MSI HB SLI Bridge

Curufinwe_wins · October 12, 2016

Hello everyone, this will be a super short review... but around the release of Pascal GPU's, we saw each gpu maker come out with their own prototype HB bridge (which for the record are 100% supported on Maxwell cards).

Well when MSI showed theirs off most people's comments were really negative.

This was the original prototype:

Well let me tell you, I rather liked the original one, but man this final version... she is one hell of a looker. By far the nicest looking sli bridge I've ever seen, built like a tank (while people like EVGA's many people have complained about shoddy build quality on the new ones), the only caveat being unless you are rocking an all black system, you might need to mod the color of that dragon to make it match.

Light on (note this light is pure red, not yellow). Take a look at that sick ass discrete underglow....

And now light off:

Almost looks lit just from the reflections of the case lighting huh?

So you are probably asking yourself what did they change? Well they gave the dragon section a really nice 3d raised effect when off (I will leave mine off from here out because I think it looks so good), and replaced the lighted flanges on the top and bottom with really deep metallic ones (far darker than the image here suggests).

Overall, I couldn't have been more pleased to find an SLI bridge that finally completely matches my pc, way to go MSI!

OH, if I had to find a critique, it would be so nice if I could separately control the under glow lighting, but maybe I'll just have to mod the thing to make that work.

FloRolf · October 13, 2016

I was kinda expecting a performance review that shows the difference between HB and the normal ones.

But okay.

Curufinwe_wins · October 13, 2016

6 hours ago, FloRolf said:

I was kinda expecting a performance review that shows the difference between HB and the normal ones.

But okay.

Ehh honestly, it's only an aesthetic difference on Maxwell anyways , and here are many performance reviews already....

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3087524/hardware/tested-the-payoff-in-buying-nvidias-40-sli-hb-bridge.html

http://www.hardwareunboxed.com/nvidias-hb-sli-bridge-surprising-gains-gtx-1080-sli-testing-inside/

http://overclocking.guide/nvidia-hb-sli-bridge-technical-review/

Nosfy · October 14, 2016

I wish there was just a plain one we could get. I hate all the branded ones and personally think this one looks awful. I guess if you have a black and red theme great... anything else and it does not work. EVGA ones as bad too.