PRESS RELEASE
MSI, world's premier graphics card and mainboard manufacturer is excited to announce the availability of it's premium overclocking mainboard for the Intel X79 chipset, the Big Bang-XPower II. Built on the legacy of the world-record holding Big Bang-XPower, it promises equally impressive results for both CPU and graphics card overclocking.
DrMOS II powered Hybrid Digital PWM
The Big Bang-XPower II is MSI's most powerful mainboard to date. To leave no doubt about the class-leading performance, the Big Bang-XPower II is built with MSI's Military Class III components like DrMOS II, Super Ferrite Choke, Hi-c CAP and Solid CAP to ensure the best overclocking power, efficiency and lifetime.
Built for Extreme OC
In cooperation with three time MOA winner and master overclocker Jon "Elmor" Sandström MSI developed a true overclocking board. Next to the enhanced CPU overclocking features, the Big Bang-XPower II also offers capabilities for 4-way PCI Express Gen3 graphics in NVIDIA SLI or AMD CrossFire with a specialized enhanced power supply to the graphics cards. The PCI Express Gen3 slots can be enabled or disabled with PCI Express CeaseFire allowing for quick diagnostics or multi-GPU benchmarking.
Enhanced Thermal Design
The Big Bang-XPower II's striking looks are built on it's true OC potential. Based on a specialized OC PCB, the MSI SuperPipe based Thermal Design is built to ensure that no active cooling is required, enhancing the lifetime. The Imposing look of 8 DDR3-2400 MHz DIMM slots surrounding the CPU allows the most bandwidth currently available on the desktop.
128GB Memory support
The Imposing look of 8 DDR3-2400 MHz DIMM slots surrounding the CPU allows the most bandwidth currently available on the desktop.
Technical specifications
| Processor | Supports 2nd Gen Intel® CoreTM i7 Processors for the LGA2011 Socket |
|---|---|
| Chipset | Intel X79 Express Chipset |
| Memory support | 8 DIMM support up to DDR3-2400 - 128GB max. |
| Expansion slots | 4x PCI Express Gen3 x16 (1, 3, 5 ,7) 4x PCI Express Gen2 x16 (2, 4, 6, 8) bandwidth by PLX8608 |
| Graphics Support | 4-Way AMD® CrossFireTM & NVIDIA® SLITM Technology |
| Audio | Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2 - 8 Channel(7.1) HD Audio |
| Network | Dual Intel 10/100/1000 Mb/s |
| Storage | 2x Intel SATA 6Gb/s with RAID 2x ASMedia SATA 6Gb/s 4x Intel SATA 3Gb/s with RAID |
| USB | 6x USB 3.0 (4x Rear I/O, 2x Internal) 10x USB 2.0 (6x Rear I/O, 4x Internal) |
| BIOS | 3x Multi-BIOS II UEFI Interface |
| Power Input | 24-pin ATX 2x 8-pin CPU 1x 6-pin PCI Express |
| Buttons & Switches | Easy Button 3: Power button Reset button OC Genie II button Direct OC buttons (+0.1 MHz, -0.1 Mhz) Multi-BIOS II button CLRCMOS button (Rear I/O) PCI Express CeaseFire x4 Multi-BIOS II switch x1 |
About MSI
MSI is proud of its more than 20 years experience in designing and manufacturing high performance IT products.
The product lines of MSI are mainboards, graphic cards, notebooks, consumer electronics, barebones, networking and server products, and fully integrated add-on peripherals. With its ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 qualified facilities, MSI products provide the best performance, reliability and value-increasing productivity.
We distribute our products through offices located in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, India and Australia. MSI markets its products to distributors, computer system manufacturers, and system integrators. For more information about the company go to www.msi.com.
