The huge Msi Big Bang Fuzion box

One of the flagships of the Msi Gaming Motherboard line, the MSI Big Bang Fuzion was released into the market some time ago. Asides from the massive statistics-heavy reviews found throughout the internet by overclocking enthuasists, DuskBin E-sports decide to take a look at this top-end motherboard from the viewpoint of serious gaming players.

As such, this will not be an in-depth review with all the specific features and thorough overclocking tests, instead it will serve as an impression of my experience with the Big Bang Fuzion after a few weeks of usage.

Features:

- Intel P55 mainboard, supporting Socket 1156 (i3/i5/i7) proceessors

- Quantum Wave™ Audio Processing, THX TruStudio PRO & EAX® ADVANCED HD™

- Lucid Hydra chip, which allows mixing graphic cards from different manufacturers

- 100% Hi-c Cap, ensures a longer operation for gaming systems in an extreme condition and enhanced system stability

- OC Genie Push-to-overclock

- SuperPipe, a thick design of 8mm heatpipes

- DrMOS components, offers excellent energy-saving capability and high-computing performance

Inside the covers

As I unboxed the huge package that came with the MSI Big Bang Fuzion motherboard, everything from the design of the package, leaflets, booklets to the packaging method just screams premium. To be even more newbie-friendly, Msi helpfully included a booklet explaining the basics of overclocking, a booklet on Control Center usage, and another booklet dedicated solely to the OC Genie auto-overclocking system, which I will be covering in the review later.

One of the important qualities of a motherboard is often neglected by spec-heavy enthusiasts is the overall looks of the motherboard itself. The Big Bang Fuzion is fused with hues of dark gray and blue with a glossy design, giving the motherboard a very solid feel. Also, the quality of the components used in the Big Bang Fuzion could be recognized right away straight out of the box, including the thick 8mm heatpipes around the processor socket, Hi-c Caps, and almost for everything that produces heat in the motherboard, there will be a passive cooling solution attached to them.

The Quantum Wave audio card comes with 7.1 channel audio output (analog). Despite looks of a dedicated soundcard, it's merely an application layer addon -- main sound is still handled by the motherboard's integrated Realtek ALC889 -- yet enhanced by Creative and THX with a software layer. Attached to the motherboard and with the power of modern audio processing technology, this onbooard sound system will truimph the mass gaming USB soundcards on bundled gaming headsets any day (when you're gaming on your home desktop rig, that is.)

For the Lucid Hydra chip that enables mixing of nVidia and ATi graphic cards, sadly to say I have not gotten the opportunity to utilize it yet. As far as I'm concerned according the the instruction booklet, there's quite a bit of llimitations regarding the mixing of the graphic cards and the games they're able to work on. Nevertheless, its welcoming to know that the Fuzion is able to perform such a task for me in the future, if needed.

The beauty inside the box

Quality of the components

DrMOS, 8mm big heatpipes

Lower PCI-E slots

DDR3 Memory slots

Enclosed THX enhanced soundcard

Testing on the OC Genie auto overclocking system will be reviewed in the next page. Read on.