Following the footsteps of the Big Bang XPower, MSI released this CES the Marshal, a socket 1155 motherboard based on the Intel P67 chipset featuring eight PCI Express x16 slots. It makes use of a Lucid HydraLogix 200 processor, meaning that you can not only build SLI and CrossFireX systems, but mix cards from different generations and even mix AMD- and NVIDIA-based video cards. With eight slots you can have up to eight single-slot video cards working in parallel at the same time, even if they are from different chip makers! Other features include the presence of switches to disable each PCI Express x16 slot, ultra high-end voltage regulator circuit (30 DrMOS phases with military-grade components), voltage monitoring points, and more. Although this motherboard doesn’t have other kinds of PCI Express slots, keep in mind that you can install x1, x4, and x8 card in x16 slots.
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