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    *** The Official MSI GE75 Raider Owners and Discussions Lounge ***

    Discussion in 'MSI Reviews & Owners' Lounges' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Nov 12, 2018.

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    After much deliberation I've finally made my purchase of this machine through HIDevolution as well. My first custom gaming laptop. Looking forward to the end result!
     
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    I am sorry but Company Reps are not allowed to do business on Notebookreview.

    If you have questions about a personal purchase, please email me at [email protected] with your full name, address and phone number, along with any product information request you have. I will be happy to help :)
     
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  3. Lunatik

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    Awesome!
     
    Lunatik, Jan 31, 2019
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    Is the undervolt making a big difference?

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    Jalen9762, Jan 31, 2019
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  5. Lunatik

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    I wouldn’t know, my laptop doesn’t arrive until Saturday.
     
    Lunatik, Jan 31, 2019
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    Yes, my cpu temps went down around 6-7 degrees while under stress.
     
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    Yeah undervolting the CPU can make a big difference specially under stress. Mobile CPUs often come with a lot of voltage that just generates waste heat and throttles you. For best results, a lower voltage +proper paste is needed but even on stock paste, undervolting is basically a must.
     
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  8. donotwant

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    So I watched the video by BOAT, and it seems that throttle stop has to always be on in order to undervolt the CPU. Is there a way to make it stick without having a program running in the background? I think I remember some kind of intel program that also helped with undervolting, but I don't know if that one you have to always run as well.
     
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    He explains it near the end
     
    Lunatik, Jan 31, 2019
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  10. donotwant

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    I understand that he sets it to turn on when windows starts and does everything unattended, but the program still has to run in the background.
     
    donotwant, Jan 31, 2019
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    It will still run you can see it in the task manager

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    Jalen9762, Jan 31, 2019
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  12. donotwant

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    I am asking if theres a way to do it so that there is no program running at all.
     
    donotwant, Jan 31, 2019
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    To be honest I think throttle stop needs to be running to force those settings on the cpu

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    Jalen9762, Jan 31, 2019
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    Hmmm technically the only other way would be for force the offset via BIOS, and that would last a while until you reset bios or update it.

    Aside from throttlestop, there is also intel XTU but it also technically runs on the background.
     
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    Unfortunately most laptops could not be undervolted from the UEFI/Bios thats why we rely on software like intel xtu or throttlestop. I keep throttle stop on to force the undervolting settings
     
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  16. donotwant

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    So what I want can only be done if BIOS supports it, ok thanks.

    And yes the other program I was thinking of was XTU (i think)
     
    donotwant, Jan 31, 2019
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  17. Lunatik

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    Oh my bad misunderstood you, ya idk.
     
    Lunatik, Jan 31, 2019
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    y590, Jan 31, 2019
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    I can confirm that the touchpad uses microsoft precision and is working very well.
     
    dr_mcq, Jan 31, 2019
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    This RTX2080 inside is a beast. In 3D mark TimeSpy test I have 10300 graphics points with +150MHz on core (9750 default) and that is 1080ti territory in a 2.6kg laptop, nice. The only downside is that they put only one 16GB stick of RAM there, so its running in single-channel only now.
     
    Skutchi, Feb 1, 2019
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  21. ryzeki

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    Pretty good result. I did notice that Timespy did showcase a large lead over GTX1080. My score was 7700 and you are close to 3k points high, that's a 33% increase in performance.
     
    ryzeki, Feb 1, 2019
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  22. Lunatik

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    Mine has dual channel and I should have it tomorrow :) wooooo
     
    Lunatik, Feb 1, 2019
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    I just picked up mine with the 2070, the screen is awesome. Pulled out the 1TB platter that came with it and added a second 512GB Nvme drive.
     
    bryneb, Feb 1, 2019
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    Mine is the same. WIll it make much overall difference to get a 2nd stick?
     
    bryneb, Feb 1, 2019
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    what kind of nvme drive does it take?
     
    Jalen9762, Feb 1, 2019
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    NOt sure what the type is, but this is what I put in.

    ADATAXPG SX8200 Pro PCIe x4 M.2 NVMe 2280
     
    bryneb, Feb 1, 2019
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  27. Lunatik

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    I take it you bought the laptop from memoryexpress?
     
    Lunatik, Feb 1, 2019
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    Yes I did. With my Eurocom temporarily bricked I couldn't wait to order through HID.
     
    bryneb, Feb 1, 2019
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  29. Lunatik

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    Ah yea, right on. Either way the laptop looks like its gonna be a beast! Picking mine up in the morning.
     
    Lunatik, Feb 1, 2019
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    It is, after playing warplanes for an hour the fans are not even that loud. Much quieter than the Alienware 15 r4 I was trying out.
     
    bryneb, Feb 1, 2019
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    Does the GE75 with a 2070 use optimus?
     
    johnmr531, Feb 2, 2019
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    I know the 2080 has optimus the 2070 should definitely have it too

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    This is something I'd like to know too.
     
    Scramble74, Feb 2, 2019
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  34. Lunatik

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    Well I got my GE75 :) will be a day or two before I have a game though in a work camp that has pretty bad wifi lol.
     
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    Playing shadow of the tomb raider I was able to get 90-110 FPS on the highest settings (rtx 2080).

    My unit has optimus, I would expect all of them do
     
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    How are the temps on the GPU and CPU?

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    Jalen9762, Feb 2, 2019
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    1- there were no thermal throttling and CPU kept boost at 3.9 ghz
    2- GPU temp were amazing mostly 70 degrees. Occasionally hit
    3- CPU average 80-85 undervolted. If I cap the boost to 3.6 temps will stay around 75

    Battlefield V ultra settings with highest Ray tracing I was able to play with mostly stable 60 fps with minimal dips. With ray tracing off around 100-120 fps
     
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    That's pretty good, Damn I can't wait to get mine lol.

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    Jalen9762, Feb 2, 2019
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    65W battery? They could have easily fit a 80w+ battery in this. Why gimp its battery life that badly?
     
    evangelionpunk, Feb 2, 2019
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    Is this going to make a major difference?
     
    Jalen9762, Feb 2, 2019
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    Who games on battery power?
     
    Lunatik, Feb 2, 2019
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    The battery barely fits in the laptop as it is. If they were to increase the battery then either the laptop would become thicker in size or the cooling components would get smaller resulting in more throttling. In my opinion I think its better off in having a smaller battery and using that extra room for cooling.
     
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    The cooling is amazing, with coolerboost mode on running firestrike my cpu/gpu dont exceed 55-60 degrees lol. Thats with liquid metal but man thats unreal. Can’t wait until I finally have a game downloaded lol. This laptop is truly a beast!
     
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    Probably no one. It is more about being able to use the laptop portably and for work/coffee shop mobility where you could just use optimus with much longer battery life for productivity. Could have easily removed the platter drive (use nvme/ssd) and redesigned the front part to reduce all that extra plastic from where the speakers are using all that extra space to expand the battery to more usable size.
     
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    Lunatik, Feb 2, 2019
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    Can you send me the settings lol with throttlestop and msi afterburner.

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    No throttlestop, 80+ core / +350 mem
     
    Lunatik, Feb 2, 2019
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    My rgb keyboard preset key stopped working, hmm.

    EDIT*** Reinstalled SSE3, fixed.
     
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