MSI's joining the X79 race with an... interesting and possibly familiar take on motherboard design. Here's the new Big Bang XPower II mobo.
If you've been paying attention, you know that Sandy Bridge E, and a whole slew of X79 motherboards, are just around the corner. We've been showcasing a lot of the new boards, found in places as diverse as 'John's Desk' and 'A Random Boardroom in Taiwan'.
Some of these boards, folks have liked. Some, like GIGABYTE's G1 Assassin board - not so much. So we'll be curious to know what you guys think of MSI's new Big Bang XPower II, which has shown up on tech site Anandtech. We've got one of the pics illustrating this article, but you can see more by following the link.
And... wow. It looks really familiar. The heatsinks, shaped like a clip of ammunition and a gunbarrel, the colours... I'm sure we've seen this before...
Oh yeah. Huh.
Issue: 137 | June, 2012