MSI Big Bang Trinergy P55 3-Way SLI Motherboard Review

Wed 2009-12-09 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

PC Perspective have posted a review of the brand new MSI Big Bang Trinergy, an Intel P55-based motherboard that supports for 3-Way SLI thanks to an onboard nForce 200 chip.

Here's an excerpt:

"Of course one of the biggest features of the Trinergy is in its namesake: triple SLI support. By integrating the NVIDIA nForce 200 chip with the PCI Express channels coming from the Lynnfield processor MSI brings us the first motherboard to truly and correctly support 3-Way SLI and 3-Way CrossFireX multi-GPU solutions on the P55 platform. So while the gaming performance and benefits of 3-Way GPU configurations can be debated (even MSI's own provided material only shows at most a 36% boost from two card to three) if you want the feature, or the option to grow to three cards at least, MSI brings it to you here."

This is not the Hydra-equipped Big Bang motherboard from MSI, so it's not particularly unique. The ASUS P7P55 WS Supercomputer also features proper 3-Way SLI via an onboard NF200 chip and it's a good deal cheaper too.

Click here to read the full review.

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