The term Big Bang is used by many scientists to describe the moment of creation. They say that before this event the universe was a chaotic mass of gasses and unformed matter. The gravity and heat combined to compress this to a critical mass. At that critical point all of that gas and unformed matter exploded in all directions to form the basis or the universe we know. MSI’s Big Bang is a culmination of ideas, components and design choices that have, well not really exploded but, hit the market in a fairly big way. Before the launch of this line up MSI was having a rough time in the market. However, even then we saw the hints of big things on the horizon. MSI had partnered up with Lucid; they had begun tinkering with new components for their motherboards and their video cards. We have seen what they can do with the X58, P55 and even the 8xx chipsets from AMD. Now let’s take a look at what they do with the P67 chipset in their Big Bang Marshal.
The Box and Goodies -The front of the Marshal’s box has a graphic that we suppose is meant to be a representation of the actual Big Bang. This is on a black background with a slight incandescent coating to it. Of course most people will not notice that with the large 3DMark 11 sticker on the front. You get a professional copy of this when you buy the Big Bang Marshal. Under the front flap there is more marketing material. This stuff covers some of the items that MSI has been using in their Big Bang line up. These are items like the Hi-c CAPs, Super Ferrite Chokes, and the more mundane standard Solid Capacitors. You also get a look at the motherboard itself.
The back of the box has a good picture of the board along with more information about the board and some of the features that make it what it is. We will talk more about these later in the appropriate section, but we will give you a short list here. You get a 24-Phase digital PWM (called DrMOS), Multiple BIOS chips, server grade MOFETs, and an improved cooling setup on the board.
Inside the box you get a load of goodies that are pretty impressive. MSI has included two USB 3.0 brackets (for the back of your case), a more typical eSATA and USB 2.0 port bracket, voltage read point cables, the OC Dashboard, and much more.
Some of that more is a documentation. With our board we got some extra documentation. This was sent over by the PR guys to show me what this particular board is capable of. I guess we will see if the scores here are true when we get into the second half of our review.
