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as well as hyperx we're here in the MSI Suite with
what for me personally is the most exciting thing I've seen at the show yet
which isn't really saying much this is only the second Suite we've been to but
this is something that I'm pretty stoked on anyway this is the gs30 shadow 001
it's a gaming notebook that has a very thin and light design so they're using
what appears to the same material as as their GS Series so like a like a blasted
finished magnesium kind of shell it's
got an extremely thin display two usb3
ports Intel gigabit Lan HDMI out an SD
card reader audio ports an Intel Core i7 4870hq quad core processor and Iris Pro
Graphics yeah that's right gaming laptop
$2,000 Iris Pro Graphics no no hold on it gets it gets better than that so
what's going on over here is we're running exter an external display not
off of The Notebook itself but off of this included box underneath it so I'm
actually going to go ahead and shut it down because right now the way it works
is in order to switch between Standalone notebook mode and notebook with like
beastly Graphics mode you do have to shut down the machine because here at
the back we can go ahead and is it shut down unlock it this like mechanism it
it's like Lock and Load your notebook right here here at the back is a PCI
Express 16x gen 3 interface so that is a
full speed link any high-end GPU you
could possibly want to want you can run off of that and you don't just you don't
just stick it in the slot at the at the back of the notebook no no that's that's
not how it works it's much more elegant than that this box down here contains a
speaker just in case you don't have speakers for whatever reason or
something like that it's got some more IO for the notebook so four more USB
ports killer l two more audio ports power button as well as a cooling fan
and then inside this is awesome just
going to open it up here try not to break it this time whoops okay yep and
then inside we've got a PCI Express 16x
slot a 450 W power supply and then we
can see now that that cooling fan is going to allow us to run well MSI says
any of their graphics cards and any reference card up to a GTX Titan black
or R9 290x pretty much anything you could want to put in it compar to alien
wear solution this is still proprietary
so it's not the you know most elegant thing in the world we're a little ways
away from just plugging in a Thunderbolt cable and hot swapping graphics cards
but compared to Alienware solution it has four times the bandwidth because the
Alienware one runs at PCIe 4X so this
and and while that's not normally going to be a bottleneck anyway it's something
that gives you well in my mind a little bit more room for the future because
CPUs don't affect gaming performance the same way that gpus do and this could
last you through several GPU upgrades and who knows what the bandwidth
requirements will look like a couple years from now so this is what's got my
attention because for me carrying around a bulky gaming notebook like this 18inch
monstrosity over here that we're also going to have a video of by the way I
can't even lift it with one hand it's so heavy carrying around something like
that is not necessarily an option but being able to carry something like this
around with me most of the time and then grab my dock that actually uh maybe it
does weigh more than that notebook but not by much being able to just grab an
extra dock when I really need the gaming horse power is an unbelievable use case
scenario that I think is fantastic so guys thank you for checking out our
video of the gs30
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