MSI Partners with Futuremark to Provide the First Hands-on Demonstration of 3DMark® 11 at MSI Big Bang Showcase Area during Computex Taipei 2010

 City of Industry, CA. - May 28, 2010 – Micro-Star International (MSI), a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and consumer electronic devices today proudly announces its partnering with Futuremark, the world leader in 3D, mobile and PC benchmarking, to officially introduce 3DMark® 11, the upcoming version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring 3D graphics performance of DirectX 11 gaming PCs. The hands-on 3DMark® 11 demonstration will be available publicly for the first time in the Big Bang Area at the MSI Booth (No.L607) in Nangang Exhibition Hall during COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2010, running from June 1st  to June 5th.

The award-winning MSI R5870 Lightning, the flagship ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards, and MSI Big Bang Series XPower, the INTEL X58 gaming motherboard, will be used as the DirectX 11 gaming platform to demonstrate the amazing visual performance and astonishing image quality of next generation 3D gaming technology.  The 3DMark 11 trailer and screenshots taken from the tech demo called "Deep Sea" is available at http://www.3dmark.com/

To provide hardcore gamers total immersion and detailed game play experiences, MSI take full advantage of cutting-edge DirectX 11 technology by introducing the MSI award winning Lightning Series of NVIDIA Geforce 400 and ATI Radeon HD 5000 series graphics cards with support for DirectX 11; with more DirectX 11 compatible games and graphics cards available in 2010 and the partnership with Futuremark on 3DMark 11, MSI expects the increased adoption of DirectX 11 capabilities such as tessellation, depth of field effects, compute shaders and multi-threading.  MSI will again partner with Futuremark on the major launch of 3DMark 11 in Q3 to provide gamers with a more affordable bundled solution with MSI DirectX 11 ready graphics card lineups.

For more information about DirectX 11 ready motherboards and graphics cards used for the 3DMark 11 live demo at Computex 2010, please check out the videos at: 

MSI Big Bang Xpower, INTEL X58 Gaming Series: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP96duB9FZw 
MSI Lightning Gaming Series Graphics cards: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0i0Jw8yxeA

About MSI

MSI was founded in 1986 and is one of the world-class IT product leading brands. Based on the operating principle "Insist on the Best", MSI has shown a strong R & D capabilities and high production technology in motherboard and graphics card products. Adopting a diversified management and business strategy, MSI has also penetrate into the Notebook, All-in-One PC and Car Entertainment product fields. At an international brand development strategy, MSI has launched a new corporate identity system (CIS), as well as corporate slogan "Insist on the Best". It also represents a new era in MSI's brand development.

With high productivity, high technology, and high quality R & D niche, MSI is expected to become one of the top 10 notebook and system brands in the world in 2010 and 2012. Apart from the market operation, MSI fulfills more efforts in our corporate citizenship, taking into account environmental protection and social feedback. In March this year, MSI has been chosen simultaneously as one of "2009 Top 50 Corporate Citizens" and "2009 Top CSR Excellent Enterprises" from CommonWealth Magazine and Global Views Magazine in Taiwan. In the future, MSI will continue to commit and implement corporate social responsibility in company governance. Fulfilling its responsibilities as world citizen, MSI will do more specific actions and contribution to public awareness to achieve "Beautiful Life, Green Homeland", our goal and commitment to stakeholders.