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It feels really nice to be able to deliver you a nice hefty BIOS assortment for today, despite the fact that St. Valentine has absolutely nothing to do with PC drivers. Today's stars are the EVGA BIOSes revision 033, released for the X79-based boards. Most of the 9 fixes which come with version 033 of this BIOS... |
14 February 2012 10:52 GMT |
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It seems like MSI are enjoying building all-in-one (AIO) computers more and more, and this brings us to the Wind Top AE2060.
The Wind Top AE2060 is a 20" computer powered by an Intel Celeron E3400 CPU running at 2.6 Ghz, planted in a board which can hold as much as 8 GB DDR3 (with 2 GB being stock). You get an Intel... |
13 February 2012 10:42 GMT |
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Micro-Star International's collection of entry-level mobile personal computers has just grown by one, though we cannot really say there is anything particularly revolutionary to see here. The company has completed the preparations for the shipping of the MSI Wind U180 Cedar Trail netbook. There was no loud a... |
7 February 2012 11:25 GMT |
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After we presented you the production version of the Z77A-GD65 motherboard at the end of last week, it’s now time to take a look at its smaller sibling, the Z77A-GD55, which was just pictured by a Chinese Website.The motherboard is compatible with all Intel processors using the LGA 1155 socket, including the ch... |
6 February 2012 20:01 GMT |
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Two more months separate us from the launch of Intel’s Ivy Bridge processors, so motherboard makers are already hard at work preparing their new solutions based on Intel’s 7-series chipsets.
MSI is of course among them, and just now is putting the final touches on the Z77A-GD45, which will become one of ... |
3 February 2012 09:55 GMT |
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Still supporting netbook computers, MSI has just made official the Wind U180 10.1-inch entry-level laptop, which is the company’s first such device to be based on Intel’s Cedar Trail platform launched at the end of last year.
MSI markets the Wind U180 an ultrathin and ultralight netbook since it features... |
3 February 2012 05:31 GMT |
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We got a first glimpse of the Z77A-GD65 motherboard for Ivy Bridge processors over a month ago, at this year’s CES 2012 fair, but now a new picture of MSI’s creation reached the Web, showing the final revision of the board.
Not much has changed since our initial encounter with the MSI board, as the compa... |
2 February 2012 06:11 GMT |
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Besides the Radeon HD 7700 series, AMD’s Graphics Core Next (GCN) video card lineup also includes the HD 7800 range that is expected to arrive into the retail space in March of this year, according to a leaked MSI roadmap.
AMD’s initial Radeon HD 7800 series will include two video cards featuring the sam... |
31 January 2012 17:01 GMT |
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On February 15, AMD seems set to introduce its next series of graphics cards based on the Generation Core Next (GCN) architecture, which will be released into the Radeon HD 7700 series and target the mainstream market.
For starters, the Radeon HD 7700 lineup will include two video cards, the HD 7770 and the HD7750, ... |
31 January 2012 16:11 GMT |
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We may have already written about two MSI Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards, but that does not mean that the company has only that particular pair up for grabs.
In fact, the official announcement on the part of Micro-Star International spoke of four boards in total, two of which were covered here.
The other two adapt... |
31 January 2012 09:41 GMT |
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Micro-Star International seems to have been one of the first companies to unleash its custom-built Radeon HD 7950 graphics adapters, as part of two series.
Two of the graphics cards that MSI has revealed are called R7950-2PMD3GD5 and R7950-2PMD3GD5/OC.
As their names imply, the first one sticks to the reference s... |
31 January 2012 08:01 GMT |
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Today's highlight is MSI's 22" All-in-One (AIO) computer AE2210. If you're into the sleek shapes of the all-in-one computers and still are not an Apple fan, the MSI AE2210 could just fill the bill.
This AIO comes with either Intel Core i3 or Core i5 CPUs and you can also choose from a multitude of opt... |
30 January 2012 11:15 GMT |
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Micro-Star International has completed the development of a new addition to the Interceptor series of PC cases, bearing the name of Raptor.
The new desktop enclosure that MSI created is a mid-tower model with support for ATX motherboards and platforms of smaller form factors.
As a member of the Interceptor line, ... |
27 January 2012 03:44 GMT |
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A report has surfaced about a certain tablet that was shown off during CES 2012, which, for one reason or another, did not get media attention until now. No explanation for this perceived oversight has been offered, especially considering that the item was actually quite unique. Quite simply, it was an AMD Fusion... |
24 January 2012 03:42 GMT |
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MSI has just announced that its Wind Top all-in-one computer series will soon get the addition of a new model, the Wind Top AE2071, which the company says it was specifically designed for casual computer users.The central point of the new MSI all-in-one system is its 20-inch screen that features multi-touch capabilit... |
20 January 2012 05:24 GMT |
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Looks like motherboard makers may not have that much to worry about this year, except each other.According to some of the latest reports on the matter, the global motherboard market will rise by approximately 5% in 2012.That is to say, the total products shipped by motherboard vendors will go up by that percentage.Me... |
18 January 2012 11:07 GMT |
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Most likely everybody has their eyes on the CES 2012, and nice things are expected to emerge in a few weeks' time as far as the motherboard industry is concerned. Nevertheless, we also know that the interest for new BIOSes is still high, and we're providing you with fresh listings every day. Until the mothe... |
12 January 2012 10:46 GMT |
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The idea of external graphics cards is not new to us, but MSI has presented a new take on it during the CES 2012 fair where it showcased the GUS II prototype enclosure that uses Thunderbolt in order to deliver extra graphics power to notebooks.
Presented during the show with a Radeon HD 5770 graphics card linked via... |
10 January 2012 16:11 GMT |
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With Ivy Bridge on track for an early Q2 release, motherboard makers have already started presenting their upcoming solutions for these processors, and MSI is one of the first to do so with the Z77A-GD80 and the Z77-GD65 Panther Point boards.
As it becomes apparent from the names of these two motherboards, they are ... |
10 January 2012 06:11 GMT |
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Since it's evening here, here comes the "BIOS of the Day" blog post, bringing you the latest betas for Gigabyte's X79-loaded motherboards.
Truly, there must be a lot of things to be fixed in the BIOSes for these boards. They are quite new and the recent overclocking issue has signaled that there is still a... |
9 January 2012 11:01 GMT |
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Now that Advanced Micro Devices has finally started shipping its high-end Radeon HD 7970 graphics card, it only makes sense that its partners, in this case MSI, follow suit. Micro-Star International has just made the official announcement of the R7970-2PMD3G5 graphics adapter. Essentially, it is a rebranding of th... |
9 January 2012 03:46 GMT |
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After yesterday’s release of the GT783 17.3-inch gaming notebook, MSI has announced a new laptop in the GT-series, the GT685, which packs the same Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M graphics card but comes with a smaller 15.6-inch screen.The new notebook is housed inside a chassis that is extremely similar with that of th... |
5 January 2012 03:34 GMT |
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Intel's Cedar Trail CPU platform is out and about, so Micro-Star International decided to build a netbook called Wind U180.This is a relatively generic low-end device, like netbooks always have been meant to be.With a screen size of 10.1 inches and a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels, the laptop relies on an Atom... |
4 January 2012 13:41 GMT |
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MSI has just announced that the company’s gaming notebook line has received a new addition in the form of the 17.3-inch GT783 laptop that is built around Intel’s Core i7 Sandy Bridge processors and Nvidia’s monstrous GeForce GTX 580M. Weighting in no less than 3.9Kg (almost 8.6 pounds), the GT783 w... |
4 January 2012 02:52 GMT |
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Here we go, delivering the drivers for MSI's latest creation in the field of gaming motherboards, the Big Bang-XPower II. Designed with extreme performance in mind, the MSI Big Bang-XPower II promises unrivaled stability with the use of Military Class III components.
The MSI Big Bang-XPower II boasts double the... |
3 January 2012 05:17 GMT |
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After almost two months have passed since Intel’s introduction of the first Sandy Bridge-E high-performance processors, MSI has finally launched its Big Bang-XPower II motherboard for CPUs using the LGA 2011 socket.As most of you know, MSI’s Big Bang line is reserved for high-end enthusiast friendly produ... |
3 January 2012 03:42 GMT |
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Here we are, just two days before the end of 2011, bringing you the latest in BIOS files. Not much for today, looks like manufacturers are really on a holiday. Nothing exciting happening these days in the BIOS world so we'll just add a reminder for those who own X79 Gigabyte boards: if you plan to overclock, ple... |
29 December 2011 11:22 GMT |
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There are features that one wouldn't expect to find on a motherboard but MSI thinks at least one of them could prove useful, that of voice activation.
Anyone thinking that MSI's motherboards already have more than enough overclocking features will find that the company itself disagrees.
Granted, what Mi... |
28 December 2011 10:39 GMT |
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MSI’s Big Bang-XPower II motherboard for LGA 2011 processors has yet to make its appearance on retailer shelves, but this Intel X79-powered board has already starred in a picture preview that revealed most of its secrets.
As most of you know, MSI’s Big Bang line is reserved for high-end enthusiast friend... |
28 December 2011 02:55 GMT |
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Here's one of the latest BIOS assortment we are going to post this year. The newest software comes from Asrock, in the body of the AD2700B-ITX motherboard, one of their new series of Atom-bundled boards.Next on the list comes the new BIOS from EVGA, still for their X79-based boards. It seems that there is a lot ... |
27 December 2011 10:48 GMT |
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Another day has passed, therefore new BIOS has been posted on the Drivers Area of Softpedia. Today, we bring you an assortment of BIOSes for MSI H67 motherboards, Acer Veriton desktops (for both Windows and Linux), and an HP notebook.Our picks were:Acer Veriton M688G BIOS P01.B0Acer Veriton M688G BIOS P01.B0L for Lin... |
17 December 2011 07:07 GMT |
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We've promised that we would inform you about the BIOS section on our website. Since there are a lot of users interested in keeping their BIOSes up to date, we figured that such an idea would be a welcomed one. Even more, we've noticed a high interest in this matter, therefore we're happy to let you kn... |
15 December 2011 11:00 GMT |
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MSI showcases a new laptop designed for gaming purposes, dubbed GT685, seemingly the smaller brother of top-drawer model presented yesterday, the MSI GT783.Just like the more hardcore model, the MSI GT685 is powered by a 2nd generation Sandybridge Intel Core i7 CPU, able to deliver enough processing power to let you ... |
15 December 2011 10:05 GMT |
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Micro-Star International decided this was a good time for a new flagship motherboard to be released, so it put together the X79A-GD45 (8D). The new item is not precisely something that was designed from the ground up, so to speak. Instead, this is a modification, of sorts, of another mainboard, one that has been o... |
15 December 2011 05:28 GMT |
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A nice piece of technology is just being launched these days: the MSI GT783 gaming notebook, the elite of the actual GT series. If you're looking for a new gaming tool and you're not dying to leave a burning hole in your budget, you might just consider the GT783.This notebook is loaded with Intel's new... |
14 December 2011 10:52 GMT |
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MSI unveil their newest motherboard, codenamed X79A-GD45 (8D), another member of the X79-family. As its very names mentions, this new motherboard is loaded with Intel's newest chipset and promises high performance for either gaming or business.The MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) is a motherboard built with Military Class III... |
14 December 2011 02:11 GMT |
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We heard about overclocking PCs via Bluetooth before, so we aren't total strangers to apps that control aspects of a computer, but MSI's new invention is different from that. What Micro-Star International invented is a smartphone app called MSI+. This software has six function categories: Calculator, Manu... |
12 December 2011 10:38 GMT |
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Ultrabooks are not a quest that all PC players are comfortable embarking on, with Gigabyte and Micro-Star International being, apparently, two of the companies with less enthusiasm than the rest.
In fact, both these companies are said to have held back from actually jumping in the fray. Neither actually has any ult... |
1 December 2011 17:11 GMT |
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With the GTX 560 Ti 448 Cores officially launched, MSI has now introduced its own solution based on this core that uses the company’s proprietary Twin Frozr III cooling system in order to detach itself from the rest of the graphics cards built using this latest Nvidia GPU.MSI has designed the Twin Frozr III coo... |
29 November 2011 09:22 GMT |
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MSI is preparing for the Holiday shopping season with the release of a new 17.3-inch gaming notebook in the company's popular GT780 range that this time increases the memory available for the Nvidia GTX 570M dedicated graphics card built-in from 1.5GB to a whopping 3GB.Weighting in no less than 3.9Kg (almost 8.6... |
22 November 2011 03:33 GMT |
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Together with Intel's official announcement of the first processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture, MSI released two new LGA 2011 motherboards one of these featuring support for 128GB of RAM according to the company.The motherboard is question is called the GD65-X79A (8D) and in Europe this comes with ... |
14 November 2011 08:08 GMT |
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Yet another motherboard has made its appearance, in an unofficial capacity anyhow, namely the MSI Bang XPower II, which might just be the company's strongest platform yet, or at least very close to the top of the line.
The mere fact that it supports LGA 2011 CPUs is enough of a statement to the performance it... |
8 November 2011 02:45 GMT |
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At the start of this week we took a glimpse at what was then the only micro-ATX LGA 2011 motherboard to ever come into our attention, the ASRock-built X79 Extreme4-M, but it now seems like MSI will also have a similar model on offer, the X79MA-GD45.Like all the other high-end motherboards fabricated by the Taiwanese ... |
4 November 2011 07:11 GMT |
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Micro-Star International (MSI) just made the official introduction of its newest business-oriented all-in-one computer, one that can actually change the position of the screen.The Wind Top AP2011, as MSI's newest all-in-one business computer is called, is one of those uncommon AiOs that can change from landscap... |
2 November 2011 12:10 GMT |
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While ultrabooks are getting detailed left and right, PC makers are not forgetting about gamers that move a lot, like MSI made perfectly clear when it developed the GT780DX.
The GT780DX is a notebook measuring 17 inches in diagonal and equipped with top-notch CPUs and discrete graphics.
While the Intel Core i7 qu... |
28 October 2011 10:37 GMT |
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MSI is one of the most eager motherboard makers to embrace the new PCI Express 3.0 standard, so the company keeps expanding its portfolio of PCIe Gen 3 solutions with new models, the latest to make its appearance being the Z68MA-G43 (G3).Going from PCIe Gen 2 to Gen 3 doubles the bandwidth available to the add-on car... |
26 October 2011 04:37 GMT |
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The next series of Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs, Sandy Bridge E, will be able to reside in the socket of a certain MSI motherboard that has, apparently, been extensively photographed not long ago.
Motherboards are among the PC components whose specs can most easily be leaked, since all it takes is a photo for its vari... |
20 October 2011 02:38 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices just launched the FX series of CPUs, the first members of it anyway, and Micro-Star International wasted no time in directing its customers to the download links of the updated BIOS versions. It isn't uncommon for motherboards to, physically, be able to support processors that did not exis... |
14 October 2011 08:50 GMT |
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Officially introduced at the start of this month, Intel's Core i7-2670QM processor will be soon available in MSI's G-Series gaming notebooks as well as in the X460 ultra-slim laptops series, announced recently the Taiwanese company.The Core i7-2670QM was designed by Intel to replace the previous i7-2630QM a... |
14 October 2011 03:31 GMT |
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Overclocking can be a fickle mistress at times, since many things can go wrong, but this doesn't take away from the prestige that people who pull it off gain, and this applies to the winners and all other contestants, of this year's MSI Overclocking Arena.Micro-Star International held an overclocking compe... |
8 October 2011 07:34 GMT |
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