MSI Big Bang Trinergy review

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MSI Big Bang Trinergy

We flip the board around again 90 degrees and stumble into low-level connectivity. Spot front panel headers, three more USB headers, a Firewire header and audio connectors. You just can't deny that this is going to be a very complete motherboard alright. But let's zoom in a little to the lower right segment of the photo.

MSI Big Bang Trinergy

We see GreenPower, Reset and Power on-board "touch" buttons. It might look like MSI forget to install something there but in fact these are Easy Button II switches -- electromagnetic touch button for Reset/Power/GreenPower (LED light switch), there is no "physical" button, you just touch PCB directly, and as mystical as that is and sounds it actually works. It's one of these things that separates the motherboard from the competition.

MSI Big Bang Trinergy

To the left we stumble into another two buttons -- OC Genie, and a CLR CMOS button. That OC Genie button is hot stuff as we'll show you in a separate chapter. The button leads to core logic located in-between the PCIe slots.

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This is the OC Genie IC, embedded into the motherboard. The OC Genie is an overclocker ASIC. It's primary function is to find an optimal overclocking settings for your configuration in a very short timeframe. Again we'll handle this feature in a separate chapter.

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