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December 28th, 2010

MSI P67A-GD65 Sandy Bridge Motherboard Preview

MSI has long been held in relatively high regard by the vast majority of the enthusiast community but competing against the likes of Gigabyte and ASUS is never easy.  Nonetheless, their upcoming 1155 lineup is looking strong and in this preview we will be taking a look at the P67A-GD65, a board that will certainly [...]

August 17th, 2010

MSI Readying GTX 480 HydroGen Water Cooled Graphics Card

MSI is offering a great twist on the GTX 480, revealing a water cooling ready card labelled the “HydroGen”. The MSI N480GTX HydroGen Graphics Card comes with a full coverage copper water block covering 70% of the PCB including GF100 GPU, memory chip and VRM. The block is designed with 0.45mm micro-fin channels for improved [...]

July 28th, 2010

MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 768MB OC Review

Another day, another GTX 460 review.  This time we take a look at MSI’s overclocked, custom cooled Cyclone OC edition.  Not only does this GTX 460 have one of the largest heatsinks we have seen in a while but it also retails for a mere $10 more than the reference version.  Could this be a [...]

June 30th, 2010

MSI Launches Two Fuzion Motherboards for Intel and AMD

MSI is continuing the roll out of its Fuzion motherboards with the Lucidlogix’s Hydra 200 chip starting with the P55A Fuzion & 870A Fuzion motherboards. The Lucid Hydra chip allow for “non-identical cross-vendor multi-GPU processing”, in layman’s terms, almost any combination of NVIDIA and/or ATI based graphics cards can be installed on the same system [...]

May 19th, 2010

MSI Atom Tablets Spotted at Electronics Event

Two new tablets from MSI that debuted as prototypes during CES, have received updated specs and been confirmed for release at the Digital Consumer Channel event held in the United Arab Emirates. The first is a single-screen 9.7″ model reported to run Windows 7. No specifications are available at this time, but attendees at the [...]

May 19th, 2010

MSI Unveils CX620MX, CX420MX Performance Multimedia Notebooks

MSI has announced two new notebooks with its own twist on switchable graphics, utilizing the Core i3/HM55 platform. The CX620MX (15.6″) and CX420MX (14”), the latest additions to MSI’s C series, are equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 545v discrete graphics cards with DDR3 512MB of display memory and the all-new Intel® Core™ processor for [...]

May 7th, 2010

MSI Builds HTPC Friendly Motherboard

MSI has announced its newest 740GM-P25 mATX board is available for pre-order and it looks to be a real winner in the HTPC market. Not all board solutions need to be top of the line to fulfill the demand users have in the market place. One of the growing markets as of late has been [...]

April 20th, 2010

MSI Updates Mainboard Compatibility for Phenom II X6 Six-Core Processor

To facilitate the upgrade to AMD’s next-generation processors, world-renowned mainboard and graphics card manufacturer MSI has announced that all AMD series products will be compatible with the Phenom II X6 6-core processor. With a simple BIOS update, older MSI AM3 mainboards will be capable of supporting this processor. The all-new Phenom II X6 processor features [...]

March 25th, 2010

MSI Launching Revolutionary Motherboard Technology – The RTFM Chip

It would appear MSI is breaking new ground when it comes to motherboard technology, and according to a recent forum post in the official MSI forums, the company has developed a new chip that allows it to detect if you have Read The Fudging Manual. The post ask for customer feedback and reads: The MSI-forum [...]

March 23rd, 2010

MSI Launches R5870 & R5850 Twin Frozr II Graphics Cards

MSI today launched the R5870/R5850 Twin Frozr II, the latest in the Twin Frozr series of graphics display adaptors designed for outstanding cooling performance that have won praise from the media. In addition to the latest technologies such as ATI Stream, Eyefinity and DX11, which are supported by the standard ATI Radeon HD5870 and HD5850 [...]