THE POWER OF GAMING

Meet the Aegis: The next generation gaming barebone desktop PC. Designed from scratch and built from the ground up, the Aegis is the perfect platform to build your next gaming powerhouse.

MYSTIC LIGHT
Customize your Aegis with Mystic Light. Make your build look as hot as fire or as cold as ice. You are in control with the Mystic Light Gaming App. Select from any of the colors on the palette to match your mood and accentuate it with breathing, gradient, or gaming & music modes.

SUPPORTS LATEST 6TH GENERATION INTEL® CORE™ i7 PROCESSORS
READY FOR EXCELLENT GRAPHICS
Play the latest games in all their full glory with MSI Aegis. It can be equipped with the latest high-end graphics cards, up to MSI GTX 980 TI GAMING.

CARRY TO A LAN PARTY
A useful handle situated at the top-back of the Aegis case can be used to pick up and carry this lightweight gaming beast around from one LAN-party to the next.

 
EASY ACCESS TO COMPONENTS
For those who always want to get the best out of their system, the components of the Aegis series are easily accessible and ready to be upgraded at any time.

 
COMPACT POWER SUPPLY
The 600w 80+ Silver Rated compact power supply is built into the foot of the aegis, providing stability and plenty of power to feed graphics cards up to an NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti.

DDR4 SUPPORT
The 6th Generation Intel® CoreTM i7 CPU comes with a brand new architecture that supports the high speed 2133MHz DDR4 memory modules. The dual channel of DDR4-2133 brings a 33% performance enhancement compared with that of the dual channel DDR3-1600 memory.

Supreme performance
More FPS and smooth gameplay through CPU and GPU tweaks

Cross-platform
Cross-platform gaming and streaming with Xbox One games on Windows 10

Full Steam® support
Windows 10 fully supports Steam, the ultimate entertainment platform for games, Play, connect, creat and more.

DIRECTX 12
MSI Aegis fully supports Windows 10, taking advantage of DirectX 12 for a supreme gaming experience.

SUPER RAID 4
LOAD GAMES IN SECONDS
Get in the game before everyone else with Super RAID 4, MSI's fastest RAID 0 storage configuration. Combining dual PCI-E Gen 3.0 x4 SSD's utilizing NVMe technology, harness the full performance potential of the Gen 3.0 SSD outputting extreme read speeds over 3300 MB/s. 

* The feature should be enabled by two NVMe M.2 SSD. SSD units not included.

SILENT STORM COOLING 2
To get outstanding performance Aegis is equipped with a powerful cooling system, Silent Storm Cooling. Embracing two separate chambers that individually take care of the cooling of different components within the Aegis, the unique 'Silent Storm 2' design makes sure the system's temperature stays perfectly under control, supporting a cool and silent operation. You can even install an advanced liquid cooling system to enable extreme CPU overclocking.

STAY COOL, STAY QUIET
Based on the MSI Silent Storm Cooling 2, Aegis is powerful, but extremely quiet as well. In idle mode it only produces 18dB of sound, and full-loading it will always stay under 32dB.

SUPER CHARGER 2
With MSI Super Charger 2 you can provide 10x more power to USB devices compared to traditional USB ports. With this, you can quickly charge devices such as tablets and smartphones, eliminating the need for wall power sockets.

AUDIO BOOST 3
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.

PLUG IN AND GAME ON
Ready to connect all your game accessories and devices. There are enough ports to complete your gaming rig.

BACK: Audio jack / SPDIF - USB 3.1 Gen2 Type C - LAN / USB 3.1 Gen 1 - USB 3.1 Gen1 / HDMI - PS2 / USB2.0

FRONT: OC Button - Mic in/Headset out - USB 3.1 Gen 1 (bottom with SuperCharger 2)

A DI
Tech specs
Processor
Intel Core i7-6700 2.4 - 4.0 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology 

Memory
16 GB DDR4 2400 MHz

Hard drive size
2TB HDD

Operating system
Windows 10 Home, 64-bit

PC type
Desktop

Optical drive
DVD SuperMulti

Media drive
None

Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio, Nahimic Audio Enhancer

Video
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 with 4GB DDR5 graphics memory (upgrade-able with standard video card)

Ports
1 USB 3.1 Type-C • 4 USB 3.0 • 4 USB 2.0 (1 with fast charge) • 2 HDMI • 4 DisplayPort • 1 VGA • 2 Microphone input • 1 Headphone output • Line-in • Line-out • RS-Out • CS-Out • S/PDIF-Out • PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo • LAN (10/100/1000)

Wireless
802.11ac (Miracast enabled)

Bluetooth
Bluetooth 4.0

Dimensions
17.05 x 14.80 x 6.68 in (433.18 x 376.11 x 169.92 mm)

Weight
20.00 lbs (9.07 kg)

Color
Black

Other
Model number: Aegis-018US • Includes Interceptor MSI gaming mouse and MSI gaming keyboard • TPM 2.0 • Security cable slot