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Harnessing the Hydra - MSI Big Bang Fuzion

By Vincent Chang - 8 Jan 2010

A Closer Look at the MSI Big Bang Fuzion

A Closer Look at the MSI Big Bang Fuzion

Like we said, the Fuzion is identical to the Trinergy and even the P55-GD80 in so many ways. Features like OC Genie, SuperPipe and DrMOS are familiar while the Trinergy has the same Quantum Wave add-on card. Check out the board below:

The Big Bang Fuzion is practically identical to the Trinergy and in many ways, the P55-G80 in terms of its layout and appearance.

The standard USB and LAN ports at the rear of the Fuzion. The audio portion is missing as it's on the add-on QuantumWave card.

Ten SATA ports, unfortunately none of them using the latest SATA 6Gbit/s standard. There's still an IDE connector for those with older optical drives and hard disks.

We had seen those voltage check points for the hardcore enthusiasts on the P55-G80. Four DDR3 DIMM slots as expected.

The blue PCIe slots here are for the graphics cards, though Hydra at the moment only supports up to two GPUs. Lucid claims that 3-way configurations are upcoming.

The one-button for instant overclocking - OC Genie. It's arguably one of MSI's more successful features.

The power phase design for the CPU is where some costly components have been used, from the Hi-C capacitors to the more power efficient Super Ferrite chokes.

New to the Big Bang series is the OC Dashboard, basically another external overclocking utility that can be plugged into a rear port of the Fuzion and allows users to tweak the system dynamically without opening up the chassis or thru the BIOS.

Despite its fancy name and support for EAX Advanced and THX TruStudio, this Quantum Wave add-on card uses a Realtek ALC889 audio chip under the hood.  

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