MSI has presented its first two B3 Sandy Bridge motherboards. MSI Big Bang-Marshal (B3) and P67A-GD80 (B3) will start shipping in March and the company leaves nothing to chance when separating the new boards from the old faulty chipsets. It bakes in a B3 logo in the graphics and use the suffix in the names.
MSI Big Bang-Marshal (B3) is a board with Intel’s new P67 B3 chipset with eight PCI Express x16 slots. The motherboard comes with a sturdy 24-phase power supply with DrMOS circuits and dual 8-pin power connectors and an extra 6-pin power connector for the eight graphics cards.
The board also has an X-Fi sound processor from Creative and a passive chipset cooler with 8mm heatpipes.
MSI P67A-GD80 (B3) is an updated version of the original model launched in January. The functionality is the same but with a fresh and working B3 chipset. Including 12 phase DrMOS power supply and OC Gene II for quick and easy overclocking with physical buttons, also found with Big Bang-Marshal (B3).
Other nice functions shared by the two motherboards are MSI’s UEFI ClickBIOS, Super Charger for USB charging, USB 3.0, SATA 6.0 Gbps and Gigabit Ethernet. The new B3 motherboards will starting shipping next months, but the exact date and when they will be available in stores is uncertain.
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