MSI has another interesting product up its sleeve and although it isn’t innovative it is still enough to draw some pretty good attention, the Graphics Upgrade Solution, aka GUS.

MSI’s GUS is an external graphics card interface that connects to the notebook via Express card interface and has support for PCI-Express x16 graphics cards. According to MSI, the GUS is capable of boosting the graphics performance of the notebook by over 19 times. We guess that MSI compared it to Intel’s integrated solution rather than dedicated mobile graphics card that can be found in a lot of notebooks.

We mentioned that the device isn’t very innovative as we already seen such attempts made by both AMD and Asus XG Station which didn’t do so well, at least not well enough to brag about. Despite the fact that GUS uses Express card interface, MSI did mention that it somehow managed to overcome previous limitation and that they can use over 70 percent of the theoretical bandwidth. This is done by using a shielded copper cable and some sort of improved internal electronics. MSI also plans to stick with GUS and move it to the USB 3.0 interface in close future.

(…)

• READ MORE (Source): Fudzilla – MSI prepares its external GPU solution