MSI’s Flagship X79 Big Bang Xpower II Emerges

MSI, world's premier graphics card and mainboard manufacturer is excited to announce the availability of it's premium overclocking mainboard for the Intel X79 chipset, the Big Bang-XPower II. Built on the legacy of the world-record holding Big Bang-XPower, it promises equally impressive results for both CPU and graphics card overclocking.

The Big Bang-XPower II is MSI's most powerful mainboard to date. To leave no doubt about the class-leading performance, the Big Bang-XPower II is built with MSI's Military Class III components like DrMOS II, Super Ferrite Choke, Hi-c CAP and Solid CAP to ensure the best overclocking power, efficiency and lifetime.

In cooperation with three time MOA winner and master overclocker Jon “Elmor” Sandström MSI developed a true overclocking board. Next to the enhanced CPU overclocking features, the Big Bang-XPower II also offers capabilities for 4-way PCI Express Gen3 graphics in NVIDIA SLI or AMD CrossFire with a specialized enhanced power supply to the graphics cards. The PCI Express Gen3 slots can be enabled or disabled with PCI Express CeaseFire allowing for quick diagnostics or multi-GPU benchmarking.

The Big Bang-XPower II's striking looks are built on it's true OC potential. Based on a specialized OC PCB, the MSI SuperPipe based Thermal Design is built  to ensure that no active cooling is required, enhancing the lifetime.

The Imposing look of 8 DDR3-2400 MHz DIMM slots surrounding the CPU allows the most bandwidth currently available on the desktop.

Technical specifications

Processor Supports 2nd Gen Intel® Core™ i7 Processors for the LGA2011 Socket Chipset Intel X79 Express Chipset Memory support 8 DIMM support up to DDR3-2400 – 128GB max. Expansion slots 4x PCI Express Gen3 x16 (1, 3, 5 ,7) 4x PCI Express Gen2 x16  (2, 4, 6, 8 ) bandwidth by PLX8608 Graphics Support 4-Way AMD® CrossFire™ & NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology Audio Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2 – 8 Channel(7.1) HD Audio Network Dual Intel 10/100/1000 Mb/s Storage 2x Intel SATA 6Gb/s with RAID 2x ASMedia SATA 6Gb/s 4x Intel SATA 3Gb/s with RAID USB 6x USB 3.0 (4x Rear I/O, 2x Internal) 10x USB 2.0 (6x Rear I/O, 4x Internal) BIOS 3x Multi-BIOS II UEFI Interface Power Input 24-pin ATX 2x 8-pin CPU 1x 6-pin PCI Express Buttons & Switches Easy Button 3: Power button Reset button OC Genie II button Direct OC buttons (+0.1 MHz, -0.1 Mhz) Multi-BIOS II button CLRCMOS button (Rear I/O) PCI Express CeaseFire x4 Multi-BIOS II switch x

Source: Press Release

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