• The 6th Generation Intel® Core™ technology support
• DirectX 12 Support
• Powerful gaming rig in a small package
• 290 mm ATX Graphics Capability
• 350W 80+ Bronze 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

THE LEAN, MEAN, GAMING MACHINE

Forged with passion for gaming, the MSI Nightblade MI2 barebone PC is made for those who crave for an immersive gaming experience without sacrificing space. With sufficient storage, proficient cooling and blistering graphics performance, this lean, mean, gaming machine is ready to unlock your next gaming adventure.

Grand Graphics for Grand Gamers

The Nightblade MI2 barebone PC fits a dual-slot graphics card up to a NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970, allowing maximum graphics in the smallest space possible.

Silent Storm Cooling

The Nightblade MI series embraces two separate chambers that individually take care of the cooling of different components within the Nightblade MI2, this unique 'Silent Storm Cooling' design makes sure the system's temperature stays perfectly under control, supporting a cool and silent operation even within such a tiny space.

Carefully thought layout

• Proprietary cooler
• Storeroom for cables
• High efficiency signal Power
• Big data storage room (1 x 2.5", 2 x 3.5")
• Regular gaming graphics card

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.

Nahimic Virtual Surround Sound - Military Technology, the Next Gaming Standard

Technology originally developed for the military fighter jets, Nahimic specializes in 3D sound software processing and audio improvements offering virtual 7.1 sound in immersive high definition. Designed to work with standard audio and stereo equipment, Nahimic transports gamers into the action, allowing them to sense every footstep, hear every bullet whizzing past, and feel every explosion. Nahimic highlights even the smallest sounds, intensifies gameplay by boosting bass, and reducing exterior noise pollution for optimum in-game voice clarity and comprehension. It also features a high definition audio recorder to easily capture and stream studio quality sound. This new technology is exclusive with MSI gaming system.

Audio Boost

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

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.

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.

KLM (Keyboard light management)

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

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

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

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

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!!

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

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

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.