MSI HAD THE usual raft of new things to show at Computex, three of which stood out, gaming laptops, a high end mobo, and dual GPU graphics cards. Let's dive in and look at the high points.
The flame stripes look good on most things painted black, 1990s Hondas being one of the exceptions. The MSI GX series of laptops are not one of the exceptions, they are black with red trim and have flames accenting the cover and the wrist rest.
There are four models, the 600, 610, 700 and 710. 6xxs are 15-inch screens, 7xx are 17-inch, x00s are Intel, x10 are AMD. The one with all the goodies is the 600, a P965 based Merom notebook. The nice feature? A turbo button, simply press it and it goes from 2GHz to 2.4GHz, a 20% OC. None of the other models have this, but they still look spiffy.
Next up we have the MSI X38 Diamond, aka the MS-7353. This is a run of the mill X38 based DDR3 board, but it has a twist. The Diamond line is the upscale version of the Platinum, the not quite as high end high end board.
This Diamond has a four character LED status readout so you can say 'bork' instead of the usual hex B7. Your board can now taunt you with a 'ha ha' directly instead of sending you to the manual to look up the code that is causing the smoke. Come to think of it, there are a lot of four letter words that are suitable for such a situation.
Last up we have the MSI Geminium, a dual ATI 2600XT card. MSI is far from alone with this one, there were at least two others at the show with similar beasties on display. MSI had by far the most interesting cooler though, this may be a reference board but it wasn't the stock part.
One other thing to note about the board, it is a single slot card, even if you do need one really tall case. A little more confusingly, this card only has two DVI outs, all of the others had four. That blows out the possibility of a single slot solution, but I don't think many people would cry over a slot in trade for two more DVIs.
The flame stripes look good on most things painted black, 1990s Hondas being one of the exceptions. The MSI GX series of laptops are not one of the exceptions, they are black with red trim and have flames accenting the cover and the wrist rest.
There are four models, the 600, 610, 700 and 710. 6xxs are 15-inch screens, 7xx are 17-inch, x00s are Intel, x10 are AMD. The one with all the goodies is the 600, a P965 based Merom notebook. The nice feature? A turbo button, simply press it and it goes from 2GHz to 2.4GHz, a 20% OC. None of the other models have this, but they still look spiffy.
Next up we have the MSI X38 Diamond, aka the MS-7353. This is a run of the mill X38 based DDR3 board, but it has a twist. The Diamond line is the upscale version of the Platinum, the not quite as high end high end board.
This Diamond has a four character LED status readout so you can say 'bork' instead of the usual hex B7. Your board can now taunt you with a 'ha ha' directly instead of sending you to the manual to look up the code that is causing the smoke. Come to think of it, there are a lot of four letter words that are suitable for such a situation.
Last up we have the MSI Geminium, a dual ATI 2600XT card. MSI is far from alone with this one, there were at least two others at the show with similar beasties on display. MSI had by far the most interesting cooler though, this may be a reference board but it wasn't the stock part.
One other thing to note about the board, it is a single slot card, even if you do need one really tall case. A little more confusingly, this card only has two DVI outs, all of the others had four. That blows out the possibility of a single slot solution, but I don't think many people would cry over a slot in trade for two more DVIs.
