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MSI Wind Board
Eco-Friendly & Energy-Saving Mainboard

Today MSI unveils the ultimate energy-saving platform – MSI Wind Board, based on energy-saving technology and Intel® Atom™ 230 processor. MSI Wind Board is the ultra-low-power platform designed with a mix of performance and low power usage. This makes the platform suitable for users who leave their computers on 24-hours per day so long operation will not increase consumption. Further the MSI WIND Board runs Windows XP and Windows Vista Basic and is a perfect solution for value PC’s.

With the MSI excellent electronic circuit design, the full speed operation of MSI Wind Board is only 35Watt. Compared to the 200~250Watt power consumption of a general desktop computer, it can save up to 82% on electricity even when the computer is on for over 24-hours. The idle power consumption of MSI Wind Board is less than 10% of a general desktop computer. The reduced power consumption together with the passive cooling system design reduces the heat of the Wind Board which ensures a very cool system.

MSI Wind Board is based on the latest Intel® Atom™ 230 processors with core clock 1.6GHz, 512KB L2 cache and Hyper-Threading technology support to provide a better computing performance. The power consumption of Intel® Atom™ 230 processor is 4W which equals to only 8% of general notebook computer processor. Further, MSI WIND Board supports 533MHz FSB and 2 DIMMs DDR2-667 memory up to 2GB. The mainboard is equipped with Intel® 945GC chipset, built-in Intel® GMA950 video interface (D-Sub output), SATA 3Gb/s hard drives support and 5.1-channel audio features.

Mr. Vincent Lai, MSI global marketing director, proudly states: “MSI Wind Board is a representative product with MSI’s implementation of the environmental protection policy. With its good and eco-friendly design it shows that it is quiet and delivers good performance.”

About MSI
MSI is proud of its more than 20 years experience in designing and manufacturing high performance IT products. The product lines of MSI are motherboards, graphic cards, notebooks, consumer electronics, barebones, networking and server products, and fully integrated add-on peripherals. With its ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 qualified facilities, MSI products provide the ultimate performance, reliability and value-increasing productivity. We distribute our products through offices located in The Netherlands, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Poland, France, Russia,Taiwan, United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, China, Korea, Australia, United Kingdom and India.
MSI markets its products to distributors, computer system manufacturers, and system integrators. For more information visit the company on the World Wide Web at www.msi.eu.