The MSI Herald BE NCM865 is a desktop network card that offers support for the most advanced wireless standards: Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4.

The tech industry is moving so fast it’s hard to keep up. Today you buy a PC with the latest version available and in a few months a new version comes out to improve it. This is what happened with the Wi-Fi wireless standard, many providers skipped version 6E and went straight to Wi-Fi 7.

Solutions like this MSI Herald BE NCM865 are a simple and economical way to catch up and extend the life of your PC. This is a wireless network adapter that plugs into a free PCI-Express slot on your motherboard. The WLAN component is supported directly, while Bluetooth is supported by a cable from the card to the USB 2.0 port.

The WLAN module is a Qualcomm NCM865 chip and provides the latest standard Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) with a maximum throughput of 5.8 Gbps. The driver supports 320 MHz wide channels in all three usage bands, 6 GHz, 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz. It also supports older Wi-Fi standards, up to Wi-Fi 5 in the 2.4 GHz band.

Its Bluetooth component is compatible with the latest standard, version 5.4. The controller features a multi-link operational topology and is packaged in a sleek magnetized base antenna module that MSI includes on some of its premium motherboards.

The company did not disclose prices, but These types of solutions are usually very economical and ideal for updating devices to the latest standards. You can find those available from other manufacturers for just 41 euros. And if you need to upgrade your laptop’s wireless connection, there are also solutions (currently with Wi-Fi 6E) that connect directly to a USB port. There is a very cheap offer around 30 euros.