MSI bigger blow Fuzion P55 Central Processing Unit board

[Obert Harold]

The claim to famous of the MSI Big Bang Fuzion is its power to function graphics boards from defending camps (NVidia and AMD) in parallel utilizing its “Hydra Engine”. Apart from that, it is a well CPU board targeted at the higher center-range segment considering all the additional comprised within the box.

It affirms the LGA1156 socket which means entire conventional Intel Core i5/i7 processors.Despite the full-ATX form element, and a excellent layout the MSI Big Bang Fuzion board even experiencing chock-entire. This is dissimilar most entire-ATX CPU boards, which feel big and spacious, but this is not a minus thing.

The Big Bang Fuzion only has so much to extend that it could not have been any other way. The board is colored black, with dashes of blue seen on sure heatsinks and port. The thermals are not a trouble at all with heatsinks positioned in complete the right places, and heatpipes linking them.

The heatsinks bunched approximately the processor socket might hinder setting of a some high-end later-market coolers though. Parts wish solid capacitor ferrite core chokes utilized on the Fuzion are well for durability and constancy.As we checked with MSI’s P55-GD80 CPU board, there are a number of LED activity indicators.

A little LED is situated close the processor, to screen the number of power phases recently in utilize, where 8 is the max number. MSI extends



a so-called “Easy Button 2” touch panel which is helpful for enthusiasts who would wish to switch their system on/off less having to little pins on the board. This panel is situated at the down-right, consisting of 3 electro-magnetic touch-sensitive keys – green power, reset, and power on/off.

It may sound similar to fantasy and amazingly dissimilar from what you are utilized to, but there is no physical key! Extra buttons on the CPU board are the “Clear CMOS” and “OC Genie” for overclockers.The memory sub-system is well assuming care of through 10 SATA slots that support RAID manners, one PATA (too called IDE) port on the board and 2 eSATA slots at the backpanel.

Since the Intel P55 chipset does not natively support SATA Six Gbps and there are not many hard drives supporting this standard only now, the absence of following-generation SATA 6Gbps may not be a trouble. Four of those SATA slots are furnished utilizing 2 JMicron JMB322 controllers.

The 4 double-channel RAM ports permits for upto 16GB of storage, at velocities of upto 2133 MHz.The back panel is populated with the next input/output slots – 8 Universal Serial Bus, two PS/2, two Gigabit Ethernet, 2 eSATA, one FireWire slot and a link for plugging in MSI’s “OC Dashboard”.

Headers are present for including an extra FireWire port, 4 Universal Serial Bus slots, and for providing 4 system fans. A separate PCI-Express x1 card is furnished for audio. It is not a dedicated sound card though, it is only an app layer include-on.