Company History
1986
MSI WAS FOUNDED
MSI founded in Taipei, Taiwan as a motherboards and add-on cards design and manufacturing house
1986
THE FIRST
Announced the first overclocking 286 motherboard
1997
THE FIRST
The MS-4413 featuring 8MB of SGRAM, an AGP 1x interface and supported OpenGL.
1999
THE FIRST
The MS-8802 3D AGPhantom was powered by the NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 chipset, featured 16MB of RAM and could already power 3D applications at resolutions up to 1600 x 1200 with 32 bit color
2007
THE FIRST
Announced the world's 1st overclocking notebook GX600
2008
THE FIRST
The first eSports sponsorship started with FNATIC
2009
OC Genie Technology
The world's first built-in hardware overclocking technology on motherboards
2009
RISE OF THE FIRST TWIN FORZR
MSI N260GTX graphics card was the revolutionary Twin Frozr cooler. This groundbreaking design was the foundation for the current Twin Frozr V cooler and featured dual fans to provide premium cooling performance for the GeForce GTX 260 GPU.
2009
MSI AFTERBURNER LAUNCH
MSI Afterburner enables free graphics card overclocking for everyone, any brand. MSI Afterburner quickly became the most recognized and widely used graphics card overclocking software.
2010
TWIN FROZR II
The MSI N470GTX card featured Twin Frozr II Thermal Design with two 8CM PWM fans for enhanced cooling performance and incorporated Military Class Components for premium stability and performance.
2010
THE RISE OF eSPORTS
MSI started hosting worldwide gaming tournaments and partnered with top gaming vendors.
2011
TWIN FROZR III
The Twin Frozr III kept the GeForce GTX 570 GPU cool thanks to aerodynamically advanced Propeller Blade technology on both fans, resulting in 20% more airflow. Also featuring Power Edition Architecture for additional overclocking potential using MSI Afterburner.
2012
TWIN FROZR IV
The Twin Frozr IV was introduced on the record-breaking MSI GTX 680 Lightning graphics card. It combined the high-end NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 GPU with top of the line Enhanced Power Design, Military Class III Components and the GPU Reactor by MSI, resulting in unmatched performance for gamers and overclockers around the world.
2013
MSI GAMING APP
One-click access to predefined performance profiles, basic performance monitoring and a host of premium display customization features.
2013
THE FIRST
MSI launched the first Gaming All-in-One PC AG2712
2014
TWIN FROZR V
Bristling with cutting-edge technology, the much-awarded Twin Frozr V graphics card cooler provides the latest MSI GAMING graphics cards powered by NVIDIA GTX 900 series GPU with unmatched silent, cool gaming performance.
2015
MSI MASTERS GAMING ARENA (MGA)
An international eSports event with pro-gamers and top teams tournaments broadcasted.
2015
THE FIRST
MSI X99A GODLIKE GAMING is the world’s first RGB LED motherboard
2015
THE BEST
MSI X99A GAMING 9 motherboard is prestigious CES Innovations 2015 honorees; also, it won the COMPUTEX 2015 Best Choice Golden Award
2015
100 MILLION EDITION LAUNCH
Celebrating the grand milestone of selling over 100 million NVIDIA GPU based graphics cards and the continued success of our latest NVIDIA based graphics cards featuring the Twin Frozr V cooler for GTX 960 GAMING and GTX 970 GAMING graphics cards.
2015
THE WORLD'S FIRST
Launched the GT80 Titan gaming laptop with mechanical backlit keyboard
2015
THE WORLD'S FIRST
Teaming up with Tobii to launch the GT72S, the first gaming laptop to feature integrated eye-tracking hardware.
2016
THE BEST
GS40 Phantom and Vortex won CES Innovations Award.
2016
THE BEST
MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK is selected as Editor’s Choice by PC Gamer & commented as “great featureset at a solid price
2016
THE BEST
MSI motherboard has been chosen as the Top Choice of worldwide PC Enthusiasts since 2014 by Hwbot.org
2016
THE RISE OF eSPORTS
MSI Announces Exclusive Partnership with Cloud9 eSports, by now, MSI sponsored a number of eSports teams worldwide
2016
THE FIRST
Collaborated with HTC and announced Vive-ready systems for Virtual Reality experience. MSI is world 1st company certificated by multiple VR brands
2016
TWIN FROZR VI
Play Hard, Stay Silent!
MSI's new TWIN FROZR VI Thermal Design raises the bar of Graphics Card air cooling by 20% thermal performance gain versus last generation. Feel free to push your Gaming harder when you have Twin Frozr VI got you covered!
