august 10 2010 review by overclock3d

The MSI P55a Fuzion has a Lucid chip on board. With this chip you'll be able to combine various graphics cards from various brands that have various speeds and even a different manufacturer like ATI or Nvidia. Insert both cards, install both drivers, install the HYDRA software and reboot. After rebooting you'll get a little utility in your system tray. Not every existing game takes advantage of the Lucid chip, only very popular games are and some benchmarking suites, but more and more games are added nowadays.

Conclusion:

When the Big Bang P55 was released with the Lucid technology very few people expected it to work. In those days it barely did. The Lucid chip works with most of the major current titles nowadays and driver updates are being released frequently, so that will improve compatibility. This Fuzion does not only overclock higher and easier, but also has greater performance even at stock and supports USB3 and SATA3.

Overclocking:

Base Clock overclocking resulted in a very satisfactory 218MHz. Manually overclocking the CPU resulted in an absolutely stunning 4.33GHz running stable. The OC Genie (button) reached almost 4GHz.

Test Setup:

• CPU Cooler : Thermalright MUX-120
• Graphics card : ASUS GeForce GTX480
• Hard drive : Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
• Memory : G.Skill Trident 2000MHz CL9 4GB
• OS : Windows 7 x64
• Power supply : Cougar 1000CM
• Processor : Intel Core i7 870

BIOS:

The BIOS has a litte bug, If you try to enter the CPU Technology screen, the BIOS crashes.

Benchmarks:

Everest,CineBench, SiSoft Sandra, wPrime, PCMark Vantage, Unigine, 3DMark Vantage, Crysis.