Many of us have gotten used to wanting things smaller and smaller in terms of today's electronics, and many enthusiasts have followed that trend when it comes to building fully capable high end desktop PC system. MSI is turning up the heat in the mini-ITX segment with it Gaming Pro Carbon series motherboards.

MSI was founded in the late 1980s like many of its competitors. In that time, it's flourished in what is essentially, a cut throat business. You old timers like me probably can recall half a dozen motherboard brands that have come and gone over the years. I got into this hobby in the early to mid-1990s and there are only a handful of brands left that were around when or even before I started working with PCs as we know them now. While MSI is primarily known for motherboards, it offers a wide range of products. These include monitors, graphics cards, desktops, laptops and peripherals.