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New MSI R9 285 GAMING 2G

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DirectX 12 ready gaming

MSI is pleased to announce its latest addition to the popular GAMING series of graphics cards, the R9 285 GAMING 2G. Cooled by the Twin Frozr IV Advanced, the R9 285 GAMING 2G offers an excellent balance between great gaming features and performance with  balanced out thermal and acoustic specs. Although the R9 285 GAMING already offers great performance at its price-point, the card offers even more performance through the MSI Gaming app and MSI Afterburner. The latter allows for voltage and power limit adjustment to increase overclockability and performance even further. The new MSI R9 285 GAMING 2G is powered by AMD's newest Tonga Pro GPU

The MSI GAMING benefit

MSI's GAMING series is designed to provide gamers with quality they can rely on. For Graphics Cards this means you get the best thermal solution and components to make sure you stay cool and stable no matter how long your gaming session is. The Twin Frozr IV Advanced is remarkably silent while maintaining excellent temperatures and the Military Class 4 components are designed to remain stable in extreme conditions. The MSI Gaming App puts the gamer in control with a choice of Silent, Gaming and OC modes to utilize performance or silence based on the need of the gamer.

MSI Afterburner 4.0

MSI Afterburner 4.0 (beta) is the latest edition of the world's most popular overclocking software. It is the world's first 64-bit overclocking software for Graphics Cards, Integrated Graphics and Notebooks. MSI Afterburner 4.0 can display all statistical information in 32 and 64 bit games and applications, comes with a multitude of configuration options, like exclusive Triple Over-voltage, built in video capturing and DirectX 11 benchmark.MSI Afterburner has built-in support for a large range of current and next-gen GPUs

Download MSI Afterburner from: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/ 

AMD Never Settle: Space Edition

Buyers of a MSI R9 285 GAMING 2G are elligible* to choose any title in the new Never Settle: Space Edition program, which includes mega-blockusters like Alien: Isolation and the crowd-sourcing wonder Star Citizen. This adds to the choice of other great titles like Murdered: Soul Suspect and Company of Heroes 2.

*For more information and eligable resellers go to: http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/never-settle/Pages/nsreloadedforever.aspx

Technical specifications

 

Name

R9 285 GAMING 2G

GPU

Tonga Pro

Shader Processors / Speed

1792 Units / 1000 MHz

Memory Speed / Size / Type

5500 MHz / 2GB / GDDR5

Thermal Design / TDP

Twin Frozr IV Advanced / <250W

Dimensions (mm) / Weight (g)

260x127x37 / 760

 

For more information about pricing and availability,please contact a local official MSI distributor.

About MSI

In the past 25 years, MSI always strived to provide products based on its core values -"Innovation" and "Style". The results are products with superior performance, trusted reliability, excellent user experience and expressive style. MSI mainboards and graphics cards are found among the top 3 in the world because of their great quality and maximum productivity. Our hard work have led us to become one of the finest brands in the industry with accumulated sales in more than 120 countries, 150 million mainboard users and 100 million graphics card users worldwide. MSI has won nearly 8,000 award recognitions from 350 media in 50 countries worldwide. MSI will continue to pioneer in the area of global consumer electronics technology with the needs of hardware enthusiasts, gamers and consumers at its core. For more information about MSI, go to www.msi.com.