Product Gallery - MSI Big Bang Trinergy

Also, it's good to see that the entire motherboard will be cooled passively. MSI applies their SuperPipe cooling that we know from the GD65, but this time it has a larger heatsink that has to cover the 8+2-phase VRM. MSI uses a really thick 8mm heatpipe for the great cooling efficiency.

Check it out, two x1 PCIe slots, three physical x16 PCIe graphics slots (rev 2.0), Now since typically the chipset/cpu combo only allows for x16 PCIe lanes, MSI added a NF200 bridge chip on the motherboard. The NF200 chip adds more PCI Express lanes to the motherboard so full 16x bandwidth can be supplied to the available PCI Express slots. This will add an additional 16 PCI-E lanes to the motherboard allowing you to go for SLI (2-way / 3-way) -- With 32 lanes, Trinergy is able to support for three-way SLI or CrossFire configuration at a per-lane performance of x16, x8, x8.

Crossfire obviously will work with three cards as well, no questions asked there. On the motherboard we'll spot chips from VIA VT6315N, a FireWire/IEEE 1394a controller that runs on the PCI-Express bus and we spot the Realtek RTL8111DL for Gigabit LAN and a Realtek ALC 889A 8-channel HD controller. Yeah, that's a pretty looking hardcore overclocking raving piece of machinery alright.