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PRESS RELEASE
     

December, 2008

        
         

MSI launches first micro-ATX Home Theatre board with DrMOS:
G45M Digital with power saving DrMOS & APS
 






  Today, MSI launches the world’s first micro-ATX motherboard, G45M Digital, which utilizes server-class DrMOS and APS (Active Phase Switching), providing the best energy-saving solution for entertainment applications. The MSI G45M Digital is passively cooled and equipped with Intel® X4500HD chipset, making this mainboard a perfect solution for a Home Theatre PC: small sized, silent and capable of playing all HD content fluently. Through hardware decoding acceleration, users can enjoy Blu-ray high definition movies. MSI G45M Digital also provides HDMI, DVI, D-Sub multiple display output, as well as 8-channel HD audio quality; enabling users to experience the best multimedia applications.

Server-Class DrMOS Technology and MSI APS (Active Phase Switching)
“Tom’s Hardware” mainboard-efficiency test in November 2008 concluded that MSI mainboards with DrMOS and APS offer the most efficient power saving solution: “Unlike other solutions, APS works”. DrMOS enables the G45M Digital motherboard to work cool and efficient. Therefore, the MSI G45M Digital only needs 4 DrMOS chips, unlike traditional discrete MOSFET designs with 12 or even 16 MOSFETS. The reduced number of MOSFET components now results in less power loss and less heat.

APS switches the number of power phases corresponding to the needs of the CPU load. With fewer phases the system works more efficient at lower CPU loads. APS is manageable in the BIOS, making it OS independent, unlike other comparable solutions that are currently in the market.

Multimedia features on MSI G45M Digital
The MSI G45M Digital built-in Intel® X4500HD video core provides excellent video performance. Compared to the previous G35 built-in video core, the Intel® X4500HD was improved by 72% in 3D computing performance. Without using other independent video cards, the system can cope with most 3D games in the market. In addition, the MSI G45M Digital supports DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 applications and high-resolution HDMI (supporting HDCP and 8-channel LPCM audio) and DVI and VGA output. Next to that, the board supports SPDIF optical, eSATA 2 and Firewire. Users are able to playback HD-DVD and Blu-ray high-definition HD video smoothly with hardware decoding acceleration as well, even when the CPU is in low-load.

For more information about price and availability, please contact a local official MSI distributor.

About MSI

MSI is proud of its more than 20 years experience in designing and manufacturing high performance IT products. The product lines of MSI are motherboards, graphic cards, notebooks, consumer electronics, barebones, networking and server products, and fully integrated add-on peripherals. With its ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 qualified facilities, MSI products provide the ultimate performance, reliability and value-increasing productivity. We distribute our products through offices located in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine, Russia, United States, Canada, Mexico, Latin America, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, India and Australia.
MSI markets its products to distributors, computer system manufacturers, and system integrators. For more information visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.msi.eu.

Mystar Computer BV (MSI in the Netherlands) was established in 1998. Having its own facility in Son near Eindhoven, it handles all marketing, sales, logistics and after-sales-service for its customers throughout Europe.

For more information regarding this release please contact:
Mystar Computer BV
Joran Schoonderwoerd, Marketing Communication Officer
Tel: + 31 40 267 66 07 / Fax: +31 40 267 66 22
E-mail: joran.schoonderwoerd@msi.eu; Internet: www.msi.eu