Earlier this month, AMD officially announced Ryzen, its next CPU due for release in Q1 2017 with performance that can compete with the likes of the Core i7 6900K. Obviously a new CPU also means new motherboards and at CES, it seems that MSI has a couple on show from …
Read More »CES 2017: MSI’s new Notebook cooler designs are impressive
Back at Computex 2016, we got our first look at the future of cooling for MSI's laptops with its new Cooler Boost Trinity and Titan designs. Now at CES 2017, these new cooler designs are resurfacing alongside Cooler Boost 4, an all-new design equipped with new ‘wild wind blade' fans, …
Read More »CES 2017: MSI laptops get big boost with Kaby Lake and GTX 10-series
Today, MSI began unveiling its new line of gaming notebooks for 2017, sporting Kaby Lake processors and Nvidia GTX 10-series graphics cards. However, we wanted to get up close and personal with some of the new range, which is why KitGuru travelled over to MSI's CES booth to catch up …
Read More »CES 2017: MSI laptops now sport Kaby Lake and GTX 10 Series Chips
MSI has refreshed its line up of gaming laptops at CES this year, debuting new versions sporting Intel 7th generation, Kaby Lake processors, as well as brand new Nvidia GTX 10 series graphics chips. We're told that this should boost performance in 4K video editing and virtual reality, by up …
Read More »MSI laptops now sport Intel Kaby Lake and GTX 10 series chips
MSI has refreshed its line up of gaming laptops at CES this year, debuting new versions sporting Intel 7th generation, Kaby Lake processors, as well as brand new Nvidia GTX 10 series graphics chips. We're told that this should boost performance in 4K video editing and virtual reality, by up …
Read More »MSI X99A XPower Gaming Titanium Motherboard Review
Spoilt for choice would be an understatement for any prospective buyers of the X99 platform. MSI alone has a motherboard for almost every possible price point, use-case scenario and type of user. Add other motherboard vendors into the mix and the amount of choice is dizzying. With its high-end price …
Read More »MSI’s top ten Black Friday laptop deals
Black Friday has arrived and many of you might be looking to burn a hole in your wallet for the occasion so expect a few deal round-ups from us today. If you are in the market for a new gaming laptop, then MSI have you covered as we have managed …
Read More »MSI Launches Trident – Console-Sized Gaming PC
Tackling the difficulties of getting PC gaming into the living room is currently a key agenda for many companies. MSI's take on the console-sized living room PC is Trident, which comes in a little larger than an Xbox One but features an Intel Skylake CPU, GTX 1060 graphics card and …
Read More »MSI X99A Workstation Motherboard Review
The Intel Broadwell-E generation is where the top end of the enthusiast market crosses over into the professional space. MSI’s X99A Workstation motherboard is based on the same consumer-oriented Intel X99 chipset as its high-end gaming products, rather than the business-focused C612, but with extra features aimed at the workstation …
Read More »MSI Aegis Ti (GTX 1080 SLI) Gaming PC Review
MSI appears to have delivered a new PC format with its Aegis Ti gaming system that we think of as Small-ish Form Factor. In appearance, Aegis Ti bears a strong resemblance to Aegis X. However, it is considerably larger and stands 51cm high. The big difference is that Aegis X …
Read More »MSI GTX 1050 Ti 4GB Gaming X Review
The GTX 1050 Ti represents Nvidia Pascal's foray into the lower-cost end of mainstream territory that is currently being fought competitively by AMD with the company's current-generation RX 460 and RX 470 Polaris GPUs. With a suggested retail price of £139, Nvidia has carved out a price point which sits …
Read More »MSI pulls Kaby Lake BIOS update to fix mystery error
Just last week both MSI and Asus announced that they would be rolling out BIOS updates for their current Z100-series motherboards to introduce support for Intel's upcoming Kaby Lake processors. If you an MSI user and have already installed the Kaby Lake update, then you may want to keep an …
Read More »MSI X99A Tomahawk Motherboard Review
MSI has been keenly expanding its range of X99 motherboards, particularly gaming-oriented varieties, in reaction to Intel's Broadwell-E CPUs for LGA 2011-3. Prospective X99 buyers now have a formidable number of options to choose from in the wider X99 marketplace, as well as from within MSI's own range. One of …
Read More »MSI GT83VR 6RF Titan SLI GTX 1080 Laptop Review
From the moment Nvidia announced its new GTX 10-series graphics chips we only had one question ‘When will we see the new MSI Titan?’. Well, the answer is ‘now’. The previous GT80S 6QF Titan was a gaming monster that packed dual GTX 980 GPUs in SLI along with a Core …
Read More »MSI and Asus update motherboards with Kaby Lake support
Intel's Kaby Lake CPUs are coming up in early 2017 and according to recent reports, they may end up being a tad more powerful than initially predicted compared to Skylake. With that in mind, some of you already on the Z170 platform may think about upgrading and thanks to a …
Read More »MSI GT62VR 6RE Dominator Pro 4K Gaming Laptop Review
MSI GT62VR 6RE Dominator Pro 4K has an absurdly long model name that gives us a fair amount of information about this impressive gaming laptop. The GT part tells us this is a chunky chassis that can dissipate a fair amount of heat, VR shows support for your Oculus Rift …
Read More »Sick of cables on HTC Vive? MSI’s VR One backpack solves that
Right now if you want to play the best VR titles, you will find yourself tethered to a PC, with bulky wires limiting your movement somewhat. Over the course of 2016, plenty of companies have begun showing off prototype Virtual Reality backpacks at tradeshows, eliminating the problem by having users …
Read More »MSI overhauls its laptop lineup with Pascal and new cooling
This week, we were invited back to Taipei for MSI's latest launch event during which the company unveiled a whole load of new laptops, ranging from beasts like the GT83VR Titan SLI, which features dual GTX 1080s, all the way down to some more sensible GTX 1070 and GTX 1060 …
Read More »MSI’s new Pascal mobile laptops debuted at big conference
MSI hauled in press from around the world for its big press conference to officially unveil its new line up of Pascal equipped gaming laptops. Information on these notebooks has been showing up piecemeal over the past few weeks, but now we have the official specs and some official images. …
Read More »MSI Pro-Modding competition and GT73 VR at Gamescom 2016
With almost 350,00 visitors expected to tour the vast halls of the Koelnmesse before Gamescom closes its doors on 21st August 2016, KitGuru walked a marathon on your behalf to find the best bits. While the MSI booth did have hands-on opportunities for gamers to try out the latest GT73 …
Read More »MSI pushes laptop gaming with high end GTX 10 series notebooks
Gaming on the go is set to get a lot more impressive with this generation of mobile chips from Nvidia, and MSI, like many manufacturers, is looking to take advantage of that. It has a new line of gaming notebooks, each sporting new mobile Pascal GPUs, high-end displays and powerful …
Read More »nVidia launches Pascal graphics for laptops
Nvidia has launched GeForce GTX 10 series graphics chips for notebooks and the big news is that these are full Pascal chips, rather than M (for mobile) parts. We are still waiting for the full specs from Nvidia but as things stand we have some basic details on the first …
Read More »MSI and Corsair team up again for GTX 1080 Hydro GFX
If you are looking to dip your toes into watercooled graphics cards, then Corsair and MSI have you covered with the GTX 1080 Hydro, which combines the convenience of an all-in-one liquid cooler with the power of Nvidia's latest Pascal architecture. Much like last year's GTX 980Ti Seahawk edition, the GTX …
Read More »MSI is counting down to its next gen gaming notebooks
It looks like MSI is preparing for a big launch next week by teasing its next generation gaming notebooks which aim to “shatter the desktop performance cliche” by cramming in more power than ever before and offering ‘VR Ready' graphics across the entire range. MSI has launched a new countdown …
Read More »MSI GTX 1060 6GB Gaming X Review
There is certainly no shortage of options when it comes to choosing a GTX 1060 graphics card, Nvidia's mid-range GPU is the most fiercely contested by all its graphics partners. MSI's Gaming Series interpretation of Nvidia's GPUs has been a winning formula in this competitive market in the past, let's …
Read More »MSI’s VR boost kit makes connectivity more convenient
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets are now readily available and ship within days. However, the setup process can be a bit fiddly and not everyone is going to want VR sensors and headsets taking up desk space on a permanent basis. This is where MSI's new VR …
Read More »MSI gives statement on ‘modified’ GTX 1080 press sample accusations
Last week, news hit the web that MSI and Asus had been sending out graphics cards to hardware reviewers featuring seemingly higher out of the box clock speeds than what was available at retail. We have already heard Asus's side of the story and now, MSI has also released a statement …
Read More »Asus speaks out on ‘modified’ GTX 1080 press sample accusations
Earlier this week, a fairly interesting article hit the web accusing both Asus and MSI of sending out modified GTX 1080s to the press, which would perform around 1% better than a typical retail card. The post came from a GPU reviewer by the name of Damien Triolet, who claimed …
Read More »MSI X99A Godlike Gaming Carbon Motherboard Review
MSI's Godlike Gaming X99 motherboard first made an appearance mid last year with a striking design and a brazen claim to X99 motherboard superiority. Positioned against the ASUS Rampage V Extreme, now the Rampage V Edition 10, the Godlike Gaming motherboard is MSI's no holds barred X99 implementation. The refreshed …
Read More »Computex: MSI celebrates 30 years
There is a good mix of new blood and old in the PC hardware game and MSI is one of the latter crowd. At Computex 2016, it hosted a party for some of its friends and the media, to celebrate 30 years of operation. Of course being the high-flying tech …
Read More »