GTX 900M series officially announced by NVIDIA!!!

You have to remove the motherboard just to upgrade/install SSDs....?

 

or RAM

10char

 

Also apparently there is a damn warranty sticker on one screw needed to open the chassis .

While MSI folks at various forums keep telling it should be ok to open the chassis if you don't break anything, you are basically taking a risk you may lose warranty based on decision of a particular person handling you.

BTW besides disks, also memory upgrades are difficult. One more reason why getting proper SKUs with MSI GS60 is important (and kinda difficult as different countries get only very limited subset of possible configurations).

 

Amazon.com : MSI GS Series GS60 Ghost Pro 4K-079 15.6-Inch Laptop (Aluminum Black) : Computers & Accessories

This is kinda the goto gs60 atm I think, I will post a link to 512GB version as soon as it is available!

 

VRAM slots have always been backwards with pretty much any brand. They let 2 sit very convenient and hide the 2 last one under the keyboard etc which you need to take apart.

But SSDs too? Are you guys sure?

Also disregard the stickers. Its been said time after time by MSI employees that you can break them and they will honour warranty. Unless you put a crazy cat on top of it which urinates and scratch the hardware to pieces (yeah you know what I mean).

 

Ah, so this is what a 2880x1620 screen looks like at 15.6". I'd rather not use scaling in Windows 8.1, seeing as it is so poor and Windows 10 is still such a long way away. I have good vision (due to wearing glasses 24/7 - obviously poor vision without them) but those taskbar icons look too small for even my tastes. So it seems as though I made the right call with 1080p after all.

Spoiler

 

UI scaling in win 8 has some sort of problems?

 

Sadly cloud, I am sure I watched a few youtube videos people taking it apart.

 

(referring to the pay to play multiplier)
if this happens this means multiplier is dead to me lol. I almost never buy a game at face value so it wouldn't affect me much to begin with but yea hells a no.


rofl on the 3k on 15.6 in hahahaha.

Also on the locked tight laptop...i would replace my wifi card to an AC card in my R4 but its under keyboard and stuff too -_-

 

You can get a much better deal buying the mSATA SSDs separately, no? newegg had some crucial 480GB for $220 and the 840 Evo 500GB is only $250 from Amazon - this one is at the top of the Passmark rankings. PassMark - Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB mSATA - Price performance comparison

 

^^ What I said above

 

Then why even have those stickers in the first place? It just seems illogical -- "yeah hey don't worry you can poke at the sticker all you want, break it shred it whatever we'll still honor the warranty, we put it there just for the lulz"

 

To stop the un experienced to actually destroy something when opening it, aka, oh a void warranty sticker, let's not open that.

 

Indeed, they know why they put those warranty stickers there. It's quite a nightmare to do upgrades yourself:



So yes, even if MSI says (unofficially, non-binding, on forum) "we will honor warranty with broken stickers on the condition customer didn't break anything", it seems still damn too easy to break something with such notebook design, no cat pee needed .

So no thanks, if I go with MSI, I would just stick with default components

 

Thats the worst i have ever seen.

 

Samsung SSDs are benemark machiens but are not performance kings in real world according to anandtech and tweaktown. I think tweaktown even removed the samsung cards off their list

 

Just posted my MSI GT72 Dominator Pro with GT980m review, but HTML is not working at the moment, sorry for how it looks. I will see if the mods or site admins can help. Not sure why it wouldn't work in the MSI section: http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/763709-msi-gt72-dominator-pro-gtx-980m-review-htwingnut.html

Edit: HTML Working now.

 

Titan-Z price cut to $1500

Out of stock already rofl

 

still 1500 isn't very good or was it sold out due to its compute abilities?

 

Right before 980 released the same stuff happened 1500 dollar Titan-Z. Lemme give heads up to people. If you are a grad student + your research involves gpu computing, Nvidia will ship you a brand new Titan-Z for FREE!!!! (No kidding, a friend of mine did it )

 

Most likely compute, and probably some people who think $1500 is a good deal. (it's not if you're just gaming, but at $1500 it's an absolute steal for those doing GPU compute)

pics or it didn't happen

 

So if it's about compute, does it mean official launch of GM200 is imminent?

Supercomputing 2014 conference seems like a good place for Nvidia to announce new Tesla. Conference dates are November 16 - 21, 2014. Nvidia did Tesla announcements at previous SC conferences, also in November.

sc14.supercomputing.org

See also this leak from Nvidia paper, mentioning GM200 as "End of 2014":

http://videocardz.com/51195/nvidia-maxwell-gm200-pascal-gp100-confirmed-research-paper

 

Is it true that 980m runs cooler than 780m? Why is that?

 

smaller and more efficient (better design). Some are saying there is going to be a 985m

 

https://research.nvidia.com/content/hardware-donation-program

 

I can't wait for the Broadwell mobile CPUs to be released with the upcoming GTX985M.

 

What notebook bags for 17" notebooks can you tell me are good?

 

Astro Scout

 

For lets say under 100€ if possible. The cheaper the better

 

google the alienware 17 in bag thread. you can also add my name into the search. i have posted a lot in it

 

I can confirm that the Alienware Orion backpacks are awesome as hell... but the straps and such fray after just a year, and you may need to maintain it. I've had mine for four years now. It still works okay, but I could really do with a new bag due to that fraying etc.

It's insulated (you could throw a cold bottle of water in it, leave it in the sun for 6 hours, come back and it'll still be at least chilly. Same with hot food and an air conditioned room).
It's weatherproof to a certain degree (don't drop it in water, but if it gets rained on or something spills the insides are dry).
The interior is very padded and solid and has LOTS of pockets and such for actual stationery. It's quite roomy.

As for the bag I want... it's an Everki Titan. Unfortunately they are not all that cheap, but HNGGG BAG.

 

titan is nice and all but it is lacking storage options like the beacon bad. I would love to see more pockets for storing small items in an organized manner..i want an item or two easy to access in a pocket not 20 items thrown into a bag floating around. Also some of the zippers could have been made to open wider, which is sad. I really wish it had the features the beacon bad with the size of the titan :/

 

Hugs Titan!

Mainly got it for storage capacity since I travel carry-on only. It has lots of nice features, and that lifetime warranty is worth a bit.

Edit: Um I had been browsing the accessories forum and switched tabs to this one lol, didn't even notice how off topic this was till now. Um maybe we should stick to at least things at least relating to 9xx computers, and 9xx gaming. Laptop bags is a bit much probably

 

hence why i referenced the m17x bag thread I tried

 

Great review as always

One question about the power draw: since all benchmarks were under the 180w threshold, does it still make sense to look for a laptop with a > 200w power brick? I'm just asking because for instance the new Clevo models (651 and 670) have 180w adapters and this seems to be the current trend.

 

iPhone, iPad, Tablet Cases and Laptop Bags - Protecting Your Digital Cargo > STM Bags

..literally everything they make is really good.

 

Could the 900 series be announced???!!


Alienware Launch 2014

 

Probably, they have a laptop pictured. Based on the visible ports and no numpad keyboard, its probably 13-14" Hopefully there will be 17 and 18 too.

Still think I am just going to order a Clevo p651sg though, only thing that would really tempt me is a 1440p or 3k 17-18"

Actually never mind 120hz, g-sync, 20" narrow bezel display in the Alienware 18 form factor would all probably tempt me too.

 

Slimmest alienware lappy I've seen, looks like a new model.

 

Alienware 13: http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware/759061-new-alienware-13-a.html

 

Its gonna be an alienware gaming tablet lol jk

 

Now that my CPU is at 4.2GHz, I really NEED these cards!

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2 minutes to get the backplate of

 

Wow. I like taking machines apart and rebuilding them, but that would be a real pain just to upgrade the RAM or install an SSD. Starting to not feel so bad about not being able to get a GS60.

 

Not being easy upgradable turned me off with the GS60. If I'm spending that much, I need to be able to do upgrades myself without any hassle.

On backpacks look for the Gigabyte B7, I got that for my new shiny toy whenever it decides to arrive.

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Not sure if it's been posted yet, but check out this bad boy:

MSI GS70 Stealth Pro-096 Gaming Laptop Intel Core i7 4710HQ (2.50GHz) 16GB Memory 1TB HDD 768 GB (256 GB mSATA x 3 RAID 0) SSD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 6GB 17.3" Windows 8.1 64-Bit Multi-language - Newegg.com

 

Well, I guess I canceled my order JIT

 

985M? Really now? Who said?

Also, 980M is Maxwell, yes?

 

Don't pay attention to random claims. There won't be 985m. The only time it happened (485m) is because of the abysmal performance and the epic failure of 480m. Next gpu will be either 1080m or a new naming convention.

 

he also fast forwarded through the unscrewing part -_-

there was:

285m (only higher clocked though..i thought it was larger)
300 series is irrelevant
485m
500 series didn't have one
680mx (technical was the 685m)
780/880m were actually the 680mx

so with all of that 2/4 series has a x85m/x80mx

Colors denote different series.