Items tagged with MSI
This year’s Computex is in full swing and as expected AI is playing a dominant role in the announcements, with companies looking to stand out by implementing neural networks in unique ways. MSI is hoping that it has found a winning formula...
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Following a recent leak, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ has officially debuted at Computex 2026 with a $1500 MSRP. While the existence and pricing of other configurations has yet to be been clarified, the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ does look to be a...
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MSI Raider 16 MAX HX B2WJ Laptop: Starting at $2,999, $3,499 as tested The new MSI Raider 16 MAX HX is often the fastest 16" gaming laptop we've tested, and it does it while remaining cool and quiet, too. Oustanding OLED Screen Excellent...
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MSI just sent a message to every other monitor maker to the effect of, 'I see your dual-mode display and raise you to triple mode!'. In doing so, MSI is laying claim to the industry's first triple mode gaming monitor, the MPG OLED...
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Many Apple fans were hoping that this year’s Studio Display refresh would offer OLED panels, but alas the new models were still using the same old tech. MSI is looking to fill this gap with the introduction of its new lineup of PRO MAX...
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We LOVE giving away PCs around these parts, and we're equally emphatic about the meticulous build process to ensure whoever ends up as the lucky winner receives an ultra-clean setup that rivals what boutique vendors offer. Our newest...
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Winner Announcement Update 4/17/2026:
Alex W, Congratulations! You are the lucky winner! We hope you enjoy your new rig! When you can, please Shoot us a note with your full contact details so we can get the system into your hands after we...
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Have you been contemplating a MacBook Neo, but wishing there were Windows laptops with somewhat similar specs? Well, there already are quite a few laptops with similar capabilities, but none of them will have the MacBook Neo's specific...
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Overclockers are arguably known for their lack of restraint, but the latest RTX 5090 experiment feels like a particularly vivid illustration of that point: BIOS files from MSI's absurdly overbuilt RTX 5090 Lightning Z—a card that...
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This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has officially ended, and with the HotHardware crew back home, it's time to look back on the trip and highlight some of our favorite, stand-out products. As is usually the...
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Recent auditing by the folks at market research firm Omdia indicates that the PC market rebounded last year and finished the last quarter of 2025 especially strong. A likely reason for the strong finish is a rush to get ahead of looming...
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At CES 2026, NVIDIA finally revealed its long-awaited lineup of first-generation G-SYNC Pulsar monitors—and one of them is the MSI MPG 272QRF X36. Like the other new monitors revealed at NVIDIA's conference, the MSI MPG 272QRF X36 is a...
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One of the cooler things we saw in person at CES this year is MSI's new GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z. A flagship GPU like the GeForce RTX 5090 is capable of standing on its own for noteworthiness, but what separates this one from the...
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Of course, not to be left out, MSI's at CES 2026 with a pile of premium products. In this post, we're taking a short look at the three lines of laptops that MSI brought to the show as well as a new version of the Claw gaming handheld that...
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MSI is joining the modern NUC race and showing off one of the first Intel Panther Lake mini PCs of its kind at CES 2026. Meet the MSI Cubi NUC AI+ 3MG, the latest in MSI's Cubi NUC AI+ series, which you can outfit with up to an Intel Core...
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There's a huge emphasis on PC gaming at CES, and that's understandable; gaming is the primary market keeping the PC alive as a platform. Still, people need PCs for both work and play, so MSI is launching a new family of PC products that are designed specifically for multi-tasking, image...
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MSI is touting some significant image quality enhancements to its next round of QD-OLED gaming monitors that promise to deliver even inkier black levels, more uniform luminance, and a tougher screen surface that is more scratch resistance...
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If you're going to spend a fortune on memory for your new build, you might has well pair it with an extravagant motherboard that has all the bells and whistles, right? Hey, it's your money and if you have over a grand to spend on a...
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PC memory prices are getting out of control, there's no doubt about that, and storage could be next. You can blame AI and its growing appetite for hardware, which has left consumers in a precarious spot. Somewhat ironically, however, GPU...
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Intel's Panther Lake processors are due to arrive soon in new notebooks from a wide array of partners. MSI has a refreshed line-up of Prestige machines coming, for example, powered by Intel's latest and greatest mobile chips, flaunting...
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It took a while, but you can finally snag a GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card by one of NVIDIA's add-in board (AIB) partners for less than NVIDiA's baseline MSRP. MSI is the the one serving up the deal, through Newegg, though the only...
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MSI GeForce RTX 5050 Shadow 2X 8GB: $249 The GeForce RTX 5050 is the most-affordable graphics card based on NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture that targets mainstream gamers, and is the first RTX XX50 series GPU for the desktop in years...
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