Specifications / Packaging and delivery: Here are the specifications of the MSI Big Bang Trinergy:  The board, by the mainboard is supplied, already shows that the content of a lot must be. And once you open the packaging, reveals himself as all the gear and that's not in this case slightly. Besides the obvious already cables for SATA and IDE, the manuals are still a variety of Crossfire and SLI bridges included so that each interval can be überbückt between the cards. In addition, joined by then, the 7.1 Quantum Wave sound card from Creative, which is used in a PCIe 1x slot into place. In addition, there are still the OC dashboard and associated cables included. During the calendar week 49 and 50, the Board will be exclusively distributed through Alternate.de and atelco.de and in that time, the buyer of the MSI Big Bang given the opportunity of an 8-year warranty, a SteelSeries Gaming Pack (mouse + mousepad) and MSI to obtain gaming in Trinergy pocket design. This will require the buyer to register the MSI site, and then he gets those things.
Specialties: As already mentioned, is the MSI Big Bang Trinergy no ordinary board. The NF200 chip enables a multi-GPU mode with full access, because the chip by a full 32 lanes will be made available. Normally, SLI, or Crossfire on the P55 chipset only with 8 lanes available. Even triple-SLI is now possible with x16, x8 and x8. As the chip in the real world impact on performance will be tested on the following pages yet. Besides those already mentioned NF200 chip, the motherboard offers even more features. On the one hand makes itself felt in the art, as well as in equipment. MSI is at the Big Bang was the first manufacturer to replace the so-called hi-c caps, the normal capacitors on the motherboard. They should provide better stability during extreme stress and still remain cool. Who uses extreme cooling solutions and wants to isolate the board has therefore fewer problems, since no large capacitors are more obstacles. Like the MSI P55 GD65 and GD80 are read-points for the individual voltages on the mainboard. These enable it with a multimeter the voltages read out quickly.
In an onboard sound card has been completely abandoned and is supplied with a 7.1 Quantum Wave sound card from Creative. This will provide better sound than the ordinary sound cards that are installed on the mainboard. In addition, it supports EAX 5.0 and THX.
With the included OC dashboard it is possible to overclock the system during operation and in real time. It is on the I / O panel is connected by cable and thus can easily regulate everything. Pushing a button you can, for example, the CPU, PCH, VTT and DDR voltages increase or decrease. Also to read the temperatures and fan speeds, the Dashboard is suitable. The "work" with the Dashboard is proving to be very simple and easily goes from the hand. Changing the voltage or the BCLKs place immediately after the "Enter".
With this function it is possible to have the system automatically overclock to. To this end, a small processor is installed on the MSI, which is to identify a stable system. It will automatically load the CPU and memory clock frequencies of the set, so that everything is stable also be adjusted to the tension. In the test it worked, unfortunately, not as desired. The Xeon X3470 has been operated with 19x190, giving a clock speed of 3600Mhz. However, the voltage was increased to 1.4 V, the CPU consumption actually less than 1.2 V for this clock. The VTT / IMC voltage was increased to 1.4 V, Intel gives them freely but only to 1.21 V. Only the voltage for the memory remains at 1.65 V, while this was running at a frequency of 950Mhz. The latencies were set at CL9-9-9-28
Impressions: Here are some impressions of the MSI Big Bang Trinergy:
Bios: The bios is very clear and tidy shape so it's no problem to find right now. It provides all the required settings for Übertaktungsversuche. When the system after OC does not want to start trying, it takes one to two attempts before it can boot again. The settings are now reset and it comes a message at startup if the user wants in the bios, would load the default settings, or even directly to a profile that was saved in the BIOS.
Overclocking: Even with the Big Bang MSI Trinergy we have determined the maximum BCLK, with which the system was stable run. Then we have pushed the memory clock looked up, and what can be achieved stable with the memory at clock speeds. The stability was tested with the tool "LinX. Through a new bios version, can the results achieved may be improved. As a maximum stable BCLK we reached 208MHz. We were able to boot the system with 218Mhz.  Memory, we could still run with DDR3-1986Mhz stable. This value is lower than for comparable motherboards but the MSI has streamlined Subtimings.  Benchmarks:  Among the tested benchmarks including 3DMark06, 3DMark Vantage, Cinebench R10 64, Everest, PiFast, 1M/32M SuperPi and wPrime.         Comparative benchmarks Crossfire: Even if it is in an NF200 chip from Nvidia, ATI graphics cards are also raised in CrossFire mode with 16 lanes each. But what is the advantage of the whole brings to a normal P55 motherboard without NF200? To clarify this issue, we tested the whole thing. As a counterpart to the Big Bang Trinergy MSI, we used the Asus Sabertooth 55i and left two on each board Asus HD4890 TOP 1GD5 run. On the MSI graphics cards are truly addressed, each with 16 lanes and wait for the Asus as to only 8 lanes. To see now, what it represents in reality, we have to run both systems with the same settings as our benchmark parcours. The game benchmarks were tested in a resolution on 1680 * 1050 and 4AA.  Here, the test system again in detail:  The benchmarks:         As it becomes clear to bring the additional PCIe connections in reality not so much. The differences in the benchmarks are very low and they could be made by within measurement error. To rule out the benchmarks in each case were made in duplicate. The MSI was fundamentally always a little further forward, but it makes up in synthetic benchmarks and a maximum of 1000 points in the games about 2-4 frames. So who wants to squeeze out the last frame out of his system, for which the NF200 is indeed a possible solution. Conclusion: Find A conclusion is the MSI Trinergy Big Bang is not easy, because the board believes on the one side, but a little disappointed on the other. It is positive to any event of the delivery, because this is really big and fast fingers on the order button so it is even greater from (and pocket gaming mouse / pad). The sound card has a good sound and has to hide from other sound cards do not OC, and the dashboard is useful to overclocking, and build very clear. In addition, MSI has the Big Bang, a 2D excellent performance in benchmark tests. In the Crossfire benchmark has his nose in front, but the performance advantage is very small. The NF200 is thus making a bit noticeable, but whether this chip are 2-4 frames worth, is another question. For thus we come to the main point of criticism and that is the price. Sale will start with the motherboard cost 329 € and if the prices of other P55 boards look, it's loosely a doubling of the price. The scope of supply justifies it on the one hand, the performance in Übertaktungsbereich unfortunately not. For here is the MSI Big Bang Trinergy achieved only average values. Who still wants to have a motherboard of the luxury class, which does not have anyone who can still strike, and thus has acquired a very solid motherboard. Information from MSI on 26.11.2009: The launch of Trinergy postponed by a week on CW50, which is why the dealers and Alternate Atelco the goods until the middle or end of next week erhalten. Die special promotion with 8 years of warranty and the SteelSeries gaming package incl Big Bang bag will continue to start, but moved to this one week, so now from CW50 to KW51. Author: Robert Stangel (Select) Positive: + Much Accessories + Very good 2D performance + Good layout (points, etc) Negative: - Very high price - NF200 bringt kaum Vorteil - NF200 hardly takes advantage
Key tags : MSI Big Bang Trinergy, Quantum Waveâ„¢ Audio Card, SLI, Crossfire, nf200, P55, Clear CMOS, Lynnfield Core i5, Core i7 processor, three-way SLI |
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