Friday, February 22nd 2013
MSI G-Series Motherboard Teased
A little earlier today, MSI announced it would be integrating the Bigfoot Killer NIC, a latency optimized network controller that is designed to help online gaming, into some of its gaming notebooks and motherboards. We're hearing that MSI plans to carve out an entirely new gamer-centric motherboard brand extension, along the lines of ASUS Republic of Gamers, Gigabyte G1.Killer, and ASRock Fatal1ty series. MSI transferred branding over from its G-Series gaming notebooks over to create the new motherboard series, one of which was teased to the press earlier today.
Pictured below is a section of a new socket LGA1155 G-Series motherboard. According to sources, the board pictured below looks essentially identical to the Z77A-GD65, with a few obvious changes: color scheme changed to black and red with swanky VRM and chipset heatsinks; and Bigfoot Killer E2200 network controller by Qualcomm-Atheros. The NIC works to minimize latency to game servers, and lets you prioritize available bandwidth to specific apps. One could expect MSI's G-Series motherboard line to be out by Cebit (March, 2013), with a lot more of such teasers along the way.
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Pictured below is a section of a new socket LGA1155 G-Series motherboard. According to sources, the board pictured below looks essentially identical to the Z77A-GD65, with a few obvious changes: color scheme changed to black and red with swanky VRM and chipset heatsinks; and Bigfoot Killer E2200 network controller by Qualcomm-Atheros. The NIC works to minimize latency to game servers, and lets you prioritize available bandwidth to specific apps. One could expect MSI's G-Series motherboard line to be out by Cebit (March, 2013), with a lot more of such teasers along the way.
19 Comments on MSI G-Series Motherboard Teased
This is on my home connection, and it has since been upgraded( I now get 2.0 MB/s). But at the time, I tried Intel-based NICs, Realtek, Broadcomm, and KIllerNIC. KillerNIC won overall.
MSI has dragons... just as gross as the guns thing. I just like plan simple heatsinks
But why bother with Z77, shouldn't they be showing off their Z87s?
I hope they make a powerful mini-ITX model.
But I do like that monolith of a chipset cooler, more metal = more heat it can remove.These are usually stuck under video cards with no air flow so having fins on them don't really work too well.
The KillerNiIC isn't too bad in some areas, mainly WoW with its auful coding is pretty much it. Just use an Intel PT/CT otherwise :D
But seriously, MSI's EFI is painful to work with.
i'm sure it's sufficient but that's shitty cooler design right there.
intels own chipset coolers are tiny so the ioh (or whatever it's called now) doesn't really make much heat anyway, and the KillerNIC doesn't need cooling either if it's under there.