***The Official MSI GT83VR Titan SLI Owner's Lounge (NVIDIA GTX-1080's)***

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/700.10

 

Ya, that was about the retail. Close to 800 USD. Thnx for the link, I can now put the HDD in without worry.... just odd they would put that sticker there. Hopefully the replacement is good and not another lemon.

 

Has anyone else tried to use the Oculus Rift through the HDMI port on the GT83VR titan? Not sure if its a design flaw or my lemon luck

 

That you might have to head over to the gt80 thread, or the one with the 980's as so far the only known active users with this unit is you and myself. lol

Im thinking about grabbing this guy but Im still recovering from christmas shopping. lol
http://www.ncix.com/detail/crucial-mx300-2tb-sata3-2-5-c2-135000.htm?promoid=1226

 

Have anyone noticed that the screen is being controlled by PWM? So it flickers if you don't put it at 100% brightness.

http://laptopmedia.com/news/msi-gt83vr-titan-slis-screen-uses-low-frequency-harmful-pwm/


Also the response time is quite bad at 19ms

 

huh, I've never noticed any flickering while I was playing around with. I thought something was up with the refresh, it dosent seem as snappy as my x34....however after taking it around and playing with it i personally find it ok.

 

As far as i know, it uses the same screen as the original GT80 right? I never noticed any flickering though. I usually had my screen at 30% brightness and 100hz, didn't have any problems with it.

 

Has anybody with either the 1070 or 1080 SKUs noticed hybrid power being implemented on the GT83?

 

Haven't seen a thing yet. I played the Witcher 3 maxed out with hair works on and a bunch of mods to bring it inline with their e3 showing and I started and ended at 97% battery after about 8 hours.

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Just got my GT83VR through the trade-in program and haven't noticed any flickering. I'm running at 90hz.

 

I haven't noticed hybrid power yet, but I'll start paying attention.

 

Do you have a wireless mouse? Check the left hand side USB ports, mainly the one farthest back. Mine refuses to work with a wireless USB and lags like hell. Also, the HDMI port will not work with oculus rift... curious as to if mine is a lemon or thats a design flaw.

 

Same issue with the wireless mouse. My GT80 had a similar issue though. If I plugged the mouse's wireless receiver into the left side and then connected an external HDD (on the same side), it would lag like crazy. I don't know what causes it. I moved the USB dongle to the right side with no issues.

I don't have an Oculus so I can't help with that. I successfully connected an external monitor via the hdmi port, though.

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Odd yes. Seems anything else works fine but the left side doesnt like wireless usb things. Last gripe is that my wireless adapter disappear one day then was back the next. Wonder if windows turned it off when it went to sleep and it disappeared from device manager.

 

thats likely because power share between the usb ports. as i have owned a lot of laptop i have come across many usb problem cause i use a lot of external usb devices.

 

I am thinking about getting this laptop with 1070 SLI how does this compare to a single gtx 1080 ? from looking at reviews with temps the GT83VR temps are not much better then my asus G701vi with Gtx 1080 which runs around 75C when not overclocked running a 49" samsung in 4k

 

Look backwards in this thread, a GT83VR 1070 SLI owner posted great results and temps.

The 1080 SLI puts out a lot of heat, and fan noise, but the GT83VR seems a tad quieter.

If you only want a 1070 SLI check out the GT73VR 1070 SLI, and that thread too.

 

@jjp over in GS73VR thread found the latest Nahimic driver @ their site fixed his audio problems, and fixes crackling after Windows 10 updates:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...vr-owners-lounge.795277/page-47#post-10400008

Here are the links, announcement and download, for your convenience:

Important: you need to install the Realtek version presents in the links below to reduces the noise issue
https://nahimic.helprace.com/i102-nahimic-2-3-8-is-alive

Nahimic 2.3.8 & Realtek 7960 from Cyril D (Nahimic)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zyrncnuo4emagu8/AAB3jZ1G1aveS3gdXJoFBeGHa?dl=0

No newer update has been released, but you might want to check their Updates page from time to time, they said they plan to still improve the crackling noises (not completely cured?).

Nahimic Updates
https://nahimic.helprace.com/s1-general/updates

 

Good work Scott.

 

I have had a TON of problems with mine currently. Most recent problem happend when something crashed, the image that was up stayed on the screen even after a reboot. Took it 15min or so to finally go away, has anyone ever head of that happening before?

 

I haven't seen or heard of an issue like that. I would hazard a guess at it being a windows issue. Do you have hibernate/fast boot active?

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Yes both were, I disabled both now.

 

so my wife had a gt80 sli002 that we got from best buy with geek squad. last week the HDMI output up and stopped working. tried different laptps, different cables, different monitors, updating drivers, etc. it was definitely HDMI.

We took it to geek squad and they said they "arent allowed to repair it". so they basically junked it (sent it back to MSI, or trash if it is older than MSI terms state) and gave us the GT83VR-SLI002 as a replacement.

So, whaddup guys?

What bloatware should we be removing? last time the sabre dac got REALLY messed up and wouldnt output a usable sound no matter what we tried, so im hesitant to go through and remove everyhting. Similarly, the tru color display stuff looked way better on than off.

EDIT: did msi fix the power supply throttling issue from the GT80? i seem to recall that the PSU didnt supply enough power and the gpu's would end up throttling.

 

Wow, congrats. Not the move I would have expected out of Best Buy.

 

Congrats on the swift trade up from BestBuy!! Did you have a special extended warranty from BestBuy? What's it called - Geek Squad or some trade-up/in special warranty?

Do you have a BestBuy PLU number for that? I'm having trouble finding a GT83VR SLI-002 model listed, except for a Japanese model SLI-002JP.

On BB US online site I only see -022 and -055 models, and both are currently sold out
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchp...rue&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960&keys=keys

#update - -023 and -055 are now in stock!

What are the GPU's / RAM / Storage configuration?

 

@Saintjah has the issue reoccurred?

@shrimants Nice, I hope you enjoy the machine, i havent had any issues with power throttling from the PSU so far. you may soon find (if you haven't already) that it has TWO monster power supplies. I dont have a watt meter to test how much it draws.

As for bloat ware i would have to get back to you on that, i pretty much did a full wipe and then reinstalled basic drivers plus, a few apps from msi.

 

The USB and HDMI issues are still present but the others have not happened since.

 

thats one of the good point about big corporation, they have policies in place when the old phases out they simply replace with new one. it worked out in electronics cause usually new things are better.

on the other note, i wish MSI would be bold enough to do this http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...th-skylake-x-hedt.798348/page-4#post-10395559

looks like we might be getting a skylake-X laptop with 6-10 cores cpu in it, along with quad channel memory rather than dual channel.

 

FWIW, my GT80 sometimes does this when I'm not running full brightness. Pumping up the brightness fixes the issue 100% of the time.

 

welp

 

the worst part is I couldn't tell you what causes it because it hasn't annoyed me enough to really care about it. i figured it was some type of power management setting or something because I've other brands of laptops with the same issue and it was always some type of power management issue.

turning the brightness up has always corrected the issue, so i haven't really cared a whole lot. it is also fairly infrequent because i seldom run max brightness.

 

I don't remember flickering being an issue. I almost always used 50% brightness, rarely needed max brightness. Not sure the issue is also dependent on any refresh rate of the monitor.

 

Just got the GT83 and set up an SSD RAID0 but the laptop keeps booting to BIOS unless i turn fastboot off and change boot mode to legacy. Any ideas on a fix? ><

 

Is your raid set as the first boot drive in the boot tree?
Is it set to Windows Boot Manager or something else for boot device?

 

Have no option for windows boot manager, just "Hard Drive" in UEFI modes. Its set to highest priority.

 

Should i wipe the windows install and try again using the intel rapidstorage tech method instead of the legacy mode method for RAID setup?

 

What are you trying to install...Windows 10 or windows 7?
I would have used the built in method for the raid, but also....is the video set to legacy as well?

 

Used the first method here. Should i try the second one i mean? and Windows 10 home using the ibuypower reinstall disc that came with it

 

Use the uefi method.

 

kk, gonna wipe the install and see what happens doing the UEFI method ><;;

 

It still just reboots to BIOS, i cant even get it to load the windows install disc...

 

Okay, sounds good.

 

Isnt working, getting worried something's just fried... the disc drive when it did work would just cut out randomly from windows

 

OK, lets do something basic......

Forget the raid for a moment and just try to install windows 10 on a single drive. See if this is even viable.

 

It was working on the RAID array but could only boot if set to Fastboot: OFF in Legacy mode, which seemed to be adding a lot to the boot time, this was when i tried it using the first method the video suggested. It also ran on the single 120GB 2.5 SSD. But i cant seem to get anything but legacy mode to work with it. How does the GT80 (not 83, guessing the 80 will have more documentation) handle RAID normally?

 

Occasionally someone like you comes in overthinking it all and messes up something so simple that all the inexperienced people that get these laptops have zero problem setting them up. Good work

The answer is simple. Reset your BIOS settings to defaults, and reboot into the BIOS.

Then go to the RAID section, select the drives you want in the RAID - leave all the other options at default for now - and reboot - booting with your recovery restore flash drive or MS media boot drive, and install Windows.

That's it

If you screwed up and didn't backup your original OEM OS using BurnRecovery you can't restore to the out of the box configuration, the one MSI spent many man hours tuning for you.

Now you are on your own to find and install the latest drivers, apps, and configs to get right back where you were with the original MSI OS image.

The only way to get the out of the box OS image is to swap for another new unit, do the BurnRecovery creation from a retail store demo laptop, or send it back to MSI for re-imaging.

It's so much easier to uninstall the few apps that you don't want in a few minutes, than spending hours rebuilding the OS from scratch.

Over thinking to the point where you believe you can out perform the effort of the vendor to build, configure, and tune the OS better by starting from a scratch MS media install is delusional

 

@hmscott Im trying to set up the SSD RAID like the GT80 i got had since i bought a model without m.2s and a small main drive for a black friday sale, isn't about overwriting the stock OS image, which i still have on that 120GB ADATA SSD.

Ive tried resetting everything to BIOS defaults and restarting, thats what that second try, which didn't work, was. BIOS Defaults -> reboot -> intel rapidstorage settings -> reboot. (since the legacy mode version was acting weird)

Except instead of it even detecting that windows install disc it just boots the BIOS as if it were the OS on a regular laptop.

 

Third attempt, default everything, it still only boots to BIOS, nothing more. ignores the install CD and everything

 

You will need to turn back on legacy boot for the cdrom. I forgot. You are not using the usb method most now use.

 

Did you hit the boot menu shortcut at boot time? Does your bootable install show up? Does the bootable install show up in the BIOS as a selectable boot drive?

It sounds like it's supposed to be bootable, but is broken somehow.

Try booting on the BurnRecovery restore flash drive and restore to the RAID.

Does the created RAID volume show up as a volume in the BIOS, or 2 separate drives?

Please post a photo of the RAID setup in the BIOS as it is now, and a photo of the bootable volumes in the boot menu.

Ahh, don't use a CD to install, make a bootable USB installer