MSI has a compact duo for gaming, announced the Z87I motherboard, and GTX 760 Gaming ITX. With the products aimed MSI on gamers who have a small system want to build, but not too many concessions in terms of performance to do so.
The Z87I Gaming AC motherboard is a mitx board with the Z87 Express chipset despite its small size, some for gamers interesting properties. So the board will be a Network Killer E2205 gigabitethernet adapter on board, but for wireless applications, there is also support for 802.11 a/b/g/n/ ac-wi-fi and Intel’s Wireless Display supported.
Further, there are according to the specifications five sata-600 interfaces and an esata variant. Also, a displayport, hdmi and dvi connection is present, and provides the board six usb 3.0 and four usb 2.0 ports. The motherboard has finally a single pci-e 3.0 interface.
The GTX 760 Gaming ITX is a compact video card with dimensions of 170x111x41mm and is, therefore, as long as the mitx board. The clock speed is 1006MHz with boostclock for a gpu frequency up to 1072MHz. MSI provides, the card’s 2GB of gddr5 memory, dl-dvi-i, hdmi and mini-displayport. The card is cooled by MSI’s new Radax fan, which is cooling via radial and axial air flows to realize and the heat on the back of the card releases.
When the two products in the Netherlands are available and for what price is not yet known.
