MSI's Big Bang Mobo Offers THX Yummyness
MSI's upcoming gaming mobo will provide THX TruStudio PC and Creative's EAX Advanced HD 5.0.
Earlier today, MSI officially announced its collaboration with Creative and THX to bring their audio technologies to the upcoming Big Bang motherboard. According to the company, the new mobo line is slated to be the first to implement THX TruStudio PC along with Creative's EAX Advanced HD 5.0 audio technology.
For consumers and gamers alike, this means that video, music, and games will (hopefully) sound better than typical onboard sound, while remaining true to the intention of the artists who created the content. “We consider Creative to be the best gaming audio provider worldwide and believe our cooperation will redefine the listening experience among the gaming community," said Jason Lee, MSI's Marketing Director.
According to this countdown clock, the Big Bang doesn't explode onto retail shelves for another twenty-one days (October 29). MSI first offered a glimpse of the mobo during the Intel Developer Forum, announcing its partnership with LucidLogix to incorporate the Lucid HYDRA 200 real-time distributed processing engine, allowing universal multi-GPU support.
"MSI's BigBang Motherboard is a turning point for the multi-GPU industry," said Offir Remez, President of LucidLogix. "Our close collaboration with MSI has allowed us to rapidly design and produce a first-ever universal multi-GPU motherboard that takes a major leap into mass market parallel graphics processing."

MSI is making a big move, and all I can say it... ABOUT TIME.
MSI is making a big move, and all I can say it... ABOUT TIME.
I sure as hell will never be buying an MSI product again
Absolutely nothing. People just get very biased about things that they've had trouble with. I too have had problems with all manufatures of tech, it's just enevidible, but I won't put down a genuinely great piece of technogly because of some self-richeous, biased opinion. They'll keep complaining, while we get our performance. That's just my opinion.
On topic, the THX audio SELLS me this board. Easy, motherboard performance is such a trivial thing anyways.
I wouldn't write MSI off. I've never had a bad board from MSI where as I've had multiple bad boards with ASUS. Just bad luck, doesn't mean I'll never buy ASUS again.
Does this mean AMD users are sol? I'm not sure the article or any of the responses clarify this.
Yah about 5 years ago... The days since the launch of the audigy 2 series have gone to hell and now they make barely mediocre cards.
people have been waiting for this to become a reality for a few years now, me being one of them.
Please read the article before looking like an idiot.
Lucid Hydra.
EAX 5.0... If I can afford it when it comes out, I'll definitely get this mobo (this means I don't need a discrete sound card)