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MSI Nightblade X2-001BUS Intel 6th Gen. Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentiuml / Celeron (Max. TDP: 95W) Intel Socket LGA1151 Intel Z170 Support up to a two-slot design of graphics card up to a GTX 980Ti, max 290mm length 1 x HDMI Barebone

  • Intel 6th Gen. Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentiuml / Celeron (Max. TDP: 95W) Intel Socket LGA1151
  • Intel Z170
  • 2 x 288Pin DIMM DDR4
  • Support up to a two-slot design of graphics card up to a GTX 980Ti, max 290mm length

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MSI Nightblade X2-001BUS Intel 6th Gen. Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium / Celeron (Max. TDP: 95W) Intel Socket LGA1151 Intel Z170 1 x HDMI Barebone

  • The 6th Generation Intel® Core™ technology support
  • DirectX 12 Support
  • Powerful gaming rig in a small package
  • 290 mm ATX Graphics Capability
  • 350W 80+ Silver Power Supply
  • Easy access to upgradable components
  • Silent Storm Cooling
  • Sufficient and Flexible Internal Storage Capability
  • Audio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality
  • Nahimic Audio Enhancer
  • SteelSeries Certified
  • Military Class 4 – Top Quality & Stability
NIGHTBLADE X2

THE DECISIVE WEAPON IN THE DARK

Sturdy, stable and solid, the MSI® Nightblade X2 barebone PC is loaded with the perfect ammunition for PC gamers that do not want to compromise on gaming performance. The MSI® Nightblade X2 embodies what every gamer craves for: victory.

THE MSI NIGHTBLADE X2 IS READY TO CONNECT ALL YOUR GAMING ACCESSORIES AND DEVICES. THERE ARE PLENTY OF PORTS TO COMPLETE YOUR GAMING RIG.

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OC GENIE

The MSI® Nightblade X2 can be overclocked without using complicated software or having to open the entire gaming rig. With just a simple push of the OC Genie button on the front, the Nightblade X2's interior hardware is automatically overclocked in a matter of seconds.

Easily recognized by the emitting red light from the chassis, the hardware inside the MSI® Nightblade X2 is amped up in speed and performance, making games or other complicated computing tasks run even faster than normal.

SHOW OFF WITH A SMALL SIZE

NIGHTBLADE X2

Size doesn't matter when it comes to the Nightblade X2. Despite its mini-ITX form factor, this gaming barebones delivers powerful performance due to the fact that the internal components are well designed and laid out within the chassis. The MSI® Nightblade X2 is amped up in speed and performance, making games or other complicated computing tasks run even faster than normal.

LAN from Coast to Coast

NIGHTBLADE X2

A useful handle situated at the bottom-front of the Nightblade's mini-ITX case can be used to pick up and carry this lightweight gaming beast around from one LAN-party to the next.

And the level of mobility doesn't just stop there. With help of the rubber covers fitting the metal screws on the backside of the Nightblade, this system can even be stacked up vertically after carrying it around. That way, the panel and connectors on the back remain unharmed when arriving at your next gaming destination.

COOLING WITH A DRAGON FAN

To make you hear the crispest sounds, the Nightblade X2 is as quiet as possible by optimizing the airflow and keeping the system running cool. With no less than three air vents (front, side and top), hot air is easily exhausted out of the Nightblade's chassis.

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Cool air enters the PC throught the front and bottom vents. In contrast with standard 400-1200rpm case fans, the seven giant blades of the MSI Dragon Fan can produce an air pressure of max. 3600rpm.

DIRECTX 12

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Nightblade MI fully supports Windows 10, taking advantage of DirectX 12 for a supreme gaming experience.

NIGHTBLADE X2
  • More FPS and smooth gameplay through CPU and GPU tweaks
  • Cross-platform gaming and streaming with Xbox One game[r]s on Windows 10
  • Full Steam® support
NIGHTBLADE X2

Excellent Graphics for Gamers

The Nightblade X2 barebone PC fits a dual-slot graphics cards up to 290mm length and 35mm thickness. This means you can for instance fit a MSI® GTX 980Ti GAMING graphics card to blast away the competition.

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CABLE MANAGEMENT AND COLORING

  • NIGHTBLADE X2Nicely tucked, strapped and cabled
  • NIGHTBLADE X2Primarily used black cables for clean look and feet
  • NIGHTBLADE X2Leaving enough room for airflow
  • NIGHTBLADE X2Plenty of space for modders to let up the ante

KILLER™ DOUBLESHOT PRO

Killer™ DoubleShot Pro allows the Killer™ Ethernet connectors and the Killer™ Wi-Fi adapter to work together for the ultimate high speed attack. The Killer™ Network Manager decides which apps runs on what connection for gaming traffic optimization. This will give you a max connection speed as high as 1,867 Gbps.

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KILLER™ WIRELESS AC 1535

Killer™ Wireless-AC 1535 with ExtremeRange™ Technology delivers industry-leading speed, intelligence and control for PCs. Killer's Lag and Latency ReductionTM Technology combined with Killer's ExtremeRange™ Technology revolutionizes the user experience by driving better throughput, lower latencies, and longer WiFi ranges.

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BENEFITS

  • Lag and Latency ReductionTW
  • ExtremeRangeTW Technology
  • Cutting edge 11AC performance
  • Bluetooth 4.1
  • Advanced Stream DetectionTM
  • Visual Bandwidth controlTM
NIGHTBLADE X2

TRUE GAMING NETWORK WITH KILLER™ LAN

The new Killer E2400 Intelligent Networking Platform, featuring Advanced Stream Detect 2.0, is built for maximum networking performance for online games and high-quality streaming media. Killer™ LAN automatically detects and accelerates game traffic ahead of other network traffic for smoother, stutter-free in-game performance and the competitive edge.

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Killer Shield

One more protection for smoother uploads and download processes. Less pin rate floating reassures more fluent gameplays.

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6TH GENERATION INTEL® CORE™ TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT

At the heart of the Nightblade X2 Barebone is a Z170 Intel® motherboard that is capable of bringing all the power you need in your system. The 6th Generation Intel® chipset provides both performance and energy efficiency to help maximize your gaming rig.

Your Game, Your Stream, Your Fame

NIGHTBLADE X2

XSplit Gamecaster & Broadcaster V2 lets you easily record your gaming moments and broadcast your live gameplay sessions to Twitch, YouTube, UStream and more.

It's simple, easy to use and ideal for sharing your gameplay with friends, family or the world - or for capturing those perfect gaming moments, just for the heck of it.

RECORD & STREAM

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Use XSplit Gamecaster to stream all of your gaming activities

VIDEO EDITOR

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Edit your recordings and conquer the world

REALTIME NOTES

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Draw attention whilst casting with in-game annotations

TriDef SmartCam

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Fully automatic chroma key that can work on any background

Adaptive Bitrate

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Automatically adjusts your bitrate according to your network conditions

GAME DETECTION

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Game Capture Auto Detect allows for automatic streaming when starting a game

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DDR4 SUPPORT

The 6th Generation Intel® chipset comes with a brand new architecture that supports the high speed of DDR4 at 2133MHz memory modules. The dual channel of DDR4-2133 brings a 33% performance enhancement compared with that of the dual channel DDR3-1600 memory.

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Customize Your Game Style

SteelSeries Engine is an app that transforms your keyboard in to a lethal gaming weapon. Here, you can customize each individual key, create different macros, manage keyboard lighting and customize the keyboard to your liking.

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KLM (Keyboard light management)

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Depending on your mood and desires, you can choose from more than 1,000 color combinations and five different scenario modes for the keyboard, enabling you to be the coolest gamer at any LAN party!

Unlimited profile possibilities

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Profiles are sets of macros, button assignments, and device configurations that are frequently used together. An unlimited number of profiles, with customizable names, can be stored in the SteelSeries Engine. It provides predefined profiles for common games which can be used directly or as templates for your custom macros.

Statistics to analyze and improve

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Whether you're playing an FPS or editing in Photoshop, being better and more efficient is something we want to help you achieve. Use the Statistics module to record your keyboard or mouse actions. Then review the peripheral heat map, which shows with both color and numbers the frequency of your key or button presses. You can then use this information to fine tune your macros as well as your key and mouse button assignments to optimize your tools to play (and work).

Freedom to Play

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SteelSeries Engine will automatically recognize what game you are playing and open your saved profile(s) for that game. You can create your own profiles for other applications and then have SteelSeries Engine open the corresponding profile when you start up your application.

Friendly UI design

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The SteelSeries Engine is easy to understand by using pictorial representations of devices along with basic drag-and-drop techniques to assign key presses, complex macros, device profiles and buttons. Also features intuitive macro creation with customizable colors, fonts, and names for everything.

Every key can be customized to hot key as you want!!

Every gamer can easily customize every individual key as hot key to personalize his own play style, greatly increase the convenience on key usage.

4 keyboard layers options!!

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There are 4 layers for gamers to set 4 usage scenario or game. Not only that, while playing the game, gamers can easily and quickly switch layer*, such as a chat screen with friends. Communication with friends is not interrupted!!

Intelligent keypress macro capabilities

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There are virtually unlimited keypress macro creation capabilities. Anything you can do on a mouse or a keyboard can be programmed along with specific event timing. You can even program mouse events into keyboard macros. Your macros will be running at a high priority in your computers Operating System, yet it does NOT interfere with your real time actions during gameplay.

Create your own text macro

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Besides keypress macro, SteelSeries Engine also can create the text macro for gamers' talk. By this way, gamers can have simultaneously multi-party conversation and do not waste time in doing repetitive typing.

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With Nahimic, enjoy sound that pushes the limits of reality.

Nahimic sound technology has been approved for its quality and precision in projects undertaken by the military field and the aeronautics industry. It offers immersive virtual 7.1 sound in high definition using exclusive stereo equipment.

Nahimic lifts your gaming experience to a new level, offering you highly sought-after gaming benefits:

AUDIO BOOST

To deliver the crispest sound signal to gamers' ears, a special hardware amplifier called 'Audio Boost' is integrated onto the Nightblade's motherboard, especially benefiting gamers using a gaming headset.

Super Charger 2

With MSI Super Charger 2 you can deliver more power than regular USB chargers to your smartphone, tablet, USB game controller or portable console up to 10x faster. You can quickly charge these devices when you're not gaming on your PC, eliminating the need for wall power sockets.

2X FASTER

MSI USB 3.1 Gen2

Transferring your favorite games, music and movies over USB has never been faster. USB 3.1 enables lightning fast transfer speeds up to 10Gb/s!

Benefits

  • 2X faster than USB 3.0
  • 20X faster than USB 2.0
  • Up to 10Gbps data transfer bandwidth
  • Boost transfer rate for your PC and peripherals
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Type-C with reversible design

Get all the performance benefits from USB 3.1 combined with the convenience of the USB Type-C connector.This reversible connector allows for effortless connecting of USB devices.

GAMING CENTER

User-friendly application, you can adjust most of system values in this Gaming Center which provide a better gaming experience.

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OVERCLOCKING
MADE EASY

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Outperform your competition with the MSI® GAMING APP which allows simultaneous control of both your Motherboard and Graphics Card's overclocking.

Simply select your preferred mode with the click of a button:

  • Silent
  • Gaming
  • OC

This allows you to tune the system to your pleasure without any technical knowledge of overclocking.


Learn more about the MSI Nightblade X2-001BUS

General

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Brand
MSI
Model
Nightblade X2-001BUS

CPU Supported

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CPU Type
Intel 6th Gen. Core i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentiuml / Celeron (Max. TDP: 95W)
CPU Socket
Intel Socket LGA1151

Chipset

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North Bridge
Intel Z170

Memory Supported

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Memory installed
No Memory
Memory slot
2 x 288Pin DIMM
Memory Type Supported
DDR4
Max Memory Supported
32GB

Expansion Slots

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PCI Express 3.0 x16
1 Full-length PCI-E x16 (Support a dual-lot VGA, up to 980Ti)

Storage

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Hard Drive Installed
No Hard Drive

Expansion Slots

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Other
M.2 PCI-E SSD x2

Storage

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Serial ATA
3 x SATA 6.0Gb/s

Graphics

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Onboard Video
Support up to a two-slot design of graphics card up to a GTX 980Ti, max 290mm length

Audio

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Onboard Audio
Realtek ALC1150
Channel
7.1-CH

Communications

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First LAN
1 Killer E2400 Gigabit LAN
Wireless LAN
Killer Wireless-AC 1535
Bluetooth
Bluetooth 4.1
Max LAN Speed
10/100/1000Mbps

Extension Bays

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2.5" Internal bays
2
3.5" Internal bays
1

Front Panel Ports

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Front USB
1 x Gen1 Type-C USB 3.1
2 x USB 2.0
Other Front Ports
Mic.-In/Headphone-out: Front 1/1

Back Panel Ports

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PS/2
1 Combo Port for Keyboard/ Mouse
HDMI
1 x HDMI
VGA
1 x DisplayPort
Rear USB
4 x Gen1 USB 3.1
1 x Gen2 Type-C USB 3.1
2 x USB 2.0
Other Rear Ports
Line-in/Line-out/Mic.-in: Rear 1/1/1 (6 OFC Audio Jacks + 1 S/PDIF )

Power Supply

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Power Supply
500W - 80 Plus Silver

Physical SPEC

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Dimensions
6.92" x 10.92" x 13.61"
Weight
16.90 lbs.
Warranty, Returns, And Additional Information
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  • Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
  • Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year
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  • Francis D.
  • 1/6/2016 5:19:05 AM
  • Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggs Great lil' Lanbox!

Pros: - The general quality is absolutely awesome
- Thread lock on the screws so they don't slack when you carry the thing around
- Internal management among the best I have seen (more than 10 years of experience)

Cons: - Non-standard motherboard
- Non-standard PSU
- Could not boot from Windows 7 installation CD, had to make a UEFI USB drive
- CPU bracket is threaded. You will have to use a cooler that screws from the top, or modify the bracket (or the cooler). You cannot just remove or change the bracket as it's holding the CPU socket too. Because of this the stock Intel cooler won't fit without some modification. It was a minor issue for me, but could be a bigger problem for some and Newegg should state this in the specification page.

Other Thoughts: First, the quality of all the component impressed me. The paint is tough and thick, the plastics are good, even the screws are great, all black anodized steel screws with threadlock! This is a serious case you are getting, I worked with 200$ Lian-Li or Silverstone cases that do not put as much attention to to details like that, the bar is set high.
Also, the internal management is really well though and you get different length SATA cables. No need for cable ties, there is clips everywhere a cable should go. It was a lot easier than expected to wire a GTX970 and drives inside this small case.
The problem come when you get to the CPU cooler. As the back bracket is threaded, your cooler need to screw from the top. If not, you will have to modify the bracket, or the cooler. I personally just cut the arms of the bracket, it took me 5 minutes and I could put whatever cooler I wanted. Still, I think that Newegg should states this in the item specifications.

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  • Ryan C.
  • 12/19/2015 3:12:01 PM

1 out of 5 eggsStock Intel CPU cooler does not fit.

Pros: Looks cool.

Cons: The motherboard has threaded holes for the cpu cooler and the retail boxed intel skylake processors have snap on cpu coolers that will not fit through securely. No online support from MSI for this product yet. I'll be calling tech support during the week.

Other Thoughts: Without the cpu cooler from MSI this product is not functional.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Ryan,
Please kindly use below CPU cooler for this Nightblade X2, thanks!

https://shop.msicomputer.com/app/storefront/ProductDetail.aspx?ID=1478
If you need further assistant, Please do not hesitate to contact us directly by email at usreview@msi.com or by phone at 626.271.1004 M-F, 6AM to 6PM PST. We will be more than happy to assist you.

Thanks for choosing MSI

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

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  • Marcin B.
  • 12/11/2015 9:08:29 PM
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

2 out of 5 eggswhy did they do that?

Pros: I really like the Nightblade original, built one for a friend and it runs like a dream with SSD's. Oh yes the X2 it looks really cool and happy to see the extra SSD slot open but that's about it.

Cons: 1# - MSI.com do not make heat sinks so STOP making CPU back plates!!

2# Stock CPU heat sink dose NOT FIT!!!

yes cut some piece off an old heat sink to make it fit bla bla

Listen... I'm not building a house I'm trying to assemble a pc, MSI can you try to comprehend that?

thinking to return it because of issues with the CPU heat sink....

Other Thoughts: really nice case but lots of head aches for me due to the stupidity of blocking the stock heat sink/fan I just don't understand why??

every aftermarket heat sink come with their OWN back plates so again why MSI???

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Marcin,
Thank you for the feedback.If you have any questions or concerns regarding the product, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at usreview@msi.com or contact our support phone number at 626-271-1004 M-F 6am to 6pm pst. and we will be more than happy to assist you, thank you.

Thanks for choosing MSI

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

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  • Timothy G.
  • 12/6/2015 6:47:18 PM
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

4 out of 5 eggsGreat case combo

Pros: Nice small design, it's smaller than I had imagined, which is a plus to me.

Good airflow, nice wifi/bluetooth card installed.

Cons: Hard to find a CPU cooler that fits the case properly. I ended up having to cut a half inch off the bracket my Zalman came with. Initially was going to use a Corsair H55, but it was too large.

The specs say there are 2x M.2 slots, but one is occupied by the wifi or lan card.

Other Thoughts: Pretty good starter case + some components setup. Still requires some knowledge on PC building though. I wouldn't recommend it to someone that doesn't know how to build a PC from scratch already.

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  • Marc P.
  • 11/10/2015 10:56:04 AM
  • Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
  • Verified Owner

2 out of 5 eggsNot Ready For Primetime

Pros: Case

Cons: Locked Up All The Time
Tray Load DVD instead of Slot Load
Motherboard appears generic or oem. There are no MSI markings on it. It does have MSI BIOS.
No BIOS, Drivers, Manual, etc on MSI website

Other Thoughts: I sent this back because of the lock ups. I have a Z97 Nightblade and I liked the X2 layout but it needs some tuning.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Marc,
Sorry to hear about the issue you're having with our product. Please refer to our MSI website link below for more detail information/functionality and drivers for the system. http://us.msi.com/product/bb/Nightblade-X2/#hero-specification&sku_no=514 If you have any questions or concerns regarding the product, please do not hesitate to contact us directly at usreview@msi.com and we will be more than happy to assist you, thank you.

Thanks for choosing MSI

Best Regards,
MSI Review Team | usreview@msi.com

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