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Hi guys, I'm planning for my windows re-install, and I'm going through the process of downloading all the latest and greatest drivers and utilities.

The only thing I'm seeing that I'm going to want and can't find is WinDVD. Where do I find that software?

Also - on a related note. I don't see a utility for burning cd's/dvd's. Are we relegated to the OS utilities for that? or am I missing something?

 

ImgBurn FTW.

The Official ImgBurn Website

 

You can download the WinDVD software here:

http://download2.msi.com/files/downloads/uti_exe/windvd_nb_w7_3264_1005830.zip

 

Most new drivers can be found on station-drivers.com(MSI site has old drivers)

New software on majorgeeks.com

MSI Utilities:
MSI Global ? Notebook - GT780DX

MSI WinDVD:
MSI Global ? Notebook - GT683

If you have trouble with MSI WinDVd not playing newer BD movies then I suggest you look for a deal on PowerDVD 11.It's the best for BD playback.

 

Yes!!!

Long time no see.

680M hasn't been announce by nVidia so we don't know far away from it's release date.

The AC adapter for GTX580M will still be 180W.

 

awesome. didn't even know about this!

 

Welcome to the club! I just figured out the facial recognition for login. Way too cool.

 

Thank you both very much!

 

Im loving so much this laptop.... It's fast as hell and run games Smoothly in max settings...

The steelseries keyboard is beautiful and responses good to my key hits
In Game departament... I tested Just Cause 2 and I got a smoothly 55FPS with max settings... and this only wiht turbo mode on, without overclocking

I can wait to finish downloading BF3 from origin (slow conection) and have a long game session on this baby

 

How do I contact MSI's online support? I've used the following site for a question;

MSI Online Customer Service

I signed with my own email and made a "ticket" 1st November.

Now it's December the 2nd and there has not been any sign of help from them....

 

this is very interesting

 

180W AC adapter 'should' be fine....... MSI is sure to fully test with the wattage increase. We'll see soon!

 

How do I unraid my raid? I decided to leave my disks in place, reinstall windows 7, then migrate to SSD for my OS drive.

I went into the BIOS and shifted from RAID to AHCI for the SATA Mode Selection, but when I start the windows 7 install, it only sees one drive.

 

You need re-enable RAID in the BIOS and reboot:

1: after BIOS post screen press Ctrl+ I to enter RAID BIOS.

2: at RAID BIOS press 2 to delete RAID> press Delete on the keyboard and press Y to confirm.

3: press 5 to exit.

4: enter system BIOS again and setup SATA from RAID to AHCI.

5: press F10 to save and exit.

6: reinstall Windows.

 

You da man! Thanks.

 

Just keep a fire extinguisher handy;the power adapter is going to get extremely hot while gaming if the heat of the adapter with the GTX570M is any indication.

 

Lol nice pic whatsthepoint. I keep picturing you as a 50-60 years old man from the last avatar

 

Just a quick note to say I received my -446 today! Installed the latest beta driver from a few pages ago- my vantage score is 10976. Isn't that kinda low? What can I do to increase it? TIA, and thanks Ken!

 

You wouldn't have been that far off.

 

I like the UNiGiNE Heaven DX11 Benchmark.
Download Heaven DX11 Benchmark | Unigine: real-time 3D engine (game, simulation, visualization and VR)

 

My new machine scored 526 with the default settings.

 

My 10 day old GT780DX scored 524.

Nothing is overclocked and the benchmark ran at it's default settings

 

Hey y'all, has anybody heard of an upcoming driver update for the keyboard? I'm slightly annoyed by how it skips letter when typing fast

 

I think you meant bios update,not driver.

Check the tightness of the 2 screws on the bottom of the unit with the keyboard symbol.

See if the "U" shaped plastic piece around the keyboard is loose.

Pry up the cover over the speakers that includes the power button carefully so not to dislodge the small ribbon cable that is underneath.

Then check the 5 screws that hold down the keyboard for tightness.(See attachments)

You can also put some double sided tape under the keyboard

BTW,the pictures are ones I took when I added a 3rd antenna into a coworkers GT780DX for her Intel Ultimate N 6300 wireless card.In Pix #1 you can see the 3rd antenna and the LCD frame removed.Pix #2 shows the ribbon cable and the 6300 wireless card with the 3 antenna wires attached.

 

Thank you for the quick guide!!!! (with pictures, WOW )
I'll try to fix this tomorrow and report back!

 

Question about the turbo mode, is it turned on wih the "P1" button? When I hit it, I get the turbo on graphic in the center of the screen, but the button is not back-lit like the others that are on, and about five seconds later, the tubo off graphic appears by itself (I didn't do anything). Working as intended, or is there another way to turn on TDE?

Thanks!

 

Ok,

Looking to replace my busted laptop, and trying to decide between two setups, MSI and Sager... both setup from xoticpc. Unfortunately, it's been a long while since I purchased a new laptop, so I have no idea which is really better. The choice between the two is:

Sager NP8170 - $1599.53 after $200.00 off from Sager Sale
17.3" FHD 16:9 "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Glossy Screen (1920x1080)
2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM, 2.2-3.1GHz, (32nm, 6MB L3 cache)
ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD6990 2048MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11
8GB - DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 SODIMMS)
500GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache)
6X Blu-Ray Read/8X DVDRW Super Multi Combo Drive
Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Installed
LIFETIME Ltd Labor* 1 Year Parts Warranty Lifetime -24/7 DOMESTIC Based- Toll FreeTelephoneTech Support (Labor Warranty through Xotic PC)

Vs.

MSI GT780DX-406US - $1608.26 – no real discounts
17.3" FHD 16:9 "Matte Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright LED Matte Screen (1920x1080)
2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM, 2.2-3.1GHz, (32nm, 6MB L3 cache)
nVidia GeForce GTX 570M 1,536MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11
16GB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (4x4GB SODIMMS)
750GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s)
4X Blu-Ray Reader + 8X DVDRW/CDRW Super Multi Combo Drive
Intel® Advanced-N 6230 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module + Bluetooth
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Pre-Installed + Drivers & Utilities Disk
3 YearMSIUS & Canada Parts & Labor 1 Year Global Warranty w/ Lifetime Tech Support
+ 1 Year Accidental Damage Warranty

Honestly, I have no real clue about the differences in these specs. MSI seems to have a lot more bells and whistles (backlit keyboard, nice speakers, etc), a matte screen, and a killer warranty. I can also fit a larger hard drive and more ram in the same price point.

The Sager has a better graphics card, although, the last computer I bought was in 08, and I don't really know much of a difference between the two.

I have to buy one or the other within the week (for tax reasons), so any advice I might be able to get could really help me out. Thanks!

 

just because of the warranty i'd go with the msi unless you can get 3 years with sager.

 

I'd go with the sager for the 6990M card alone.

 

Hi guys, I am new here and actually planning to buy my first gaming laptop, the MSI GT 780DXR, but have some questions regarding customization:

1. If I have one 120 Vertex SSD drive and one 500GB 7200rpm hard-drive, I don't need to do RAID on it, do I? If the answer is yes, then I should choose the "NO RAID" option while buying the laptop right?

2. I also heard that the new Nvidia 580m graphic card is coming to the GT 780DXR model, do you know approximately when this will happen and if the price is going to be much higher than the current Nvidia 560m model?

My budget is no more than $2000, so it is going to go above that, I'll not wait for the new 580m and just get the current MSI GT780DXR with 570m instead.

3. Finally, how is GenTech PC comparing to Xotic PC? I've heard so much about this mysterious Ken and his awesome customer service quality, but Xotic PC seems to be receiving great reviews too.

 

1. No and yes.
2. According to resellers it would be available mid to late december. I'd wait until mid january just to be sure. No pirce announced yet but imo it should be 2-300 more than the 570M models.
3. You can choose either as i have observed that both are extremely helpful, though gentech is a bit more on the humorous side .

 

The GTX 580M is supposed to be available in 1 high end model only, 2K + from the latest info we have received.

 

I have the same issue. I sent them a ticket in mid-november, and they didn't respond yet.

 

Just a note on my progress -

I broke the raid and installed windows 7 clean.

I went through this process to get User and Program Data directories on the D drive: Win7: how do I move user folder to a different drive - Microsoft Answers

Installed all the latest drivers. I had a problem with installing the bluetooth driver - I had to turn bluetooth on first to get the install to work (yeah, obvious, but it had me going for a while).

I also had a problem with the THX EQ app. I run the install, and it never opens up. I moved on and I'll look at that again later.

I'm not a huge fan of AV products after all the junk from Norton and McAfee, so I installed MSE, and so far I like it. I may shift to kapersky since I was reading that the full system scans are significantly faster.

So far, I have gone through around 50 installs including the drivers. I haven't done any firmware or bios updates because I have so much to get through and I didn't want to do those without being focused. The installs have gone pretty quick. I was interested to see that the MS Office 2010 install defaults to 32 bit apps and won't install 64 without some work. I went with 32 because I do leverage some integrations and the reason it defaults to 32 bit apps is because very few 64 bit add-ons exist at this point.

A couple of things to note:

I'm loving the facial recognition logins.

I did find a way for windows 7 to auto-login to mapped drives (I have a file server on my home network where I've been stashing away a bunch of installs). You go into control panel, then credential manager, and put in the login info. Then when you map the drive, don't choose "login with different credentials" and it will leverage the data within credential manager to connect.

Between facial recognition and auto-mapping drives, I've saved myself a ton of headache (and time) with all these installs.

I think I have about 40 more installs to go through before I can officially switch over to this as my primary machine. It seems like a lot, but when you start to look at what you use it all adds up. (skype, pidgin, vpn software, a handful of browsers, vlc, filezilla, nx, bittorrent, photo and graphics apps, project, visio, hulu, itunes, quicktime, etc.)

No benchmarking just yet.

Once the apps are installed, I'll move my data and image the old system and leave it in the corner. If I can go 7 days without turning it on, I'll pull the SSD from there and stick it into my GT780 and at that point I'll be done.

 

It will be good with 580m, but I am sure that laptop will be too loud...

 

I assume you are basing this on your experience with the Clevo. High-end Sager/Clevo/Alienhead units are known to be a bit loud, and thusfar, the GT780 has proven to be both cool and quiet considering. The 580M may spin-up the fan a bit more, but I doubt it will be will approach noise levels of equivalent Sager/Clevo units. I also expect MSI will compensate with an improved heatsink, and fan motor. We'll see...... and soon!

I also understand the GT780 w/580M units will be a limited run (of only 50 units), and limited to a single SKU...... the Crème de la Crème! For those interested, you may want to get your reservation in now. Mine is reserved..... Can't wait!

Ken, any word on a test unit yet?

 

Yes, all of my complainments because of clevo ) lol.

It definitely needs a new heatsink and fan motor which is more silent.

Unfortunately I will be at the army in 10 days for a half year so I have no chance to play with my notebook so it will be in vain to buy it. I hope it won't be a limited edition!

 

Just ordered my MSI GT780DX-406US (i7-2670QM) at Gentech, lets hope I get it for christmas!

 

Just got my Free Headset (Special Edition Red) and Mouse from the Locked n Loaded Promotion in the mail.
http://www.msimobile.com/LandingPage/2011/G_Series_SS_Bundle/index.html

Thought I'd let you guys know


The headset is Steelseries Siberia V2 Full Size Headset w/ pullout Mic in Red


Wondering if anyone got a different color....
I'm pretty happy considering I was hoping to get Black, White, or Red....

Also comes with fairly long extension cord for heaset & mic (very nice)
Quality seems pretty high...I have bose on-ear headphones that produce more bass but these seem quality enough considering a mic is attached and used more for gaming rather than traditional music listening...but they will get the job done.

The mouse is the Steelseries Kinzu Pro Gaming Optical Mouse.


The mouse seems pretty simplistic but works fine. I like my Logitech G500 mouse a little better but this mouse will serve as a nice extra mouse.

Pretty sweet free stuff.

 

Pretty cool! When did you redeemed yours?

 

I think it was November 9th

When I check my rebate status it still says In Process...
But I called them on their customer support line to make sure they got my info in and I was in the system for this promotion like a week later.

They sent it priority mail and it got here in 1 day.
It's definitely awesome stuff. I've been sitting here testing the headphones and they work amazingly. I got the mic working and the quality sounds really good too.

Also the color red is really growing on me. Also realized the mouse has a DPI button in the middle which makes the mouse much better for gaming.

Very awesome free promotion. I got my MSI 780DXR from GenTech and with a student discount + lots of free stuff/upgrades it was the best choice against the Alienware M17x or Asus/Sager competitors for sure.

 

I have been thinking about getting into gaming so i deff. need to get something better than my dell inspiron n5010, So i have been watching youtube videos over and over and over. I have narrowed it down to 2 laptops, the asus g74sx-dh71 and the msi gt780dxr-405us. Thoughts? Either will be bought through amazon as i'm not looking to spend over $1800.00 on one.

Links:

Asus g74sx-dh71

Amazon.com: ASUS Republic of Gamers G74SX-DH71 Full HD 17.3-Inch Gaming Laptop (Black): Computers & Accessories

Msi gt780dxr-405us

Amazon.com: MSI G Series GT780DXR-405US 17.3-Inch Laptop: Computers & Accessories




thanks in advance.

 

For more info on the MSI GT780, click HERE, and consider the " 11 Reasons why I opted the MSI GT780DXR, over the Asus G74SX".

You do realize the MSI GT780 has a more powerful graphics card, don't you? The Asus G74SX-DH71 is equipped with the lessor GTX-560M..... the MSI GT780DXR, the GTX-570M.

NVIDIA 5xxM series performance comparison chart

Also, if you want more personalized customer service and support, consider purchasing from one of the reputable resellers listed in the post I linked above (#1 post of this thread).

Good luck with your decision.

 

Actually, would transferring the User and Program Data to another directory cause any kind of corruption or problem in the future?

I'm interested in doing this as the SSD does not need to constantly write newer files to the User and Program Data everytime. It would increase the lifespan of the SSD and also improve the performance of the SSD.

 

Alright, tried searching the forums for this, but came up with nothing, and wading through 475 pages just to hope I run across a similar issue is a bit daunting, so apologies in advance if this is already answered elsewhere.

I'm trying to install dual-boot Mint 12 on the GT780DXR, but when I try booting off the CD and also the DVD, the computer "hangs" after booting off it, stopping on USB-HID.

Tried the same thing with a USB drive, and it hangs as well:

[sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
generic-usb: timeout initializing reports
generic-usb: hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Device [MSI EPF USB MSI EPF USB] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.7/input0

I can successfully boot off and load from USB on my netbook.

I tried doing this with Ubuntu 11.04, with the exact same stopping point. Computer is brand-new-out-of-the-box, and I haven't changed any settings or setup (yet haha). I noticed a couple posts of people here that are running Ubuntu successfully, so I'm really curious how they managed to do that.

Thanks in advance for help!

 

MSI is better.

Machine runs cooler.
Keyboard is better
Sound system is better
Matted Screen is better (I hate staring into my reflection when working or gaming on those glossy screens)
One touch Fan turbo button is better
MSI has the 570 (better then 560)

other then that the Asus has the same specs basically but without all those perks...

I got that same MSI unit from GenTech and had them upgrade it to 16gb of ram and added an SSD drive in place of one of the regular drives. Even with these upgrades it came to 1900 shipped with student discount (Same machine was around 2300 at other online stores) and they threw in a free 650gb USB 3.0 slim external hard drive which matches the laptop (they are both this cool black steel).

I would contact GenTech as they were awesome.

 

Just so in case anyone else ever has this problem, (if the search function ever starts to work), here is an answer to this question on-line, I didn't have the NV OC software installed. It can be found here:

MSI Global ? Download Center

 

Hey guys, whats the best video player you recommend for this laptop?? I like to download tv shows when I didnt have the opportunity to wath them on time... so I watch a lot of avi and mkv files.

Thanks in advance.

 

Media player classic, included in k-lite media codec pack. Just google it.

 

@bio27 - VLC, it plays everything, no codec packs required.

@Im_Lost - Everyone here is going to say the MSI, which I agree with. It is a million times better than any Asus for more reasons than just the hardware.