MSI unveiled Big Bang motherboard that can run two different graphics card

At the Intel Developer Forum MSI unveiled a new type of mainboard that will support two different graphics card. At present, you can use multiple graphics but they have to be from same manufacturer that are linked by SLI cable but MSI Big Bang does not have this problem. It can run two graphics card (ATI and NVIDIA) at the same time. This is very good news for gamers. SlipperyBrick.com reports:

The mainboard is called the MSI Big Bang. The board uses a Lucid Hydra 200 real-time distributed processing engine to serve as an intelligent graphics load balancer. That means that the Intel P55 based mainboard supports any video card.

The best part is that not only can you choose to use ATI or NVIDIA cards with the board, but you can use one ATI card and one NVIDIA card at the same time. You can also mix and match video card models as well and still get the added performance of multiple cards.

Not many details were unveiled at the IDF. The motherboard is based on Intel P55 platfrom that would run Core i5 or i7 processors. It has slots for three PCIe-based devices. The mother board will be launched worldwide on October 29, 2009.