WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:07.000 all right guys so I'm here in my room in the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas I'm just 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:11.280 looking out the window right now so you can't really see much from the window 00:00:08.920 --> 00:00:15.280 here but uh I guess what do you really expect to see there's an Eiffel Tower 00:00:13.719 --> 00:00:19.520 sort of over there I guess that's not too bad there's the real all right so 00:00:17.800 --> 00:00:26.240 I'm going to sort of head back over here where I'm going to be doing a surprise 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:30.240 unboxing so this is an MSI notebook this 00:00:26.240 --> 00:00:31.560 is part of their GX 660r series and I'm 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:38.480 going to tell you guys all about the spec of this particular model coming up 00:00:34.879 --> 00:00:40.879 live from CES 2011 no not really live in 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:45.680 Las Vegas all right so it's only fitting I break the seals on this bad boy with 00:00:43.160 --> 00:00:49.360 the killer neck killer neck killer Nick heat snc that I got at the MSI 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:53.480 overclocking event today so we're going to go ahead and break this open I did 00:00:51.559 --> 00:00:58.879 not bring my unboxing knife with me because I did remember about how I had 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:05.560 it confiscated last time I tried to take it on an air airplane so uh yes lesson 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:12.040 learned and I will not be repeating that mistake so as a GX okay with GX as the 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:17.439 first two letters of the part number here it's fairly obvious already that 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:21.799 this is a gaming series notebook so I can tell you guys right now that it uses 00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:30.720 a core i7 processor it supports up to two internal 2 and 1/2 in hard drives up 00:01:25.560 --> 00:01:34.759 to 12 gigs Max of DDR3 memory and it 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:37.640 also has a powerful Radeon HD 00:01:34.759 --> 00:01:43.520 5870 graphics card so let's see how much of that M MSI is going to cover on the 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:47.000 outside of the box for us it looks like most of the features on here are things 00:01:45.159 --> 00:01:53.079 that I covered already you can see the exclusive three times DDR3 sodium slots 00:01:50.320 --> 00:01:58.200 for maximum 12 gigs of RAM with the way that prices are coming down on DDR3 that 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:03.039 may be a very possible thing that you can upgrade this particular model with 00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:04.880 with we've also got mxi exclusive TDE 00:02:03.039 --> 00:02:11.280 plus that is turbo drive engine plus technology for uh increasing the speed 00:02:08.319 --> 00:02:15.760 of your CPU and GPU we've got a sticker about that as well over here all right 00:02:14.200 --> 00:02:20.080 we've also got yeah that I mentioned before so it comes by default with dual 00:02:17.720 --> 00:02:23.120 SATA hard drives in raid zero but what I would really recommend for a notebook 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:27.200 like this and I'm probably going to outfit this one with this particular 00:02:24.959 --> 00:02:34.160 setup would be changing one of the drives to a an SSD and then using the 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:40.080 other drive as a storage hard drive we've got an HD webcam supporting 720p 00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:43.560 with 30 FPS as well as support for USB 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:45.280 3.0 now sound VI Dine Audio that's kind 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:49.319 of an interesting interesting thing to call out on a notebook because honestly 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:54.080 I've been complaining about notebook audio for years and it's good to see 00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:57.760 that there's not only MSI but there's actually a couple companies that are 00:02:55.480 --> 00:03:04.560 really working towards addressing what has been just a a a layering Omission in 00:03:01.480 --> 00:03:06.040 the notebook market and that is uh a 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:10.120 notebook that is really designed to deliver good quality sound whether 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.680 you're running it off the speakers or off of some headphones so here's the 00:03:12.239 --> 00:03:18.040 overall spec of this particular notebook I'm going to stop saying particular now 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:21.799 sorry about that guys and this is in French so while I could do it and 00:03:19.760 --> 00:03:29.200 actually sure why not okay so uh the color is uh black black gray and black 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:30.720 the screen is a 15.6 in 1920 x 1080p 00:03:29.200 --> 00:03:39.480 they're calling it glare type although that's not very flattering I think what they mean to say is glossy or vibrant we 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:43.319 have an Intel Core i7 740 qm processor 00:03:39.480 --> 00:03:45.799 with dual 320 gig hard drives in raid 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:50.519 zero those are 7200 RPM drives this is a performance model so it's all about 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:55.079 performance we've got 6 gigs of DDR3 running in triple Channel and we have a 00:03:53.000 --> 00:04:00.040 blu-ray combo drive so that's pretty cool Wireless has uh we've got Bluetooth 00:03:57.760 --> 00:04:04.840 and wireless n we have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and the battery is a 9 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:09.239 cell battery which for a gaming model I guess it better be if you're hoping to 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:12.920 have any kind of reasonable battery life and it looks like looks like French 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:19.400 people don't get to know that the VGA is an ATI Radeon HD 58701 gig 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:24.479 ddr5 I I I really don't think that was on the French side so go ahead and check 00:04:22.280 --> 00:04:30.919 that out yes it's not there so why don't we go ahead and get our our killer seal 00:04:28.280 --> 00:04:33.320 breaker here and let's get this thing opened 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:44.479 up here we go if I can figure out how to 00:04:41.639 --> 00:04:49.320 open the box which I have done on a number of occasions with various 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:53.520 products as you guys may or may not already be aware let's see what we got 00:04:51.479 --> 00:04:57.919 inside here so as usual we be accessories first so it looks like the 00:04:55.720 --> 00:05:01.800 notebook is there and got little maybe these are little msim m's 00:05:00.520 --> 00:05:07.240 actually that's probably just for packaging strength so we have our 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:08.520 accessory box I'm just going to move 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:13.000 this so that we can get the best possible light I know the lighting is 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:16.840 not ideal here but I wouldn't be me if I didn't unbox things anywhere and 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:22.600 everywhere so the first thing we find is a power cord next we find an AC adapter 00:05:21.039 --> 00:05:28.560 so that's where that power cord is going to plug into it is pretty large but you 00:05:25.960 --> 00:05:31.360 do expect that on a gaming model because there is a lot of power needs to be 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:38.000 delivered I'll tell you guys what this thing's rated for in just a minute here 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:40.240 so this guy is rated for uh 19 volt 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:46.240 output and up to 6.32 amps so that would be uh well over 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:50.120 the maximum of what I would expect this notebook to draw it's actually not that 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:55.240 heavy for such a large power brick here I'll give you guys my uh my iPhone for 00:05:52.759 --> 00:06:01.639 comparison if I can find it I apologize for the state of my room here I just 00:05:56.960 --> 00:06:03.639 kind of threw my things down down on the 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:07.319 everywhere when I walked in so here's my iPhone for 00:06:05.440 --> 00:06:11.800 comparison okay so it's a little bit longer than an iPhone it's about the 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:15.319 same width and in terms of thickness there you can compare that as well so 00:06:13.960 --> 00:06:20.800 hopefully that helps all right we've got some discs 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:23.199 here we've got a driver's manual and 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:27.120 utilities we have a Blu-ray and DVD solution okay so we have playback and 00:06:24.880 --> 00:06:32.440 buring Suite for multimedia systems pretty cool we have a Windows 7 Home pre 00:06:30.880 --> 00:06:36.520 thingy I'm just going to make sure my serial number isn't anywhere on there 00:06:34.039 --> 00:06:41.199 cuz last thing I need is uh no serial number for this particular notebook 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.759 there I did it again F3 hotkey recovery function so let's find out what this is 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:47.400 the purpose is to restore the system back to the factory default settings 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:51.639 with F3 hotkey always back up important Data 00:06:49.840 --> 00:06:55.919 before using the F3 hotkey recovery that's a very good idea so there you go 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:59.039 so they've apparently made it quite easy to restore the system to factory 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:02.680 defaults which is great if you're like buying a system like this for your mom 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:08.720 and you don't want to go over there every time she has some kind of a problem I mean maybe your mom's a gamer 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:12.280 my mom isn't but you never know it's still a good feature to have in their 00:07:09.879 --> 00:07:17.280 notebook line uh regardless of which notebook model we're talking about so 00:07:14.440 --> 00:07:20.919 here we have a quick guide which covers the basics as well as some common 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:26.080 operating features so here let's show you guys what kind of features we have 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:27.879 with the function keys so we can uh 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:32.160 enable or disable the touchpad we can change our output we can turn on or off 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:36.000 the Eco engine which I'm assuming is going to preserve some power we can 00:07:33.960 --> 00:07:40.199 enable or disable our webcam Wireless Len 00:07:37.479 --> 00:07:45.319 Bluetooth uh 3G I don't think that's going to function in 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:50.240 Canada um not 100% sure about that we can 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:54.879 adjust brightness uh volume as well as our mute so that's how we can change 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.680 things about the system with the function keys while we are operating it 00:07:56.759 --> 00:08:03.599 we've got a little warranty summary here so it looks like it is a 24mon 2-year 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:07.240 warranty in the United States and Canada and here is a c compliance booklet which 00:08:05.759 --> 00:08:11.360 I've never seen before and I'm not even remotely interested in so next we have 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:17.000 our nine cell battery and we're almost there guys we're almost there here's our 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:22.039 nine cell battery it's uh rated for 7800 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:27.800 milliamp hours and finally we are ready 00:08:22.039 --> 00:08:27.800 to take the notebook out of the 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:36.080 package so I have actually just arrived in Las Vegas this morning I had an MSI 00:08:32.640 --> 00:08:39.919 event today I went to uh an ocz event 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:43.039 today as well um also had a steel series 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:44.760 thing to do and then tomorrow is another 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:50.480 very full schedule I'm going to try and get as many videos uploaded while I'm 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:51.680 down here as possible but uh it's 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:56.959 sometimes a bit of a challenge and I might have to wait till I'm back in 00:08:53.600 --> 00:09:00.399 Vancouver before I can really give you 00:08:56.959 --> 00:09:03.279 guys the full update MSI has come such a 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:08.680 long way in terms of their shell Design This is just really slick looking you've 00:09:06.079 --> 00:09:13.560 got kind of a neat scaled finish going on up here hopefully you guys can see 00:09:10.959 --> 00:09:17.440 that okay and then the uh the top of the notebook is oh I wish I wasn't getting 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:21.519 sort of weird Reflections off it there we go so the top of the notebook has 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:25.880 kind of an angular shape to it kind of like a stealth biter and it is a glossy 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:29.680 black finish and then we've got a little 00:09:27.760 --> 00:09:33.160 Chrome accent here that I love Chrome accents there you guys know a little 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:37.600 something about me there's another one there I love that okay so let's go ahead 00:09:35.480 --> 00:09:42.200 and sort of turn it on its side and let's see what we're going to find here 00:09:38.839 --> 00:09:44.839 so we're going to find a vent pole oh 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:50.040 two USB 3.0 ports that's outstanding actually we have an SSD slot as well as 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:53.760 a USB 2.0 I hope I didn't say 2.0 I meant 3.0 they are color-coded blue and 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:59.480 they have the little super speed logo above them and then finally we have an 00:09:56.440 --> 00:10:02.880 Express there we go uh whatever that is 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:05.160 it's PCIe or whatever expansion slot 00:10:02.880 --> 00:10:10.040 that you probably won't use but you'll be kicking yourself if you don't have 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:13.720 one and you do need something for it here on the back we're going to find 00:10:11.760 --> 00:10:19.760 pretty much the usual Fair a Kensington lock a covered ventilation hole so 00:10:17.160 --> 00:10:22.800 that's kind of that's kind of peculiar I wonder if they're using this shell for 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:27.279 another model as well that does require ventilation over here interesting to say 00:10:24.959 --> 00:10:33.920 the least here we have our power in as well as our Lan we do have support for 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:36.480 VGA as well as HDMI video out and we 00:10:33.920 --> 00:10:41.680 also have an EA port on the back finally moving around to the other 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:47.279 side hey look at that looks like we've got dedicated Jacks for 5.1 audio out as 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:50.680 well as a microphone that's pretty cool so they really are taking audio 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:54.360 seriously on this model we've got another USB 2.0 Port I love having one 00:10:52.920 --> 00:10:58.200 on the other side just in case you want to run a mouse off this port or if it's 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:02.440 not convenient to have it up against the other side so that's a nice thing to see 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:07.480 and then here we have our blu-ray combo Drive which is uh nicely angled with the 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:10.200 shape of the overall notebook all right let's have a quick look at the bottom 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:14.839 although I'm not going to let you guys see that just yet so that uh my product 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:20.480 key can remain uh not all over YouTube and I'm 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:23.639 just going to install the battery really quick here or rather I'll show you guys 00:11:21.959 --> 00:11:27.399 how to install the battery so you just put that in there lower it in and that's 00:11:25.680 --> 00:11:32.320 it you've installed the battery so I'll show you guys the bottom of the notebook 00:11:30.560 --> 00:11:38.680 here you can see that we have easy access to upgrade the RAM as well as the 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:40.839 optical drive as well as the hard drive 00:11:38.680 --> 00:11:45.320 so just by pulling off this whole plate you can get access to pretty much the 00:11:42.560 --> 00:11:49.720 entire internals of the notebook for user upgrades and you can bet that I 00:11:47.839 --> 00:11:54.760 will be doing some user upgrades on this guy we got what appears to be 00:11:52.480 --> 00:12:00.320 a speaker I I I guess that's a subwoofer 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:04.880 actually so please correct me if I'm wrong but that looks like a subwoofer on 00:12:03.160 --> 00:12:10.639 the bottom of this notebook that's a pretty cool feature all right so let's 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:10.639 have a look at the inside 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:16.000 here okay so it's covered in plastic so 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:20.040 we won't have any problems with it getting damaged and shipping here's our 00:12:18.160 --> 00:12:26.160 HD webcam up here at the top I'm going to go ahead and remove this and uh you 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:30.839 guys can come along for the ride because I don't have a cameraman to sort of 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:35.320 conveniently and shots for me when I need it and all that good stuff so I'm 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:38.880 pulling all of the protective film off oh my goodness I'm undressing it oh yeah 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:45.560 let's see what this says got a question or problem contact MSI customer service 00:12:43.040 --> 00:12:50.480 good thinking okay so here you can see that the screen is quite glossy you can 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:54.000 clearly see me in the reflection off the screen oh there's your microphone for 00:12:51.959 --> 00:12:58.720 the webcam so it's right up there uh once again we've got sort of some Chrome 00:12:56.000 --> 00:13:01.959 accents up here Chrome accents down here love that 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:06.320 overall a glossy black finish and then there's also some matte black accents in 00:13:04.040 --> 00:13:11.279 here as well so I'm going to go ahead and remove this as 00:13:08.320 --> 00:13:16.760 well um hopefully I can uh get a fingernail under that and I can lift 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:19.320 that up there we go so there are our our 00:13:16.760 --> 00:13:23.800 stereo speakers and here is their Sound by Dine Audio again I'm just going to 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:27.959 try and get an angle here where you guys can see it more easily and you don't 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:31.680 have so much uh reflection off of my lamp but I also don't 00:13:29.680 --> 00:13:35.120 completely block my light as well so here why don't we do that that's not a 00:13:32.959 --> 00:13:40.040 bad angle okay so let's get in here so we've got our 2.1 speaker setup so that 00:13:38.160 --> 00:13:44.360 looks like two speakers up here one subwoofer down in the bottom we've got 00:13:42.079 --> 00:13:49.199 our power switch here as well as a nice Chrome MSI logo we've got some buttons 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:53.000 up here which look to be touch sensitive buttons or either that or these are just 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:57.519 indicators so I'm going to have to find that out for you guys and I'm going to 00:13:55.680 --> 00:14:01.240 be giving you guys my full Impressions on this notebook once I have a chance 00:13:59.839 --> 00:14:05.519 down here in CES I don't know how realistic that is but once I do get back 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:10.199 I'm going to tell you everything that I have to say about this 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:13.720 notebook overall build of it seems so far quite sturdy although it's really 00:14:12.079 --> 00:14:17.440 hard to tell until I've really typed a lot on the keyboard and really played 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:21.519 around with the shell opened it up in terms of keyboard layout it looks pretty 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:26.639 strong so far this is not a bilingual layout I hate bilingual layouts to be 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:31.040 perfectly honest with you guys I've got a properly positioned shift key I have 00:14:29.199 --> 00:14:35.000 short shift key here but I don't mind that because it would be very rare that 00:14:33.560 --> 00:14:38.759 I would actually reach over here to hit the shift key it's much closer here so I 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:42.600 really like this design choice that they've made here to put the arrow keys 00:14:40.800 --> 00:14:46.399 there to condense the keyboard to give me a number pad because I do actually 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:50.639 work on my notebook even though it is a GX gaming notebook yeah I'm still going 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:54.480 to do some work so it's great to have a number pad if I have to do any data 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:58.560 entry the enter and backspace keys are also the appropriate size and look at 00:14:56.839 --> 00:15:03.959 this I've got conveniently highlighted wa as SD keys so yeah yeah there's a 00:15:01.199 --> 00:15:08.639 little gaming focus in there for sure we have one Windows key here and then we do 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:12.440 not on the other side but that doesn't really bother me very much and I think 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:17.360 that's pretty much all I need to say about the keyboard the touchpad uses 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:21.360 kind of a uh textured finish so you shouldn't get too much grease built up I 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:24.600 don't really like uh very very smooth touch pads and I'm glad to see that 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:29.480 everyone seems to be pretty much moving away from that same thing here we've got 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:34.720 a bit of a glossy uh shiny Chrome finished outer portion here but the 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:39.120 actual buttons themselves are using like a brushed finish so that they're not 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:42.839 going to be too bad in terms of finger magnetism and you've also got a little 00:15:41.040 --> 00:15:47.839 bit of a grip on it so you can really feel um where your finger goes without 00:15:45.839 --> 00:15:54.319 it sliding off or anything like that we've got some stickers here something 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:57.560 about ATI Mobility radon hd5870 Graphics 00:15:54.319 --> 00:16:00.800 Windows 7 core i7 energy star and DTS 00:15:57.560 --> 00:16:04.720 surround sensation 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:07.880 PC look at that I wonder if what are 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.160 these H interesting okay well we've got 00:16:07.880 --> 00:16:13.480 another little summary of the technology that's present in this notebook although 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:19.160 I've covered that already and I think that pretty much concludes my 00:16:17.040 --> 00:16:24.959 unboxing I'm going to take a moment and actually fire it up here with you guys 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:33.680 there we go we got an MSI boot screen we've got uh appears to be 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:33.680 Western Digital 3 120 gig drives in raid 00:16:34.040 --> 00:16:40.240 zero you can see they are configured in the raid BIOS that's such a cool feature 00:16:38.600 --> 00:16:44.440 being able to have raid in a in a notebook I mean you could even throw two 00:16:41.800 --> 00:16:49.560 ssds in here throw those in raid zero and get just crazy speed for a notebook 00:16:47.800 --> 00:16:53.399 I'm also going to play around uh in the near future I'll do another video for 00:16:51.079 --> 00:16:57.040 you guys uh I want to play around with the overclocking feature for this CPU 00:16:55.399 --> 00:17:00.759 because I will be using this notebook for some video rendering and I want to 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:05.280 find out how much of a performance Improvement I can get by overclocking 00:17:02.920 --> 00:17:08.120 the CPU so there we go we're fired up and I'm going to spend some time now to 00:17:06.640 --> 00:17:14.039 do some setup thank you for checking out my unboxing of the MSI GX 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:20.199 660r 060 us this is a core i7 and Mobility 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:25.000 Radeon HD 5870 gaming notebook