MSI Big Bang XPower II (X79) Motherboard Review

AIDA64

AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Moving over to SSD performance, we can see the Big Bang Xpower coming in within the middle of our boards at 430MB/s. When boosted on the CPU clock speed, the speed moves slightly to 437MB/s but nothing overly noticeable.