MSI Launches a Huge Range of Gaming Products

MSI Launches a Huge Range of Gaming Products

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REPORTING FROM TAIPEI: MSI hosted its 2015 Gaming Press Conference yesterday amid much fanfare. The company also revealed a new global gaming tournament – the 2015 Masters Gaming Arena, in partnership with Blizzard Entertainment and Electronic Sports League (ESL).

At the launch event, MSI highlighted it’s exclusive gaming laptop: the GT72 includes several innovations such as the latest concept Tobii Tech’s eye-tracking live demo, NVIDIA G-SYNC; GT80 SLI features ultimate surround view performance, and GE72 adopts the Nahimic Sound technology, and the latest P series laptops featuring True Color technology.

The company also unveiled the Nightblade MI, the continuation of the successful Nightblade series. In graphics cards, the MSI GTX 980 GAMING 4G was showcased, while in motherboards, the company showed the all new high-end X99A GODLIKE GAMING motherboard.

Representatives from MSI’s major allies Intel, A-Volute Audio Company (Nahimic Taiwan) and Rivet Networks introduced in turn their latest and greatest technologies in the conference. Intel unveiled the method implemented for Intel’s all-new 5th Generation Core processors to outperform its previous versions.

A-Volute briefed the Nahimic Sound Technology and showed its high definition sound quality on a GE72 laptop. Rivet Networks brought networking solutions such as the Killer Wireless-AC 1535, the world’s first network adapter to offer ExtremeRange Technology.

Also SteelSeries and XSplit Gamecaster of SplitmediaLabs presented their gaming peripherals and smooth live streaming at the MSI Gaming launch event. At the event, MSI also announced that the 2015 Masters Gaming Arena (MGA) will kick off with regional qualifiers for the United States, Europe and Asia.

This month, the first qualifier will start in Asia and the rest of the regions in the following weeks. Gamers will be up for a $200,000 prize pool plus free tickets to the United States in the Grand Finals. For this, the company has partnered with Blizzard Entertainment and Electronic Sports League (ESL). MGA 2015 will feature StarCraft II and Heroes of the Storm, both developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

MSI also highlighted its diverse array of gaming lineup of of laptops, motherboards, graphics cards, and AIO PCs. Highlights included award-winning products such as the GT72 Dominator Pro, the GT80 SLI Gaming 24GE 2QE 4K All-In-One PC, and X99A GAMING 9 ACK motherboard.

One of the standout products at the launch event was the company’s X99A GODLIKE GAMING motherboard. The X99A GODLIKE GAMING is world’s first RGB LED motherboard, supporting more than 2000 colours and many style presets such as breathing, flashing and waving.The X99A GODLIKE GAMING employs the latest Audio Boost 3 PRO technology to deliver crystal clear sound quality and lossless audio compression.

For efficient data transfer, Turbo M.2, SATA Express and USB 3.1 are supported. The X99A GODLIKE GAMING also adopts the latest Killer DoubleShot-X3 PRO. Smart teaming with two Killer Ethernet chips and Killer 1535 Wi-Fi module, X99A GODLIKE GAMING can provide up to 2.867Gbps of network bandwidth for hardcore gamers. The Mystic Light, another special feature, lets users easily control the LED light effects with the MSI Gaming APP on OS and the Mystic Light APP on Android mobile devices.

Click here to check out our photo gallery featuring MSI’s Computex Taipei 2015 booth and products on display.