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【Taipei – Taiwan Nov. 8, 2011】To fulfill the demand of professional gamers, internationally renowned mainboard and graphic card manufacturer MSI optimized UEFI BIOS support for e-sports mice from four world-leading brands, Razer, SteelSeries, Logitech, and Microsoft. With this total solution for all Intel Z68 (G3) mainboards, MSI overcame the USB mouse lag problem in UEFI BIOS. Also, MSI is increasing the thickness of the gold-plated layer in the 2-in-1 PS2 and optimized USB ports to 30um in all future MSI mainboards to meet the demand of professional gamers. Besides enhancing mouse sensitivity in games, these improved interfaces deliver a longer lifespan and better stability of connectors and total solution for e-sports mouse control in UEFI BIOS.

Compatibility problems between professional e-sports mice and UEFI BIOS
There are comprehensive games on the market. As different types of games require different strategies, e-sports mice are usually equipped with more than a dozen buttons for professional users to customize the function of individual buttons and program the macro and script settings according to the game's needs. There are also buttons supporting running fire function, sensitivity (DPI) configuration, response time adjustment, etc. Some even provide the memory function for gamers to store personal settings of their mice. To optimize these functionally comprehensive e-sports mice, different manufacturers will use different communication protocols and drivers. As a result, compatibility problems with UEFI BIOS in standard mode of these professional e-sports mice arise due to communication complexity, and mouse performance is affected.

New core architecture as a total solution
To meet the demands of different consumer groups, MSI optimized the UEFI BIOS core architecture with exclusive hardware and software technologies to support the most popular models of e-sports mice on the market from four world-leading brands: Razer, SteelSeries, Logitech, and Microsoft. This included the optimization of the identification of USB e-sports mouse specifications, improvement of the identification rate of some models, and enhancement of support for more data transfer protocols and formats, in order to correctly drive all device types. The response time of different types of e-sports mice is also significantly shortened by improving the default response rate of mice, in order to enhance the synchronous signal processing of USB e-sports mice for optimal performance. Apart from allowing gamers to accurately control their e-sports mice at critical moments, this solution has minimized the e-sports mouse lag in MSI's exclusive ClickBIOS II. In either system setting change or OC item adjustment, this will be much more easier than using the UEFI BIOS in competing products.

Key hardware connection ports
By increasing the gold-plated layer thickness of the specific 2-in-1 PS2 and optimized USB ports to 30um, which triples the gold-plated layer of general materials for optimal data transfer of high-speed devices, MSI mainboards deliver clearer signals and a shorter signal response time than competing products using general materials. This way, complex e-sports mouse signals can be transferred faster and more stable for gamers to display their combat power and improve their results.

Exclusive dual-interface integrated UEFI BIOS tool: ClickBIOS II
• World's first dual-interface BIOS tool integrating UEFI BIOS and Windows application.
• Support for adjusting system settings with a mouse and touch-panel.
• Allows users upgrade drivers and BIOS online and back up the entire system.
• Allows users to save up to 6 OC profiles and output profiles to external storage devices via the USB port in the UEFI mode to restore their personal OC settings and share them with others on the web.
• Improved UEFI BIOS core architecture supports the most popular e-sports mice on the market and resolves the e-sports mouse lag and control deficiency in UEFI BIOS.

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Exclusive dual-interface ClickBIOS II from MSI

E-sports mouse support list of ClickBIOS II:
Vendor Model
Razer Lycosa
Razer Abyssus(RZ01-0036)
Razer Copperhead (RZ01-050100)
Razer Dealthadder Black Edition (RZ01-0015)
Razer Dealthadder Left-hand(RZ01-0015)
Razer DeathAdder (RZ01-0015)
Razer Imperator (RZ01-0035)
Razer Lachesis(RZ01-0017)
Razer Mamba (RC30-001201) (Wireless)
Razer Naga epic(RC30-005101)
Razer Orochi Bluetooth Mobile
Razer Spectre(RZ01-0043)
Razer Tron (RZ01-0052)
Steelseries IKARI Laser
Steelseries IKARI Optical
Steelseries KINZU Optical
Steelseries XAI Laser
Logitech illuminated USB Keyboard (Y-UY95)
Logitech Cordless Desktop LX310 Laser (PS2+USB)
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX5500 Bluetooth
Logitech G300
Logitech G400
Logitech G500
Logitech G700(Wireless)
Logitech G9X
Logitech M950(Wireless)
Logitech MX518
Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750
Logitech G15(Y-UW92)
Logitech G19(Y-U0005)
Microsoft SideWinder X4 Keyboard(1421)
Microsoft Arc Touch USB Mouse
Microsoft SideWinder X3 Mouse
Microsoft SideWinder X5 Mouse
Microsoft SideWinder X8 Wireless Mouse
Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000
MSI Wireless Gesture
Nova Slider X600
Tt eSPORTS Challenger Pro
Tt eSPORTS MEKA G1(KB-MEG051)
Tt eSPORTS Challenger(KB-CHL002)
Tt eSPORTS AZURUES Mini
Tt eSPORTS Black Element(MO-BLE001DT)
Tt eSPORTS Black(MO-BLK002DT)
Roccat KONE+(ROC-11-800-AS)
Roccat KOVA(ROC-11-200-AS)
Roccat PYRA(ROC-11-300-AS)
Roccat PYRA(ROC-11-510-AS)
i-rocks KR-6431
Cherry G80-3000(USB1.1+PS/2)
CM Storm Inferno(SGM-4000-KLLN1-GP)
CM Storm Sentinel Z3RO-G(SGM-60001-GLLW1-GP)
CM Storm Spawn(SGM-2000-ML0N1)