All the cool stuff MSI is showing at CES 2017

At CES this week, MSI showed off its upcoming slate of gaming components. In addition to a handful of motherboards sporting military-camo paint jobs (check down below for images and specs of those), one of the coolest things we saw was an external graphics box that connects via Thunderbolt 3 to provide top-end graphics to any PC.

The G.U.S., short for Graphics Upgrade System, uses 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 to provide graphics for whatever rig (or mini-PC) you connect it to. It has a built-in 500W 80 Plus Gold power supply, as well as a handful of USB 3.0 ports—three Type-A (one with quick-charge) and one Type-C. At CES, MSI had the box outfitted with a GTX 1080 connected to an Intel NUC not much bigger than the connected mouse.

Also on display was a colorful custom desktop sporting dual GTX 1080s and a custom motherboard. Nothing really new to speak of, but RGB was out in full force.

Speaking of motherboards, here's a look at MSI's new offerings, the Z270 Gaming M7 (which we used for our Kaby Lake testing), Z270 Tomahawk, and H270 Tomahawk Arctic. AMD also had X370 XPower Gaming Titanium and B350 Tomahawk boards on display, which will support AMD's upcoming Ryzen processors.

Z270 Gaming M7

Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
Supports dual channel DDR4-4000+(OC) memory
Supports 2-way Nvidia SLI and 3-way AMD CrossFire
3x PCI-E 3.0x16 slots
3x Turbo M.2 (32Gbps)
1x Turbo U.2
3x USB 3.1 Gen2
6x USB 3.1 Gen1
7x USB 2.0

Z270 Tomahawk

Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
Supports dual channel DDR4-3800+(OC) memory
3x PCI-E 3.0x16 slots
6x SATA 6Gbps ports
2x M.2 slots
2x USB 3.1 Gen2
8x USB 3.1 Gen1
6x USB 2.0

H270 Tomahawk Arctic

Supports 7th / 6th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1151 socket
Supports dual channel DDR4-2400 memory
3x PCI-Ex1 slots
6x SATA 6Gbps ports
2x M.2 slots
2x USB 3.1 Gen2
8x USB 3.1 Gen1
6x USB 2.0

X370 XPower Gaming Titanium

Supports AMD Socket AM4 Ryzen series processors and 7th Gen APU series processors
Supports dual channel DDR4-2667+(OC) memory
3x PCI-E 3.0x16 slots
2x Turbo M.2
1x Turbo U.2
3x USB 3.1 Gen2
8x USB 3.1 Gen1
7x USB 2.0

B350 Tomahawk

Supports AMD Socket AM4 Ryzen series processors and 7th Gen APU series processors
Supports dual channel DDR4-2667+(OC) memory
1x Turbo M.2
8x USB 3.1 Gen1
6x USB 2.0

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