Reminder to all MSI Dragon Army, hurry and redeem before the promo ends!

[NEW!]NVIDIA GeForce Pick Your Path Game Bundle



You're a gamer, and we have the hottest titles this holiday for whatever you like to play. Buy any MSI Notebook with GTX 970M/980M. and get a game code. You can pick the path of an assassin, a freedom fighter, or a racer, and download Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, or The Crew for free. For further details, please follow the steps below of registration for getting game code.

Promotion Date: 20th November 2014 - 20th January 2015

Game Code Expiry Date: 20th February 2015

Game Code Redeem Type: Digital Code

Eligible MSI Notebook Models:
GT72 2QE
GT72 2QD
GS70 2QE
GS60 2QE

Bundle Games (Choose 1 out of 3 games):
The Crew
Far Cry 4
Assassin's Creed Unity

Note: To be eligible, consumers must purchase MSI Notebook with GTX970M or GTX980M from 20th Nov 2014 to 20th Jan 2015. The redemption is available from 20th Nov 2014 to 20th Jan 2015 or till supplies last.

Read here for guide to redeem your game code: http://bit.ly/msimynb_nvidiapickyourpath2014

CES 2015: New launches

A lot of you will be familiar with the new gaming notebooks launched by MSI, as we've already been making some noise about the GT80 SLI Titan as well as the GS30 Shadow beforehand. However, we want to clarify what's what and what's new, going into 2015:



GT80 SLI Titan
The new top of the range offering, a true desktop replacement with a standard keycap size mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches. 18.4” 1080P screen with a PLS panel driven by two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M (with plenty of external outputs for higher-res external monitors), and the usual Super RAID features, tons of RAM and even an Intel Core i7-4980HQ if you wish. Plenty of cooling capacity ensures the GT80 stays cool, employing a total of 8 heatpipes, while still keeping the weight down to 4.5kg, which is less than other systems in this size range.

Just like the GT72 Dominator, you're given plenty of upgrade options with the GT80, where you can upgrade SSDs, HDD, RAM yourself, while the graphics cards are upgradable via select service partners around the world.



GS30 Shadow with Gaming Dock
The GS30 Shadow itself is a very slim and light notebook, with Crystal Well CPUs from Intel and a couple of SSDs in Super RAID. Its built-in graphics comes courtesy of the CPU and Iris Pro, leaving all the graphics power to be provided through the Gaming Dock – connected via a full PCI-E 3.0 x16 docking mechanism, fitting a standard PCI-E desktop graphics card in the dock.

The Gaming Dock also features a 3.5” SATA HDD, USB 3.0, LAN and Audio I/O, so you can leave everything plugged in at home (external monitor, keyboard/mouse, speakers) and just grab the GS30 to go when needed.



GE62 Apache
An all new model to sit below the GT and GS range, the GE62 moves slightly upfield from its predecessor GE60. With NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M and 970M graphics and better cooling, the performance is higher than the one of the GE60, while also being a lot more stylish and contemporary thanks to its new design.

The GE62 also receives a fully backlit SteelSeries keyboard complete with SteelSeries Engine 3.0 as well as a massively improved battery life.

GS30 Shadow - The Gaming Dock

The GS30 Shadow was just launched at CES, and already there are questions going around, mainly related to the Gaming Dock. For those of you still unfamiliar with the GS30 Shadow, it's a slim 13.3” notebook with a high-end Core i7 CPU with Iris Pro graphics, Super RAID with a bunch of SSDs – with no real gaming capabilities of its own.

The Gaming Dock though, changes all this. You simply dock the notebook into it and through magic (a PCI-E 3.0 x16 connector), you can hook up any desktop graphics to your GS30. The dock holds said PCI-E connector, a bunch of USB ports, a Killer LAN port, audio jacks, a 3.5” HDD as well as speakers in the front panel. The idea is that you have everything plugged in at home (including external monitor(s), keyboard and mouse) and simply pop in the GS30 when you get back home from work or school.



Obviously there are technical limitations as well, that we want to highlight. You can't use the built-in monitor on the GS30, because all PCI-E signals are being sent to the gaming dock when plugged in. This also extends to the keyboard, touchpad and speakers, meaning you must have these separately on your desk. It's sort of the point of the Gaming Dock, using the keyboard on top of the dock would most likely be uncomfortable, but we still want to make it clear.

All in all, we're excited to have launched the GS30 Shadow with it's full-bandwidth Gaming Dock, as it fuses full-powered desktop graphics where you want it (at home) with a properly mobile notebook for the road.

Thunderbolt 2: Performance

Intel’s proprietary multi-purpose interface Thunderbolt has always been a high-performance solution for connecting up your external devices, although it has never really made an impact on the consumer market. In other words, it is an interface for mostly professional users, and one we proudly feature in the MSI Workstation series, and you can clearly see the performance benefits in the chart below.



USB 3.0 is undoubtedly a big step up from USB 2.0, but if you often transfer large files back and forth from your workstation, Thunderbolt 2.0 will save you time counted in days rather than hours over the course of a year.

Thunderbolt 2.0 is available on the MSI WS60.

GT80 Titan SLI – the keyboard

Just revealed at CES earlier this month is the all-new MSI GT80 Titan SLI – the world’s first gaming notebook with a mechanical keyboard. We’ve spoken about it at length at the launch itself, and it is pretty eye-catching, so it didn’t go unnoticed even for the most battle-hardened media visiting.


In any case – you know about the GT80 Titan SLI, it comes with dual 980M graphics and high-power CPUs, but the party piece is its mechanical keyboard. For now, we’re offering the GT80 with Cherry MX Brown switches, but for the future, there might be different offerings, such as MX Red.



The reasons we’ve chosen the Brown switches can be seen on the picture above. Cherry itself positions it as an “advanced gaming switch”, and being a gaming notebook, it’s a bit of a no-brainer. It is also a silent solution, unlikely to upset anyone unnecessarily.