<p><span style="font-size: small;">The cream of the MSI enthusiast range is the Big Bang series &ndash; in P55 we got the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Trinergy</span><span style="font-size: small;"> and the </span><span style="font-size: small;">Fuzion</span><span style="font-size: small;">, for X58 we were treated to the </span><span style="font-size: small;">XPower</span><span style="font-size: small;">, in P67 there was the Marshal, and now with X79 MSI has graced us with the XPower II in the</span><span style="font-size: small;"> loosely defined XL-ATX form factor</span><span style="font-size: small;">.&nbsp; Due to the increased size of the board (in length), the consumer is treated to seven PCIe slots, running at x16/x8/x8/x8 in full quad-GPU mode.&nbsp; This is also alongside some novelty heatsink design in the shape of a Gatling gun for the VRMs and rounds in an open magazine for the chipset.&nbsp; MSI even try and pull a sneaky one in the BIOS settings for better default performance depending on which BIOS you use.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/5549/msi-big-bangxpower-ii-x79-review-a-world-of-novelty-heatsinks">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>