Do we like them?

Would we support them? Type any of these:

You get the goss with a verdict, a score out of 10, and the sources to check us.

Do we like MSI?

Makes gaming laptops, motherboards, graphics cards and PC parts. Based in Zhonghe, New Taipei, Taiwan.

Our score: 5 out of 10. A big, ordinary hardware maker. The search results show a few old consumer and efficiency problems and no big recent scandal, but we found little on good deeds. Middling.

MSI is Micro-Star International, founded in 1986 by five founders, including Joseph Hsu. It's based in Zhonghe, New Taipei, and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. Hsu is chairman, and a Digitimes item has him speaking at the June 2025 shareholders' meeting.

In 2022 MSI settled with the California Energy Commission. The investigation found its desktop computers didn't meet the efficiency standard and weren't certified. MSI agreed to pay $275,376 and to stop selling those models in California.

A 2017 US class action, Thornton v. Micro-Star International, accused MSI of marketing GT72 and GT80 gaming laptops as upgradeable to later NVIDIA GPU generations that they couldn't support. The sources we found don't say how it ended.

We found no recent big scandal, but also little to praise. That leaves a middling score: we wouldn't avoid them, but nothing here makes us keen to back them.

Queue a list of names

One name per line (or split with commas), up to 100 at a time. They're checked a few at a time in the background and land on the scoreboard as they finish. Names already on the board are skipped.

Suggest names

Add names here for the team to review: famous people, characters or companies, one per line (up to 20). We check the ones we pick, and they land on the scoreboard.

Suggested names

Loading…

See what's in line

Loading…

The scoreboard

Everyone checked so far, by score, 10 at the top. Typing a name up top filters the board too. Tap a score to see who's there, and a name for the whole card.

Loading…

Our take, from what the sources we read say on the day we checked. It can miss things; tap a source to read it.