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Digital we're here in the MSI suite at CES 2014 and they've got some pretty

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exciting stuff on display starting oh that's heavy with the R9 290x lightning

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now unlike the GTX 780 lightning which we actually checked out not that long

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ago there is no GPU reactor on the back however not to worry guys because even

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though GTX 780 lightning had a GPU

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reactor which in theory provides more power to the GPU NVIDIA has a power

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limit that's sort of a a pesky uh overclocking limiter so to speak AMD has

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imposed no such limitation on MSI so you will be able to use their triple over

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voltage features as well as this incredibly beefy I mean two and a half

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slot looking cooler to unlock the full potential of the R9 290x GPU so so it's

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got the usual features you've got a full black back plate as well as a unisync

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and then of course the massive heat pipe cooler that has four heat pipes running

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all the way through it looks like it's actually got five there's one going the other way it also has a uh try frozer

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cooler so unlike the more traditional twin frozer cooler you can not only have

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more fans you can also control them independently so the two outer ones are

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on one pwm control and the middle one is actually on a separate one now in line

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with the uh the hint before about how much power you can feed this thing it

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has two 8 Pin PCI Express power inputs

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and one PCI Express six pin power input

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so I'm pretty excited to see what we can do with that particular card when we get

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our hands on it on the other side of the spectrum we've got the GTX 760 ITX so it

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has a single 8 Pin power connector and it is only a little bit longer about an

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inch and and change longer than the length of a standard PCI Express slot

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this goes along with a bit of a a focus that MSI has here on ITX design so in

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the past we only really saw um we I mean we've seen their d87 ITX gaming branded

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motherboard but only on the Intel side well now we're getting an AMD

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performance optimized ITX board too this is on the fm2 uh plus platform it's

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going to be compatible with AMD's upcoming cavar CPU it all has PCI

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Express 16x it's got Intel uh Wi-Fi it's

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got all the kind of features that you want black PCB all that kind of stuff so

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you can now finally build a truly performance grade AMD ITX system

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something we haven't really been able to do up until now speaking of other AMD

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designs they now have gaming boards for AMD both in an ATX flavor and an matx

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flavor just as a reminder all MSI's gaming branded boards use their military

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class concept so that is high quality components they also feature audio boost

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which is a headphone amped uh audio output and they also use killer onboard

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networking in order to give give you guys that prioritization feature that

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enables your games to have the highest priority out of all of your network

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traffic of course they come with the usual MSI gaming color scheme which is a

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black and red with a matte PCB look that

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uh will definitely turn some heads the last one here we've got is a completely

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unreleased product this isn't even finished yet in fact it doesn't even

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seem to have a name it's just am1 and

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then on the back there's FS1 I whatever all of these things mean this is an AMD

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kabini board so that's not a proper desktop platform hold on a second what's

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going on well kabini actually has some pretty interesting advantages over some

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of the other processors available one is that it could be powerful enough for a

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relatively low usage desktop number two is it's available in up to an X6

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configuration and number three is the onboard Graphics aren't that bad so

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especially when you factor in the way that AMD is pushing forward on open C

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and compute to increase the performance of overall platform without focusing

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that much on CPU power the fact that you're are going to be able to have a

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socketed upgradeable kabini board and an ITX form factor could be very

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interesting to folks who are looking for something power efficient that's

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powerful enough to do basic stuff like say for example play some Super Meat Boy

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but not necessarily powerful enough for the most you know demanding games but

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could handle something like game streaming on Steam OS where's Linus

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going with this I think I just said it don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage

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