1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:07,160 this is another product I've received quite a few requests to unbox this is 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:09,400 the MSI Big Bang X power and this is 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:13,440 part of the refresh of x58 boards that we've seen over the last couple months 4 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:18,119 so most of the major manufacturers are taking their old x58 designs and they're 5 00:00:15,639 --> 00:00:22,760 updating them so one of the first features that we can talk about with 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:24,640 this board is that it has USB 3.0 like 7 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:29,279 many of the newer boards it also has SATA 6 gbit per second so these are two 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:33,480 important features that a lot of the motherboard men manufacturers have felt 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:37,360 this necessary to redesign their boards for so let's talk about some of the MSI 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:41,719 exclusive features first of all this is military class that means they're using 11 00:00:39,399 --> 00:00:46,120 only top quality components including icy chokes which are a newer generation 12 00:00:44,079 --> 00:00:50,079 fite core with up to 20° lower temperature stable power supply and 13 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:54,920 higher power efficiency they're also using their High conductive polymerized 14 00:00:53,199 --> 00:01:00,039 capacitors up to eight times longer Lifetime and they have a rare highly 15 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:02,399 stable tantalum core ooh self-repair 16 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:08,159 ability okay this I was not aware of but apparently they can repair themselves it 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:11,320 also has solid capacitors so up to a 10e 18 00:01:08,159 --> 00:01:12,920 lifetime Under full load and then this 19 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:16,799 is kind of interesting so they say for gaming up to 12 years and for office up 20 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:21,920 to 40 years but basically they're saying 10 years assuming you're running this 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:24,320 24/7 and they will not explode I think 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:28,040 what they mean is leak so um no explosion is guaranteed on this 23 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:33,759 particular motherboard so let's move a little bit further down we have eax 24 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:37,360 Advanced HD support as well as THX certification on this particular audio 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:41,520 solution so it's their Quantum wave gaming audio card it's still onboard 26 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:45,240 audio but it is on a riser card so you will get a little bit less electrical 27 00:01:43,119 --> 00:01:49,320 interference if you are using the analog outputs it supports up to three-way SLI 28 00:01:47,719 --> 00:01:53,520 as well as three-way Crossfire so you can see they've got it demoed here with 29 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:59,119 a three-way Crossfire configuration and as I already said before USB 3.0 and 30 00:01:56,159 --> 00:02:02,680 SATA 6 gbit per second let's move around to the back where they're talking about 31 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:08,599 a couple other features so you've got Dr Moss threein One server grade mosfets 32 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:10,200 here you can look at that uh 400% faster 33 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:13,599 than a traditional mosfet so that means in terms of the switching speed and 34 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,720 they're saying that one phase of Dr Moss is more efficient than a four phase 35 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:22,959 traditional mosfet now something that uh I've actually noticed is there are some 36 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:25,280 other motherboards not made by MSI that 37 00:02:22,959 --> 00:02:30,160 have actually switched over on the very high end from other motherboard 38 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:34,959 manufacturers to using a Dr Moss style mosfet they don't call it out as Dr Moss 39 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:40,840 because uh that's MSI's marketing name for it but they have started to make 40 00:02:36,959 --> 00:02:43,440 that switch so here is a quick guide for 41 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:46,200 The Big Bang X power shows us all the features of the board but we have a real 42 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:50,239 board to look at so we're not going to bother with that and let's have a look 43 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:54,840 at the accessory package which is absolutely huge I don't even know where 44 00:02:52,080 --> 00:03:00,040 to start with this okay well first thing we've got our V uh vck things so you can 45 00:02:58,519 --> 00:03:05,319 uh plug these into your motherboard and then you can check voltages using a multimeter that's a great feature to 46 00:03:03,239 --> 00:03:08,959 have on an Enthusiast grade board next we have their front panel connector so 47 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:12,560 you can plug all the stuff you need into these and then plug them directly into 48 00:03:10,319 --> 00:03:16,120 the board in one chunk if you have uh thick fingers and you have trouble with 49 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:21,519 that fine work we've got a couple SATA 6 GB per second ports as well as a Molex 50 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,599 TOA power adapter we have one very long 51 00:03:21,519 --> 00:03:29,959 SLI bridge and what else do we 52 00:03:25,879 --> 00:03:33,319 have okay these two are SLI so two short 53 00:03:29,959 --> 00:03:36,560 SLI Bridges and then one crossfire 54 00:03:33,319 --> 00:03:39,480 bridge and that's a long one okay then 55 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:45,280 next we have two SATA 2 uh 3 gbit per second cables as well as a Molex 2 SATA 56 00:03:42,319 --> 00:03:51,080 power adapter and then another pack of that next we have a uh back plane 57 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:54,560 adapter and this I like to see they've got black SATA cables connected to it 58 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,920 I've seen these in the past included with motherboards but they're always red 59 00:03:56,680 --> 00:04:02,799 and if you have like a nice uh color coordinated build you don't want to use 60 00:04:00,519 --> 00:04:08,200 red cables necessarily uh we've got two EA ports as well as a power port and 61 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:10,879 then they've included a Molex power to 62 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:15,360 two SATA power adapter so this is uh as well as one eat cable so this is 63 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:19,759 basically for using be drives hooked up directly to the back of your PC just as 64 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:26,240 like a cheap way to add more storage next we've got two USB 2.0 ports on an 65 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:29,120 IO plate we have a motherboard user 66 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:34,759 guide this is the Europe version it is English 67 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:36,400 uh German Russian and French okay shows 68 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:40,039 you how to install your CPU tells you all about oh this is this is interesting 69 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:43,199 we're going to need this for later I'm really glad I happened to cross that no 70 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,520 we're going to talk about it later so we've got a drivers and utilities DVD 71 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:50,400 throw it away we have a Quantum wave driver throw it away download the latest 72 00:04:48,039 --> 00:04:55,199 ones their hard drive backup utility we've also got this is interesting ooh 73 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:03,000 this is for the OC dashboard okay we'll have a closer look at that in a minute as well so much stuff in here quick 74 00:04:59,039 --> 00:05:06,560 installation guide MSI winky user 75 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:08,880 guide MSI uh overclocking guide look at 76 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:14,160 that they include an overclocking guide no way so they talk about OC Genie uh 77 00:05:12,039 --> 00:05:18,520 multi-graphics card gaming design 78 00:05:16,039 --> 00:05:22,800 huh oh here they talk a lot more about the technologies that are involved in uh 79 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,600 in producing a top over clocking board that's really cool I've never seen something like this 80 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:33,199 before usually this is the kind of marketing materials you see before you buy it but they actually want to help 81 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,440 you uh really understand this particular board look at this they've got indicator 82 00:05:34,639 --> 00:05:40,680 lights for how many CPU phases are active because under low load it's 83 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:45,160 actually more efficient to have fewer CPU power phases but under high load you 84 00:05:43,319 --> 00:05:48,919 need more in order to deliver stable power so they actually dynamically 85 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:52,039 adjust how many phases are running and then they give you a little indicator to 86 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:57,400 tell you how many that is very cool super pipe that's 87 00:05:55,680 --> 00:06:02,440 another thing I forgot to talk okay fine cameraman wants to move on okay then we 88 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,120 have the users guide which is um in more 89 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:09,039 in depth shows you a bunch of the BIOS features finally we have the OC 90 00:06:06,479 --> 00:06:14,560 dashboard okay so let's have a look at the all the stuff about this so OC 91 00:06:12,199 --> 00:06:19,280 dashboard panel so that plugs into your motherboard and then you have a little 92 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,080 USB uh connector here so take the OC 93 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:25,520 dashboard through the io Shield connect it to that uh motherboard port okay what 94 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:29,840 does it do though that's what I want to know okay so this gives you uh BIOS post 95 00:06:28,199 --> 00:06:33,400 codes so if there's some kind of a problem this will give you a code on 96 00:06:31,599 --> 00:06:38,960 here to tell you what exactly is the problem it does have um an LCD display 97 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:44,280 on it so you can see that you can adjust a whole bunch of system settings 98 00:06:41,479 --> 00:06:49,199 including things like your uh CPU voltage you can adjust your uh other 99 00:06:46,919 --> 00:06:54,120 voltages DDR voltage you can adjust you can use direct OC mode in order to just 100 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:57,680 directly turn up the CPU frequency so that's something that I can imagine a 101 00:06:55,400 --> 00:07:01,440 lot of people using and last but not least it also displays some interesting 102 00:06:59,639 --> 00:07:07,560 system information such as CPU temperatures and other things like that 103 00:07:05,039 --> 00:07:12,120 and there's more there's still more so including creative Alchemy as well as 104 00:07:09,319 --> 00:07:19,520 the ax 5.0 this is their included onboard sound card so it has Optical as 105 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:23,240 well as coaxial audio out and 7.1 analog 106 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:26,160 audio out and there's still more there's 107 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:32,319 still more in here look at this I have never ever seen an accessory package 108 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:37,360 this complete with anything uh never mind the motherboard so here's the USB 109 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:40,800 cable for the OC dashboard and here is the uh the other cable for the OC 110 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:47,319 dashboard so that's the one that plugs in right through the back of the io 111 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:50,120 Shield which finally we have arrived 112 00:07:47,319 --> 00:07:55,759 at how long I wonder how long this unboxing is already took me like 5 113 00:07:53,080 --> 00:08:00,039 minutes just to get through the uh accessories okay let's have a look at 114 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:04,360 the motherboard itself finally so this is a premium x58 board that 115 00:08:02,599 --> 00:08:08,919 means you're going to find all of the bells and whistles so the super pipe 116 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:12,520 here that's an 8 mm heat pipe that goes all the way around from all of the 117 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:17,840 mosfet coolers and then down to the North Bridge you're going to find an LGA 118 00:08:14,599 --> 00:08:19,840 1366 socket this is a Loz socket so you 119 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:23,319 don't have to worry about any of that uh scare stuff that was going around with 120 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:28,960 poor contact between the CPU and the pins inside we've got not one but two 8 121 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:33,560 Pin power connectors up in their ideal location on the top left of the board 122 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:38,640 okay you can plug in two four pins by the look of things but I really would recommend with a board like this either 123 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:43,839 a single eight pin or if you have two plug in both we've got the easy 124 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:47,279 installation uh RAM slots so you can see that there are Clips only on the one 125 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:51,160 side so you basically just slide the module in and clip it from the one side 126 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:55,200 and you're done uh in theory that saves a little work but I think it's more to 127 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:58,600 do with the fact that the clips here can sometimes uh bump up against the back of 128 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:03,680 a graphics card installed in the top PCIe slot so that really conveniences 129 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:07,680 you that way okay I don't think conveniences you is actually a valid 130 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:11,600 thing to say but here we go 16 phases of CPU power with indicator LEDs up here 131 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:17,000 showing you how many are actually active at any given time these memory slots do 132 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:21,560 support triple Channel memory so you're going to want to populate the black ones 133 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:25,440 first and then the blue ones as per uh all x58 Boards out there on the market 134 00:09:24,079 --> 00:09:30,880 cameraman's wandering around he's looking at the South Bridge but I want to show you the 24 pin power connectors 135 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:35,000 its ideal location on the right hand edge of the board and then we've got a 136 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:38,680 nice big Southbridge heat sink here and I think the reason that they put such a 137 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:42,600 big cooler because the South Bridge doesn't need a lot of cooling is because 138 00:09:40,519 --> 00:09:45,760 you can install so many graphics cards in this motherboard so if you've got 139 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:49,200 this all filled up you're going to need a fair bit of cooling down here in order 140 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:54,680 to keep that at a safe operating temperature because graphics cards do 141 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:57,839 kick out a lot of heat down here we've 142 00:09:54,680 --> 00:10:00,279 got six SATA 2 3 gbit per second ports 143 00:09:57,839 --> 00:10:08,959 as well as two SATA 36 GB per second ports we've got our V checkpoints for 144 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:12,279 CPU qpi D DDR ioh I and a ground 145 00:10:08,959 --> 00:10:14,160 connection next we've got a couple of uh 146 00:10:12,279 --> 00:10:18,680 V switches so these are actually uh Hardware voltage switches I believe and 147 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:23,240 then we've got a couple of front USB headers this is a feature I love these 148 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:28,920 are touch sensitive buttons so you've got power reset OC Genie as well as the 149 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:34,240 direct front side bus or rather I should say base clock adjustment buttons here 150 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:41,440 you've got front fire wire and then this is a pretty killer feature of this board 151 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:43,639 you've got six PCI Express 16x slots but 152 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:49,480 there is a bit of a catch so here in the manual I found the page that tells you 153 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:56,639 how to install your graphics cards now they will not all run at PCI Express 16x 154 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:59,360 at the same time so make sure you follow 155 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:04,720 these guides in order to get the f fastest speed possible because if you 156 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:11,160 populate one card you're getting 16x two cards 16x if you populate three cards 157 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:16,560 you're getting 16 168 if you do four cards you're getting 888 if you do five 158 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:21,440 cards I believe one of them scales down to 4X and if you're doing six cards I 159 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:26,920 believe two of them scale down to 4X although I could be mistaken about the 160 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:33,000 exact particulars uh yeah here we go so if you have uh six Lanes install six 161 00:11:29,639 --> 00:11:35,120 expansion cards you're running at 844 162 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:39,560 844 okay so there I was actually mistaken quite a few of them will scale 163 00:11:36,959 --> 00:11:44,600 down to 4X now it should be noted that 8X is not going to impact performance in 164 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:49,720 anything but a synthetic Benchmark so you can do up to four cards at 8X and 165 00:11:47,079 --> 00:11:53,079 then 4X actually for most cards on the market will not have a negative 166 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,079 performance impact if you are installing six 167 00:11:55,200 --> 00:12:01,320 graphics cards make sure you do plug into the supplemental PCI Express six 168 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:05,000 pin power connector here that's to make sure that your graphics cards do get 169 00:12:03,079 --> 00:12:08,720 enough power because none of these other ports are going to be able to provide 170 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:13,040 enough power through the motherboard for that many video cards last but not least 171 00:12:11,519 --> 00:12:17,440 we're moving around to the back of the board where we've got two PS2 ports very 172 00:12:15,199 --> 00:12:25,279 happy to see that we have a seos clear Port we have their OC tool plugin here 173 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:28,680 then we have fire wire 6 USB 2.0 ports 174 00:12:25,279 --> 00:12:32,040 one ESAT Port 2 GB Ethernet ports and 175 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:37,279 two USB 3.0 ports thank you for checking 176 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:42,320 out my long long unboxing of the MSI Big 177 00:12:37,279 --> 00:12:42,320 Bang X power motherboard