***The Official MSI GT72 Dominator Pro (GTX-980M) Owner?s Lounge***

Maybe can be bad luck , or maybe is whole a consignment of defective panels LG , and That there are many more Affected but the customers not recognize.

If I order another unit ,probably have the same problem ...

 

Very nice, will try now. Thanks.

 

Im between this laptop and alw17 2015 and asus g751 what do you guys recommend me?

 

You're in MSI GT72 forum. What do you think we're going to recommend?

 

Have to side with Sailo on that response. Maybe open a new thread topic with your question.

 

I'd take the Asus out of the equation, it has horrid speakers.

Between the AW and MSI, do you want a Blu-ray player? Because the AW has no ODD at all.

 

I want the best i can have on muy budget 2200$ but now the alw17 2015 in amazon its 1850$ worth pay 2200 for the gt72?

 

Hello, I just registered to let you know that I have asked in other spanish forum (elotrolado) and MSI Spain told me that model GT72 2QE only comes with CHI MEI panel here in Spain, I guess it should be the same for GT72 2QD...?

 

Well they have the same exact IPS, both have great speakers, MSI has best keyboard.

Honestly, I would go with the MSI, since it doesn't have Optimus, which the AW does. Not having Optimus allows you to do things like downsampling and overclocking your LCD. I was in the same predicament as you, and that plus the BR drive helped sway me to MSI.

But, for you, it may come down to which one you think looks nicer.

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_nbc2/GT72.icm

No offense (NoahPhense) to your hard work. But on my GT72, same screen specs, I used the other link you sent (the one pasted above).

So far, best colors for me. Three items mean a lot to me when calibrating. White, Yellow, and TRUE dead black.

These are two images, I used to test my preferences.

http://www.tomgrill.com/ti01075577-hr.jpg

http://jirvana.outbackphoto.com/printer_tests/PrinterEvaluationImage_V002_aRGB.jpg

Download them in full res to test.

Hope it helps someone with a GT72.

- np

 

Is that profile for the IPS or TN?

 

I cannot tell which it is for, or which one it was created on, but it's worth trying out -- it's not too cold and not too warm. I have a TN panel.

 

Have a query for GTX 980M owners.

How are your NVidia drivers updating?

I have a clevo GTX 980M which I installed in my GT70, (with bios flashes) and the last driver I can get to function properly was the 347.88. Am wondering if there is perhaps a driver issue affecting the GTX 980Ms in general, other than the problem lying with my dodgy setup.

 

NVIDIA GeForce Experience handles all my video drivers. I'm running 350.12.

As for system Bios. I updated it once. I DO NOT use the MSI Updater app for anything. I do go to the (exact-submodel) GT72 page @ MSI and manually check all items -- then manually update all items.

Running as advertised!

*edit

For fun I just checked video drivers. There's been an update as of today. Installing 352.86 as I type this..

 

I'm updating to and running the latest driver, with no installation or gaming issues, ever.

That's not an issue the GT72 is having with a native MSI 980m.

 

Yeah, no problems here with my 980m & GT72 combo..

 

Bugger.....

Must be my dodgy setup in that case......

 

Maybe I'm reading something wrong or not reading it at all. But what exactly is the problem with your setup on the GT70? PS -- you should open a NEW thread. As this appears to be a lounge for the GT72.

 

Hands down the GT72. AW has been on the downslope for a while. GT72 is the BEST laptop I've owned ever... And I'm an Oooold son of a b.

 

Witcher 3 plays very well at 8GB 980m equipped gt72 with 32GB of RAM. 1080p with ultra settings, hairworks disabled. Smooth gameplay!

 

I'm running it on High, so it stays at 60fps. Ulttra settings doesn't look that much better and 60fps means a lot more to me.

 

Did you use GeForce Experience to optimize graphics settings?

 

Just used the video settings available in game.

 

So apparently Nvidia disabled overclocking... AGAIN! What do you guys think about this and has it been affecting your clock speeds?

 

It depends on your video bios, prema offers one that is not impacted.

 

Yeah, GT72, it can hold 4x M.2 SSD and two mechanicals. http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GT72-2QE-Dominator-Pro.html#hero-overview

I too struggled between two final laptops. The same two that you are looking over.

I guess the M.2's pushed me over the edge with their hardware Raid. M.2 is not a normal SSD, its a stick. AW does not have that technology.

To quote from the link above: "Super RAID 3, an MSI exclusive technology, enables disk read/write speeds of 1600MB/s and above with 4x M.2 SSDs in RAID0. Super RAID 3 pushes both performance as well as storage capacity to the limit."

- np

 

Two mechanicals if you place the ODD with one.

 

Well Gents...I just came home with my own MSI GT72 2QE and all I went for was a Laptop bag. Been eyeing a new Laptop for a while and contemplating 2 others like most of everyone here and this one won and she is beautiful! So many questions to ask, but let me know attempt to know what I am doing and try updating what I can. Meanwhile I will go back to page 1 and catch myself up on some of conversations you guys have had. Is there anything I should do or should know before I start setting this up how I want it?

 

Welcome to GT72 section. I'm sure you'll love your new laptop.

 

True.. my bad. So then, (4) m.2's, (1)mech, (1) odd.. right?

 

You got it

 

It works just fine with latest drivers on my GT72 2QE

 

However in case you have problems with OC :
Today we released a new Hotfix driver that addresses the following issue:


Fixes a regression that prevented overclocking the GPU on some GeForce Notebooks


It can be accessed here:

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3659

NOTE: This hotfix driver is only for GeForce Notebooks. There are no changes pertinent to desktop GPUs.

 

interesting , out of curiosity I insatlled this hot fix drivers and guess what ? DSR is now available with GTX980M

 

Hi Everyone!

I am considering to purchase the gt72, however I can't afford the model with IPS screen. I am concerned about the quality of the TN. Is it dramatically different or will I notice it? Would it be possible to upgrade the screen in the future? I saw that replacement TN screens for this series aren't expensive, but would the IPS variant work in those models?

It's really only the screen issue holding me back from purchasing at this point.

 

Yes the viewing angles on the TN are not as good (because that's what TN panels are like) but otherwise it's a decent TN panel and yes you should be able to upgrade to an IPS display in the future by swapping the panel.

 

Also curious to know which brand are the stock msata ssd?

 

YESSS DSR! I love you man! now I can finally play huge zoomed out 4k terraria for ****s and gigs.
Oh, and anti aliasing... that too.

 

Hello sexy people of the internet! I'm now officially an owner of a MSI GT72 with a 4gb 980m card and 16 gigs of ram. She's huge but beautiful... Everything is SO FAST! This is the first laptop I owned after getting a macbook air in 2011 and there's no way in hell I'm going back! Thanks for the answers in this forum... They helped me out a lot by reading them.

Just one question... I have a performance setting in SCM, msi gaming center (the so called "shift" feature) and a built in windows power management program called "gaming" which looking at the advanced settings should be faster than high performance? Shift is only usable when on AC power and SCM forces in eco mode or something because it sometimes changes. What do I set each of these to? I haven't seen anyone write about SCM.

 

my system is set to SMC > ECO OFF , and as for shifting while in windows , multimedia everything not related to heavy duty I set to GREEN , when I do some video editing it is Comfort and SPORT only while gaming ...however I played a lot of time my games specially EUROTRUCKS 2 on GREEN not even noticing a difference LOL

 

Any specific issues one needs to know about before purchasing this beast? A bit torn between this one and the GT80 titan-047. How good do these fare when compared to the Asus G751JY and the Alienware 17 2015 models.

 

Did some benchmark tests
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7083268?
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/7083086

My laptop is getting dirty, any cleaning tips?

 

Dirty where?

 

Hello!
Dear users, I am new here and I have GT72 with 980M for about one month now. Honestly, it's a good laptop, but still there is a lot to improve in next revision (I moved from XPS L502x).

I have a question regarding the 2nd HDD bay (the one without dedicated onboard socket). I thought maybe there is a way of having 2 HDDs without sacrificing the M.2 SSD RAID function. My idea is to use some kind of SATA splitter (both for power and data - Fig.1.) and then connecting two drives to one onboard SATA socket (Fig.2).
Does that kind of cables even exist? Could it work? Could the socket have enough power to run two disks? And how they could be functioning (as a one logical drive? Or two separate?).

Fig. 1.

Fig. 2.

 

There should be cables and adapters for virtually most ports specially popular, but I wouldn't recommend it. If you really need a second 2.5 drive, consider removing the optical drive first, and use that as external.

 

Indeed as you would not really want to power two drives off that one header.

 

Could you guys please post your MSI GTX9x0M ASIC scores (GPU-Z, right click on top bar)...
From what I have seen MSI cherry picked chips in order to auto-undervolt.

 

72.4%

 

75.1%

 

67.0% :-( Mine is lower and it seems that all the other scores from other programs are lower compared to others who have posted here. I wonder why that is.

Another thing that bothers me....its a small thing, but still...does any else have a mouse that after sitting for a little go to use it and see the busy icon? It doesnt slow the mouse or keep it from performing, but its there....it does bother me in an OCD kinda way.