MSI's Big Bang Fuzion Now Available, Will Blow Up Your Wallet
MSI's Big Bang Fuzion Now Available, Will Blow Up Your Wallet
Posted 01/22/2010 at 9:45am
| by Paul Lilly
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Remember MSI's Big Bang Fuzion the company announced a couple of weeks ago during CES? If you've been holding out for this board, the wait is over, because it's now available for purchase. The caveat? Newegg's selling it for about $380 shipped, or about half a tank gas short of four C-notes.
Part of the reason for the high price probably has to do with the Lucid Hydra 200 chip. Unlike the regularly used NF200 bridge chip, this one allows users to mix and match different brands of videocards for a multi-GPU gaming boost, as well as cards from different generations. For example, you could combine a GTX 285 with a GTX 250, or run an ATI HD 4890 with Nvidia's GTX 260+ (both of these scenarios were benchmarked at PCPerspective).
Aside from the multi-GPU goodness, the P55-based Fuzion brings to the table Core i7/i5/i3 support, four DDR3-2133(OC) memory slots for up to 16GB of RAM, three PCI-E x16 slots, 8 USB 2.0 ports, Firewire, a pair of eSATA ports, and the usual assortment of goodies (RAID 0/1/5/10, dual LAN ports, etc).
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DOAcepr
January 22, 2010 at 4:45pm
I was psyched when I read this article about the Hydra. What a sweet piece of tech and I really got to have one, that is until I saw MSI's configuration... 1156, really? No SATA6 or USB3? No one spends $380 on a mobo to drop an i5 or neutered i7 into it! Where is the DDR3, SATA6, USB3, destroy the competition, gaming monster that will support a real Core i7 and the both Nvidia's and ATI's top of the line GPUs! Can you imagine the gaming nirvana that would come from running both a GTX295 and a 5970 on a Core i7 975 pushing 5GHz! MSI really missed the boat here.
quickone
January 22, 2010 at 10:16am
Seems like this being such a high end board and brand new it would have at least a couple of USB 3.0 on it. Also it being a
LGA 1156 is surprising for aiming for the ultra high end market. If you're dropping that much $$ on a Mobo you're more likely to have the i7 920 or above.
Still an impressive mobo though.
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nekollx
January 22, 2010 at 9:47am
pci x16 x3?
So could i rune 2 radeon 4580s and a nvidia card for physx?
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Biceps
January 22, 2010 at 1:02pm
Yeah, I have 2 8800GTs in my current rig... could I then toss those in with some high-end radeon? Would it scale the radeon back to the level of my 8800GTs (like with SLI, with 2 different-level cards) or would it max out all three? So...many...questions...!
SuperiorBeing
January 22, 2010 at 5:58pm
It should be able to use them all 100%, and not scale them.
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