Big Bang-Marshal (B3)

[ScottiB]

eta date any one?

Soon, no firm ETA date as all MSI factories are busy making mainstream B3 models at the moment, but it wont be long now.

In which case it's not aimed at you.

very true! The Marshal is intended to give the hardcore enthusiasts the absolute best Sandybridge board possible. We dont expect it to sell hundreds of thousands but as I see if, if we can do it why not? If nothing else, it will just prove yet again that MSI are ahead of the game technologically plus it would be a great accompaniment for out N580 GTX Lightning *coming soon*

 

[Tim Enchanter]

I want one. I hope it comes out before the Asus Maximus IV Extreme becomes more commonly available. That way I won't feel so bad about waiting for the Big Bang.

But, the BBM was announced so long ago. Makes me wonder how much longer.



Tim

 

[darkblade]

This would be the best upgrade for me from my current X58 board.

Running 3 graphic cards and a pcie x8 RAID card would be limited even on the Extreme IV or P67 UD7 boards.

Still no dates though

Also slightly dubious about the multi card support running over the Hydra chip. This is yet still to be proven to be faster than running on the NF200 controllers of the Asus and Gigabyte boards.

 

[The Asgard]

Just a bit of info on the board. Whereas our competitors are using the dated NF200 chipset for extra lanes, the Marshal uses the Lucid LT22102 to do the same job, an added benefit of this is the ability to use mismatched graphics cards if you wished to do so.

Personally I wouldn't touch any board with the Lucid chipset. It's too dependant on driver updates that support the lastest Nvidia / ATI drivers. On top this performance is lack luster and flacky. Give me NF200 any day. Might have been interested otherwise.

 

[Tim Enchanter]

I ended up getting the Asus Maximus IV Extreme. Just couldn't wait any longer for the BBM.

Tim

 

[darkblade]

Personally I wouldn't touch any board with the Lucid chipset. It's too dependant on driver updates that support the lastest Nvidia / ATI drivers. On top this performance is lack luster and flacky. Give me NF200 any day. Might have been interested otherwise.

Yeah...this is kinda what I've been thinking - it's all hype and not proven.

 

[Cr416]

Doesn't the Lucid chip give you the hybrid sli/x fire option? So you can use multiple GPU's from different manufacturers? In this case im interested as I would use 2 x 570's and 2 x 6970's and have the best of both worlds

 

[syfer1987]

When is this out ?
Big Bang-Marshal (B3)
I might see if I can find in usa

 

[The Asgard]

Doesn't the Lucid chip give you the hybrid sli/x fire option? So you can use multiple GPU's from different manufacturers? In this case im interested as I would use 2 x 570's and 2 x 6970's and have the best of both worlds

Yes it does in theory but in practice getting it working is flacky at best and you can kiss goodbye to any kind of consistent performance.

 

[Tim Enchanter]

Yes it does in theory but in practice getting it working is flacky at best and you can kiss goodbye to any kind of consistent performance.

I will bow to everyone else's more extensive knowledge ------- Does anyone think that this could be 'fixed' with a BIOS update?

It seems pretty weird to me that they would handicap a board of the quality of the MIVE even a little, which I feel that this situations does somewhat.

Tim

 

[The Asgard]

I will bow to everyone else's more extensive knowledge ------- Does anyone think that this could be 'fixed' with a BIOS update?

It seems pretty weird to me that they would handicap a board of the quality of the MIVE even a little, which I feel that this situations does somewhat.

Tim

In a word No, the all idea is flawed in my opinion. How long has it taken Nvidia and ATI to get their act togther with multicard setups and they make the cards?

If you want dual/triple card setups stick with the same card and known chipsets.

I'm not sure why MSI went with Lucid, perhaps ScottB can answer this?