Tag Archives: MSI

Today we are going to take a look at the Primo 81 from MSI. Priced at only £138, it targets the large user base who can't afford a high end model from the likes of Samsung or Apple. The Primo 81 features a 7.8″ IPS display, the same LG panel …

MSI has released some teaser images for its upcoming miniature gaming hardware, including a new motherboard and a small form factor GPU, both designed to fit into half size cases, whilst still giving you enough oomf for all the latest games. “We’re very close to expanding our #GAMING family with …

As a chipset, X79 is starting to show its age, especially when compared to the feature-heavy Z87 PCH. This can pose problems for motherboard manufacturers looking to sell a value-orientated product that isn't stripped to the point where masses of consumers are alienated away from the target audience. Cutting down in …

While it's all well and good keeping up to date with foreign affairs using CNN, Al Jazeera or RT, but when it comes to Tweets, it's a little more useful if a global organisation gives you localised content – including launches and offers. MSI has now made that move. KitGuru …

We've already told you how MSI has made a big splash at i49 with its all-in-one systems and of course with its handsome Dutch PR man, Joran, but that's not all it had on show. There was also a couple of newly released motherboards that drew my attention – one …

When MSI launched the AG2712A All-in-One Gaming PC in conjunction with Team Fnatic back in April, it was considered a bit of a market leader in its space. The advent of Haswell meant the specification was updated and now, at Multiplay i49, MSI is showing off yet another specification update. …

With all the price cuts on nVidia desktop graphics cards, we guess it was only time before the mobile space also started to throw up some GeForce bargains. Having broken into the world's Top 10 for laptops a few years back, this Taiwanese outfit still pushes hard to create original …

It has been a hectic few days since the EVGA move to bring GTX580 cards to market for just £137 at the end of last week. Things got really heated yesterday afternoon when it seemed at one stage that price cuts were coming every half hour. KitGuru checks the latest …

Anyone who can remember progressing from a Commodore 64 to a PC – largely with gaming in mind – can rest assured that it's a very familiar path for the KitGuru editorial team. When we got the opportunity to interview MSI's Product Manager, Joran Schoonderwoerd, we were definitely interested. Read on …

MSI is aiming for all-out performance with its flagship LGA 1150 motherboard – the Z87 XPower. Can the 32 phase VRM, overclocking-orientated features, host of add-on controllers, and support for 4-way graphics configurations give MSI's Z87 XPower motherboard success in the enthusiast sector? Adamant to make a stake in the …

What is the Golden Ratio for SSDs?  Good question and one that Plextor wants you to consider. They have set up a special site for this question and are now offering some very cool prizes to those in the know. KitGuru has had a go, but before we get into …

Today we are going to look at the MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming motherboard.  It's MSI's latest model, targeted at the enthusiast audience, more specifically enthusiast gamers.  It boasts an impressive feature set which is specifically tailored for those gamers who want the best possible performance from their system. MSI are one …

Cyberpower has always tended to the needs of every gamer with its pre-configured systems. Targeting mid-range gamers with a tighter budget, does the Cyberpower Gaming Battalion 502 PC have what it takes to become a competitor in today's ever-growing system market? Cyberpower has chosen the Gaming Battalion 502 PC's hardware …

Today we are going to look at MSI‘s latest mini-ITX offering, the Z77IA-E53 motherboard. It’s designed for users who are looking to build a powerful compact system based around the Intel Z77 platform. This makes it ideal for building a compact LAN gaming system in a case such as the Bitfenix Prodigy.

One of the most successful MSI mainboard ranges of recent times was the Big Bang. While very appealing in terms of pure specification, the boards were priced high and not accessible to everyone. Now MSI's engineers have taken a step back, pulled out the best features from Big Bang and …

Touting a 17.3” 1080p screen, 16GB of memory, RAID 0 SSDs, a BluRay drive and Killer Gaming network card, is MSI’s latest ‘Gaming Series’ iteration worth its credit card-crunching £1,999 price tag?!

Each generation of graphic card contains a champion, one card that not only outsells most of the market – but does so at a sensible price point and healthy margin. For nVidia, in 2012, that card is the GTX660. KitGuru finds launch plans on a train to Timbuktu and informs …

The bizarre events of the NDA-blowing launch and sale of Intel's new chipset mainboards has moved onto a new stage. Price discounting. KitGuru makes screen grabs and calculations. From the time Futuremark picked up four Intel z77 chipset mainboard reviews, this story has continued to break and change. The latest …

MSI, world's premier graphics card and mainboard manufacturer is excited to announce the availability of it's premium overclocking mainboard for the Intel X79 chipset, the Big Bang-XPower II. Built on the legacy of the world-record holding Big Bang-XPower, it promises equally impressive results for both CPU and graphics card overclocking. …

While the initial designs were all on show at Computex 2011 in Taiwan, detailed pictures of the final mainboards have been few and far between. In most cases, the possibility that these are covered by a dark and devious NDA have prevented too much info from surfacing. The game has …

MSI have been consistently releasing some of the finest enthusiast grade hardware in the last year and today we are looking at their competitively priced CX640 15.6 laptop which features a capable Core i5 processor, Nvidia discrete graphics, 500GB hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 memory. For under £600 is …

Futuremark® today announced the return of its annual Lords of Overclocking competition for PC users everywhere. This year’s event, the largest of its type, will see overclocking pros, enthusiasts and hobbyists from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas use 3DMark® 11 and MSI brand graphics cards to compete for the …

There is certainly no shortage of high powered gaming laptops available on the market today, but it takes something really special to stand out in such a crowded marketplace. MSI have sent us their GT680 gaming laptop for review which features a dual drive configuration (with SSD), powerful Intel Core …

The GTX580 has been Nvidia's finest moment. The card has been a big seller since it was released and it leads many of the performance charts when we factor out the dual GPU solutions. Today we are looking at the MSI N580GTX Lightning, a heavily modified card designed to target …

MSI is proud to present the Wind Top AE2210 All-in-One PC with Intel's latest Sandy Bridge platform. Next to the 22” Full-HD Multi-Touch display, the AE2210 is equipped with Hollywood-class THX TruStudio Pro surround sound technology for a high quality surround sound. To make sure data can be transferred at …

The whole subject of Intel's upcoming Z68 chipset has recently spawned more fevered online articles than a Lohan limousine leg-shot. Pushing all of the minor improvements to one side KitGuru is ready to reveal the key reasons for Intel's latest launch. Almost without fail, each generation of technology products has …

At the opening day of the Gadget Show LIVE at the Birmingham NEC, visitors were able to get hands-on with the fastest MSI notebook yet. It's a bit of a beast and KitGuru spies were on hand to snap the snaps. It's hard to imagine an industry where records are …

MSI is proud to announce the release of its First-Class FX720 notebook. This notebook has a great look and feel thanks to its chrome treatment and anti-fingerprint coating. The exclusive GPU boost technology powered by NVIDIA Optimus gives you an extra performance boost when needed while playing games or working …

AMD's HD6970 has been a popular card since it was launched and some partners have been releasing modified versions based on the AMD reference design. Today we are looking at a rather spectacular design from MSI which features the latest update on their high performance Twin Frozr cooler. KitGuru has …

Everyone is mobile these days. Which means that all of us have a chance to forget stuff at home or arrive at a destination where we need more stuff than we brought with us. What that ‘stuff' is, can vary, but one thing is for sure – MSI has a …