News - MSI unveils monstrous Big Bang Marshal P67 motherboard

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Eight PCIe slots, three BIOS chips, and Lucid HydraLogix chip make this the mother of all mobos.

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8 x pcie slots teamed up with only 4 x memory slots?
seems a little strange...

that board reeks of overkill

im likeing it tbh mind u i do like msi to start with

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Originally Posted by 3dcandy

8 x pcie slots teamed up with only 4 x memory slots?
seems a little strange...

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Don't forget that MSI also announced 32GB RAM support on their SB boards:

check MSI Europe on Facebook.

I like how MSI are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at their products, always nice to have an alternative to Asus/GB.

I don't see it as much of an overkill, in fact I like where this is going. We all know SSDs are here to stay and they're only getting quicker. SATA is a) too slow, b) based on too much legacy (optimized for spinning things) and c) simply not doing enough to keep up with times.

Let's say you install 2 graphics cards, a USB 3.0 card, maybe a sound card and a SATA 3 card. That's 7 slots gone already. If you are the type of person that keeps their hardware for a long time (like me), you definitely have the potential to use a lot of these slots (PCIe, SATA and DDR3 are a lot more future proof than PCI, DDR1/2 and PCI). I think we may be moving away from SATA as an SSD interface and PCIe will play a major role in that.

Too bad that intel's chipsets have very limited number of PCIe lanes.

XL-ATX that's what 5 cases on the market currently? If not including ThermalCrap ofc.

Sorry, I'm not buying a case to take half of my desk space ;O

Agreed. Until the case companies get moving this is pointless.

I think Mountainmods made one of the only cases that would fit the XL 'standard' without looking hideous... and that was because it's pretty much a "design it yourself" job.

Agreed the mobo is a bit too big but I think their focus is spot on. The trend for more PCIe 8+x slots should continue. The majority of users don't need legacy PCI and those that do are still catered for starting from £45 for an AMD board.

That's a seriously big motherboard.

Yep you can say that again one big mother of a board :rolleyes: wonder how much its going to cost.

What can I say it looks all singing and dancing apart from it only has 4 memory slots, whats going on there?

Also with this board aimed at a limited market and not supporting tri channel memory I think its dead in the water before release.

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Originally Posted by Maverick2k2

Also with this board aimed at a limited market and not supporting tri channel memory I think its dead in the water before release.

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It's a P67/LGA1155 board, so it only supports dual channel. Only the X58/LGA1366 and the X68/LGA1356 boards will support triple channel, and the latter won't be launching until the end of 2011.

If you want SB, for now you'll have to settle for dual-channel memory.

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Originally Posted by BullDogg

If you want SB, for now you'll have to settle for dual-channel memory.

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Which will more than likely supply plenty of memory bandwidth for everything but synthetic memory benchmarks :)
Of course if you want to fit 6 DIMMs for capacity, you'll have to splash out but that's not much of an issue as anyone needing more than 16GB is rare enough to pay the premium.