***The Official MSI GT80 Titan Owner's Lounge***

at least you have 980 desktop cards...

 

This can't be right, the technical support people must have gotten an answer from an engineer not clued in to the whole GPU upgrade promise for the GT80(S)'s and GT72(S)'s.

Someone needs to escalate this that knows how to manage the support tiers to get to management that can get through to the right people.

I've already sold my GT80 or I would be doing this myself.

Hopefully that upgrade program is already underway, it's just not time to push through for announcement and shipping, and so the support people aren't clued in yet.

MSI would be making a huge mistake not following through with the promised upgrades.

Or, at least making a major Credit toward the purchase of a new GT73/GT83; maybe even a trade-in program.

 

true, but they are weak compared to what is out today

 

nah you can still get a year or two on ultra in anything with them.

 

not since most new games, especially dx12 and unreal engine 4 games, don't use SLI. ALl new games so far only use one 980, big big waste

 

seriously? doesnt dx12 automatically support multigpu. maybe try with sli off... should detect both gpus and use them independently?

 

i mean, seriously, ur firestrike is like double mine and mine was over over overclocked... new one only scores around 30,000 in firestrike anyways. and your scoring 26,000...

 

i would gladly take your laptop as an upgrade
Its all in point of view

 

lol i didnt realize the 73 also came with dual 1080 sli? whats the big difference between it and the 83 in that case?


other than the extra inch? and fan?
will it really be able to keep cool?

 

@hmscott
moving back into our thread

not sure if its worth sending it in at this point cause i have everything i need pretty much working... and theres no upgrade. just have some slight screen warp and slight hole and slight cpu heat.

Parents say their gonna buy me one of those crap college laptops anyways next year when the time comes...

 

You don't know what is wrong, you just know it's crashing, unstable, heats up 10c hotter than it used to, and doesn't run right.

Send it in and get it fixed.

If not for the sake of this laptop, at least for your sake, learning to follow through on fixing things.

I've meet people that have basket case projects all over, and fix it by starting another one, only to never finish it. Not pretty. Very sad. But, then again, they seem to like it, and see nothing wrong with it, go figure

 

do i use xotic or msi?

 

If you aren't having any luck with MSI - which you haven't - then Xotic.

Contact Xotic, as you paid them to handle such things for you; to act as the go between getting stuff done with MSI.

Xotic has many years of experience with MSI getting stuff through repair - let them do what they do best and get that GT80S beast 100% again

 

It comes with single 1070, dual 1070 or single 1080

 

Where did you see in that video it said 1080 SLI for the GT73VR? It's a 1070 SLI

Only the GT83VR has the 1080 SLI available. You can also get 1070 SLI in the GT83VR.

The GT73 gets a single 1070, or single 1080, or 1070 SLI.

I am considering the GT73 1070 SLI, because I want a better screen than a plain 1080 60hz, like in the GT83...

It would be awesome to get a 1440p 120hz/144hz+ screen, in any laptop

 

Multi-GPU in DX12 is new, I think only a couple of games support it now, but then again, there are only a few DX12 games in total anyway

MS is pushing for multi-gpu support from game developers for DX12, so it should become more prevalent.

 

That's good news

Pick a nice light non-gaming one to carry all day to school / work.

You don't want to carry that monster 18" around all day, really you don't.

I don't mind carrying it to and from work, that's only 2 times to pack and unpack.

If I had to go in and out of my bag a dozen times a day for classes, lunch, breaks, etc, it would be too much.

You could sneak in a 1060 into the new one for school, for "science".

Maybe an MSI GS43 or GS63
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/msi-gs43.793376/#post-10321188

 

and add in 3d vision just for grins

 

lol what about the powerhouse performance ive come to love? Man i tried using my brother's blade yesterday and i cant stand how slow it is... lol.

Prob. get something 17 inches for college cause i prob. wouldnt hav a desktop anyways. or get a gt83 and a tablet for some sort of lan based on-campus remote desktop....

Spoiler: THE PROBLEM

Problem is the colleges have their own ideas on laptops and offer "packages" with "support" for when you buy the computer through them. They then provide their own images (privacy alert) and software which they get "at a discount"... problem is this leads to everyone having the same laptop... Ever look at college photos and see everyone with the same computer... leads to people covering them with stickers so they know whose is whose.

 

Example: http://dotcio.rpi.edu/services/laptops
go to the bottom and read the bottom most post.

They have some sort of "on campus repair" yet if you go http://dotcio.rpi.edu/services/laptops/lenovo-issues-battery-pack-recall
you will notice that they dont offer instant replacements on-campus for those that bought laptops but instead require you to contact lenovo.

 

well.. i am going into engineering/computer science

 

How long do you think 980m sli will yet support games in ultra settings and 1080p ? I'm thinking to buy a desktop pc with the release of Volta. Seems to be that Volta will be released in may 2017 and not in 2018, it's only a rumor but in this case it's useless to buy now Pascal GPUs. HBM2 will also be finished next year and Pascal still use gddr5 so Volta could be anticipated.

 

Nah, it's all VR now, they want you trapped in googles so they can sneak up on you in real life

No more 2d 3d.

 

I wouldn't make any firm plans based on Volta rumors.

Pascal was supposed to be here in Q1 2016 according to many rumors, and look how long it really took to deliver.

It'll be Xmas and after before all the new releases have the bugs worked out, Windows 10 and Nvidia will still be madly patching bugs, and it will be 1 year later than expected.

Buy now, play games now.

Wait, and you won't be gaming until you stop waiting

 

Yeah, well, you don't need a gaming laptop for that

You would do better with a workstation laptop, with a Quadro setup.

 

When you are at school you don't need the killer performance, just taking notes and stuff doesn't need an SLI laptop

Take something small and light, focus on battery power and weight and price, save the good stuff for home.

You can always take the big one out to party, but don't take it to school, it's just asking for trouble.

 

Nope. Don't do it. Keep your own laptop.

Besides, isn't it already too late to buy the crampus laptop??

Mobile Computing Program (Laptops)
Need to make a last-minute laptop request?
The official deadline for ordering laptops for the Fall 2016 semester was Friday, July 15. However, you may fill out and submit Mobile Computing's late laptop request form if you would still like to purchase one of this year's laptops and participate in the Mobile Computing Program.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY LAPTOP REQUESTS PLACED THROUGH THIS FORM WILL BE FILLED, BUT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN TIME FOR DISTRIBUTION ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 28, OR FOR THE START OF FALL CLASSES ON MONDAY, AUGUST 29.

Yeah, it doesn't sound like it's a requirement, just offered for those non-hardware savvy people, you can pick your own.

I would make a VM, and load all the school required software in that, keep your OS install clean and as far away from that school stuff as possible - let it be possible to shutdown their stuff by shutting down the VM with it installed.

 

You just need something durable with a nice battery life, keyboard, and a screen that doesn't make you want to claw your eyes out after staring at it for eight hours straight.

 

I just read that cry engine is being updated now to support multi GPU, so maybe the future looks good. And yes, I haven't even overclocked much yet. I bet I could get close to 30k gpu score with some hardcore tweaking

 

See, plenty of life in the old bird

The new Pascal SLI Bird gets 42k gpu scores, but so what, it's just numbers

 

42k is amazing, but we are at 1080P. I still cant find a game that will push both my 980s at 1080p

 

cryengine didnt have multigpu? srously? i thought it did...

 

like a gt80? love the screen on the gt80... was actually kinda looking at something like the sc17...

 

im a highschool senior i got a year...

 

makes me wonder why they arent scoring so high... isnt the 1080 supposed to be 2x the 980... seems more like 1.2x the 980... lol

 

Witcher 3 with all settings maxed will push 100% usage on both GPUs with drops below 60fps in certain areas.

 

Cry engine has always supported SLI and crossfire, but now it will support DX12 explicit multi GPU, which scales much better than SLI . Sorry for the confusion

 

Hi all. I haven't been able to find any help on this so far so I'm hoping someone here may know an answer.

I have GT80 Titan hooked up to a 4K Samsung TV, everything for the last few weeks has been fine. But suddenly yesterday anytime I close the lid, it goes straight back to the lock screen and seems to disconnect from the TV. When I open the lid, the lock screen appears and then then TV connects again.

I double checked in control panel->power options, and I have all settings set to do nothing when I close the lid, so don't know what is going on here.

If anyone has any ideas, I would be very grateful.

Thanks

 

When you close the lid the internal Display becomes unavailable and the displays reconfigure.

Try only configuring the external display alone, disable the internal display, then you should be able to close the lid.

If you have spanning displays enabled, you could try disabling that instead, and configure the displays independently, not mirrored either.

 

I don't know if I've heard of spanning displays (I'm still fairly new at this). Is this something that's part of Windows 10? Also I tried going into display settings and changing it just to display on the TV and turning the laptop screen off but it still locks the computer when I close the lid (unless I should be doing this in another part of Windows?).

Also I completely unplugged the HDMI cable and tried closing the lid like that and it still locks on me, so I guess it's not the connection to the TV?

I appreciate your help so far with this. Such weird problem that seems to just happen out of nowhere.

 

If you are running independent displays, then also try making the TV the master display. Move the desktop to the TV.

Then either disable the main display, or try seeing if leaving it active while closing the lid works.

Are you running Windows 10? I refuse to use 10 on my personal computers, so maybe someone with Windows 10 that's made this work can help you.

This might be new behavior in Windows 10 and/or the latest Nvidia drivers.

That is weird, maybe try going down a rev in Nvidia drivers, did MS recently update your video driver?

 

Oh sorry forgot to mention that, yes I'm on Windows 10. It's actually been working great up until this. There hasn't been any updates at all in at least a few weeks I would say so nothing has changed on here recently and definitely not yesterday.

I did manage to find an older article of someone having the same issue and then suddenly it corrected itself on its own, so maybe that'll happen for me.

I'll give your idea a try of rolling back the Nvidia drivers and see what happens.

Really appreciate your help though and hopefully if this doesn't work it'll just correct itself for me

 

Well not sure why this worked but in control panel->power options->system settings, instead of just having "when I close the lid" set to do "do nothing", I changed "when I press the power button" and "when I press the sleep button" also to "do nothing" and now it works! Lid is totally closed but the desktop still shows on my TV and functions correctly.

Thanks again for your help and hopefully this isn't just a temporary fix.

 

Hey, nice fix

+rep

 

Thanks again!

 

sorry wrong post

 

Question, Any news that the GT80 can be upgraded tp 1080 GTX?

 

Ask MSI

Update: MSI has announced a trade-in program for GT72/GT80 owners:

Official MSI News, Events, and all things MSI.....
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ents-and-all-things-msi.795144/#post-10326272

 

Never buy msi again... Once my one become obsolete... Back to desktop&overclock&overclocking.
Msi is not a reliable vendor!

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It's got to be a silly mix-up back at MSI HQ. Everyone seems to have forgotten about the years of promises made to the GT72 and GT80 owners that come Pascal we would get offered MXM upgrade kits. And, 1 more generation beyond that as well.

I'm sure the MSI guys in the MSI Questions thread will come through for us all

[Official] Questions for the MSI Rep!
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/official-questions-for-the-msi-rep.761676/#post-10322426

Even @-=$tR|k3r=- is helping out

Update: MSI has announced a trade-in program for GT72/GT80 owners:

Official MSI News, Events, and all things MSI.....
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...ents-and-all-things-msi.795144/#post-10326272