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A photo tour of the MSI booth at Computex 2010.

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MSI's booth from the front, showing their very colourful LED display.

It changes between their three new catch-cries: Performance, Sound and Vision.

Just look at all those shiny LEDs!

MSI's new gaming series logo, showing their 'Draken' badge.

Here's the first entrant into their gaming rigs, the Draken S1.

MSI's logo and Draken badge have been applied to Thermaltake's Level 10 case, one that we saw at Computex last year.

The specs of the S1 are pretty interesting: Intel Core i7, 8GB Kingston 1600MHz DDR3, MSI 5850, Asetek liquid cooler.

This is a cheaper case in the Draken series, the M1.

It's got a very glossy finish on the front, with the Draken logo taking pride of place in the centre of the fascia.

The sidepanel comes with a large fan - the M1 has identical tech inside as the S1 case.

Here's a system whose name we didn't grab, but it's the most impressive one we've seen for a while! Looks like a truck, only more awesome.

Inside it's running a P55-GD55, which seems to be a midrange board. There is a Core i7 chip, an Asetek liquid cooling system, and plenty of custom mods.

This acrylic panel is one of them. MSI's logo is highlighted in an etched panel of acrylic, edge-lit by blue LEDs. Very swish.

The two 5850's in Crossfire also have two rows of LEDs along them, interestingly a part of the case design. Lights pulse along the length of the cards while the system is powered.

With a smattering of lights in the case, MSI have thrown in two Voltmeters to show the 5V rail (top) and the 12V rail (bottom) in real-time. The PSU chamber is treated to a thermometer.

The top of the case features red lighting mixed with white highlights and a strong blue glow. A Zalman ZM-RC1000 cools the memory sticks.

For those not a fan of the lighting in the case (or who simply would like to sleep at some point in the future) MSI have wired all the lights in the case to these three switches. Much awesome.

The front of the case has red LEDs behind a meshed door, and a screen that monitors system temp. Thermal probes to the CPU, GPU and HDD, as well as fan controlling.

There's a carbon fibre analogue at the top of the case (plastic), and the I/O panel offers two USB, mic/audio, eSATA, power and reset. Hoping to get a review sample of this in the near future!

A new gaming lappy, the GT660. It's got all of MSI's latest features, including a polarised screen that does a sort-of 3D.

The speakers in this lappy are provided by Dyna Audio - at a significant cost. We hear that they make a real difference, but haven't actually heard the speakers themselves yet.

The GT660 also has lighting at the front corners, very neat.

And the top shell reminds us of an Alienware system!

It also comes in red, for those who don't like black.

There's a whole line of lappies, but the most interesting one is in that plastic cage at the end. Wonder what's in that one...

Fermi is in it! This is apparently the prototype gaming machine that'll have some form of NVIDIA's power-hungry beast in it, though we didn't get much information about it.

That honeycomb applique looks interesting though! They've also moved their gaming series of laptops to the 'Chiclet' keyboard design, which we prefer.

MSI also showed off their Wind AE2420 3D, which like the name suggests, does 3D.

MSI is sponsoring the development of 3DMark 11, and had a live demo running at their booth. It was slightly buggy owing to incredibly beta code, but still looked fantastic.

MSI have spent quite a lot of money on branding within 3DMark 11, getting their logo and slogan on the submersible within this test. It'll fund the free version of the benchmark, so it's a welcome logo.

The system running the benchmark had two 5870 Lightnings in Crossfire, which seemed to run the test at a decent clip.

The 'Entry' preset of the show-only build had a res of 1024x500, 1xMSAA, Trilinear filtering, 2xAA, No Tessellation, Medium textures.

The 'Extreme' preset had a res of 1920x1080, 4xMSAA, Anisotropic filtering, 16XAF, full Tessellation, high textures.

MSI were also showing off their Lucid Hydra boards, the latest of which seems to be an AMD 870A board called the 870A Fuzion.

It was running two cards, one from ATI and one NVIDIA. Specifically the 5770 HAWK and the GTS250.

You can just see the heatsink through the side here, which cools the Lucid chip. It's the tall one behind the graphics card.

MSI had their GTX465 on show, a limited edition version that'll only have 3000 units made worldwide.

It's got "Dual fans, doubly cool". Well, whatever, there's enough copper there to cool even the hottest of cards!

MSI also had their 5870 Lightning on display in its naked form. Check out that card in our gallery!

MSI's version of the GTX480, covered in a copper waterblock. Very nice!

MSI took us to meet GUS - short for Graphics Upgrade Solution.

It's an external box that comes with a 90W power adapter and enough room to squeeze in a graphics card - in this case a 5670. There's no PCIe connector, so it's restricted to lower-end cards that can be powered by the PCIe bus.

GUS interfaces with a lappy through the ExpressCard slot, which has a rough PCIe bandwidth of....1x. Still, MSI reckon it's more than enough bandwidth for the graphics card, and will give a measurable boost to lappy gaming. Only PCIe 1.1 spec.

GUS also has a few USB ports integrated into it, that use the ExpressCard bus as well. It can't be used without a restart, and if unplugged while in the OS, it'll cause a bluescreen.

Here's a MSI employee who is painting their masterpiece on a very expensive canvas.

Lucky for him that it's multitouch and sensitive enough to pick up the brushstrokes! Plus it's erasable. Ah the wonders of technology.

MSI also showed off a 6-screen Eyefinity setup running through DVI, not the accepted DisplayPort. To do it though, they need a buttload of converters.

Six of them, to be exact! It'll be an exciting year for MSI - and it's looking much more interesting than it did at CES earlier this year. Keep your eyes peeled for reviews of the exciting MSI gear to see if they're any good!

MSI's booth from the front, showing their very colourful LED display.

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MSI turns heads with LEDs and tech

A photo tour of the MSI booth at Computex 2010.

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