News: Novità da MSI

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<br>Il noto produttore di componenti per PC ha presentato recentemente due prodotti molto interessanti.<br>Uno di questi è la celeberrima KT8Neo, scheda madre per Athlon64 con socket754, basata sul chipset K8T800 di VIA unito al Southbridge VT8237 della stessa casa. La dotazione e le caratteristiche del prodotto sono davvero molto interessanti:<p>
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MSI™, first-tier leader in motherboard and graphics card industry, today debuts MSI™ K8T Neo, Socket 754 mainboard based on VIA® K8T800 and VT8237 chipset. <br>

Supporting the latest AMD® Athlon 64™ and upcoming socket 754 AMD® processors, K8T Neo comes with 3 DIMM slots which support up to 3GB of DDR400 (PC3200), DDR333 (PC2700) and DDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM. <br>

Adopting AMD® new HypertTransport™ technology with 6.4GB/s speed to transfer between Athlon64 and K8T800 North Bridge. Fully support AMD64™ 64bit technology at exceptional performance levels.<br><br>


K8T Neo, the first AMD® platform mainboard equips D.O.T. (Dynamic Overclocking Technology) with 10% maximum automatic overclocking. As the long-term strategic partner to each other, AMD® gave MSI™ the precedence to support AMD® Cool'n'Quiet? Technology. Coordinate with MSI™ BuzzFree technology, the smartfan solution inside CoreCell chip. Cool'n'Quiet and BuzzFree could efficiently reduce annoying noise and heat load.<br><br>

MSI™ implement most wanted features for performance enthusiasts. To optimze hard drive velocity and security, onboard Promise RAID controller could incorporate with integrated VIA® RAID, supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1. Realtek Gigabit LAN controller bring user better performance than integrated Ethernet solution.<br><br>

To enhance overall system performance, K8T Neo is Serial ATA ready, advanced users only need to install Serial ATA-compatible hard drives to enjoy super-speed data transfer at 150MB/sec, which is faster than ATA133 at 133MB/sec. Moreover, the Serial ATA ribbon cable is thinner and longer to solve cooling problems inside the case and facilitate hard drive connection. <br><br>

The 5.1 channel Audio integrated to K8T Neo allows users who want quality sound effects to realize the home theater dream by simply connecting six speakers to the output. It is ideal for enjoying 3D games and cinemas. <br><br>


Besides one AGP 8x slot, five standard PCI slots, K8T Neo is delivered with Live Update? 3 and CoreCenter™ utilities, which are exclusively designed by MSI™ for friendly operation and easy maintenance. Other exclusive MSI™ features that come with K8T Neo include:<br><br>

Meta I/O™ --
<br>The most integrated rear I/O for all external accessories. Including both type of SPDIF, Coaxial and Optical; successfully combine 6pin and 4pin IEEE1394 connector together for PC and DV camcorder.<br><br>

CoreCell Chip brings 4 technical features: <br>
Speedster, BuzzFree, PowerPro and LifePro. The Speedster technology of CoreCell Chip contains most flexible BIOS options for overclocking, including async mode of FSB and memory frequency, 0.05V increment for memory voltage adjustment and the minimal increment of 0.0125V for Vcore.
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BuzzFree technology examines current system utilization and temperature before leveraging thermal requirement & fan speed. Dramatically cut up to 50% of system noise, get rid of the annoying buzz. Improve the quality of audio and video appreciation.<br><br>

PowerPro technology is a power management solution that moderate power consumption up to 67%. Assures motherboard stability and empowers O.C capability.<br><br>


LifePro technology prolongs motherboard, CPU and fan life by maintaining them under best condition. Detect and manage motherboard utilization. Eliminate the possible factors and keep away from system crash.<br><br>

CoreCenter™- as the all-in-one hardware console, which is advanced combination of the popular PC Alert and Fuzzy Logic. Including powerful function with hardware monitor, system alert and instinctive UI of overclocking.<br><br>

Live Update™ 3-it has integrated MSI™'s Live BIOS™, Live Driver™, Live VGA BIOS™, Live VGA Driver™ and Live Utility™ into one single utility for automatic BIOS and Driver updates. Advanced users may set the time for automatic BIOS, Driver and MSI™ Utility updates and receive the latest information about MSI™ products and activities to enjoy support from MSI™.

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Molto interessante il rilascio di una scheda video, basata su GeForceFX5600, dotata di un innovativo dissipatore passivo ad alte prestazioni. La nuova tecnologia di raffreddamento è denominata "Aeronautical Cooling Technology" che permette la trasmissione del calore prodotto dalla GPU fino alle alette periferiche con un ritardo di soli 1 secondo senza alcun rumore prodotto.<p>
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TAIPEI, Taiwan- What is the next generation cooling technology breakthrough in VGA? Silence and coolness is all you need! MSI™ Co., Ltd. today announces the next generation cooling technology- Aeronautical Cooling Technology / 1 & 0 Guarantee. MSI™ A.C.T. Technology applies the cutting-edged aero-nautical thermal material on the MSI™ FX series graphic card to meet the most critical heat produced by FX5600 GPU also with the silent "fans-less" design to build up a new standard of "Silence PC" in the IT industry.<br><br>



1 Second Thermal Conducting <br>
0 (db) Noise Level for the Cooling System <br><br>

MSI™ A.C.T. Technology employs the high-pressurized liquid gas as the thermal conducting material- Heatlane™, which has the capability 70 times faster than solid aluminum to relay the 80°C to 120°C heat less than 1 second from one end to the other end (30cm). While the bubble (inside A.C.T. encompassed aluminum lane & fin ) heated, the inflated bubble will move with the liquid gas and the heat to the low-pressurized area. The heated and high-pressurized bubbles will release the heat at the cool end and de-pressurize; then, back-flow to the heated side to absorb the heat to complete the cooling cycle of the heat transferring and dissipating. MSI™ A.C.T. material- HeatlaneTM- is originally used in the aircraft, such as supersonic jet-plane, or space shuttle, and the quality and cooling performance all lead to the extreme critical aircraft and space industry standard.

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As the powerful GPU become smaller and smaller and their heat flux become increasingly higher recently, it is becoming difficult to cope with the thermal problems with the conventional heat sinks which mainly depend on the thermal conductivity of the material itself. On the other hand, MSI™ A.C.T. technology by using Heatlane? quickly spread the heat and expand the radiation area, and, using efficient low height fins, effectively cool down the elements of high heat flux. Also, unlike heat pipe heat sinks, there is no limitation to the position to install MSI™'s Heatlane? heat sink.<br><br>



Owners of MSI™ A.C.T. FX5600 SERIES will appreciate revolutionary features such as:<br>


Aeronautical Cooling Technology- with the aeronautical material, the performance and stability could be largely enhanced. Even, the extremely long-hours use of PC will be stable still!<br>

E3 PowerCube- energy saving, performance enhanced, and endurance of components are what E3 PowerCube could maximize the capabilities of FX5600. <br>

MSI™'s Media Center Deluxe II, the industry-leading multimedia software provides the DVDs playing, music listening, photo viewing, and remote control for the application.

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