[PR] MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) Mainboard Wins Top International Honors, Including 2012 CES Innovation Design and Engineering Showcase Award & 2011 IT Month’s ‘Outstanding IT Applications and Products Award’

Winner of Leading Industry Honors at Home and Abroad

【Taipei – Taiwan Nov. 8, 2011】At Computex 2011 MSI rocked the mainboard market withthe MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3), world’s first PCI Express Gen 3 mainboard. With exclusive features such as ClickBIOS II, which integrates UEFI BIOS with Windows, OC Genie II,which boosts performance up to 457% in just one second,as well asMSI’s Military Class IIComponents. These advanced technologies have set off a wave of innovation among other mainboard makers and enabled MSI to earn the coveted “Innovation Design and Engineering Showcase Award” at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the largest show of its kind in the US, as well as the IT Month’sOutstanding IT Applications and Products Award for 2011, organized by the Taipei Computer Association, the most trusted and respected IT organization in Taiwan.

The two awards are considered top industry awards in Taiwan and overseas. What really makes the Z68A-GD80 (G3) stand out is the fact that it is the first MSI mainboard to win the CES Innovation Design and Engineering Showcase Award, beating out hundreds of other entries in more than 30 different categories from around the world. As for the Taipei Computer Association’s IT Month Outstanding IT Applications and Products Award, MSI emerged from a field of more than 200 competing entries and was also the only mainboard among the 18 winning products. The accolades not only represent industry recognition of MSI’s leadership in product design but, more importantly, the faith of consumers and actual support for the product. For MSI, this inspires employees to achieve new heights in product quality and user satisfaction. In this way, MSI is setting an example for the rest of the industry to follow and encouragesproductive competition.

MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) Mainboard Delivers Exceptional Design and Performance

MSI’s Z68A-GD80 (G3) is not just the world’s first high-end PCI Express Gen 3 mainboard—it has also won unanimous praise from professional enthusiasts in regional overclocking competitions around the globe. Its four main features include:

Ÿ- World’s first PCI Express 3.0 mainboard: Double the bandwidth for unparalleled performance

– Exclusive ClickBIOS II: Dual-interface BIOS optimization utility for UEFI BIOS and Windows

Ÿ- OC Genie II: Increase performance by 457% in just 1 second-Military Class IIComponents: Military-certified materials offer the best quality and stability.