MSI Big Bang Marshal P67 Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 28th March 2011 | Source: MSI | Price: |
Introduction
At the New Year we were all delighted to see the performance that came from the latest LGA1155 socket. Intel definitely had refined the LGA1156 into a fine art throughout its short life and those improvements were carried over into the P67 chipset. So impressive was it we couldn't wait for the second wave of motherboards to arrive which would have all the major features we love to see.
Then just as we were girding out loins for the influx it all stopped.
It was discovered that the P67 Chipset had a problem with it's 5 and 6 SATA ports that would cause data loss, and so everything was halted whilst Intel beavered away to fix the problem. After our months hiatus the B3 revision boards are upon us with that problem fixed and a few nips and tucks here and there, so it's time for us to get back in front of the bench rig and see what the long-awaited second wave brings us.
Today it's courtesy of MSI with their P67 Rev B3 Big Bang Marshal motherboard. Big in more than name only, it's got enough slots for QUAD SLI, comes equipped with Lucid Hydra and all the usual MSI accessories. How does it perform?
Technical Specifications
Generally the Marshal is exactly what you'd expect a modern MSI motherboard to be. It's got the classic blue and gun-metal heatsinks, OC Genie, and everything is well designed and in the right place. It sounds simple, but it's often over-looked.
The major feature it has over its contemporaries are more PCIe slots than you can shake a stick at.
| CPU(MaxSupport) | i3/i5/i7 |
|---|---|
| FSB / Hyper Transport Bus | 100MHz |
| Chipset | Intel® P67 (B3) |
| DDR3 Memory | DDR3 1066/1333/1600*/1866*/2133*(OC) |
| Memory Channel | Dual |
| DIMM Slots | 4 |
| Max Memory (GB) | 32 |
| PCI-Ex16 | 8 |
| PCI-E Gen | Gen2 (2x16, 2x8, 4x1) |
| PCI | N/A |
| IDE | N/A |
| SATAIII | 4 |
| SATAII | 4 |
| RAID | 0/1/5/10 |
| LAN | 10/100/1000*2 |
| TPM | 1 |
| USB 3.0 ports (Rear) | 8 |
| USB 2.0 ports (Rear) | 2 |
| Audio ports (Rear) | 6+Coaxial/Optical SPDIF |
| Serial ports (Rear) | N/A |
| 1394 ports (Rear) | 1 |
| Form Factor | XL-ATX |
| DrMOS | Y |
| APS | Y |
| SLI | Y |
| 3-way SLI | N/A |
| Hybrid SLI | N/A |
| CrossFire | Y |
Let's grab a look then.
Most Recent Comments
Excellent review as always.
Anyway that's an amazing board, one thing with the technical specs, it says it can't run 3 way SLI, so if you want to fill up all the slots you're pretty much stuck with AMD?
i dont think board with the lucid chip are certified for sli or crossfire but it can definitely do it
The BBM is the 1155's version of the G1 Assassin. It's a great looking board, excellent OCing with low voltages delivering high clocks and of cause all those PCIE slots, what is there not to like?
I still have a soft spot for the UD7 though
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Anyway that's an amazing board, one thing with the technical specs, it says it can't run 3 way SLI, so if you want to fill up all the slots you're pretty much stuck with AMD?