MSI GX660R Core i7 Notebook One Touch Overclocking & Fan Control Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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now I know it's been a while but I did promise you guys some follow-up videos
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about the GX 660r from MSI so this is my
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first series of follow-up videos and I'm
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just going to show you guys the touch sensitive buttons here at the top of the
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laptop and what a couple of my favorite ones do I mean first of all there's the
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one that I hate which is the wireless button which because it's only a visual
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indicator a light whether it's on or off I turn off my wireless on a fairly
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regular basis we got one of those for Bluetooth we got one of those for eco
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mode as well so you can see that's going to change from eco mode to movie mode to
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gaming mode to presentation mode to office mode to Turbo battery mode and
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off so that's a pretty neat little thing I actually don't know what this one does
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what happens if I press that okay well I don't know what that one does yet uh
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okay this one don't remember what that does either
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these are my favorites though these are the ones I actually care about so check this out okay so our core speed is 931
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GHz I'm going to turn on Prime 95 and
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you're going to see the core speed is going to jump up to uh 1.86 2 gahz okay
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now check this out check this out I'm going to press the turbo button bam
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turbo on okay so first it went
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down and now it goes up 1. n55 GHz so it
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actually overclocked the bus speed not the multiplier so this is a OneTouch
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overclocking button that actually doesn't affect Intel speed step it
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doesn't affect turbo boost so here watch this if I take my Prime 95 and I stop it
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and then I do for example a single threaded small fft single thread so if I
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stress a single core you're going to see that my clock
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speed is going to be bam 2652 GHz
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whereas if I turn turbo off so I'm going to press the turbo button again and it's
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going to go back back down until speed step is enabled
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and wait is that the same no that's not
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the same that's less excellent so that was what I was trying to demonstrate now
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here's another cool feature this is the
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OMG the laptop is noisy button
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listen slowly ramps up but basically
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this is like a turbo cooling mode for the laptop that allows you to if you're
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if you know you're going to be doing something intensive you don't have uh
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like a laptop cooling pad available you
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want to make sure that everything's going to stay running nice and cool well
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that's one way that you can make sure that it is going to be running as cool
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as possible regardless of what you are doing with it if you're running a game
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if you're running uh anything else doesn't really matter so here we got
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Prime 95 on I'm going to open up my I actually don't
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know if my copy of real temp is going to work on this CPU so I guess we'll find
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out and it does so even running quad
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instances of prime 95 on this quad core 8 thread processor we're not getting
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above 70° which is pretty darn respectable for a notebook that is
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overclocked cool beans thanks for checking out Linus techtips don't forget
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