used on nvidia 2 GPU video cards so the 2 pci slots can communicate between themselves at 16x while leaving the link to the CPU free (I'm sure I read there was a broadcast mode ie send data to the 2 slots at 16x speed - I might be making that up)
Whether 2 slots at 8x rather than 2 slots at 16x sharing a link at 16x makes any difference in the real world ... I guess a review might help us on that.Quote
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