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BIG (OEM) Win for MSI... Dude!
Posted by: Hooz on: 12/16/2002 03:40 PM [ Print | 12 comment(s) ]
According to this article over at DigiTimes, Dell workstations will be "Powered by MSI" in 2003.
Following graphics cards and server motherboards, Micro-Star International (MSI) is said to have landed desktop and notebook-use motherboard orders for 2003 from Dell Computer. According to sources, the desktop orders were released directly by Dell, while the notebook ones were outsourced by LG Electronics (LGE), one of Dell
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morpheus777 Burninating the peasants Posts: 1667 Joined: 2002-07-02 |
#20381 Posted on: 12/16/2002 10:15 PM
Dude! You may be getting a Dell after all!! Seriously... This is a good step for Dell, and MSI. 20" iMac, 2.66GHZ Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 500GB HDD, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256MB, OS X 10.5.3 Leopard Apple MacBook 1.83GHZ Core Duo, 1GB DDR2, OSX 10.4.11 Tiger |
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Jizzler Multi-Core Zealot Posts: 2066 Joined: 2000-10-28 |
#20382 Posted on: 12/16/2002 10:26 PM
Pfftttt.... EvilCON has been using MSI for a long time too and we didn't get any news post about us  |
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mattsteg Senior Member Posts: 990 Joined: 2000-05-07 |
#20383 Posted on: 12/16/2002 10:56 PM
Good news for both companies. Hello. |
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JohNEE <font color="#E22000"><b>News Monkey</b></font> Posts: 361 Joined: 2000-05-10 |
#20384 Posted on: 12/16/2002 11:55 PM
I don't know if this is of any interest but MSI sells a range of desktop PC's through the national group (DSG) that I work for. They use the Microstar/Medion brands - a mixture of fast Intel and AMD stuff. They sell as base unit only with no monitor. I'm not sure of the UK sales totals but it is by no means small. J. The Toaster Dual PIII 800E, T100, Win2k, 512MB Crucial, 2940U2W + 2x 18.4 Gb 10k II's, GF2 Ultra, TBSC, Pioneer DVD-ROM, Plextor 24/10/40A, 3com NIC - in a modded Aopen HX08. |
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HotRod IT Inquisitor Posts: 126 Joined: 2002-04-04 |
#20385 Posted on: 12/17/2002 12:58 AM
The Compaq D315 Nforce based system I just ordered for work appears to have an MSI board in it. Sounds like they are taking a lesson from ATI |
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JCLW Registered User Posts: 570 Joined: 2001-01-23 |
#20386 Posted on: 12/17/2002 06:09 AM
On a similar note, Asus got the intel contract for Canterwood & Springdale boards. And got the OK from intel to include (limited) overclocking options. - JW Will Vista run on my TRS-80? |
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jhaislet "Let's Roll" Posts: 3257 Joined: 2002-06-25 |
#20387 Posted on: 12/17/2002 06:38 AM
This is good news, but hopefully they won't sacrafice the quality/development of their retail boards in order to turn out more OEM boards. Mini-ITX Systems: AOpen MP965-DR Core2Duo Mobility T7500 4MB L2, 4GB DDR2 (Vista MCE)| MSI Industrial 945GM2 Celeron M 430 | Intel Little Valley 2 (Firewall) | Via EPIA EN-1500 (Firewall)| |
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Beng3000 Registered User Posts: 698 Joined: 2002-01-22 |
#20388 Posted on: 12/17/2002 11:43 AM
i wonder how much MSI will make per motherboard. probably about a buck. |
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Athemeus SMP Decepticon Posts: 576 Joined: 2002-03-02 |
#20389 Posted on: 12/18/2002 10:53 AM
The question is, will they be the same boards as the retail boards or will they be stripped down? I imagine most of the features, Dell would like to keep. It could help Dell alot to keep in the tweaker features. 2 x 2.8 Xeons on a PC-DL I am an out of control, hardware junkie. |
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jhaislet "Let's Roll" Posts: 3257 Joined: 2002-06-25 |
#20390 Posted on: 12/18/2002 12:06 PM
I doubt Dell will keep any of the extra tweaking features. That adds a lot of extra problems with tech support. Dell will have a special bios for these boards. It might be possible though, to flash it with a MSI bios which gives you the extra features, but Im sure that would void any warranty with dell. Mini-ITX Systems: AOpen MP965-DR Core2Duo Mobility T7500 4MB L2, 4GB DDR2 (Vista MCE)| MSI Industrial 945GM2 Celeron M 430 | Intel Little Valley 2 (Firewall) | Via EPIA EN-1500 (Firewall)| |
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Occupant Registered User Posts: 2421 Joined: 2002-03-04 |
#20391 Posted on: 12/20/2002 03:39 AM
It would probably be impossible to tell which motherboard your (dell) computer would have in it. (without actually opening it up, and looking at it (hope the product codes havent been removed) A lot of the HP computers Ive had on the bench lately have had asus motherboards in them, but I hear ECS (YUK) does a lot of oem work too... |
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Buub Old SMP codger Posts: 1276 Joined: 2002-11-19 |
#20392 Posted on: 12/20/2002 08:07 AM
Agreed. Ideally Dell would like a BIOS that just shows a DELL logo and you boot into the OS, no chance of options. Options just make for support calls. |