MSI Gaming Laptops GT60 3K Edition, GS70 Slim GTX 765M & Dragon Edition 2 - Computex 2013
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·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is nc.com so we're checking out some MSI
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systems here that are looking pretty freaking crazy so number one is the gt70
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dragon Edition 2 extreme so what makes a notebook extreme you might ask I would
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answer well the fact that it has an Intel cor i7 extreme Edition inside that
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would be the obvious answer the next answer is the fact that it has a GTX 780
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M inside so that's about as powerful as it gets for a mobile graphics card my
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third answer might be that it has what they're calling their exclusive super
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Raid 2 which is three MSA ssds in raid
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zero and a 750 GB hard drive for mass
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storage and last but not least with their cooler boost to as well as their
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special hybrid power design this notebook is capable of overclocking that
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normally 3 GHz core i7 exam Edition all the way up to
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4.1 GHz what you do is you boot it up
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with a special hotkey and you can actually run it at significantly higher
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clock speeds now this is going to exceed the amount of power that a device like
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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
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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
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here's the hybrid power design so what this does is if you exceed the amount of
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power that can be drawn from AC and you in short bursts it'll actually allow The
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Notebook battery to boost it up so you can maintain that extremely high
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performance level regardless of anything else it uses a 17.3 in full HD screen
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and there is definitely more to come in terms of cool MSI notebook stay tuned
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I've been complaining for so long that displays are not high resolution enough
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what is the freaking excuse for being able to put a 1080p display on this and
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only being able to put a 1080 display wait hold on this isn't a 1080p
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display this is a 3K Edition so what
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this is is it's a notebook that finally UPS the anti in terms of resolution 2880
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by 1620 so you can see those icons are pretty small what you also might be able
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to see although it's hard to say because we're shooting this in 1080P is that the
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display is significantly sharper so what
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MSI had to do is they first of all they had to put a higher resolution display
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in here next they had to back it up with performance so this one also this is GT
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633k it also features a core i7 extreme Edition processor it's got 16 gigs of
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DDR3 memory an NVIDIA gForce GTX 780m
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graphics card with 4 gigs of gddr5 RAM
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why do you need four gigs of gddr5 RAM well that's the issue here is that when
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you increase the resolution this is what everyone's been afraid to do for so long
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when you increase the resolution you increase the hardware requirement in
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order to drive it and actually have a great gaming experience
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on the device so they had to put in all that Graphics memory because as you
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increase resolution you need more vram to buffer the textures that you require
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now you also get some other cool functionality with a GTX 780 check out
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these three displays that are running right here all three of them are
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actually running off of this display so it has support for NVIDIA's 3 plus one
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so that is NVIDIA surround over three displays with an auxiliary display
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giving you up to four display outputs
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off of single notebook so this is a 15.5
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in model and honestly this is sort of
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just the beginning here so we still got the steel series multi backlit keyboard
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but I just I want to move on I want to move on I love 3K and that's all sort of
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great and fine and interesting but check this
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out this is a whole new concept when it
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comes to gaming notebooks it's slim it's
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gorgeous it's aluminum and it is a 17.3
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in gaming notebook with a GTX 765 5 m a
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core i7 it's got that same super raid technology we talked about before and
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when you fold this baby down she is less than 1 in in overall thickness so I'll
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do my trademark cell phone size comparison here to give you guys some
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idea so you're going to see outputs on the side you got Ethernet HDMI dual
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DisplayPort USB 3 as well as audio
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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
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turn this around we've got an SD card slot as well as cooling so check out the
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bottom of it fully aluminum on the bottom of it as well so ventilation
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comes in here and the they are still able to cool the core i7 CPU as well as
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the GTX 765m if you were looking for a
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notebook that is stylish as well as high
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performance and you don't mind the size I mean I guess if you want the large
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screen then you definitely want the size then you may not have to look any
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further than the gs70 from MSI can you
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see the backlit keyboard from the side here so it's a bit of a redesigned
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backlit keyboard there's a different type face on it as well as a chicklet
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key design that was necessitated by the extreme slimness of the form factor of
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this Notebook thank you for checking out our coverage of MSI's new flagship class
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