Thread: MSI Big Bang X power over clocking focus

After several articles in which we looked at some high-end motherboards, here we are at present a focus on a product recently released to the public mostly enthusiast. The motherboard is the subject of this focus’ Big Bang Xpower MSI.

The Xpower belongs to the family Big Bang, flanked by two sisters Trinergy Intel P55 Chipset + NVIDIA nForce 200 configurations multiGPU and Fuzion that thanks to the Lucid chip is capable of handling systems multi-GPU hybrids.

MSI has worked hard in recent months to the end enthusiast motherboards offering not only video but also cards, Lightning series in particular, have always been distinguished for their skills in extreme over clock.

The focus of this day dedicated to the Big Bang Xpower is for those who intend to use this motherboard for over clocking, and not extreme. We will look a bit 'what are the potential, the virtues and defects, the BIOS, the main options to use the card, the utility provided by MSI, and features dedicated all'overclcok implemented on the motherboard in question.

The card comes with a clean layout, and ordered immediately a solid feel, especially looking at the power socket near the CPU consists of 16-step analog DrMOS they replace the typical mosfet normally used.

We also find several tantalum capacitors C Hi-Cap, which are more stable and definitely more comfortable in the event of insulation.

On the back are the two PS2 ports for mouse and keyboard, the button to Clear the CMOS, the connector for the OC that we will see in the Dashboard, a FireWire port, two eSATA, 5 USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports and two RJ45 jacks.