Taipei, Taiwan, July XX, 2006--MSI, a leading motherboard and graphics card manufacturer, in COMPUTEX 2006 introduced a series of innovative Intel ® Xeon ® platform products, including new motherboards 5000P Master and 5000X Master, as well as 1U server X2-106 and 2U server X2-203 series. Both SAS and SATA models, enterprise servers, are ready to the market.

The Intel ® Xeon ® platform is the most high-end product adopting Intel's dual-core technology intended for high-end server and workstation applications. Featuring Intel ® Xeon ® LGA771 dual-core processor has high performance, energy saving and flexible Dual Core abilities; also including dual Gigabit LAN function, high bandwidth PCI-Express, and MSI's exclusive sever-management software. In addition, iConsole -- brings ultimate performance and reliability to enterprise servers, and enabling the servers to easily handle resource-consuming business applications; furthermore, the excellent expansion flexibility allows for the ever-growing requirement of enterprises.

In order to show consumers more advantages and specifications of MSI' latest Intel ® Xeon ® series server products, MSI will become the world pioneer and setup a website named "MSI Server & Workstation Product Series Website" where people can find a variety of information and related links for the Intel ® Xeon ® series products. (URL : /html/active/2006/IntelBensley/ ), In addition, people can also visit Intel's official website and link to the homepage of MSI's server products. (URL: http://www.intel.com/go/5000sequence )

Max Cheng, AVP of MSI Enterprise Platform Solution Department, said, "Xeon platform applies FB-DIMM ( Fully-Buffered DIMM ) , the latest memory module of PCI Express, creates the new generation of platform can reach the high capacity of memory by using few memory channels. Currently, Intel ® Xeon ® platform support 12 FB-DIMM with 48 GB for memory capacity. Besides, the new generation of Xeon processor has a systematic breakthrough in terms of design, energy efficiency, and mechanical layout. That's the reason for built "MSI Server & Workstation Product Series Website" to show consumers more advantages and specifications of the new generation for Xeon platform."

1U Server -- X2-106S3R and X2 -106A 2R

The MSI X2-106S3R and X2 -106A 2R (MS-9272), MSI's latest 1U servers, are both designed as the Intel Ben sley platforms, and use Dual Intel® Xeon™ LGA771 as their processors. Both take advantage of the latest dual-core technology, and provide high usability and multitasking capability, allowing them to easily handle any resource-consuming applications. Thanks to MSI's exclusive server management software, iConsole, the manageability of both models is greatly enhanced to ensure the hardware and software of both models can run in an optimized condition, making both servers ready for those enterprises looking for a high-end server solution that can bring them better full-scale integration of their IT operation.

To enterprise users, beside the processor specification, the memory and the total performance are the main considerations when they are looking for a server. Both models come with 12 DDR2 667/533 MHz memory slots to support up to 48GB of memory in total, greatly increasing their performance. Both models use built-in PCI-Express interface, which is the successor of PCI and PCI-X. The I/O transfer rate of the PCI-Express is 3 times of the rate of PCI-X, implying faster data transferring and working efficiency.

2U Server -- X2-203S6R and X2 -203A 8R

The X2-203S6R and X2 -203A 8R are the latest 2U servers from MSI. Both models adopt the latest Intel Bensley architecture with Dual Intel® Xeon ™ LGA771 dual-core processors, and provide 12 DDR2 667/533 MHz memory slots to support up to 48GB of memory and one PCI-Express slot. Thanks to the perfect combination of the processors, memory modules, and buses, both models can add top-notch performance to your server operation.

Server motherboard series--5000P Master, 5000X Speedster Series

The 5000P Master and 5000X Speedster series are intended for Dual Intel® Xeon ™ LGA771dual-core platform. Each of them has its own advantage, favoring enterprise users with more choices. The 5000P Master provides twelve DDR2 667/533 MHz memory slots to support up to 48GB of memory in total, and a storage configuration composed of one IDE, four SATA and two SAS interfaces. The 5000X Speedster Series provides eight DDR2 667/533 MHz memory slots, and a storage configuration composed of one FDD, one IDE, four SATA and four SAS interfaces.

Sever-management Software-iConsole