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MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International
Product: MSI Big Bang XPower2
Date: Fri, Mar 09, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark

3DMark 11 Screenshot

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

3DMark 11 Settings

Since Futuremark is releasing 3DMark11 today we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherboard 3DMark11 Extreme Preset Benchmark Results

MSI Big Bang XPower II Intel X79 Motherboard 3DMark 11 Extreme Benchmark Results

MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherboard 3DMark11 Performance Preset Benchmark Results

MSI Big Bang XPower II Intel X79 Motherboard 3DMark 11 Performance Benchmark Results

Benchmark results: The MSI Big Bang XPower II fell to the second spot in Futuremark 3DMark 11. The extreme preset saw an overall score of 1656 3DMarks and a graphics score of 1477. This was second to the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme by only 4 points overall. The Performance preset saw an overall score of 5274 3DMarks and a graphics score of 4742. Once again the MSI Big Bang XPower II was only a few points behind the ASUS R4E, six to be exact. That's a difference of only .1%.

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Review Index
Page 1 - MSI Big Bang XPower II
Page 2 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Retail Packaging
Page 3 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherbaord Layout
Page 4 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Motherbaord BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp1 Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
Page 7 - Futuremark 3DMark11 Synthetic Gaming Benchmark
Page 8 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat DirectX 11 Benchmark
Page 10 - Aliens Vs. Predator DirectX 11 Benchmark
Page 11 - Intel X79 SATA III 6Gbps Performance
Page 12 - Intel X79 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance
Page 13 - System Power Consumption
Page 14 - MSI Big Bang XPower II Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion