Most computer components are made to survive several production cycles and go on vacation due to obsolescence, not mechanical breakdowns. Nevertheless, many manufacturers cultivate the idea of components with increased reliability. Asus has a popular TUF line, Gigabyte has been promoting the Ultra Durable concept for a long time, and MSI periodically releases armor-piercing video cards with printed circuit boards that correspond to the Military Class 4 concept and are certified according to the military standard MIL-STD-810G.


Another line of video cards that echoes the Gaming and Ventus models, somewhat complicating the choice: similar pricing, the same proprietary TORX cooling system, the same video chips with identical frequencies. Usually, Armor cards are maximally simplified in everything that does not concern performance. If the MSI Gaming models are slowly using the backlight, MSI Armor stands to the last in its asceticism.

However, this is explained by the fact that MSI is in no hurry to update the Armor line, and since 2019 there have not been so many new products ― a couple of GTX 1650/1660 and several variants of GeForce RTX with retrace and DLSS. Therefore, in the first half of 2021, the core of the series consists of folk hits of 2016-2019, which are in demand among owners of conventional Full HD monitors - GeForce 1050/1060 and Radeon RX 470/580. The most powerful thing that can be found in the Armor section is the GTX 1080 TI.