Stefan Mileschin

At the MSI suite this year at CES, one of the updated systems on display was the new MSI Vortex W25. The W25 is a workstation version of the G25, a popular mini-PC that packs some super high-end hardware into a super small PC chassis. I saw the G25 with a Core i7-8700 and GTX 1080 inside back last year, and one of my responses to MSI was to create a professional version. It looks like something was already on the cards, with this new W25.

What makes the W25 a ‘workstation’ product, aside from the green lighting and the logo change, is changing the graphics inside to an NVIDIA Quadro. The exact Quadro cards to be used in the W25 are not yet determined, however, we were told to expect parity with the consumer cards currently in the G25, which makes sense. Rather than go into something like Xeon W and ECC memory, for the time being, MSI is sticking to a Coffee Lake 8th gen, although we were told to expect future Xeon processors to be used. With the Xeons, the system will take 64GB of ECC, although not RDIMMs. By the looks of things, these might be user replaceable, or at least adjustable by a system integrator.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12352...ations-the-w25