5 POUNDS of Heatpipe Cooling! MSI GT83
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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guess this is it right this is the year of laptops that defy
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portability although I've got to give
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MSI this compared to the other entrance
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in this apparently flourishing category Acer with the
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21x ASUS with the 800 GX and Razer with
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their triple monitor concept thing at
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least MSI can lay claim to being the first to build a monstrosity like this
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this is the successor to the original gt80 Titan the world's first laptop with
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a full cherrymx mechanical keyboard and
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at the time what I thought would be the only one ever but no it has been
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refreshed some things haven't been changed we're still dealing with a 1080p
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IPS 60 HZ display because there just
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simply aren't a lot of options from the panel makers at 18 in so okay I guess I
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get that g-sync would have been nice at the least though we've still got the
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Cherry MX switches now with individually
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back lit RGB keys and with a new Switch
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type so instead of Browns which I do really like they're using another switch
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which we've only seen before in Corsair's gaming keyboard boards the
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Cherry MX speed to the right of the speed you've still got that weird
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vertical touchpad that I'm not a huge fan of but um I Cliff's defense was
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something along the lines of hey where you want me to put a bigger one I'm like
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okay I guess that's fair and it still turns into a unlock but the insides have
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changed a lot so we ripped her open you can still get the top panel off to get
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access to two of the four ddr4 memory slots as well as the m.2 slots which are
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capable of running in raid and opening it up here in the bottom oh wow I have
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never seen such a beautiful heatpipe
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cooling engine in my life this baby has
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three fans two of which are dedicated to
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the GTX 1080 gpus and one of which is
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doing most of the heavy lifting on the cor i7 7820 HK CPU and I believe it is a
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total of nine heat pipes P stacked three-dimensionally all over the inside
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of this Beast with heat sinks that are utilizing almost the entire Z height of
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what is already one of the thickest gaming laptops on the
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market very very impressive and more
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impressive still you might have noticed that is an overclocking ready skew on
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the inside of this laptop not only can
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the CPU be overclocked but those gpus those 1080 SLI gpus are capable capable
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of running at full non-dp restricted
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speed according to the MSI reps here though of course I'll be needing a unit
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of this to uh check out in the lab I'm getting the I'm getting the I hate you
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lus nod but uh we have to do what you say cuz you get lots of views on YouTube
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look in terms of IO going back out to the outside we've got USB 3 on the right
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we've got a whack ton more USB 3 on the left we got optical audio out because
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freaking YOLO I guess I mean it does have a new audio codec in it that's you
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know HD highres or whatever the case may be it's got an SD card reader Kensington
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lock and all the display outports you'll probably need HDMI 2.0 gigabit Lan
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Thunderbolt and mini DisplayPort the one thing really missing here in my mind
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is support for triple external g-sync monitors cuz it's the kind of thing I
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could conceivably see someone hooking up to something like this but uh hey I
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guess we'll have to live with that so how do you power a beast like this MSI's
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answer turns out is very similar to cleos so they're using a little Bridge
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dudad here where two 330 W power bricks
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go in and one plug goes into the back of the laptop so that's it 660 watts that's
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how they're managing to power all that stuff so huge shout out to you guys for
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