Any indication as to when the MSI GT75VR Titan will be showing up?

Congrats, fellow future owner!

I've been checking for any updates for my shipment all day.

My incoming GT75VR will replace the MSI GT72-2PE I'm currently typing on, which has served me flawlessly for 4 years.

 

Is there an official GT75VR thread?

 

Not yet, but you are definitely welcome to start one.

 

Yes there is....it is here
*** The Official MSI GT75VR Owners and Discussions Lounge ***
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...-owners-and-discussions-lounge.806253/page-13

 

Thanks for pointing me there.

I'll start posting updates in that thread.

 

For what it's worth, my GT75VR just showed up. 3 days early!

 

Is it US purchase ? Can you please post a screenshot of the info of the screen panel listed by hwinfo ?

 

It was a US trade-in for my GT80.

 

So I added an additional 16GB of ram to my laptop. Unfortunately, I just realized the 2 modules I had that were extra are DDR4 2133 and not 2400 modules. Is that slightly lower speed going to have any realistic impact to where I would be better off with only the 16gb instead of 32gb?

 

Your system may choose the lowest speed to run, however it may not be the case sometimes when the system actually tries to clock at 2400MHz and if the 2133MHz isn't able to handle the overclock then you may experience stability issue. It's highly recommended to use identical memory modules throughout the entire system.

 

Its running stable at 2133. My question was really more around will i notice the slower speed and am i better off with 16gb at 2400 or 32gb at 2133.

 

There will be a small improvement in applications / benchmarks that notice memory speed up's, but if you are really using more than 16GB like for VM's or RAMDisk then go ahead and load all of it.

I thought the GT73 had problems at and beyond 2666mhz, but noone has tried faster memory with the GT75 and posted about it, yet.

@Phoenix went through this when he got his GT73, trying to run faster memory, 3200mhz/2933mhz I think they were out of 2666mhz at the time, and settled on the 2400mhz / stable SODIMM's.

It's been a while, so it's possible you can get fast SODIMM's that will run 3200mhz... now might be a good time to try this again, @Donald@HIDevolution ?

 

You can run your 2400 mhz RAM at 2133 mhz and set the timings to 14/14/14/32 (in the Bios, you have to set 14, 14, 32). It will be the same speed as 2400 mhz 17,17,17,39. It's also more stable this way, retrains without failures to POST, and you can set Command Rate 1T instead of 2T without getting errors.

This requires being able to set the RAM divider from 9 to 8 though.

if you aren't sure if it will work, you can run Memtest86 on a flash drive and test for errors. Doesn't need to complete an entire cycle; I usually stop it after test 6, if I can make it to test 6, I can be sure the OS won't get scrambled.

I had problems getting memtest to boot with UEFI however. Legacy was completely fine, but when I set it to UEFI it just black screened trying to load the flash drive UEFI and then the system acted like it was a boot failure and then retrained and reset the RAM to 2400...

 

I am not aware of anyone that can run higher than DDR4/2666MHz in the MSI GT Series.

 

@spurst @Alyus @ZKST

Is the GT75VR have vents underneath for the fans?

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Because I don't see it in the other GT75 video reviews except this one.

 

Not directly under the fans.



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Hmm, strange.

 

I don't think having vents directly underneath the fans would be good for airflow. You want air going inside one part of the case and out the other end, just like desktops (front=in, top/back=out).

 

At 2:06 you are actually looking at the GE Variant.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/msi-ge63vr-raider

 

What is the purpose of that "ENTF" next to F12/Pause?

 

German keyboard for DEL


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It's a reason @Mr. Fox did his bottom cover mod for his...
EUROCOM Tornado F5 / EVOC 16L-G-1080.



Same also for all us who have Clevo P870 series...

 

Actually, that is exactly what needs to happen (vents directly over the fans) for effective cooling. The interior chassis temps are the same with or without the vents based on my testing.

Take a piece of paper and lay it over the fan intake with about a quarter inch opening for it to pull air through. That will simulate the air flow with the fans blocked off by the bottom cover. The stock design is a serious engineering defect, not a carefully thought out design by MSI.

 

Today's Jokebooks + some normal laptops do not use proper passive cooling at all for PCH chips and NVMe ssd's. Everyone knows the topic ... ssd throttling, PCH overheating with throttling in the end and thin and flimsy (Alienwarte I can see you). In order to compensate for this flawed design, they rather prefer to destroy the WHOLE cooling... (f.eks no vents directly over the fans for Cpu and Graphics). They could do both... But this comes last in the queue, after thin and flimsy and increased cost. See *serious engineering defects*.

 

The MSI PCH does not overheat. Runs at 45-55C. And the nVME SSD's run cool with the heatsink. At least MSI got that right.