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Press Release: MSI Introduces the New NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 Family Graphics Cards

NOTE: This is a press release. It presented exactly as the company released it with no editing by SFF.N. While we at SFF.N try avoid using direct press releases for our news coverage, there are instances when doing so is necessary due to time constraints. — [Taipei, Taiwan] MSI, as a leading brand in True Gaming hardware, is excited to announce the latest graphics card line-up featuring the NVIDIA GeForce RTX™ 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 graphics processors. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4060 Ti will be available in both a 16GB and 8GB configuration, offering gamers a choice to suit their …
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MSI Launches an Embedded Tiger Lake Thin-ITX Board

Source: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tiger-lake-mini-itx-motherboard-msi Product page: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/PRO-HM570TI-B-I526/ One of our favourite form factors is Thin-ITX, a slimmed down version of M-ITX, more aimed at prebuilts and All-in-One PCs. However, these boards offer a world of possibility in our pursuit of small. MSI has just launched the PRO-HM570TI-B-I526, a Thin-ITX board with an embedded Intel Tiger Lake i5-11260H. This processor is a 6c12t with a max boost of 4.4 GHz. Depending on your TDP setting in BIOS, the CPU can run at a base clock of 2.1GHz at 35w or 2.4GHz at 45w. A pair of DDR4 SODIMMs are supported, with a maximum …
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GPU Review: MSI RTX 3060Ti Aero ITX OC LHR

  Note: The conclusion of this video card has been updated due to increased availability as of 7-27-2022.   The MSI RTX 3060Ti Aero ITX 8G OC LHR (Aero 3060Ti for short) is a one-of-a-kind video card. It’s currently the only single fan RTX 3060Ti on the market, and the only 3060ti designed to fit ultra-compact ITX cases. The card’s length is a mere 172mm. The next smallest 3060Ti is the EVGA RTX 3060 TI XC Gaming, and is nearly 3cm longer at 201.8mm long. Three centimeters may not sound like much, but in the small form factor world it’s …
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MSI’s ITX 1660 Ti and 1660 Cards Appear

With the impeding retail launch of the NVIDIA 1660 series cards (ugh, naming schemes), we were expecting to see product pages appear. Lo and behold, MSI’s ITX cards in the family have appeared! The links to these cards were sent through our tip line – thanks! Keeping the same shroud as the previous generation Aero cards, not much has changed on the outside. It’s the inside where things have iterated. Both cards feature a 192 bit memory bus, are rated at 120W, and have a single layer of rear ports, with DisplayPort x 1 (v1.4), HDMI 2.0b, and DL-DVI-D. HDCP support …
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MSI at Computex 2018

SFF Network’s COMPUTEX 2018 coverage is sponsored by SilverStone, who’s celebrating 15 years of innovation in SFF and beyond. Click here to check out their website and to learn more about their latest products. Rushing through the halls of the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre between meetings, we discovered MSI had their products on show, as expected. Let’s see what they had to show us! First up, MSI’s Z370i Gaming Pro Carbon AC (can we suggest a word limit to product names? Please?). This Coffee Lake board features the usual assortment of ports, but in MSI’s own style. We do appreciate …
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Laptop Launch Extravaganza!

Earlier this week, the rest of Intel’s 300 series of chipsets and a few related mobile processors were released, meaning every man and his dog has updated their existing lineup, or launched new products based on the new chips. Here’s a roundup of some of the more interesting laptop-related tidbits, in no particular order; Intel Not to be overshadowed by all the manufacturer launches, Intel has also launched a product of their own, an i9 Mobile processor. Specifically, the Core i9-8950HK, a 2.9GHz, 45w rated part. Based on the Coffee Lake silicon (on 14nm), the chip features 6 cores, 12 …
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Intel H370, H310 and B360 Chipset Boards Incoming!

Thanks to Techpowerup! and VideoCardz for doing the legwork on this one. With the month or two of Intel’s Z370 chipset being available, we’re finally seeing more budget friendly boards readying for launch. Here’s a roundup of the SFF friendly models! ASUS ASUS STRIX B360-G GAMING ASUS TUF B360M-E GAMING ASUS PRIME H310M-A ASUS PRIME H310M-D ASUS PRIME H310M-E ASUS PRIME H310M-K ASUS TUF H310M PLUS GAMING ASUS PRIME B360M-K ASUS STRIX H370-I ASUS STRIX XB360-I     ASRock ASRock B360M-HDV ASRock H370M-ITX/ac ASRock H310M-ITX/ac ASRock H310M-HDVP ASRock H310M-HDV ASRock H310M-G/M.2 ASRock H310M-DGS ASRock B360M-ITX/ac   Gigabyte GIGABYTE H370M D3H …
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Day 3 at CES 2018 – A Roundup

Once again, our team of Drew and Tim (3lfk1ng and ||| respectively on the forum) knocked it out of the park and spread the word of SFF to the tech world at CES. Here’s a roundup of the “extras” from today’s adventures.   The beautiful Open Bench Table Mini was present, and yes, I want one. Bad! Suitably sized, of course. This one seems.. familiar! The only AM4 Mini-ITX motherboard that we haven’t tested yet – come on ASUS!   MSI once again showed off their Trident and Vortex SFF prebuilts – although word is they will be discontinuing most …