MSI parades new Prestige laptops with Intel's Panther Lake
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Sleek shells, flashy OLED panels and battery life that sounds like a dare.

MSI has wheeled out its next Prestige lineup and stuffed it with Troubled Chipzilla’s coming Panther Lake Core Ultra Series 3 processors, giving the press in New York a taste of what the firm wants you to ogle in 2026.

JEDEC cooks up chunky new DDR5 standard
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Friday, 21 November 2025 10:34

JEDEC cooks up chunky new DDR5 standard


Quad-rank CKDs promise fatter modules for next-gen desktops

JEDEC is hammering out a CQDIMM standard for DDR5 CKD memory that will let future platforms cram in far higher capacities without slowing everything to a crawl.

Memory makers hit the panic button as DRAM dries up
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Stockpiling, shortages and silly prices are now the industry’s default setting.

The memory world has wandered straight into a supply shock, and every big name is now stuffing its warehouses like doomsday preppers.

MSI RTX 5090 user suffers from a melted connector twice
Published in Graphics


16-pin power plug problems continue to plague Nvidia’s flagship GPUs

Another MSI GeForce RTX 5090 owner has reported the familiar smell of burning plastic, after the card’s 16-pin power connector melted not once but twice in just a few weeks.

MSI cooks up RTX50 ‘Extreme OC’ cards
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Thursday, 11 September 2025 11:18

MSI cooks up RTX50 ‘Extreme OC’ cards


Afterburner dev handed early samples with unlocked voltage toys

MSI looks set to revive its Lightning branding with new RTX 50 GPUs kitted out for lunatic overclockers, and the developer behind Afterburner already has his hands on the first samples.

MSI drops Godlike X870E monster with Zen-boosted max mobos
Published in PC Hardware


Limited-edition board hits 7.3 Ghz while rest of lineup promises 15 per cent Ryzen uplift

MSI has wheeled out its full range of AM5 “X870E MAX” motherboards, topped off with a limited-edition monster that comes with gold trim and a stuffed dragon [no really? ed].

MSI officially launches Geforce RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti EXPERT graphics cards
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Aimed at creators, professionals, and advanced users

MSI has unveiled two new RTX 50 series graphics cards that will be a part of its EXPERT series, the GeForce RTX 5080 16G EXPERT and RTX 5070 Ti 16G EXPERT graphics cards.

MSI posts record motherboard shipments
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 28 July 2025 10:39

MSI posts record motherboard shipments


Eyes AI server push and US expansion

MSI has smashed past the 10 million mark in motherboard shipments for the first time, closing in on rival Gigabyte and hitting a major milestone in the consumer PC space.

Nvidia board partners unleash custom RTX 5050 cards ahead of launch
Published in PC Hardware


ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte and ZOTAC flood the shelves with overclocked variants


Nvidia's board partners have jumped the gun on the GeForce RTX 5050 launch, rolling out a barrage of custom designs that go well beyond the reference specs.

MSI glues AI to a gaming rig and calls it the Vision X AI
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Touchscreen cosplay meets overkill performance at Computex

MSI’s Computex 2025 stand wasn’t short on spectacle, but one of its gaudier displays was the MEG Vision X AI, a prebuilt gaming PC with a 13-inch front-facing touchscreen pretending to be an “AI Human Machine Interface.”