Debuted on the market MSI Vortex: Mini PC for gamers
Ready for commercialization, MSI Vortex is a desktop system from the small footprint, but that does not give this an extremely powerful hardware equipment, will satisfy the most demanding gamers.
Originally shown at CES 2016 last January, the MSI Vortex system has been officially announced for sale on the market. It is a desktop system specifically developed for the audience of gamers, characterized by a cylindrical design that recalls the one adopted by Apple for its Mac Pro realized in the 2013 .
The heart of this system is an Intel Core i7 6700K processor, a proposal from the Skylake family with frequency multiplier unlocked, in combination with two video cards NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 series are configured via SLI technology.
The video subsystem sees the use of GeForce GTX 960 or GeForce GTX 980 cards depending on the configuration chosen. Complete the technical features of DDR4 memory system 16 or 32 Gbytes of capacity, local storage with SSD flanked by a mechanical hard drive for storing 1 TB of data.
The construction includes an air cooling system which draws from the lower part, by venting the heat from the top. The resulting is a very high thermal dissipation capacity, with a particularly silent operation despite the integration of very powerful components in a contained volume. Very rich back with 4 USB 3.0 ports, two Thunderbolt 3 connectors, two network connectors and various links to display with 2 ports HDMI 1.4 and two mini DisplayPort 1.2 in standard.
Very complete systems and capable of high performance, but not the price. MSI has announced lists amounting to $ 3,999 for SLI-002 model, equipped with two GeForce GTX 980 in SLI, 32 Gbytes of system memory and 4 SSD 256 Gbytes each in Super RAID configuration.
For SLI-011 model, the figure drops to $ 2,199 since the use of two GeForce GTX 960 cards in SLI always, in combination with 16 Gbytes of DDR4 memory and 2 SSD 128 Gbytes of capacity each.
- Intel Core i7-6700K processor - 4-4.2GHz w/ Turbo Boost
- NVIDIA GeForceDual GTX980 [SLI] 16G GDDR5 (8GB each)
- 32GB (8G*4) DDR4 2133MHz and Super Raid 4 512GB SSD (PCIE GEN3 NVMe)(256GB*2) +1TB...
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