with the recent spec change including new performance profiles and a graphics
card upgrade to the recently released GTX 970m 3 gig we figured and MSI agreed
that it was finally time to take the gs70 stealth for a spin in our studio
the red anodized finish on this stunning
device didn't hurt matters
either The Cooler Master nepton 240m features an exclusive pump design and
their new silencio fans to provide impressive near silent performance click
now to learn more we'll start with the specs rundown there's a bit of a variety
here but the one that I've got is topof the- line except for storage it's got a
core i7 4710hq processor that runs at 2.5 GHz nominal and 3.5 GHz boost 16
gigs of DDR3 memory and two slots Max
384 gigs worth of raid zero SSD goodness
that was able to achieve sequential read speeds of well over 1 Gigabyte per
second for the OS with a 1 tby hard drive for larger programs and mass
storage Hardline gigabit networking and 802.11 AC both with qualcomm's killer
packet prioritization for gaming and a GTX 970m graphics card giving you more
performance than a last generation top-of-the-line 880 M equip notebook
with less power and less heat output but
none of this would be that impressive if it wasn't for the physical design of
this gaming sheet yes I even came up with a new name for pancake thin gaming
notebooks gaming sheets so let's do a bit of a physical tour the profile of
the notebook is less than 2.2 cm and it
weighs under 6 lb thanks to its aluminum magnesium alloy casing making it about
as lean and mean as anything else on the market this top cover features a MSI
gaming logo that I actually kind of hated at first but it's sort of grown on
me over the last year or so and an otherwise extremely clean brushed
aluminum finish the bottom has a similar finish with a port for the bottom
subwoofer Bend holes for the Dual side exhausting cooling fans and this weird
velvety material that perplexed me at first and then I was sitting there using
the thing and I went oh yeah it's so it doesn't slide off your lap when you've
got it sitting on your thigh flipping brilliant and say whatever you want
about the red color I personally think it's drop dead gorgeous and a very
positive move away from the standard black notebook with accent color that
everyone's been doing for at least the last 100 bazillion years it manages to
be extremely eye-catching without that Gody only 14-year-olds would like it
look about it that many gaming products manage to be stuck with and if you don't
like red well it's available in black and silver too anyway I guess in terms
of IO both sides are taken up with a surprisingly complete configuration with
the left side equipped with a gigb Ethernet port HDMI out dual mini display
port uh yeah that's a total of three concurrent 4K displays two at 60 HZ one
at 30 HZ two USB 3 ports and goldplated
audio jacks and then on the right side we find a Kensington lock a somewhat
awkwardly placed power input for the 150 W power brick that's still pretty
sizable but at least similar in thickness to the notebook at powers and
finally an SD card reader and two more USB 3 ports and now it's time to get
inside this Beauty around the 17-in display is more Tastefully plain design
with only an MSI logo and a 1080p 30fps
webcam its lowlight performance isn't as good as its well-lit performance but I
still think that's a nice inclusion with the way that webcams have turned into a
spec list checkbox item rather than a quality Hardware add-on which leads us
to the million dooll question how is that 17-in display well it's 1080p so if
you were hoping for a 3K or 4K display then you will be disappointed but I
personally think 1080p is still a good place for the 970m and it's TN so if you
were hoping for IPs then you'll be disappointed by that too but there is
some good news here while the vertical viewing angles aren't amazing at this
size with how easy it is to adjust the vertical angle of a notebook display I
don't consider this to be a deal-breaking issue and horizontal
viewing angles are surprisingly good so if you're sitting on the couch watching
a movie with your bow you'll both be able to enjoy it rather than you know
who gets to watch without the colors inverted being an indicator for who
wears the pants in your relationship speaking of colors I liked the
multicolored backlit keyboard by Steel series the first time I saw it and I
still like it today each of the keyboards three zones can be
individually lit whatever color you want at any of the four possible brightness
levels turned off or set up with a variety of lighting patterns including
breathing and color cycling it's a nice little touch of flare and personal
ization and since it doesn't have a negative impact on the keyboard layout
which other than the missing media controls I really like by the way nice
standard key layout with proper arrow keys and a full numpad or the
surprisingly solid tactile response that I don't really see a downside since if
you don't care about it you can just set it to one color forever and just use the
steel series engine utility for rebinding whatever Keys you want setting
up macros or whatever else it is you want to do you don't have to touch the
color blow Weare um I was ready to give
the gs70 stealth a B minus for Norton
being installed and having links to wild tangent and MSI's YouTube channel and
Facebook page in the modern UI start menu but MSI's performance monitor that
they also include is lightweight and somewhat useful and the Machine comes
with a six-month license for xplit gamecaster included so I'm going to bump
that up to a B+ useful bundled applications with trial periods that are
long enough to not just be considered a try before you buy demo are actually
worth marks to me here which leads us to that useful thing in MSI's control
center app their new shift functionality the general concept here isn't really
anything new different performance and fan profiles depending on your tolerance
for noise and heat but it works really seamlessly just function F7 to switch
between sport Comfort or green mode and you go from higher temps and pretty loud
and whiny to uh but with better performance down to lower temps quite
and much less whiny with less performance of course it should be noted
though that these modes only work when plugged into AC power but there's
NVIDIA's GPU boosts 2.0 when you're on battery anyway which lets you throttle
performance depending on your tolerance for lower frame rate targets and in-game
details when you're on battery in order to get more on the-go gaming out of your
PC in my experience it works for anywhere from a negligible Improvement
for really demanding games that we're going to max out the GPU regardless to
well over 50% more life if you really scale things back or you're playing
something that's not very demanding like League of Legends so conclusion time I
guess who is the gs70 still for well I'd
say anyone who's willing to pay a premium over the more traditional brick
style gaming notebook for what is in my mind a more portable and more visually
appealing design with similar performance not quite the same but at
the cost of component temperatures the outside stayed within reason but our CPU
got up to around 90° in sport mode with
CPU and GPU benchmarks running at the same time something that won't really
happen during games where we topped out around 65° but might be a concern if
you're a content creator who uses both CPU power and Cuda for video or 3D
production at the same time the good news though is that our CPU didn't go
under 2.9 GHz turbo on all four cores when stressing CPU RAM and GPU so no
throttling is a very good thing now that
the laptop's out of the way I'm sure you guys are wondering what the heck is up
with the little dragon stuffy that we've
had sitting here his name according to MSI Canada's Facebook fans is EMS INF
Inferno because there's an i at the beginning of INF sorry and they're
running a cool little promotion with this laptop where if you buy it in November you get one of these bad boys a
keyboard skin and a steel series flux
headset with little MSI branding on it and all that but if you are not shopping
for a notebook then you can still actually get one of these bundles
they're giving them away to three winners on Facebook and they're also
doing a grand prize bundle with this polo shirt a mouse pad and a GK 601
mechanical gaming keyboard the full contest details are linked in the video
description so good luck MSI told me
they wanted me to wear this shirt in the video so this is this is going to count
as me wearing it I wear it on my head so
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