MSI GT73VR 7RF Titan Pro-425 Review By Ultra Male

I just saw the spoiler for your system specs bro, you have a Dell taptop? Mr. Azor sends you his regards

 

What's LCU, is it Liquid Cooled Ultra/ CLU?

 

I'm glad you noticed it. Its been nearly a year since I haven't edited my signature.
Thank You Mr. Azor.

 

Non perfectly fitting heatsink can be fixed!! In one way ot another. People sholdn't give up on Liquid metal. Never ever, bruh!!

 

I sold that taptop last year bro. Now I'm enjoying my SteelSeries Keyboard and perfectly fitting MSI heatsink much more

 

Are you interested in new BGA from CFL from Intel and new Samsung 980 drives. Have you tried Samsung RAPID mode and tested the limits of your RAID SSD. I think RAPID only works in AHCI?

 

Who would use Samsung RAPID CANCER mode? And yooo suggest @Phoenix should try it again?

 

Cancer? Is it bad or marketing gimmick?
Did you know Samsung sells 2 versions of 850 EVO 2.5"? Stock one which was released 2 yrs. ago was tweaked and priced lower to kick out Crucial MX series. I'm thinking of Crucial SSD for personal use and Samsung's for office use.
I really want to use Momentum cache on non crucial drives. I must see the max potential of PM951.

 

If you turn on CRAPID mode, you are not benchmarking your SSD anymore, you are benchmarking your RAM.

Translate that intro real world performance and it means absolutely nothing.

For example, test this.....

Copy a huge 10GB + video file or whatever large file you want from your C: partition to another partition on another disk......

you will notice that the Windows file copy progress finishes insanely fast.....the moment it finishes the copy, I want you to restart your system

then check that file you copied, it would be corrupt, reason is, yes the file copy progress finished fast, but it didn't finish really, all it was doing is copying the file from your SSD to the RAM Cache and not the actual 2nd SSD or HDD you were intending to copy to, then after it goes to your RAM Cache using CRAPID, it is supposed to copy from the RAM Cache onto the actual disk in the background which didn't happen in this test I did since I restart immediately after the fake file transfer progress was finished.

so it's just cheating + placebo effect

And after you read this, you will never enable RAPID again.....it will actually make your performance worse not better

A Closer look at the crappy CRAPID

@tilleroftheearth Please support your friend

 

Both. Hit up ssd doctor @tilleroftheearth or Phoenix posts about Samsung's Cancer.

 

Unfortunately I can't use Samsung Rapid mode with Pm series. But I'll try out the methodology using Crucial's Momentum Cache.

 

Same garbage, different fancy name. Steer away from these fancy benchmark cheating technologies. The concept is the same.

 

Double jacked.
Come on people.
I want to see more people with their BGAbooks who can cinebench at 4.9 ghz and SuperPI 1M at 5 gigaHURTS.

Phoenix show me how far you can push your system!

 

Speaking of thread hijacking, this thread has become like the owner's lounge now with 22 pages

 

@4.5GHz

MSI GT73VR 7RF Titan Pro | i7-7820HK @ 4.4 4.5 GHz | Kingston 2400 MHz 64GB RAM | GeForce GTX 1080 | Killer Wireless-AC 1535 | Chi Mei N173HHE-G32 17.3" FHD 120 Hz/5ms [G-SYNC] | 2x Samsung 960 PRO 2TB [Super RAID 4] + 850 EVO 1TB + 850 EVO 4TB | Windows 10 Pro

 

My 4.9 and 5 ghz screenshots are on my taptop im on my 2600k right now guys.

 

Here's my Cinebench Score before the Meltdown Patch from Windows Update:



and here is after:



As we can see, the score after was slightly faster but maybe tha'ts because HWiNFO wasn't running in the background

 

Change CB's process priority to Realtime and run it. You will see immediate lockups and don't worry its perfectly safe. The cpu acts that way if it is on full load (just like Servers).
I'm sorry to inform that Ashampoo's spectre check tool is indeed correct since it was reporting vulnerabilities regarding Spectre Variant 2 which is not yet patched. Daz just told me via PM.
Use this tool on Ubuntu or mint LiveCD https://github.com/speed47/spectre-meltdown-checker

 

This is with lower clocks 43x vs. 44x and still higher score.


And this is Crippled 4.3GHz scores from [email protected] on NBC.com

 

So do you have strange system lockups when process priority is changed to Realtime?

 

You Windows 10 Taskbar looks like a circus bro

You want me to tweak your taptop with the Phoenix Magical Tweaks?

Ok the difference between my score and yours is minimal, I'll do a few more runs and show j00

 

Well mine is horrendous compared to Papusan.

 

I will never be finished with what I want And I don't want less performance

Btw. 42x


44x from yesterday

 

You can disable speedstep because W10 FCU holds back cpu clocks when Speedstep is checked off, speedshift is superior and supersedes Speedstep.

 

Seen much higher Cinebench R15 scores with same clocks? And I haven't even high perf memory stick.

47x


From the bot.

 

Yes I have seen better performance with Speedstep disabled and Speedshift enabled.

 

@Papusan

This is my MSI Super RAID 4 with PrimoCache:

And that's with all my apps running and the Antivirus also running

 

Yeah, I see you bench your ram Some even say the numbers is from their ssd's

 

I see you like to use my own words against me

 

Don't tell it to the ssd doctor @tilleroftheearth

 

He will get mad at me because he told me once not to lie to myself with these fluffy cache apps

 

Hi.

It seems that the msi gt73 has several names and possible configurations.
If I buy for example a msi gt73 laptop with one gtx 1060 ,is it possible to upgrade it with two gtx 1080 sli on the same laptop ?

The GT73 is one unique computer with all possible configurations , or each GT73 7RE , 7RD 7RF , TITAN SLI are unique and specific despite having the same name GT73?

Thanks.

 

For HM175 chipset version, no.
At least I don't know if it's possible, but even if all the parts (1070 SLI heatsinks and VRM sinks) were sourced and found (as mentioned below), you would have to flash the CM238 chipset EC version into it because there is a hard 330W power limit that if exceeded, will throttle the CPU to 800 mhz, and while flashing the 17A1EMS1.108 EC based chipset board (Cm238) with the 17A1EMS1.112 EC does work just fine, I do NOT know whether the opposite works (i know of no person who has flashed a "GT73EVR" (the HM175 version of the GT73VR) with comes with EC 17A1EMS1.112, with the .108 EC.

for CM238 chipset version, yes, but 1070 SLI only. there is no 1080 SLI version of this laptop. Electrically, I don't even know if it would boot with two 1080 cards with custom machined heatsinks and the Eurocom 780W PSU; most likely SOMETHING would happen, and I''m sure someone much richer than me who has spare parts and a lot of time might find a way to custom machine 1080 heatsinks and try to make it work, but most likely the people here with that type of money have better things to do.

Upgrading to the 1080 single card version is easy if you can find the parts: just requires the 330W PSU, single 1080 card (must be correct form factor; the MSI 16L13 version will not work, and I do NOT Know if the GT83VR 1080 card will work either), and the 1080 GPU heatsink and VRM heatsink.

For 1070 SLI, again, yes, if you can find the parts. The mainboard (CM238 chipset) is identical and the firmware is identical and Bios is identical. You just need to find the SLI VRM heatsinks for Master and Slave GPUs (the VRM heatsinks are NOT the same as for the single card!! not compatible!), as well as the GPU #1 and #2 heatsinks (again, not the same), and then the 1070 revision 1.2 cards. That's guaranteed to work if you found the cards and the heatsinks. Then you need the power bricks. Probably best to use the Eurocom version.

 

OK .Thanks it's more clear.

 

@Phoenix
How is the brightness on the chi mei panel? I love very bright displays and some reviews say this panel is dim compared to other panels. Thanks

 

You got the info on a different thread already.
http://www.panelook.com/N173HHE-G32_Innolux_17.3_LCM_overview_28924.html

 

Well I've had many laptops as you may know, I don't find the brightness is an issue at all. Maybe not as bright as my 3 year old Alienware 18 but certainly nothing that I could complain about. Heck anything brighter than this and it'd be to straining for the eye. Using the MSI True Color, if you set the color tone to Gamer or sRGB it gives you the brightest level. I set my color profile to developer in MSI True color as it's a bit darker and more natural looking.

Be smart....be like Phoenix...

 

I was looking for real world experience , as specs and reviews are ranging this panel from 250 to 307 nits, which is a huge difference

 

Why can’t you trust http://www.panelook.com/N173HHE-G32_Innolux_17.3_LCM_overview_28924.html ? Probably no other with equal info outside the manufacturer of the panel.

 

Because I don’t think they measure that at its max brightness and color profile. It’s not that I don’t trust it, it’s just every review is reporting different display levels. Either way, my laptop is on its way

 

@Phoenix Samsung 860 Pro (4TB) Shows On Company Website-Guru3d.com

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/products/computing/ssd/s/_/n-10+11+15pexq/

 

Just when I just bought a dual 2TB 960 Pros and a 4TB EVO.....

 

Would fit nice in (my-yours)next notebook But maybe expencive if I want 2 in my next Clevo

 

actually if j00 come to think of it, I use the 4TB EVO and 1TB m.2 850 EVO as a combined spanned drive just to store my videos so going Pro won't help my videos play any smoother

Now give me dual 4TB 960 Pros so I can increase my video library

 

I wonder what it will cost with 3x 4TB 960/980 Pro’s + 2x 4TB 850 Pro. 12K ? 20TB with nice Videos, LOOL

 

At the max, I have seen two or three m.2 slots along with two 2.5" drives.
@Papusan I can't see 860 Pro listed at Samsung's website.
They are trying to make HDD extinct.

 

You meant 960 Pro, right?

 

No, I really meant 860 pro or the drive that supersedes 850 pro and evos. If you look at guru3d there's a screenie mentioning 860 Pro 4TB priced almost equal to a BGA.

 

Ahh I see.
http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/samsung-860-pro-4-tb-shows-on-company-website.html
http://www.pcgamer.com/samsungs-site-is-showing-a-4tb-860-pro-solid-state-drive-for-1900/