Items tagged with MSI
Given that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5050 only officially emerged from the shadows less than a week ago, it's only fitting that the first one to show up at retail is MSI's Shadow 2X OC variant. And it's not surprising that the card is already available to preorder. What IS mildly surprising, however, is that the listed...
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The Disney Pixar Toy Story IP train keeps chugging along in this honestly adorable, official, and very limited edition MSI prebuild gaming PC that commemorates the beloved show's 30th anniversary. Chalk full of Toy Story themes and references, it'd be a crime if the PC—packing an Intel Core Ultra 5 245K, Z890 Gaming...
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You may have seen a few more NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 GPUs on store shelves and in stock lately. After the initial rush to purchase this GPU, rapidly increasing prices (on custom models) kept most other buyers at bay. Even so, NVIDIA's add-in board (AIB) partners are reportedly scrambling to ship even more GeForce RTX...
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Way back when VIA introduced the Mini-ITX standard in 2001, it was initially aimed at low-power systems and highly-integrated machines. VIA's designers probably never imagined a future where you could slap a 150-watt 16-core CPU and a 575W 32GB GPU into a Mini-ITX machine. That's exactly the use case for something...
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Everybody and their uncle wants a Switch 2 console (see our first impressions), though there are only so many of Nintendo's new handheld to go around, and they all pretty much disappeared from store shelves on day 1 (yesterday). What's a gamer to do? Well, if you're platform agnostic or prefer to game on PC anyway...
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MSI is rolling out a new and blazing-fast gaming monitor for players who are looking to have an edge-up over their esports opponents. Offering more sheer speed than almost ever other display on the market, MSI's new MPG 242R X60 is capable of hitting a blistering 600Hz refresh rate, along with a nominal 0.1ms...
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One of our favorite PC gaming handhelds is finally in stock at several U.S. retailers, though the timing of its release means it will be going up against Nintendo's Switch 2 console. We're talking about MSI's recently-minted Claw 8 AI+, which as we stated in our review "sits in the top tier of gaming handhelds on the...
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In a move that hopes to stir a sense of nostalgia among veteran PC enthusiasts, MSI has officially revived its iconic Cyclone graphics card series, launching the GeForce RTX 5060 8G Cyclone OC. This marks a return of a design originally seen over a decade ago (but most recently in the RTX 4060 Cyclone OC), this time...
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MSI has officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 5060 8G INSPIRE ITX. This honestly cute little thing is a single-fan version of the base 5060 with 8GB of GDDR7, delivering robust enough gaming and content creation capabilities in a small form factor (SFF). This GPU isn't about straight up performance obviously, but is designed for enthusiasts
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This year's Computex event in Taipei ended up being an especially busy one with lots of new product announcements (like the GeForce RTX 5060), and a fair amount of product showcases to boot. Falling into the latter category, MSI shared some photos of a visit by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang to its booth during the event...
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In the words of Queen, Another One Bites The Dust. There's a user report of one more GeForce RTX 5090 power cable suffering a nasty case of heatstroke, this time around an MSI yelllow-tipped connector.
The original report came from Reddit user VersauteGurke, who's running a chonky MSI GeForce RTX 5090 in his...
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Have you read our review of the MSI Claw 8 AI+? If you haven't, please do! We were quite fond of the machine and had a lot of nice things to say about it, although one of our complaints was about the aesthetics; the odd beige color that MSI chose for the system's handgrips gave it a very unusual vibe. Well, MSI's...
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Give it enough time and dual-mode refresh rate options may just become a standard feature on all (or most) gaming monitors. We're not quite there yet. In the meantime, MSI is adding to a comparatively small but growing pile of monitors that feature this nifty trick, with the launch of its MPG 274URDFW E16M. Good luck...
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One of the best PC gaming handhelds on the market right now is MSI's Claw 8 AI+ (see our recent review), a premium device built around a large and vibrant 8-inch display (with variable refresh rate or VRR support) powered by Intel's Lunar Lake platform. If you're not a fan of the sandstone colorway, however, MSI has...
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MSI Claw 8 AI+ Windows Gaming Handheld: $899 at Amazon, 7" Model for $799 MSI's second-gen Claw 8 uses an efficient Lunar Lake CPU to deliver better gaming performance and battery life on a gorgeous 8-inch display. Excellent Gaming Performance Hall-Effect Sticks And Durable Chassis Versatile Thunderbolt 4 Connectivity Large And Vibrant...
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB: MSRP $429 The new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti brings NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPU architecture down below $500, to target mainstream 1440p gamers, with peak performance realized in advanced AI rendering techniques like DLSS4 with multi-frame generation. Blackwell Architecture Power Efficient...
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The first-generation MSI Claw was based on an Intel Meteor Lake processor, and then the second-generation Claw, for which we have a review forthcoming, is based on Lunar Lake. As a preview for our review, it offers broadly similar performance to handhelds based on AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Well, it looks like the next...
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Perhaps at one point NVIDIA may have considered equipping its GeForce RTX 5080 with 24GB of VRAM. More than likely, however, MSI's repeated reference to the non-existent SKU is a recurring typo. If so, it raises the question as to why MSI keeps making the same mistake, with the latest reference to 24GB spotted in the...
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AMD released its Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 graphics cards to retail about a week and a half ago (on March 6), both of which are exclusive to its add-in board partners, meaning no reference 'Made by AMD' variants. Even so, we have yet to see any custom models by MSI. As it turns out, MSI is not only skipping...
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MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio: MSRP $599 The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio packs a massive cooler and takes NVIDIA's reference specs and kicks them up a couple of notches to boost performance. Latest Architecture And Feature Set Good Overclocker Power Friendly Cool And Quiet DLSS 4 + RTX Neural Rendering...
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If you thought "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was an odd premise, wait until you get a load of the curious case of missing render output unit hardware (or raster operations pipeline, if you prefer—ROP from here on out) on some GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards that are out in the wild. One of the seemingly...
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MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio Review: MSRP $799 The MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Gaming Trio takes NVIDIA's GB203 GPU and gooses up its clock speeds to improve performance over standard cards. Blackwell Architecture Hot-Clocked From The Factory Easy Overclocker Relatively Power Friendly Cool And Quiet DLSS 4 +...
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