MSI Talks More About Big Bang Marshal

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MSI unveiled to a filled banquette hall sized room this evening information on its Big Bang Marshal series of motherboards. Based on Intel's new "Sandy Bridge" P67 chipset, the massive board supports a total of eight PCI-e slots, four of which can operate at x16 at the same time, or all eight at x8.

Also designed onto the board is a set of more switches that help with voltage control.

Interestingly, MSI boasts heavily about having three BIOS chips on the board -- just in case, a total of two blows. We can soon expect other motherboards with four or more BIOSes at this point. But, you do get peace-of-mind.

More details to follow as they come. We'll have a bigger feature about Big Bang Marshal soon from Thomas.

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  • Tamz_msc
    The board has one dip switch for each slot and calls the feature PCI-e CeaseFire.
    lol nice name.
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  • LordConrad
    Can you say "Overkill"? This is like going rabbit hunting with a howitzer.
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  • Altheran
    would like to see four 6970 on that babe XD ''Droll'' O.O '' twitch'' 0.o '' seisure'' x.x
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  • joytech22
    That board looks massive, but i don't know who would use 8 PCI-E slots.
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  • dEAne
    wow this is a monster - I don't know anyone will ever buy this one, it's too big.
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  • bluekoala
    Reminds me of experimental weapons in supreme commander...
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  • nevertell
    joytech22That board looks massive, but i don't know who would use 8 PCI-E slots.
    4-way sli watercooled 580's, a ssd, a soundcard, a RAID card and one for a misc. card, maybe a DVB-c/t/s or a physX card.
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  • stingstang
    Good GOD that card is huge! Good thing that motherboard has +10 vs. Massive.
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  • fwupow
    HaHaHa "Big Bang Marshall" It probably makes much more sense in the original Chinese and looks something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bm0QbqSywU
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  • apache_lives
    MSI sucks, the extra slots are spares when the others fail, 3 bios's are for this also.
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