In recent years MSI have dedicated time and resources to the GAMING line, which encompasses a wide range of PC components designed and optimised specifically for gamers. GAMING components complement each other aesthetically and feature-wise, and are often built to the same high quality and performance requirements; a system decked out in MSI GAMING hardware will be easy on the eye and offer killer frame-rates.

The Z97 GAMING 7 sits in the mid-upper tier for the range, surpassed only by the Z97 GAMING 9 before MSI transitions to their premium OC range. Despite this it is priced below £140 whilst still being chock full of propriety features in addition to those present as standard on Intel's Z97 chipset. Featuring high speed M.2 storage support, Killer NIC and propriety AudioBoost 2 technology, it is unsurprisingly expected to be a worthy débutante in the Z97 launch.