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MSI Wind Top AE2071 20-Inch AIO Makes Its Debut

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

Motherboard Industry Will Grow Somewhat This Year (2012)

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

Softpedia's BIOS Picks of the Day 01/12/2012

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

CES 2012: MSI’s GUS II Uses Thunderbolt to Provide External Graphics to Laptops

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

CES 2012: MSI Presents Intel Z77 Ivy Bridge Motherboards with Thunderbolt Support

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

Softpedia's BIOS Pick of the Day 01/09/2012

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

MSI Radeon HD 7970 Graphics Card Released

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

MSI’s 15.6-Inch GT685 Gaming Notebook Sports Nvidia GTX 580M Graphics

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

Upcoming MSI Netbook Has Cedar Trail CPU Power

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

MSI Launches GT783 Gaming Notebook with Nvidia GTX 580M Graphics

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

MSI Big Bang-XPower II Drivers Available for Download

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

MSI Launches Big Bang-XPower II LGA 2011 Motherboard

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

Free BIOS of the Day 12/29/2011

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

MSI Voice-Activated Motherboard Becomes Reality at CES 2012

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

MSI’s Big Bang-XPower II LGA 2011 Motherboard Stars in Picture Preview

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

Softpedia's Free BIOS of the Day 27/12/2011

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

Softpedia's BIOS Selection of the Day

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

Softpedia's BIOS Listing of the Day

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

Get Your MSI GT685 Notebook Drivers, They're Fresh

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

MSI X79A-GD45 (8D) Motherboard Supports 128 GB RAM

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

Drivers for the MSI GT783 Gaming Notebook Up for Grabs

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

Drivers for MSI's Latest X79 Motherboard, the X79A-GD45 (8D)

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

MSI Lets You Use a Phone to Supervise Your PC and Find Better Parts

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

MSI and Gigabyte Not Making Ultrabooks, for Now at Least

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

MSI Outs Factory Overclocked GTX 560 448 Cores with Twin Frozr III Cooler

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

MSI GT780DXR Gaming Notebook Packs 3GB Nvidia GTX 570M

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

MSI LGA 2011 Motherboard Can Support 128GB of RAM

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

MSI Big Bang XPower II X79 Motherboard Pictured

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

MSI Showcases Micro-ATX X79MA-GD45 LGA 2011 Motherboard

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

MSI Wind Top AP2011 All-in-One Desktop Announced

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

MSI GT780DX Notebook Formally Announced

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

MSI Outs Z68MA-G43 (G3) mATX Motherboard with PCIe Gen 3 Support

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

LGA2011 MSI X79A-GD65 8D Motherboard Previewed

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

MSI Motherboard Owners Can Upgrade Their BIOS

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

MSI Adds Faster Intel Core i7 CPUs to the G-Series Gaming Notebooks

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

Romania Wins MSI Overclocking Arena

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

MSI Makes Motherboards Voice-Activated

Operating systems may already integrate voice recognition and responses, but Micro-Star International decided to take the concept to something of a logical extreme, according to reports.There is little doubt that few people alive today at least once ran into the concept of voice-activated technology.Many are the sci...

15 September 2011
10:04 GMT

MSI 3GB N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition to Arrive Soon in Retail

In late May, MSI announced that it has finalized the design of the company's most powerful single-GPU graphics care to date, the 3GB N580GTX Lightning Xtreme Edition, and now the company is finally getting ready to ship the GPU to its distributors. The card is fitted with the same Twin Frozr III cooling syste...

15 September 2011
09:57 GMT

MSI X79A-GD65 Motherboard Features 8 DIMM Sockets

MSI kept to the promise made a few days ago and at this year's Intel Developer Forum presented a series of motherboards for Sandy Bridge-E LGA 2011 processors, the most impressive of these being the X79A-GD65. A pre-production version of this board has also been showcased at Computex fair in June of this year...

14 September 2011
04:37 GMT

New MSI GeForce GTX 560 Ti Video Card Has Double Memory

The realm of video cards has again been entered by Micro-Star International, whose collection of graphics boards has expanded to include a new Twin Frozr II model. Those familiar with MSI's product collection will probably know of the Twin Frozr II cooling system for video adapters. As a reminder, it is a...

13 September 2011
05:56 GMT

MSI Keeps Nettops Alive with Wind Box DC100

Current attention may be diverted towards the ultrabook, but the nettop segment is not going by ignored, MSI having put together a certain item based on AMD's Fusion architecture. Advanced Micro Devices may have taken years to finally deliver on its promises of CPUs with good integrated graphics, but now tha...

13 September 2011
04:41 GMT

MSI to Showcase LGA 2011 Motherboards at IDF 2011

Scheduled to take place between September 13 and 15 in San Franciso, the 2011 Autumn edition of the Intel Developer Forum will witness the introduction of a series of MSI LGA 2011 motherboards based on the Intel X79 chipset, announced the Taiwanese company in a press release.The announcement was scarce in details, so...

9 September 2011
16:41 GMT

MSI Unleashes T780DXR and GT683DXR Gaming Notebooks in the US

MSI has recently announced the US release of two new G-series gaming notebooks, the T780DXR and GT683DXR, which pair Intel's fast quad-core Sandy Bridge processors with an Nvidia-built GeForce GTX 570M discrete graphics card.Weighting in no less than 3.9Kg, the MSI GT780DX is built around a 17.3-inch LED backlit...

8 September 2011
04:16 GMT

MSI X370 Laptop Gets Stronger AMD Processor

Advanced Micro Devices did release its Llano accelerated processing units, saying that both old and new machines would get them, and it looks like this is exactly what happened to a certain MSI notebook. It appears that motherboards equipped with the newest and strongest E-Series APU from AMD aren't all that...

7 September 2011
08:32 GMT

MSI Intros GT780DX Gaming Notebook with Nvidia GTX 570M Graphics

MSI has released quite a great deal of gaming-oriented laptops in the last couple of months, and the Taiwanese company shows no signs of wanting to stop its assault on this market as it recently announced the GT780DX with GeForce GTX 570M discrete graphics.Weighting in no less than 3.9Kg, the MSI GT780DX is built aro...

6 September 2011
09:37 GMT

A55M-P35 MSI Motherboard Debuts

Micro-Star International decided to release a new motherboard for AMD's series of FM1 accelerated processing units, so it created a small mainboard that, nonetheless, features overclocking and everything needed to set up a decent system. Gaming personal computers are usually massive beasts where the motherboar...

31 August 2011
03:31 GMT

MSI WindPad 110W Tablet Now in Europe

Coming to distinguish itself from the many Android-loaded tablets on the market, MSI's WindPad 110W has reached European stores, or will soon do so, now that its official release has been made there.Micro-Star International is one of the companies that developed tablets based on AMD's Fusion technology.The...

26 August 2011
05:47 GMT

MSI X-Slim Series Gains New Blood

Micro-Star International may have allowed a certain machine to be revealed not too long ago, but the newest official announcement on its part deals with something else, namely a pair of Sandy Bridge machines.One thing that users from around the world may have found out yesterday is that MSI is one of the companies t...

17 August 2011
03:28 GMT

AMD E-450 APU Lands Inside MSI CR430 Laptop

That Micro-Star International was going to sooner or later release a new laptop was obvious, so it was not at all shocking to learn of the arrival of the CR430, although the hardware inside may have raised a few eyebrows.MSI released many laptops over the years, and it definitely isn't going to stop any time so...

16 August 2011
10:08 GMT

MSI Supports AMD Llano Fusion APUs With A75A-G55

FM1 motherboards have been coming out for a few weeks now but Micro-Star International decided it was room for one more, so it brought forth the A75A-G55, one that will go well with mainstream AMD APUs.AMD's Fusion technology spawned the A-Series of Llano mainstream APUs a while ago, though motherboards with su...

11 August 2011
10:32 GMT


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