Product Gallery - MSI Big Bang Trinergy

Recently MSI introduced their new V-Kit concept allowing Voltage monitoring and manipulation.. It was already to be found at some of their their GTX260 Lightning series graphics cards, but it is extended towards the high-end motherboards as well. MSI creates voltage measuring points for various voltages used by the motherboards.

All the way to the left you can see DIP-switches, with the dip-switch next to the Voltage control points, you can actually increase the voltage at hardware level breaking the BIOS limits with another 0.2 Volts.

Voltage monitoring -- Here's the idea, you stick a wire onto a positive and ground pin and that allows you to check out voltages with a multimeter.

MSI's V-Kit will not be exclusive for the most expensive models but according to the source, MSI will equip all of its P55 motherboards with this V-Kit. Above you can see how that works, we are tapping the CPU rails here by the way.

Overall board design is just great by the way. Everything is positioned really well. Let's move onward to the left side where we stumble into a bunch of SATA connectors.

The Big Bang Trinergy features six right-angle SATA II (3Gb/s) ports which are supplied by the P55 chipset and they support AHCI and RAID 0/1/5/10. In addition to the regular six SATA II ports, colored in blue we see another four additional SATA ports, powered by two JMicron JMB322 controllers. These they support RAID 0/1 and JBOD.

Then another JMicron JMB363 controller brings the support for the IDE port and two eSATA/USB combo port on the I/O panel. If you count SATA and PATA .. that's a grand total of fourteen storage devices ! The Trinergy is chucked with gadgets and features for sure.