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As is often the case whenever the end of a calendar year appears close, consumer electronics companies are racing to release as many products that are somewhat pricey, but not to he point that they aren’t in the impulse purchase territory as possible. That was a mouthful of a sentence, but so is the list of new gadgets MSI will have in store for us across the United States, starting today.

Those include, but aren’t limited to the IMMERSE HS01 COMBO headset stand, doubling as a wireless charger, the CLUTCH GM20 ELITE wired gaming mouse, a pair of wired headphones called the IMMERSE GH61, and a new mechanical keyboard in the form of the VIGOR GK20. Official pricing details are still up in the air but expect the entirety of this new portfolio to be in the $70-$170 range, based on both precedent and MSI’s own track record. As the company will certainly be looking to push all of them hard this holiday season.

Oh, and all of these new devices will also be controllable via an entirely new software suite for Windows PC called the MSI Dragon Center, which appears to be pretty similar to what we’re already used to from Razer (Central, formerly Razer Synapse).

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Computer hardware and accessory maker Micro-Star International today announced its newest monitor, which happens to be debuting as part of an entirely fresh brand, as well.

We are talking about the MSI Artymis series, which is how the company is calling another major innovation orchestrated by its talented product design and logistics teams. Namely, the MSI Artymis marks the debut of the first 1000R curved monitors ever created.

Which is a remarkable achievement that we would have expected to end up in the trophy cabinet of some much larger company with more widespread display industry dominance. We won’t name any names, but the one that comes to mind as a much more obvious choice starts with an S and ends with amsung.

Anyway, it is MSI that is now making history with a seminal 1000R monitor instead. For those not in the know, the said designation refers to the curvature ratio of the display. In this instance, it describes a panel that would form a circle with a 1,000mm (1 meter) radius if its sides just kept expanding until meeting one another. So, one way to look at the MSI Artymis is as a beginning of a sizable sphere with a 2-meter diameter.

Other key features of this device include intelligent brightness management, built-in speakers with a microphone array capable of noise cancellation, display-level customization of in-game crosshairs (or just the ability to add a reticule to game that don’t have one), and something called Night Vision AI which promises to help you spot enemies at night.

No, not the neighbors, this is still just a gaming gimmick – one that will definitely ensure the MSI Artymis will be banned from coming into 15 feet of any eSports competition, at that. Speaking of a lack of arrivals, MSI has yet to even mention any pricing and availability info concerning this monitor.

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MSI seems ready to rethink budget gaming motherboards with the B560 and H510, a pair of mobos that start at just $89.

How far can two figures go in the world of motherboards?

The B560 and H510 were unveiled in a pretty casual manner during the latest episode of the MSI Insider Show. You can watch the whole YouTube broadcast below, but the main takeaway is that MSI is seriously pushing the envelope for what constitutes a budget gaming PC motherboard. Namely, the B560 and H510 will start at $99 and $89, respectively. As per usual, MSI has a handful of designs based on both of these reference boards in the works. And sitting on the opposite end of the price spectrum is the MPG B560I Gaming Edge WiFi, which stands to retail at $159. As that mouthful of a name suggests, this particular implementation offers integrated Wi-Fi capabilities. And it’s far from the only one to do so.

The MSI H510 and B560 have both been designed for Intel’s incoming 11th-Generation processors from the so-called Rocket Lake-S family. MSI will be specifically targeting small form factors with many individual models. But if its aggressive pricing is still not to one’s liking, all Rocket Lake-S processors will also be compatible with MSI 400-series motherboards. As for the new products, the MSI B560 and H510 will become available for purchase across the U.S. in the coming weeks.

Source: MSI.com

The latest announcement out of MSI’s workshop isn’t centered on hardware, at least not in the way we’d expect. Instead, Micro-Star International today took the wraps off the MSI Monitor Console Mode, a software feature coming to a large number of its gaming displays that are already on the market and available to buy, as well as pretty much every future monitor that’s in the works.

The functionality in question has a pretty telling name but just for added clarity, its entire idea is to ease the concerns of future PlayStation 5 owners. If you did not hear about Sony’s curious technical decision just yet, note that the PS5 won’t offer native QHD output. Instead, QHD displays would be forced to upscale an FHD signal. This will not just degrade the quality of the final image compared to a native 4K output but also complicate the process of displaying the action on the screen to the point that it might introduce latency issues which could hurt one’s ability to compete in reflex-based multiplayer games such as shooters.

The MSI Monitor Console Mode addresses this hindrance by tricking the PS5 into sending it a 4K signal, then simply downscaling that image to a QHD one. This, in turn, will deliver better texture quality than native 1440p. As an added bonus, the HDR capabilities Sony baked into its next-generation gaming console will also work without a hitch in this mode. Of course, assuming the actual monitor in use supports HDR functionality.

As reported by Gameria.pl, Five of the latest curved monitors and three flat models from MSI’s Optix, Creator, and the newly introduced MPG Artymis series are planned to receive this feature in the coming days via an update, or will simply offer it out of the box.

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