MSI Big Bang XPower Motherboard Review

Test System

•            Core i7-950 running at 3.05GHz

•            4GB DDR3-1600MHz Kingston memory

•            AMD Radeon HD 4870 running Catalyst 10.9 drivers

•            MSI XPower Big Bang X58 motherboard

•            2 32GB A-Data SSD drives in RAID 0 mode

•            Thermaltake V8 CPU Cooler

•            ASUS 16X DVD-RW drive

•            Cooler Master 1000W UCP PSU

•            Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Tests

•            Sisoft Sandra 2010 Processor Arithmetic Test

•            3DMark Vantage

•            PCMark Vantage

•            Cinebench r11.5