Friday, December 10th 2010
MSI Big Bang Marshall P67 Motherboard with Lucid Hydra Pictured
MSI is readying a new high-end socket LGA1155 motherboard based on the Intel P67 chipset, geared for overclocking, that features the LucidLogix Hydra Engine chip, that gives out no less than eight PCI-Express x16 slots (electrical lane configurations may vary). The Big Bang Marshall is an XL-ATX motherboard, it makes use of a strong 18-phase CPU VRM that makes use of DrMOS, solid-state chokes, and POSCAP capacitors. The four DDR3 DIMM slots support dual-channel DDR3-2000 MHz memory. The PCI-E 2.0 x16 link from the processor is wired to the Lucid Hydra chip, which controls all installed graphics card, irrespective of make and generation, and creates a multi-GPU array with it. This means that you can pair AMD Radeon graphics cards with NVIDIA GeForce ones, and can even mix and match different GPUs of the same make.
That aside, the Big Bang Marshall features four SATA 6 Gb/s and four SATA 3 Gb/s ports, two USB 3.0 ports, dual gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel HD audio, and tons of overclocker-friendly features such as OC Genie, consolidated voltage measurement points, and a feature-rich BIOS. The board is slated for release after Intel's early-January launch of the 2011 Core processor family, which starts off with quad-core Core i7 and Core i5 processors.
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That aside, the Big Bang Marshall features four SATA 6 Gb/s and four SATA 3 Gb/s ports, two USB 3.0 ports, dual gigabit Ethernet, 8-channel HD audio, and tons of overclocker-friendly features such as OC Genie, consolidated voltage measurement points, and a feature-rich BIOS. The board is slated for release after Intel's early-January launch of the 2011 Core processor family, which starts off with quad-core Core i7 and Core i5 processors.
36 Comments on MSI Big Bang Marshall P67 Motherboard with Lucid Hydra Pictured
last tests i saw, scaling worked better with low end cards than high end, possibly CPU limited or something.
That's one monster of a board, if it were possible to run and cool 8 580's it would make a folding farm in a case :laugh:
That just made me realize somethingIt's this board that caused the DrMOS shortage, it has over 4 6870's or 6 6850's worth of them per board :laugh:
I had doubted that they would be the same ones i just wanted to make fun of MSI because i could probably never bring myself to spend however much this board will be on the motherboard alone, I'm just jealous :laugh:
www.flickr.com/photos/muchomas/310733952/#/photos/muchomas/310733952/lightbox/
As 460's or even 450's would put a 5850 to shame, example 1 GTX 470 folds over 13,000 PPD, my 4870x2 folds 4,200 ppd that's over 3x the ppd for a card that's about 10%'ish less powerful! AMD is a giant fail for GPU folding.
Because of that i want a Nvidia card in my htpc to fold as even a low end Nvidia card can beat the top end AMD/ATI card as things stand, but I keep spending all my money so folding will have to wait :laugh: