14 DAY TRIAL // Just prior to CES, some companies made a general announcement regarding what their exhibits would be made out of. MSI announced its Consumer Electronics Show lineup on January 4th, when it revealed that its exhibition would include 3D notebooks and all-in-one systems, among other things. Nevertheless, as it would be expected from the Taiwanese worldwide motherboard and graphics card supplier, the company has also revealed a line of motherboards capable of supporting the recently introduced 32nm Clarkdale and Arrandale central processing units from Intel Corp.
The new CPUs developed by Intel combine a low operating temperature with high-end performance, making the units excellent for multitasking and any other kind of computing-heavy tasks. Consumers will be able to reach new performance levels and “challenge the extremes” when pairing said processors with the X58 motherboards, which “have been a heat on the market since they were launched for their outstanding specifications and performance.”
MSI revealed to end-users that all its motherboards based on the X58 chipset could run the new processors without any need for hardware reconfiguration. All that is required is for the boards to be subjected to a BIOS update, after which the full might of the 32nm chips may be unleashed.
The list of 32nm-supporting products includes the X58M, X58 Pro, X58 Pro-E, X58 Platinum, X58 Platinum SLI, as well as the Eclipse SLI and Eclipse Plus. The motherboards represent MSI's consideration of end-users' need for an easy system upgrade and greater scalability. The BIOS versions required are the A7593IMS.320 for the X58M, the A7522IMS.870 for the X58 Pro and Pro-E boards, A7522IMS.360 for the X58 Platinum/Platinum SLI boards, while the Eclipse SLI and Eclipse Plus require BIOS versions A7520IMS.1A0 and A7566IMS.100, respectively.
The company's press release contains the list of products and the respective BIOS versions required. End-users may consult it here.