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The success of Valve's Steam Deck console has clearly inspired numerous makers of gaming hardware to try their luck with portable gaming systems. One of such companies is MSI, which introduced its Claw handheld console at CES. The Claw A1M mobile console uses Intel's latest Core Ultra 'Meteor Lake' platform along with Windows 11 operating system and is compatible with the vast majority of PC games. MSI's Claw game console is equipped with a 7-inch touch-enabled IPS LCD display with a 1920x1080 resolution, a 120 Hz refresh rate, and an up to 500 nits typical brightness (which is akin to luminance of premium laptops), which is similar to what Asus ROG Ally offers. As for audio, the gaming device comes equipped with two 2W speakers. The...
802.11ac with Killer: MSI’s Teaming Technique coming to ACK Branded Motherboards
One of the many interesting ways in which motherboard companies diversify their product ranges is with networking opportunities. In most product stacks, manufacturers use Realtek and Intel network ports...
12 by Ian Cutress on 11/4/2014MSI GT80 Titan: A Beastly Notebook with a Cherry MX Keyboard
Yesterday MSI announced their latest notebook addition, the GT80 Titan. I'm a bit unsure what to think of the notebook, but it's obviously unique in that it offers a...
34 by Jarred Walton on 10/31/2014Investigating NVIDIA's BatteryBoost with MSI GT72
BatteryBoost initially launched with the GTX 800M series earlier this year, and our first look at the technology came with the MSI GT70 with GTX 880M. That may not...
26 by Jarred Walton on 10/23/2014The AnandTech Guide to Video Card Overclocking Software
Video card overclocking has become a very popular topic amongst gamers and PC enthusiasts these days. With the release of next generation games around the corner and the growing...
59 by Michael Wilding on 10/8/2014MSI GT72 Dominator Pro: Performance Preview
NVIDIA just launched their new GTX 980M/GTX 970M GPUs, and unfortunately we were unable to get a notebook in time for testing… which just changed a few hours ago...
53 by Jarred Walton on 10/8/2014MSI Gaming Notebooks with GeForce GTX 980M and 970M
As noted in the conclusion of our GTX 980M/GTX 970M launch article, we're going to be covering some of the notebooks that are being announced today in separate Pipeline...
13 by Jarred Walton on 10/7/2014MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard Review: Five is Alive
Sometimes it feels odd to review the cheaper elements of the motherboard market. The more expensive models have more to play with, whereas the sub $160 market for Z97...
45 by Ian Cutress on 10/6/2014The Intel Haswell-E X99 Motherboard Roundup with ASUS, GIGABYTE, ASRock and MSI
The launch of Haswell-E ushered in a triumvirate of new technology – a new CPU line, a new motherboard chipset and DDR4 memory. Today we focus on the new...
62 by Ian Cutress on 9/25/2014MSI X99 Motherboards Launched: XPower, MPower, Gaming and SLI PLUS
With the X99 and Haswell-E platforms being launched today, MSI is coming to market officially with four models on sale with another coming soon. We took a look at...
2 by Ian Cutress on 8/29/2014MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 3K Review
MSI has several lines of gaming notebooks catering to different types of users. At the high-end is the GT series that supports the fastest mobile CPUs and GPUs while...
47 by Jarred Walton on 8/21/2014MSI Z97 Guard-Pro Review: Entry Level Z97 at $110
Next in our recent run of lower cost motherboards is the MSI Z97 Guard-Pro, a motherboard that MSI billed to me as one suited for the overclockable Pentium G3258...
42 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2014MSI A88X-G45 Gaming Review
One of AMD’s main selling points it likes to promote is towards the gamer, especially those on a tighter budget. This subsequently suggests to the motherboard manufacturers to build...
12 by Ian Cutress on 8/11/2014MSI’s Next Haswell-E Teaser: X99S Gaming 9 AC
The increase in leaks and teasers regarding X99 makes for some compelling reading. Shortly after showing off their X99S SLI PLUS on Facebook, a couple of Gaming 9 AC...
22 by Ian Cutress on 8/7/2014MSI Teases All Black X99S SLI PLUS
With every generation, motherboard manufacturers are increasingly using social media to provide teasers about their upcoming products. MSI had already shown one of its X99 motherboards, or at least...
10 by Ian Cutress on 8/4/2014Best PC You Can Build for Under $500
With yesterday's launch of AMD's 65W Kaveri APUs, it seemed a good time to give some recommendations for new system builds. We're starting out at the budget end of...
86 by Jarred Walton on 8/1/2014Z97 Mini-ITX Review at $140: ASRock, MSI and GIGABYTE
With every new chipset release, a large part of the community is always interested in the smaller form factor builds. Building a small yet powerful system seems to be...
38 by Ian Cutress on 7/23/2014MSI GE60 Review: Mainstream Mobile Maxwell
When NVIDIA launched their first Maxwell GPU, the GM107, back in February, they ushered in a new level of performance efficiency for desktop PCs. Given these improvements in efficiency...
64 by Jarred Walton on 7/17/2014MSI’s ECO Range of Motherboards Announced
At Computex this year, the MSI booth featured a range of new motherboards branded ‘ECO’, with the emphasis on minimizing power output while still retaining a level of functionality...
28 by Ian Cutress on 7/10/2014G.Skill Overclocking World Cup at Computex 2014: $10,000 for #1
Extreme overclocking using LN2 (Liquid Nitrogen) to get the best scores possible has had a recent infusion of interest from PC component vendors. In the past there were...
6 by Ian Cutress on 6/11/2014Computex 2014: MSI’s New ECO Motherboard Range
As part of their display at Computex, MSI was showing a new element to their range based on low power systems. The ECO range, in a white and...
15 by Ian Cutress on 6/6/2014