WEBVTT 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:09.200 Bang. Yeah. Okay. Sort of related. This 00:00:05.279 --> 00:00:10.960 is the Big Bang Marshall. So, this has a 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:15.440 three-year warranty. It is an MSI motherboard for gaming. It uses the B3 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:20.480 revision chipset, which means that it doesn't have the SATA 2 bug that plagued 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:22.800 the original P67 boards. And it supports 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:29.279 Intel Core i7, Core i5, and Core i3 processors on the LG 1155 platform. from 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:30.640 Crossfire X and SLI technology are both 00:00:29.279 --> 00:00:37.760 supported by this particular motherboard. And this is all about 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.600 gaming. Check out that board. It looks 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.600 awesome. But we'll look at the board more later. Let's look at the features 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:48.079 first. So, here we go. It features the military class 2 concept from MSI, which 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:51.680 means you got super farite chokes, uh, highly conductive tantelum core 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:55.440 capacitors, as well as solid capacitors for up to a 10year lifetime on this 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:58.640 particular board. Top stability and quality. That's good. Ultimate 3D gaming 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:07.520 performance. You can see they got four graphics cards installed on it right here. Okay. USB 3.0 and SATA 6 3 GB or 00:01:04.479 --> 00:01:09.760 SATA 36 GB per second. Click BIOS which 00:01:07.520 --> 00:01:12.960 means it has a UEFI BIOS which is fully compatible with your mouse for changing 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:17.280 all your BIOS settings and inner workings and whatnots. Okay. Finally, uh 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:23.439 this I already outlined when we were talking about military class 2 Sound 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:24.960 Blaster XY MB2. So it features EAX 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:28.240 Advance. I don't know what MB2 stands for. If anyone knows what MB2 stands 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:32.880 for, please leave it in the comments and somebody thumbs it up, please, so we can 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:36.079 all see it. Next on the back, we have 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:37.439 Dr. Moss 3in-1 server grade MOSFETs. MSI 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:41.119 has been using these for a number of generations now, and they keep stepping 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:45.200 up their game, providing better power delivery to your CPU with every 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:48.720 generation of products. Super Pipe is something I'm a big fan of. Uh, it 00:01:46.720 --> 00:01:53.680 probably performs better, but really it just looks sweet because it's got big 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:56.479 old fat thick heat pipes. OC Genie 1sec overclocking. This is another feature 00:01:55.119 --> 00:01:59.920 I'm actually a big fan of. You just press the button and it overclocks and 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:04.240 then you can grow into the more advanced overclocking features of the board that 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:07.680 you choose. OC dashboard is kind of useful. I have one with my Big Bang X 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:13.440 power. You can like press the button and change the B clock and whatnot. 24 phase 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:20.720 Dr. Moss PWM. So 24 power phases on this board. Is it overkill? Yes. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:23.760 Is it cool? Yes. Eight PCIe 60 slots. Is 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:27.360 it overkill? Yes. 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:29.280 Is it necessary? No. Is it cool? Yes. 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:34.879 Multibios. So, we have multiple BIOS chips on this particular board. PCIe 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:39.519 ceasefire is what they're calling their switches for turning on or off your PCIe 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:44.720 slots. This allows you to more easily diagnose your uh any video card issues 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.720 or display issues you may be having with your motherboard. Dual eight pin CPU 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:53.040 power connectors allow you to deliver a whole lot of juice to your CPU should 00:02:50.959 --> 00:03:00.120 you desire. And let's go ahead and open up the box, shall we? 00:02:56.560 --> 00:03:00.120 First, we have 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:05.080 dramatic pause accessories, 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:12.239 including a big start guide, which is the size of me 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:15.920 and the size of the board, but bigger. It shows you all the whatnotss that are 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:19.040 on it. Okay. more of the exactly the same stuff that was already on the 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:22.400 packaging. Thank you, MSI. All right, so let's put this over here just in case we 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:26.720 can't, you know, see the board well enough on our own. All right, next we 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:29.760 have the OC dashboard right there. Plus, minus mode. You can use it to change a 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:33.680 bunch of different settings. It plugs in via this. Okay, it's actually kind of 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:39.920 useful. I have used it in the past. There's the cable for it. Okay, next we 00:03:36.239 --> 00:03:42.080 have one of those ESATAs as well as uh 00:03:39.920 --> 00:03:47.280 an adapter plug from the Molex power here which plugs into your power supply 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:50.239 to dual SATA powers. So, this is actually a really cool little thing cuz 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:55.920 you can just take bare hard drives and plug them into the back of your system and easily access the data with the 00:03:53.519 --> 00:03:59.760 included ESATA cable. Is that an ESATA cable? It's not even SATA cable, is it? 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:04.640 What in the heck? Oh, yeah, it is. Okay. ESATA to SATA cable and then um this 00:04:02.799 --> 00:04:13.280 particular little power adapter. All right, good feature. Next, we have a USB 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:15.439 3.0 IO panel as well as another one. So, 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:20.239 you can plug in two via the internal headers for up to four additional ports 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:25.759 coming out the back of your case. We've got one, two, three, four SATA 36 GB per 00:04:23.280 --> 00:04:32.400 second uh SATA cables as well as a couple of Molex power to SATA powers. Uh 00:04:28.880 --> 00:04:34.160 we have an IO shield. We have uh V 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:38.000 checkpoints. Okay, so these can be plugged in to check voltages. We've got 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:42.160 the M connector, which allows you to plug in your front USB, your speakers, 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:49.199 your front power, all that good stuff a little bit more easily. SLI connector. 00:04:46.960 --> 00:04:52.560 No idea, guys. Sorry. Looks like a pass through for something. So, there's a 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:58.320 little rubber grommet and then there's a little spot to put the rubber grommet and something probably passes through to 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:03.759 the back. Okay. Uh, quick installation guide, drivers and utilities. 3D Mark 11 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:06.800 serial. Very nice inclusion so you can benchmark your new high performance 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:11.919 system as soon as you get your Big Bang Marshall setup. Here's an overclocking 00:05:09.600 --> 00:05:16.240 guide. Look at that. That's kind of neat. I've never seen this included 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:20.080 before. Overview, some OC info about the new P67 platform, military class 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:24.240 materials, multi graphics cards, gaming design, PCIe ceasefire. So, they show 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:29.840 you how to use the overclocking features of this board. That's actually a very 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:34.960 helpful inclusion because a lot of guys produce uh overclocking boards, but not 00:05:32.479 --> 00:05:42.160 a whole lot of them actually document in such a detailed manner what to do. Huh. 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:48.560 So, it supports up to four-way ATI Crossfire X and NVIDIA SLI. So, it does 00:05:45.440 --> 00:05:50.880 not prov it does not support 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:55.919 uh who as well as uh yeah, it does not support greater than two-way NVIDIA SLI 00:05:53.840 --> 00:06:00.400 because it actually uses a Lucid Hydrolologics chip in order to get all 00:05:57.919 --> 00:06:05.199 those PCIe lanes split out rather than using an NF200 chip software 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:09.919 applications as well as the Big Bang Marshall user guide. 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:14.240 The box got a little bit demented in shipping, but we'll we're not going to 00:06:11.919 --> 00:06:17.600 take off any marks for that one today. I mean, I never take marks off a product. 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:21.759 That's just not really something I say. Oh, marks off for this. So, I won't be 00:06:19.919 --> 00:06:27.600 taking off any marks. It's okay. Just let it fall. It's all good. Okay. The 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:29.440 Big Bang Marshall. This is a massive, 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:32.960 massive motherboard. So, actually, give me two seconds. I'm going to go find a 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:38.880 board to compare for you guys. This is an XLATX board, which makes an ATX board 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:44.800 look like an MATX board. So, this is a standard size motherboard. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:48.800 And this is not a standard size motherboard. So you will need a special 00:06:46.479 --> 00:06:56.400 case in order to run your Big Bang Marshall motherboard if you get one, 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:58.160 which you lucky dog. Good work. Okay, 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:01.680 I'm just going to take off the 1 second overclocking 00:06:59.840 --> 00:07:04.560 sticker so we can have a more clear look at the motherboard itself. So why don't 00:07:03.520 --> 00:07:09.360 we start right here in the middle with the socket. This is our LG 1155 socket. 00:07:06.960 --> 00:07:14.000 It uses a load socket, which is good, I'm led to understand. Okay, we have our 00:07:11.840 --> 00:07:18.000 24-phase power design all around it. But you can actually see that all of the 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:20.800 heat sinks, all of the power components, all that stuff is actually very low 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:24.960 profile around that socket. So, you should be able to install some pretty 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:30.080 exotic cooling solutions on this board without any clearance issues whatsoever. 00:07:27.039 --> 00:07:33.039 I love the overall look of MSI's recent 00:07:30.080 --> 00:07:36.560 uh MOSFET North Bridge uh heat sinks. Look at this super pipe. It's like 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:41.759 ridiculous. It's like look at it compared to like a thick stubby finger. 00:07:39.039 --> 00:07:45.440 It's like huge. like awesome. I love super pipe. Probably does nothing for 00:07:43.680 --> 00:07:50.080 performance, but it's there and it's cool, so let's not knock it. All right, 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:57.039 let's have a look here. So, we've got our two eightpin CPU power connectors. 00:07:53.440 --> 00:07:59.360 Okay, moving along, we have our Where is 00:07:57.039 --> 00:08:05.680 the CP? Oh, yeah, our CPU fan connector. We've got support for dual channel DDR3 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:09.919 memory. Okay, this allows us to turn on 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:12.240 and off PCI graphics 1 2 3 or 4. Okay, 00:08:09.919 --> 00:08:18.000 so this is on. So clearly this is not on. Okay, we have um moving down we have 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:21.039 our voltage checkpoints which hopefully there's some documentation somewhere in 00:08:19.599 --> 00:08:25.840 the motherboard manual or something like that for which ones are which. We have 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:29.039 our 24 pin power connector in its ideal location along the right hand edge of 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:33.279 the board. We've also got a couple of USB 3 front panel connectors. So these 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:39.360 can be used to plug into the front of your case or into those included back 00:08:35.760 --> 00:08:42.880 panel brackets. SATA 36 Gbit per second 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:45.120 port. So we have two running off of the 00:08:42.880 --> 00:08:50.000 Intel chipset as well as two running off a third party looks like a Marll 00:08:46.880 --> 00:08:52.560 chipset. Then we have four SATA 2 3 GB 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:57.519 per second ports as well. Front panel USB. This is an innovation. 00:08:55.760 --> 00:09:01.600 Here they are at the front of the board. I like that. So this is actually closer 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:05.360 to your front panel than having it all along the bottom edge where we would 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:09.519 typically find USB 2 headers. I like that a lot actually. We've got a power 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:15.760 connector reset or power connector power switch reset switch. We've also got OCG 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:19.760 button as well as a multibios button. So presumably this will select one of our 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:25.360 multibios chips to boot from. And this one is going to one-touch overclock your 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.160 system. Here we have our uh post indicator LED. So that'll tell 00:09:27.040 --> 00:09:32.160 you if you have any problems with your board when you're trying to boot up. And 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:35.600 finally moving along, we have our front panel connectors. So, that's your power 00:09:33.839 --> 00:09:41.600 switch, power LED, all of that good stuff. We have uh some more LED stuff. 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:48.399 We've got FireWire. We've got front panel audio. There's the X5 MB2 sticker 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:54.240 that appears to be on the board. Okay. PCI Express slots. So, eight. Because 00:09:52.640 --> 00:09:58.080 this is a non-standard board, it is actually nine PCI slots high, but 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:04.160 they're not using the first one that there's potential for here. There are 1 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:07.920 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight PCIe 00:10:04.160 --> 00:10:10.320 16X slots. However, they do not all run 00:10:07.920 --> 00:10:14.320 at PCIe16x. So, let us pull up the manual and we'll go through that for 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:20.480 you. So, running in two-way mode, you would use the top PCIe1x 00:10:16.640 --> 00:10:24.240 top PC1 top PCIe 16X slot and then the 1 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:25.920 2 3 and then the fourth PCIe1X slot. So 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:32.000 that means if you're running two-way, you could all you could use even triple 00:10:28.079 --> 00:10:34.640 slot graphics cards such as the ASUS um 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:38.640 triple slot GTX 470. So remember it supports Crossware, Fire, and SLI in 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:43.120 two-way mode. In three-way mode, you would use this one, this one, and this 00:10:40.560 --> 00:10:47.519 one running in 8,8 mode. And in four-way, you would use 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:51.680 this one, this one, this one, and this one. All running in 8X mode. So for the 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:55.680 full guide, you can actually consult this. I mean, this is fantastic. their 00:10:53.440 --> 00:11:00.399 little overclocking guide here to find out what bandwidth each slot is going to 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:05.040 run at in the various graphics configuration modes. Okay, so here we 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:08.240 have an an auxiliary power connector. This is a six pin PCIe power connector. 00:11:06.959 --> 00:11:14.480 So if you are going to load it up with graphics cards, it's definitely a good idea to plug that in to keep your 24 pin 00:11:12.640 --> 00:11:18.480 power connector from getting fried from so much current running through it to 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:21.680 power these cards. Other than that, I think that's pretty 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:25.760 much everything there is to say about the Big Bang Marshall. On the back, you 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:30.399 find more power circuitry. You find your standard back plate as well as not a 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:34.000 whole lot else. You can see that all of the coolers are held on with screws. So, 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:38.000 that means you don't have to deal with any stupid push pins, which I hate. And 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:41.600 I really do prefer to see these spring-loaded screws because you won't 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:46.640 run into any issues with them getting worn out if you ever have to take them off and put them back on, say to replace 00:11:44.880 --> 00:11:53.440 a thermal compound or whatever else the case may be. on the back. Yes, that is 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:57.120 eight USB 3.0 ports. Yes, this board 00:11:53.440 --> 00:12:01.360 supports a total of no fewer than 12 USB 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:03.839 3.0 ports. Pretty sweet. Okay, so we've 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:10.000 got a PS2 uh keyboard mouse combo port. We've got uh digital audio out in 00:12:06.560 --> 00:12:14.639 coaxial and optical flavors. FireWire, 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:17.839 esata x 2, gigabit Ethernet x 2, as well 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:21.040 as 7.1 audio. So, thank you for checking 00:12:17.839 --> 00:12:22.800 out my unboxing of the MSI Big Bang 00:12:21.040 --> 00:12:28.480 Marshall. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for unboxings, reviews, 00:12:24.880 --> 00:12:28.480 and other computer videos.