MSI Big Bang-XPower ATX Intel Motherboard

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i pickled up this motherboard on sale this is a very fantastic motherboard if you plan on overclocking this motherboard will come with a manual to aid you overclock your cpu to 4.00ghz+ dependent on your cooling and your method specs running 2x gtx 285s and they run with out any issues wont be upgrading for about 1-three much more years the clear cmos at the back has issues often when you try to clear it it may give you post code FF and not post had to use a screwdriver in between the two pins to totally clear the cmos obtaining to eliminate two of the video cards to get back up a running once more hope msi comes out with a bios down the road to fix this challenge but the rest of the board perform uncover :D about the guide you will need to have a quite excellent cooler for the overclocking manual following about 4.four you will require 1.45v+ to get it stable i stopped at 4.6ghz but the manual will show you how to get to 4.8ghz i know i could have went there but the heat will quit you ahead of your technique becomes unstable

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this mainboard has alot of wonderful features and hopefully holds up for the times to come! i love it! none other than i require alot of funds to utilize all of it! ha! ha!

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-Wonderful for overclocking-Wonderful price tag compared to other enthusiast motherboards-Rock strong, higher excellent elements-Comes with tons of accessories-Runs Fantastic! None Attempted out OC genie and it got my i7 930 up to three.5 Ghz, fantastic tool for folks who don't want to mess about in the BIOS.

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I am not positive that I have owned/operated this board extended enough to make a reccomendation, but i am pleased so far, thinking about my final Pc was an AMD x2 4800+ socket 393 with and ASUS A8N-SLI board (*cough* junk).Right here are my purchasing choice pros:- millitary components- two x 8pin energy connecters for CPU voltage- 6 x PCIE interfaces- OC panel with base clock incremental up/downThis board looks and performs properly (as far as I have employed it) It POSTs fine, nice to have the POST status indicators onboard to see what is happening. the m-connectors thata come with it are slightly too huge for the places they are supposed to plug into. This is not major deal is I usualy install the front panel PLED, Reset SW, Energy SW and Speaker cables with needle nose plyers anyway. Technique fan 1-4 three pin connectors are in odd to get to places (but what motherboards aren't), but most people just purchase fan controllers.it doesn't make coffee ;-) I have this board in conjunction with the following elements:CPU:Intel Core i7 950 bloomfield revision D0CPU heatsync: CM V8Memory: 6GBƓx2)OCZ Reaper Cas6 Pc 12800 񢃀MHz)Video: two x MSI GTX465 Twin Frozr II (one is use correct now)Difficult Drives: 1 x 250gb Maxtor SATA - system drive1 x WD caviar Blue 1TB - Media/gamesMy technique temp is 33c... and cpu idles at 32c... thought i would get far better temps with all of this in a Thermaltake Armor total tower case with two x 80mm, 3 x 120mm, and 1 x 250mm fans, in a push pull positive configuration.Maybe reseating my heat syncs with arctic silver five will transform this somewhat :)

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This has to be the greatest value for enthusiast mobo in my life time, it replaced much a lot more costly a single in my rig. The RAM sockets seat the sticks soo nicely and they do not wiggle back and forth, capacitors are all larger, H-cap effectiveness, heat sinks bolted on, added space for major heat sinks, not obtaining floppy, audio, or PATA on mobo is a plus. Just with it's OC Genie, a modest 4.2GHZ on 980X is totally stable; looks like four.five will be my nominal set point. I had to obtain a new PSU that has two CPU 8 pins, and an extra PCI cable, but I required to upgrade to 1000w gold.Restricted to two GPUs in SLI/XF, but with two large ones like my water cooled OC'd GTX 480s, there is absolutely nothing significantly to want beyond this! I had opportunity to use Newegg Consumer Service for 1st time soon after several years of reading all the great comments in these critiques -- I can now attest that it's all true, I was wowed!!!

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This motherboard is brilliant. It does keep cooler than I am used to seeing and it overclocks like a dream. I have 2.80 930 i7 with 6gb a-information 1600 ddr3 ram overclocked to 4.04ghz running stable with my ambient temp staying under 38 though three-d modeling. OC genie functions wonderful as extended as you take the time to make certain settings are appropriate prior to using it. The sound card may not be the greatest in the globe but I find absolutely nothing to complain about with it. the reduce ratings I have observed about this MB seem to be from folks who aren't taking time to figure points out. directions are a tiny lacking if you don't know what you are performing. msi X-power Big BANGi7 930 OC four.046GB a-data ddr3single ati 5770ssdantec 902 case antec ea750 pscorsair h50 liquid cooling

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Most function rich board I've owned, accessories, layout, asethetics, high end board at a fairly sensible price compared to other producers high end boards First board didn't not get previous status code FF, two sysfan connectors had been dead/did not function. I thnk a different owner had the similar issue with the FF status code. I've owned nothing but MSI boards, and they've all been rock solid stable, not so significantly with the Xpower. Dissappointed BUT Newegg created the RMA as smooth as feasible. I was without having the board for about a week. I got yet another XPower, cross my fingers on this one! Been waiting to place with each other this rig for more than 8 months!My specs:i7 920 D0Corsair HX850 PSUCorsair H50 Push/Pull Scythe GT 1850MSI Huge Bang XpowereVGA SC GTX 460 in SLI6 gig Corsair Dominator 7-7-7-20Intel 160gig SSD G22 X Samsung F3 1gigLG 10x blu ray burnerNZXT Sentry 2 Matrix Orbital Tri-color 5.25inch LCD displayLogitech Slim Illuminated KeyboardLogitech G500Gamecon 777Corsair Obsidian 800DGatewa FPD2485WNoiseblocker BlackSilentPro Fans 3x120mmǘx140mmNZXT Completely sleeved connectors Logisys Dual CCFL-green

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Board layout, accessories & cables integrated, ease to set up, OC capabilities Lack of documentation in the box and on the internet (Novices beware) I would give them 4 1ǘ but no 1ǘ eggs. Documentation is constantly necessary I don't care how sensible you are. Make certain you are on some good forums for help if needed.

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MSI Tech Assistance was top rated notch. Walked by way of some difficulty shooting with me and concluded it was most probably a memory difficulty. Newegg was also leading notch. I had to pay for return shipping but got a refund. Wouldn't post with OCZ 1600 memory that I had from a Gigabyte board. Memory functions with the Gigabyte board but I've now had problems with Asus, MSI and EVGA boards. Guess I'll have to obtain new ram if I want a newer MB. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Client,We would like to apologize for the concern you have skilled with this unique mb. Please e mail me directly through usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial quantity and your complete make contact with information, topic heading "EAH7666". I would like to assist you get this resolved.Ideal Regards,User HelpMSI Product Assistance

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very nice board with tons of features.powered up on the initial try. bios initialization at startup/reboots is a bit on the slow side.

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This motherboard is everything you can dream about a higher end motherboard. Works wonderful. No issue at all! None There are so many leds on the motherboard it often disturbs me when i am attempting to sleep. (thermaltake Armor + case with clear side panel) but you can on the other hand disable them in the bios.

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What a beast! Specs to die for. DEFECTIVE SLI BRIDGES! This situation has been discussed on many forums! Soundcard is not 'on board' and makes use of the only PCI-e 1x slot. I ditched this card for a Soundblaster X-fi external sound device so i could drop an internal WIFI card in its spot. I got a 3rd celebration SLI bridge from newegg and it solved the screen tearing concerns the stock bridges were causing. Nevertheless, when two graphics cards are installed (GTX460s), they only perform sporadically, sometimes requiring several reboots before they function. I have attempted running with and with out the sli-bridge and swapped their slots to no avail. Separately these cards run just fine and score within a point of each and every other on benchmark tests. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Customer,We would like to apologize for the issue you have experienced with this distinct mb. Please e mail me straight via usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial quantity and your comprehensive contact data, subject heading "EAH7666". I would like to assist you get this defective SLI Bridge resolved.Ideal Regards,User SupportMSI Product Help

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so you got that high dollar I-7 chip and now your a player... nicely this is the board 1st production run had to rma, sent a replacement and it was heaven right after. i waited a few months to post this simply because i got stung with the 1st production run. it was nevertheless worth it. from the make of this board and the good quality of componets to the layout , this with out a doubt the finest I-7 motherboard on the planet. three techniques to overclock, and 16 powers to feed it. is it a bit of a discomfort? yes but if you are not a n00b you will be in adore with this board. ever wonder if your more than clock misshap was you or the voltage regulation of the board? nicely this board has the best voltage regulator on the planet bar none.

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Outstanding, quality construct, high quality components. Very flexible - superior bios. No NF200 chip -> this gives better overall performance when working with PCIe raid cards. None. Make certain you have sufficient air flow across heat pipe or Southbridge will tend to run hot.

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Exceptional motherboard. I was truly hesitant to get this since of MSI's poor track record with motherboards in recent years. I got this motherboard soon after my Asus P6X58D Premium died and Asus wouldn't honor the warranty since FedEx botched the packaging and damaged some socket pins (great board with some annoying issues even though). The critiques for this mobo said it was a exceptional board.The Quantam Wave sound card is quite decent also. I know others have had difficulties with it, but it has been wonderful for me. I can't genuinely compare it to other sound cards so I can't give an opinion about that. Its totally free though.Has two eight pin connectors for extra CPU stability when OC'ing. Same goes for a additional 6 pin connector for the GPU. I personally don't use them. OC Genie is hit or miss and can occasionally be totally disastrous. It was a disastrous miss for me. Set my Ripjaws at 1600Mhz @ eight-8-eight-24, Uncore at 4800 Ɠx more than ram speed, yikes!) and set my QPI voltage to a ridiculous 1.590. It also set memory VTT to almost two. volts and OC'ed my i7 930 to 3.four Ghz. Technique was totally unstable. Had to reset BIOS and manually OC myself. Once again, there are people who've had results with it so I wouldn't fully abandon it.Board also might not be as well excellent for 3x SLi or 4x SLi. When making use of 2 cards in SLi, you will get 16x bandwidth on the 2nd and 5th PCI-e slots. When you go 3x SLi or 4x SLi, the board divides up the bandwidth in between four lanes and you get a weird mixture with a couple lanes running at 8x and the other two running at 4x. You really should absolutely get it if you are only gonna do 2 cards in SLi although. OC'ed my 930 to 3.8Ghz on my 1st attempt with this board. So sweet. Prime95 and OCCT each 10 hours apiece stable. Temps by no means went above 65 Celsius @ full load. I consider the i7 930 I got was from a great batch. Doesn't hurt that it's D0 stepping also.Specs:i7 930 D0 @ ӯ.8GHzProlimatech Megahalems w/ 2x Yate Loons @ Push/PullBig Bang Xpower MoboG.Ability Ripjaws 6GB 1448 Mhz @ 8-8-eight-24Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200 RPMWD Velociraptor 300GB 10000 RPMAsus HD5970Antec SG850 850W PSUAntec 1200 situation

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Great board layout! Almost everything fired up on the extremely 1st try. Operating an Intel Core I7 980 Extreme processor @ 4.3ghz and this board is rock strong stable. Would recommend to anybody hunting for a effectively built X58 board. none so far! Newegg just Rocks!! All components arrived packaged properly and in only 2 days with out any extra charges! Very swift and stable build.

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Motherboard looks excellent. Quite a few PCI slots. Good add-ons like LCD poster, Quantum Wave soundcard, and so forth. If you ever have a dilemma with the board and contact MSI, you will be wholehearted disappointed, to the point exactly where you regret your purchase. I was possessing complications with the alignment of element cards seated in the motherboard with the case. I contacted CoolerMaster to get a new HAF-X and got a new 1 virtually instantaneously, but the difficulty remained, so I contacted MSI. Right here is the response I got back:"Thank you for contacting the MSI technical support. Sorry we are confused for your description. We suggest you transform another case as MSI motherboard is compliant with Intel® I/O Connectivity Design and style Guide. If you mean that you are feared to destroy the motherboard, you can make contact with your reseller to help check."Nonsense, in particular provided the truth that I sent four pics of the problem along, as well as an over 1000 character description of the difficulty. Oh properly, good point I had 30 days left on my no-concerns-asked return policy at Micr0Center.

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Would be a very good board if what they avertised was actually correct.Could have been a wonderful MB. They are conscious that the Marvel SATA III controller does not operate correctly. They have recognized for months but still sell this board marketing that it supports SATA III RAID. Even though it will boot it is Significantly slower than SATA II drives.If you are searching to run SATA III appear elsewhere and whatever you choose make sure the controller is not Marvell. I spent alot extra on SATA III drives and extra on a motherboard to support it only to discover that this one particular does not regardless of their marketing. Do youself a favor and google the following "Marvell 91XX RAID SATA III" before purchasing this P-O-S.And MSI's Response?"Thank you for contacting MSI Technical Help.Sorry for late reply. It's hardware limitation. Sorry for any inconvenience triggered."The hardware manufacturer told me its a hardware limitation? Actually? Just Saying!!Initial and final MSI buy.two 64GB SSD Drives RAID must have output of 500+ MB per second. I get only 300, slower than my SATA II RAID , 鷸MB) on a significantly slower computer system. I paid for a premium MB and did not get it.Intel i7 95012GB Patriot Memory2x 64GB SATAIII SSD Drives2TB Seagate 2x Radeon 5770 Crossfire760W Seascape Energy SupplyMSI Big Bang X-Energy MB- Garbage Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Buyer,We would like to apologize for the issue you have seasoned with this specific mb. Please e-mail me directly by way of usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your comprehensive get in touch with data, subject heading "EAH7666". I would like to assist you get this resolved.Ideal Regards,User HelpMSI Product Help

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My 1st high finish build. Looks spectacular on a Lian-Li situation. Booted up initial time with no problem but... i can't overclock anything working with OC genie or XMP in the BIOS due to the fact process gets unstable and offers me blue screen on Win 7 ultimate 64 bit. Memory posts at 1066 with cas7. Heat is not a difficulty.I know there's tons of possible in this beauty but i haven't had time to mess with voltage and so on...Won't recognize my D-link DWA-556 wireless -n adapter no matter which PCI-e slot i use, but a second video card is immediately recognized, tried to write about this to MSI but the mail from supposed customer service some reviews just before is useless (got rejected 2 instances). Feel should tweak something in the BIOS. (The card is in good condition... tried in a MSI P7NSli)Can't register the board on MSI internet site simply because i don't see it listed so i can't contact buyer service from there CPU: Core i7 920Video: EVGA GTX480Memory: Kingston HyperX Overall performance Ɠx2Gb) KHX2000C9AD3T1K3ǜGXPSU: ANTEC Accurate Energy QuattroHDD: Old WD Caviar 250 Gb ྰ mb buffer) - soon to be updated Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Consumer,We would like to apologize for the concern you have knowledgeable with this unique mb. Please come across the updated bios that can patch the challenge you have with the D-Link card and if you have any additional questions, please really feel free to get in touch with us straight: usersupport2@msicomputer.com Very best Regards,User HelpMSI Item Support

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This is obviously the very best x58 motherboard by comparison to all the other high ends in addition to the ASUS Immensity which hasn't began production however (if it ever does). I purchased this board for three major motives: 1. The Hi-c Tantalum Core Capacitors/ferrite chokes/and solid aluminum core capacitors, and general clean socket area which no other motherboard has to my surprise 2. The DUAL EPS 12v 8 pin energy connectors + six pin connector to supply added energy straight to the pci-slots. 3. The ability to use both crossfire and SLI with a remaining slot for a pcix1 sound card (like the X-Fi Titanium Champion Edition). Compared to the other specifications of this mainboard, I completely overlooked the USB 3. and SATA 6Gbps, which are also welcomed characteristics, but not capabilities held by this board alone. Not only is it the finest motherboard ever produced (coming from a 790i ULTRA, Rampage Extreme x48 owner), it expenses much less than numerous of the competing x58 boards. None For some people today the lack of a NF200 Chip for correct quad or tri SLI pci-e 2. X16 is a unfavorable. On the other hand due to the fact scaling amongst 2 cards is the most effective for each ATI and Nvidia cards (including the HD 5000 series and GT 400 series) there is no cause to include the NF200 (reviews for scaling can be observed on guru3d and other important evaluation sites). Excluding it lowered the price tag considerably and allowed them to enhance the general overclocking potential for this board by installing higher good quality components.

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Simple to overclock with OC Genie and delivers a dependable stable system. Supports Tri-SLI or lots of expansion cards.The Hard drive controller seem to be working effectively. My Thermometer the Lian-Li 5B didn't like the northbridge chipset temperature and sounds the alarm when it reaches 50 degrees celcius, but the technique hasn't crashed so I'm not worried. -Motherboard: MSI Huge Bang-XPower LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3. ATX Intel Motherboard-Memory: OCZ Reaper Edition 12GB Ɠ x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model OCZ3RPR1333C9LV12GK x 2-Processor: Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition Gulftown three.33GHz 6 x 256KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80613I7980X-Video Card: EVGA 015-P3-1580-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express two. x16 HDCP Prepared SLI Assistance Video Card-Sound Card: on board-Hybrid Drive: Seagate Momentus XT ST95005620AS 500GB 7200 RPM two.5" SATA 3.0Gb/s with NCQ Solid State Hybrid Drive -Bare Drive x 2-Difficult Drive: Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s three.5" Internal Challenging Drive -Bare Drive x two-HD-DVD/Blue-ray Drive: LG Black 6X BD-ROM 16X DVD-R

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Pretty Doesnt function You have to flash the bios to make this issue operate appropriately from what I have read on the MSI forums (which btw the people are not helpful at all). It doesnt read a lot more than 8 gigs of memory the power wont remain on and it gave me a severe headache. I will be returning this item and and going with ASUS Rampage III Extreme which was my original selection but a buddy persuaded me to attempt this 1. I also know that the ASUS forums the contributors and moderators are valuable and friendly unlike the encounter I had attempting to get help on the MSI forums. Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Buyer,We would like to apologize for the issue you have knowledgeable with this specific mb. Please e mail me directly through usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your full get in touch with data, topic heading "EAHBigBang". I would like to aid you get this resolved.Very best Regards,User SupportMSI Item Assistance

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MSI Phone Help was great. Just about no hold time. English speaker who was very valuable. As swift as I got via to help they were unable to aid. Gave me a FE error on the debug LED. I couldn't locate anything on the net about the error and called support. They had no notion what the error was either.Making use of OCZ 1600 Memory that operates fine in my gigabyte ex58-ds4.Newegg issued an RMA now I just have to send it.

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Seriously a nice looking board. Has a lot of bells and whistles on it. Looks to be nicely built. I bought the board to use for more than clocking and it has the extras to do it. Various issues in the bios that I can't adjust as of but like the marvell controller, the delay begin, and jmicron. No major deal but I want control more than them. As effectively some of the drivers for the marvell are not on the disc that comes with the mobo and can be challenging to discover and install. Even so most men and women seeking at the board can probably deal with it. I like the board overall. Its not as significantly support out there for it but as I would like. Hopefully that will adjust in the future. MSI does have a 1 click update on there web site for it which tends to make it seriously easy. However some of the stuff on the web site is older than what came packaged with the board.

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Appealing. Discount and rebate accessible made this board seem desirable. Heatsinks around processor use thermal tape. Two screws hold down each and every of bar heatsinks. The make contact with in between heatsinks and chips is firm at the screw ends with tiny or no speak to amongst heatsink and chips away from the screw ends. I emphasize....the thermal tape shows small or no make contact with in the middle. Speedfan Utility shows 66C at idle and 72C beneath moderate loads. I can see no way to increase contact in the middle of the heatsink bars. Essentially, this makes the engineered design deficient and incorrectable with the installed heatsinks! Overclocking is not an choice with these heat issues! Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued MSI Consumer,We would like to apologize for the situation you have seasoned with this certain mb. Please email me directly via usersupport2@msicomputer.com your mb's serial number and your full get in touch with facts, topic heading "EAHXPOWER". I would like to assist you get this resolved.Very best Regards,User AssistanceMSI Item Support