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    FREE from MSI.....Bring out your creative wild side!

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by -=$tR|k3r=-, Nov 17, 2018.

  1. -=$tR|k3r=-

    -=$tR|k3r=- Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hi Guys,

    For those considering qualifying MSI products, and if you have, or wish to enhance your creative skills, do not forget to take advantage of MSI's new FREE software offer (and yes, FREE is always good....) :

    Get a Creator Software Pack, a value of $400+

    Enjoy!
    :D
     
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    Wow, Striker is back????
     
    Kevin@GenTechPC, Nov 17, 2018
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    Hi Kevin,

    Yeah, I thought I'd make an appearance because I'm considering a new notebook. I'm still enjoying my GT83, but with the new processors and upcoming GPU's, rather than SLi, I think a fresher, lighter, single-GPU solution is in order.....perhaps a new GT75, or whatever the new flagship model will be designated.

    Whichever model I choose, I'll start a new thread for this model.

    What do you think? Any thoughts?

    :)
     
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    -=$tR|k3r=-, Nov 19, 2018
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    Striker, we can get you one that meets your needs, there are options available to make it happen. And Happy Thanksgiving to you. :)
     
    Kevin@GenTechPC, Nov 22, 2018
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    Kevin Egregious

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    I had the same reaction lmao. I thought some new crazy laptop was being announced.

    Good to see @-=$tR|k3r=- make an appearance.

    Happy Thanksgiving all.
     
    Kevin, Nov 22, 2018
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    For what is worth, I'd wait out this next generation of laptops, let the useless RTX GPU's mobile-crippled models flush through the inventory, and then look at the next generation from AMD / Nvidia (if they come back to their senses).

    As far as laptop CPU improvements, what CPU improvements? You can't fully use the 6 core / 8 core CPU's in laptops as the heat thermal throttles them before the added cores actually become helpful, and the fan noise when in 100% use will be totally obnoxious when doing long run processing.

    This last generation of Intel CPU's (and current generation) are overheating and thermal throttling when tuning for more than the BIOS locked power limits allow. Intel has even increased the T-junction shut-off from 100c to as high as 115c, wth?

    It's not worth upgrading to something newer than a nice OC'able 7th gen CPU + 1080's at this point.
     
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    Falkentyne Notebook Prophet

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    Skip all laptops, buy a Mini ITX with an AMD Vega 64 and a core i9 9900K or 9700K and show AMD that you appreciate them not making RTX 2080 Ti video cards that catch fire or black screen in 1 week after you spend $1200 on them, so AMD can realize how much money there is if they invest in high end GPU R&D again.
     
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    Almost... :)

    The 9900k has that Intel BS Razzmatazz Pizzazz, but it also doesn't OC like OC'er's love, so there should be a pretty large "meh" reaction from the OC'er's, given 5.0ghz OC being top OC for most, even with 360mm radiators in custom loops.

    As long as you can't OC the Intel 9900k, you might as well save a bunch of $ and get an AMD CPU :)

    2nd generation Ryzen or ThreadRipper 2 already maximize performance automatically, although some still OC them another tad up for a little more benchmark goodness.
     
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    AMD should take advantage of their momentum from the success of their Thread Ripper and release a better mobile CPU. The GX60 had a weak CPU in it but GPU was awesome.
     
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    AMD's making a killing with their newly managed CPU division, but GPU's are becoming more important than CPU's except for moar corez., but we really want competition. This is worse than the GTX 280 days (you remember those?), hell even worse than the 5800 Ultra days, because you didn't pay $1200 for a brick back then.

    If AMD were back on top, Nvidia might actually invest in proper R&D and QA instead of milking customers and riding cryptocurrency money.
     
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    AMD's new CEO Lisa Su seems to know what she's doing, hopefully she can bring AMD out of pitch soon. We need competition otherwise Intel/Nvidia slaughter consumers easy. :)
     
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    AMD never seems to be in position to take advantage of Intel and Nvidia stumbles, when it comes to laptops.

    The only time they ever did was with the 5870M. Time flies.
     
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