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is nc.com so we're checking out some MSI
systems here that are looking pretty freaking crazy so number one is the gt70
dragon Edition 2 extreme so what makes a notebook extreme you might ask I would
answer well the fact that it has an Intel cor i7 extreme Edition inside that
would be the obvious answer the next answer is the fact that it has a GTX 780
M inside so that's about as powerful as it gets for a mobile graphics card my
third answer might be that it has what they're calling their exclusive super
Raid 2 which is three MSA ssds in raid
zero and a 750 GB hard drive for mass
storage and last but not least with their cooler boost to as well as their
special hybrid power design this notebook is capable of overclocking that
normally 3 GHz core i7 exam Edition all the way up to
4.1 GHz what you do is you boot it up
with a special hotkey and you can actually run it at significantly higher
clock speeds now this is going to exceed the amount of power that a device like
oh looks like we have an external Mouse plugged in so there's yeah there's a touchpad off button here we go I got it
you can turn the touch pad off so you don't accidentally hit it with your palm if you uh don't want to do that so
here's the hybrid power design so what this does is if you exceed the amount of
power that can be drawn from AC and you in short bursts it'll actually allow The
Notebook battery to boost it up so you can maintain that extremely high
performance level regardless of anything else it uses a 17.3 in full HD screen
and there is definitely more to come in terms of cool MSI notebook stay tuned
I've been complaining for so long that displays are not high resolution enough
what is the freaking excuse for being able to put a 1080p display on this and
only being able to put a 1080 display wait hold on this isn't a 1080p
display this is a 3K Edition so what
this is is it's a notebook that finally UPS the anti in terms of resolution 2880
by 1620 so you can see those icons are pretty small what you also might be able
to see although it's hard to say because we're shooting this in 1080P is that the
display is significantly sharper so what
MSI had to do is they first of all they had to put a higher resolution display
in here next they had to back it up with performance so this one also this is GT
633k it also features a core i7 extreme Edition processor it's got 16 gigs of
DDR3 memory an NVIDIA gForce GTX 780m
graphics card with 4 gigs of gddr5 RAM
why do you need four gigs of gddr5 RAM well that's the issue here is that when
you increase the resolution this is what everyone's been afraid to do for so long
when you increase the resolution you increase the hardware requirement in
order to drive it and actually have a great gaming experience
on the device so they had to put in all that Graphics memory because as you
increase resolution you need more vram to buffer the textures that you require
now you also get some other cool functionality with a GTX 780 check out
these three displays that are running right here all three of them are
actually running off of this display so it has support for NVIDIA's 3 plus one
so that is NVIDIA surround over three displays with an auxiliary display
giving you up to four display outputs
off of single notebook so this is a 15.5
in model and honestly this is sort of
just the beginning here so we still got the steel series multi backlit keyboard
but I just I want to move on I want to move on I love 3K and that's all sort of
great and fine and interesting but check this
out this is a whole new concept when it
comes to gaming notebooks it's slim it's
gorgeous it's aluminum and it is a 17.3
in gaming notebook with a GTX 765 5 m a
core i7 it's got that same super raid technology we talked about before and
when you fold this baby down she is less than 1 in in overall thickness so I'll
do my trademark cell phone size comparison here to give you guys some
idea so you're going to see outputs on the side you got Ethernet HDMI dual
DisplayPort USB 3 as well as audio
ports and on the other side over here you probably won't be able to look at it but we've got two USB 3 actually I can
turn this around we've got an SD card slot as well as cooling so check out the
bottom of it fully aluminum on the bottom of it as well so ventilation
comes in here and the they are still able to cool the core i7 CPU as well as
the GTX 765m if you were looking for a
notebook that is stylish as well as high
performance and you don't mind the size I mean I guess if you want the large
screen then you definitely want the size then you may not have to look any
further than the gs70 from MSI can you
see the backlit keyboard from the side here so it's a bit of a redesigned
backlit keyboard there's a different type face on it as well as a chicklet
key design that was necessitated by the extreme slimness of the form factor of
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