With the "Big Bang Marshal" MSI presents the year of superlatives a motherboard for Intel's new CPUs Sandy Bridge. Up to eight graphics cards can be installed on the art-monster, theoretically, what the board can of course grow accordingly. So it is not in the usual ATX form factor built, but the so-called XL-ATX standard. In the Midi-housing supply has therefore no place there have to be a much larger tower ago. Despite the size of the slots are close together, eight high-end graphics cards with dual slot cooler here is no place, even if it (still) are not any multi-GPU technology. Four of the eight PCI-E slots will also take the full 16 with only 8 lanes raised which halves the bandwidth of these slots. Adds the "Big Bang Marshal" still bandwidth King - 96 Lanes does not create another board. Good for overclockers: The fully connected x16 slots are connected to a DIP switch that can turn on the slots quickly.
But exorbitant number of PCI-E-bars are not the only feature of the motherboard. On the four DDR3 slots of the LGA1155 motherboards can block up to 32 GB of memory and remain in terms of connectivity ensures every wish: Internally, the "Marshal" eight SATA ports (three with 6 GB / s), two USB 3.0 Header-pin connectors for four ports, three USB 2.0 ports for six FireWire ports and even headers and serial port. External stand back from the aperture PS / 2 port, eight USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 ports, plus two combination USB 2.0 / eSATA. Boards at this price range is customary, the FireWire port and two Gigabit LAN ports.
Whether the "Big Bang Marshal" so ever goes on sale, is not yet clear, it is not a final version. A price tag is tuned accordingly also not yet clear to us but now: cheap it is not safe.
Source: Dailytech.com