Nov. 3, 2009

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA –MSI, a leading high-performance graphics card and motherboard brand-manufacturer, is proud to announce Team Australia (www.teamau.net) has won the first round of “Beat Me If You Dare” competition with a MSI N260GTX Lightning graphics card. With the world's best overclockers competing, the challenge lasted all of October, with every major graphics brand represented in a tough competition using the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 based graphics processor. “Since MSI released the N260GTX Lightning, it has won numerous media awards and is recommended by worldwide overclockers that attended MSI MOA 2009. We are delighted to see the MSI Lightning series graphics card win the competition, clearly demonstrating our superior product innovation and performance once again,” said MSI Global Marketing Director Jason Lee, “Team Australia had an excellent win and we look forward to seeing them demonstrate the power of our MSI N275GTX Lightning in the next phase of competition.” MSI Lightning series of graphics cards are fully custom designed graphics cards and built by MSI. The cards including Military Class components that has longer lifespan and better stability, 10-phase PWM that provides higher currents for overclocking, and an extra large heatsink for memory. With the industry leading graphics card overclocking and monitoring software – MSI Afterburner co-developed by Rivatuner - MSI N260GTX Lightning showed its unlimited potential and beat the competition.

More information about the MSI N260GTX Lightning, N275GTX Lightning, and Afterburner overclocking and monitoring software is available from:

1. MSI N260GTX Lightning

2. MSI N275GTX Lightning

3. MSI Afterburner