With the Big Bang Marshal, MSI presents its absolute high-end motherboard for Intels latest Sandy Bridge processors. Therefore it comes for example with a truly sophisticated power design as well as eight PCI-Express x16 slots and numerous other features. 
The Big Bang Marshal from MSI embodies absolute high-end regarding their P67 line-up. We're really curious what they've done from the layout and design perspective.
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Specifications / Delivery
| CPU | Intel Socket 1155 Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 |
| Chipset | Intel P67 |
| Memory | Dual Channel DDR3, 4 x DIMM, Max. 32 GB DDR3, 2133 (OC) / 1866 (OC) / 1600 (OC) / 1333 / 1066 Non-ECC, Un-buffered |
| Multi-GPU |
2-way ATI CrossFireX 2-way NVIDIA SLI 2-/3-wayCrossLinX (Lucid Hydralogix) |
| Slots | 8 x PCI-Express x16 PCI_E1 @ x16 (when PCI_E3 is empty) PCI_E2 @ x1 PCI_E3 @ x8 PCI_E4 @ x1 PCI_E5 @ x16 (when PCI_E7 is empty) PCI_E6 @ x1 PCI_E7 @ x8 PCI_E8 @ x1 |
| Sound | Realtek ALC892, 7.1-Channel HD Audio Codec, Dolby Home Theater certified, S/PDIF Out |
| Storage | 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 2 x SATA 6.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD) 2 x eSATA 6 Gb/s |
| I/O internal / Connectors | 1 x CPU fan header 2 x System fan headers 1 x power fan header 1 x Front Panel header 1 x Front Panel Audio header 1 x S/PDIF Out header 3 x USB 2.0/1.1 header 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 header 1 x Firewire header 1 x Clear-CMOS Jumper |
| I/O external | 1 x PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse 1 x optical S/PDIF Out 1 x coaxial S/PDIF Our 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 8 x USB 3.0/2.0 2 x Firewire 2 x eSATA/USB combo 2 x RJ-45 6 x Audio Jacks |
| Forfactor | ATX (26.4 cm x 34.5cm) |
| BIOS | BIOS 1 / BIOS 2 64 + 64 Mb BIOS 3 64 Mb |
MSI ships the Marshal with really a lot of accessories. Therefore it doesn't matter if you're looking for an additional debug display or even probes.
Features
| OC Genie | Using OC Genie - onboard button - you can auto-overclock your system by pressing a button. The board will automatically determine the optimum overclocking values and set them when booting. |
| Multi BIOS | This button can force the system to boot from the tertiary BIOS. Therefore the Big Bang Marshal offers the possibility to boot the system from a second backup BIOS if you should have damaged the first and second BIOS already. |
| 24+3+3+3+3 Phase Power Design | MSI equipped the Big Bang Marshal with the most sophisticated power design we have seen until today. The CPU therefore is supported by 24 phases, the memory got three phases, the PCH got three phases too, the CPU I/O is also supported by three phases and even the SA can rely on three phases. This makes a total of 36 phases for this board. |
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Layout
MSIs Big Bang Marshal comes with a black PCB and blue expansion slots as well as aluminium cooling blocks which have been provided with an anthracite color. Overall this board generates a harmonic impression despite the fact that MSI managed to put a countless number of components onto this PCB. Totally the Marshal comes with no less than eight PCI-Express x16 slots. Customers should be aware that not all slot haven been forseen to be used in combination with graphics cards. In fact only slot number one and five can rely on 16 PCI-Express lanes. Slot number three and five each got eight PCI-Express lanes and all the other slots got one PCI-Express lane. But still, with this layout it is possible to build a 3-way CrossLinX rig.
The Big Bang Marshal comes with an incredible 36 phase power design which should guarantee exceptionally stable current supply and overclockability. Therefore the CPU is being powered by 24 phases and the memory got three phases. But still ther are nine phases left. MSI decided to provide CPU I/O, PCH and SA with three phases to provide all the critical components with a stable current supply.
Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Big Bang Marshal. Officially supported are DDR3-2133 (OC) / 1866 (OC) / 1600 (OC) / 1333 / 1066 with up to 32 GByte capacity. The DIMM-slots are well positioned which allows the installation of big CPU cooler without incompatibilites with memory.
The Southbridge has been equipped with a passive cooling block and the the current converters as well as the northbridge are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive heatpipe cooling solution. The fact that the cooling blocks around the CPU socket aren't too big makes it comfortable to install a big aircooler. We also noticed the very high manufacturing quality of the cooling blocks.
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Connectors and I/O
Totally MSI provided the Big Bang Marshal with eight angled SATA ports which should be enough for or a gaming system, overclocking setups as well as an enthusiasts PC. On this board you'll also find practical onboard power- and reset-buttons. MSI also provided the Big Bang Marshal with a debug display which comes in very handy if you should once have issues with one of the components in your system. On the pictures below you can also see that you'll have the option to activate or desactivate a total of four PCI-Express slots. Furthermore there even are onboard LEDs which show you how many phases are in use.
Totally you'll find seven fan headers on the MSI Big Bang Marshal which is more than enough to provide a well equipped mid-range, high-end or overclocking system with fresh air. The fanheaders are located next to the CPU socket and their also spread over the whole board which makes them easily accessible from any position in an enclosure.
Looking at the external connectors directly at the back-panel MSI provided the Big Bang Marshal with a PS2 mouse/keyboard connector, eight USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one Firewire connector, two eSATA ports, two gigabit ethernet ports, a SPDIF and coaxial optical out as well as an analogue audio panel.
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BIOS
Following you find BIOS-screens regarding basic configuration options as well as overclocking. Nearly standard these days is the possibility to save and load BIOS-Profiles.
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Test setup
Hardware |
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| Motherboard |
- MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 - ASUS Sabertooth P67 - Gigabyte P67A-UD4 - ASUS Maximus IV Extreme - ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution - ASUS P8P67 Deluxe - Gigabyte P67A-UD7 |
| Processor | Intel Core i5 2500K |
| Memory | 2 GB Kingston PC3 16'000 9-9-9-27 |
| Graphic card | Asus 5850 |
| Hard disk | Samsung Spinpoint F1 320 GByte |
| Power supply | bequiet! Dark Power Pro 1000Watt |
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Futuremark
3DMark11
3DMark 11 is Futuremarks latest benchmark for the entire graphical subsystem. The benchmark uses DirectX 11 and it supports all recent features which can possibly generate high load on a GPU. Therefore you find tessellation, compute shader calculations, divers lighting effects and different depth of filed animations. Following we publish values regarding the performance preset of 3DMark 11.
Total
| 3DMark 11 Total | Percent | |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 3'709 | 100.73 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 3'705 | 100.62 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 3'688 | 100.16 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 3'682 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 3'632 | 98.64 % |
| more is better | ||
Physic
| 3DMark 11 Physic Score | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 6'461 | 102.65 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 6'300 | 100.10 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6'294 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 6'271 | 99.73 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6'269 | 99.60 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 6'268 | 99 59% |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6'188 | 98.32 % |
| more is better | ||
3DMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage is able to squeeze nearly everything out of a recent system. Therefore the feature liste is also pretty long: DirectX10, FP16-HDR, motion blur, parallax occlusion mapping, GPU-physics simulation and different shader effects are being used to even make recent high-end systems struggle.
Total
| 3DMark Vantage Total | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 15'776 | 101.48 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 15'760 | 101.38 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 15'757 | 101.36 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 15'749 | 101.31 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 15'605 | 100.38 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 15'546 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 15'157 | 97.50 % |
| more is better | ||
CPU
| 3DMark Vantage CPU | Percent | |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 17'354 | 101.21 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 17'179 | 100.19 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 17'164 | 100.10 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 17'147 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 17'118 | 99.83 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 17'017 | 99.24 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 16'979 | 99.02 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 1
SiSoft Sandra is a theoretical multi purpose benchmark suite which is able to show differences in CPU architectures. We split the tests with SiSoft Sandra into two parts. Therefore on this page you'll find Arithmetic-, Multimedia- and Cryptography-benchmarks.
Arithmetic Benchmark
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Drystone | GIPS | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 67.77 | 100.77 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 67.62 | 100.55 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 67.59 | 100.51 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 67.37 | 100.18 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 67.25 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 67.13 | 99.82 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 67.00 | 99.63 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Arithmetic Benchmark - Whetstone | GFLOPS | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 49.00 | 100.51 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 48.80 | 100.10 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 48.78 | 100.06 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 48.75 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 48.69 | 99.88 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 47.77 | 97.99 % |
| more is better | ||
Multimedia
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - Integer | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 120.43 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 120.34 | 99.93 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 120.33 | 99.92 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 120.00 | 99.64 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Multimedia - floating point | MPixels/sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 71.21 | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 71.18 | 99.96 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 71.17 | 99.94 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 71.16 | 99.93 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 71.00 | 99.71 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 70.87 | 99.52 % |
| more is better | ||
Crytography
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.38 | 117.14 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.30 | 115.87 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 6.30 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 6.26 | 99.37 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 6.00 | 95.24 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Crytography - SHA 256 | MB/sec | Percent |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 550 | 101.48 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 550 | 101.48 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 550 | 101.48 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 549 | 101.29 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 542 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
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SiSoft Sandra 2
At this point we deliver the values regarding Memory Bandwidth, Memory Latency as well as Memory and Cache Access.
Memory bandwidth
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - Integer | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 22.68 | 117.63 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 22.40 | 116.18 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 19.36 | 100.41 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 19.30 | 100.10 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.28 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 19.16 | 99.38 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 18.84 | 97.72 % |
| more is better | ||
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory bandwidth - floating point | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 22.69 | 117.81 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 22.40 | 116.30 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 19.36 | 100.52 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 19.35 | 100.47 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 19.26 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 19.20 | 99.69 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 18.83 | 97.77 % |
| more is better | ||
Memory latency
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory latency | ns | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 59.0 | 90.91 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 59.3 | 91.37 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 64.9 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 64.9 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 65.1 | 100.31 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 65.3 | 100.62 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 68.9 | 106.16 % |
| less is better | ||
Memory and cache access
| SiSoft Sandra - Memory and cache access | GB/sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 102.2 | 106.76 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 101.5 | 106.03 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 96.00 | 100.28 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 95.73 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 95.31 | 99.56 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 93.45 | 97.62% |
| more is better | ||
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Super Pi 1M - 32M / wPrime 32M
Meanwhile Super Pi even in its latest version has become pretty old. Never the less it is able to show scaling to the clock speed nicely.
Super Pi 1M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 1M | sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 11.325 | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 11.341 | 100.14 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 11.356 | 100.27 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 11.357 | 100.28 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 11.372 | 100.42 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 11.435 | 100.97 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 11.466 | 101.25 % |
| less is better | ||
Super Pi 32M
| Super Pi 1.5 XS - 32M | sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 606.295 | 97.40 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 609.992 | 97.99 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 620.803 | 99.73 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 621.552 | 99.85 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 622.473 | 100.00 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 623.143 | 100.11 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 623.549 | 100.17 % |
| less is better | ||
wPrime 32M
wPrime is based on a multithreaded algorithm to calculate the square root to up to 32 billion digits. Therefore it is possible to put 100 percent load on every core or thread and to see differences between architectures.
| wPrime - 32M | sec | Percent |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 9.263 | 100.00 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 9.264 | 100.01 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 9.268 | 100.05 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 9.280 | 100.18 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 9.298 | 100.38 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 9.314 | 100.55 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 9.469 | 102.22 % |
| less is better | ||
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Games
Crysis 800 x 600, low details
Crysis is still one of the games which has very high system requirements. Therefore developer Crytek implemented Direct3D-10-API, High-Dynamic-Range-Rendering, Parallax Occlusion Mapping, Soft Shadows, Motion Blur, Depth of Field as well as Soft Particles. We test Crysis by using DirectX9 to show CPU-sacaling especially which low resolutions. If we look at the high resolutions we are able to spot that the CPUs influence compared to the graphic card becomes much less important.
| Crysis DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 90.16 | 104.04 % |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 90.16 | 104.04 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 89.80 | 103.62 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 89.05 | 102.76 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 89.01 | 102.71 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 86.66 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 86.61 | 99.94 % |
| more is better | ||
Resident Evil 800 x 600, low details
Resident Evil uses nearly every modern rendering technology: HDR, Hemisphere Lighting, Soft Shadows, Soft Particles, Field- und Motion-Blur oder auch Alpha to Coverage and static Ambient Occlusion. Furthermore Resident Evil 5 has been optimized for multicore architectures and already comes DirectX11 ready. By using the DirectX9 benchmark we can again show CPU-scaling with low resolutions and the compared to the CPU overproportional influence of the graphics card at high resolutions.
| Resident Evil DirectX9 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 174.5 | 106.86 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 171.6 | 105.08 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 169.5 | 103.80 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 169.4 | 103.74 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 169.3 | 103.67 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 166.5 | 101.96 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 163.3 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
Street Fighter 4 800 x 600, low details
Street Fighter 4 comes with an extra benchmark version which makes testing you system childrens play. At low resolutions the system requirements are pretty low and we can see CPU-scaling in the results. At high resolution the graphic card becomes more important and the CPUs clock speed has less influence on the fps.
| Street Fighter 4 (800 x 600 low details) | fps | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 573.97 | 100.73 % |
| Asus P8P67 WS Revolution | 569.79 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 569.21 | 99.90 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 568.3 | 99.74 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 568.00 | 99.69 % |
| Asus P8P67 Deluxe | 567.88 | 99.66 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 563.66 | 98.92 % |
| more is better | ||
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Overclocking
| CPU-z | MHz | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 5'200 | 100.00 % |
| more is better | ||
| Super Pi 1M | sec | Percent |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme | 7.207 sec | 100.73 % |
| ASUS Sabertooth P67 | 7.241 sec | 100.90 % |
| MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 | 7.252 sec | 100.95 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD4 | 7.282 sec | 101.08 % |
| Gigabyte P67A-UD7 | 7.298 sec | 101.14 % |
| less is better | ||
Conclusion
| Allgemein | + | - | |
| With the Big Bang Marshal, MSI created a truly impressive motherboard which comes with an awful lot of features but still look nice an tidy. MSI shows at lot of attention to detail regarding the color scheme and the design in general. Everything fits together and creates a harmonic picture. Regarding features the Big Bang Marshal comes for example with a total of eigth PCI-Express x16 slots. There also is their "OC Genie" button which is very useful for users who want to overclock their system but don't know how to do it. Especiall impressive about this board is its 36 phase power design. In fact there is no other board out on the market at the moment which comes with a more sophisticated power design. |
- Layout - Design - Power Design |
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| Layout | + | - | |
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Generally the MSI Big Bang Marshals layout is very well thought and the different components have been arranged neately. Once more very practical are the angled SATA connectors as well as the onboard power and reset buttons. At the back panel you'll also find a clear CMOS switch which also is a practical addition. Regarding the eight PCI-Express x16 slots we have to mention that "only" four should be used in combination with video cards. The other four slots have provided with only one PCI-Express lane which would compromise the performance significantly. |
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Angled
SATA connectors
- Power/Reset-Button onboard - CLR-CMOS - Debug display |
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| Performance | + | - | |
| From a performance point of view the Big Bang Marshal has been able to convince us. At the moment there are quite a lot of boards out there in the market which are much more efficient. Lots of them are able to perform significantly better throughout all benchmarks. Especially regarding the Futuremark tests as well as Super Pi 32M camp still has a lot of work to do possibly improve the performance. We're hoping that there will be BIOS updates in the future that make this board a bit faster. | - Futuremark - Super Pi 32M |
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| Overclocking | + | - | |
| With it's 36 phase design overclocking definitely isn't something unknown for this board. One thing we noticed was that this board needs less voltage on the CPU to push it to a certain clock speed than motherboards from other manufacturers. Regarding this positive effect we assume that the 36 phase power design causes this influence. What we didn't like about the Big Bang Marshal from an overclockers perspective as well as from a users point of view is the usability of the BIOS. There are lots and lots of features which are nice to play with but there far too less structure to quickly find your way to manipulate the exact setting you want to change. The color scheme for example can be disturbing for beginners as wells as enthusiasts too. And this we have one concrete suggestion what could be changed: we would appreciate it if voltages could be entered directly via keyboard. At the moment one needs to select the setting using the mouse and then scroll down until the specific setting appears. | - Efficient regarding voltage | - confusing BIOS - Takes long to get used to | |
| Recommendation | + | - | |
| We'd recommend the MSI Big Bang Marshal to PC enthusiasts as well as overclockers. If you look at the performance of this thing there definitely are better boards out there on the market but still with its 36 phase power design and eight PCI Express x16 slots the Marshal is something special. | -
PC Enthusiast - Overclocker |
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Author: m.salathe@ocaholic.ch Copy edited and translated: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch c.ney@ocaholic.ch