So I plan on buying MSI GS60 Ghost-003 (i7/860M GTX), I understand that there's a youtube video on audio. I want to know from actual owners though, when gaming do you consider the laptop to be loud?
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Fan noise is quieter than the GT60/GT70 series when gaming, and in my opinion not loud, but will be louder than the G46. Idle fan speeds are faster than I'd prefer stock, but I easily fixed that with an EC mod thanks to Svet and now no longer an issue. I've asked my wife if she thinks it's loud, as she always knew when I'm gaming on the GT60, and with the GS60 she doesn't think it's loud either or comments on the noise.
If you are talking speakers, they aren't great, but are totally acceptable and greatly improved with the Sound Blaster software that is included. -
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what about the ctrl button that is supposed to be blue but the other half is green
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When you're looking at the CTRL lettering on the keyboard, it will be blue-green in colour. It's just the positioning of it. -
im the poster, n i set everything to blue
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But that's what I get when I set it to blue-green. -
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Could somebody clarify for me whether or not this laptop is in stock or not? It says pre-order on the website, but I've seen a few comments that say it's in stock.
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I have tried it. A big thank you to ti20n and Sen7inel for all their work on this issue. The quiet mode is still quite audible to me but better than default. The silent mode is great but it quickly gets past the 60C mark when browsing the web; I could probably disable flash to bring down temps but I don't want to have to do that. I sure wish they had put fans in that could run at 30% or lower.
I have a Sager NP7338 that will be here on Tuesday. I have a feeling that the GS60 may be going on eBay. It is a shame because in every other way it is fantastic. For those of us with a bit of OCD the fans can be a bit annoying it a quiet room. -
Sorry I had not been able to report earlier, but I didn't have any chance to try your vbios until yesterday, I used the minus 75mV version, and I hope MSI and Nvidia are reading this because it was a success!
Max temp reached by the GPU is 83 degrees, and AB doesn't report any throttling bellow 967MHz, the card is permanently locked at max boost frequency!
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My gs70 starts with 73 fps and throttles back at 93C, and fps drops to 50-55.. if that vbios grants something above 65 all the the time. I will definitely try it.
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So how does the noise on the 870m compare to the 860? The performance increase is nice, but there's not much point in getting it if the noise is distracting to other people in the room when you're gaming.
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That's great to hear! I've been afraid to bite the bullet on the 870m for fear it was running noisier. So would you say the Pro is professional enough to take to business meetings without being distracting?
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Note that this cannot be set in FanControlTools Profile Editor, you have to edit the RWEverything ".rw" files directly, if you're using the software approach.Sen7inel likes this. -
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OK, never mind, found how to download it, here are the results, 85 degrees max temp:
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my gs60 has strange behavior
first battery won´t load, it report battery missing, fault battery level and so on, I can't calibrate battery it shots down alt the time..
now battery works somehow, after pinhole reset, but I can´t calibrate it still
the computer change brightnes, sett GPU on and off sometimes, go to sleep mode or shots down, all that when I put it on idle or just oppen webbrowser on google, even when powermode is sett to not go to sleep mode or adjust anything..
Fn adjustements (sound, sleep mode, brightness) sometimes doesn´t work
it is strange and weird
any ideas what to do?
I don´t expect 2000 $ system to behave like this, 2 kilo off plastic for this money should work perfekt, it sholud even wash, do vacuum cleaning and help at home for this prise
I have gap on the upper corner of the lid, like many others, even I can se LED light inside in a dark room. Is it risk that dust come in between panel and glass or led lights and panel? -
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Need to contact MSI for repair, unless it's DOA within returnable period with vendor.axel7 likes this. -
so I can easily return it
If it wasn´t for fantastic screen (and gtx870) I should buy some other but now I´m thinking.......
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As far as alternatives, they're not many thin 870m laptops out there, so choices are limited. -
I'm having the same issue with the battery, as I posted here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/742589-msi-gs60-ghost-ghost-pro-thread-135.html#post9644384 Axel7, could you do a "powercfg --batteryreport" on the command line and post your results? My battery doesn't report a serial number nor number of cycles, which is a bit disturbing.
Yesterday I didn't experience any issues, not sure if the problem has fixed itself or if I was just lucky. I bought it Denmark, and the webshop where I bought it are not receiving a new batch of GS60 until end of May, which is a bit annoying... -
Due to the reason that this benchmark is really short, GPU did not throttle back much.
It looks like it does not compromise on performance much. if i keep running it fps will probably drop down to 40ies
I tried the vbios but the id's were not identical so i did not flash it. i guess i will need to regenerate custom rom from my original.
But first, i need repaste gpu with arctic silver 5 and see what it does.
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A Chinese review of the GS60 2PC, which seems to be their version of the 1080p 860m model but with 8 GB RAM and a N1202 wifi card (no AC). Once again, use Google translate or Chrome.
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- They get a backpack and mouse with the laptop in China.
- Includes a pic of the dragon logo when backlit (p. 6), if you're wondering what that looks like.
- They post a CIE chart (p. 7). 95% sRGB, 78% Adobe RGB. For those of us worried about color reproduction, it looks like the screen is about 95% sRGB, but in a good way. It doesn't fall short at any of the three corners of the sRGB color space. It exceeds sRGB at the green end, and the missing 5% is a sliver at the bottom of the blue-red edge of the triangle. So basically it's a touch weak at magenta.
- Backlight uniformity and viewing angle tests (p. 7).
- Delta-E is 2.22 average (4.70 max), which is very good. So maybe the Russian review did something wrong.
- Temperatures at load CPU=81 C, GPU = 79 C.
- Max noise measured 15 cm in front of laptop (same as Notebookcheck) is 47 dB.
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I can't find any software to view the 870m bios. I noticed someone couldn't flash the undervolt bios because of they didn't match. How do we edit our own extracted vbios?
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maybe we who byued Scandinavian version get wrong batteryI am in Sweden, just over the bridge...
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In answer to my own question you can tweak your own extracted bios's using the following software:
Kepler Bios Tweaker - Guru3D.com Forums
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Where can I find the Nvidia GTX870m driver? I cant seem to find it on the MSI or Nvidia website.
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Just received my GS60 Pro a bit ago. I'm shocked at how much bloatware an expensive computer like this has... My Sager barely had any 3 years ago. Instead of screwing around trying to do a clean install I'm just going to remove the bloat, already removed Norton... Now creating a recover USB Drive per MSI's BurnRecovery.exe
I notice there is blurry text and stuff here and there... Don't know if that is due to the annoying optimus stuff or not, almost wondering if I can just turn that off and say always use the nVidia GPU. But I'll have to solve that issue already I guess, may just need to do the windows font set up but it is all over the place. Normally when I see that on a monitor I make it auto calibrate, can't really do that on a laptop. -
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The blurry text could be because of Windows Text Scaling
1. In Control Panel, click Appearance And Personalization.
2. Under the Display heading, click Make Text And Other Items Larger Or Smaller.
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I compared both roms with the tool in your link. The settings were identical, only difference was the bios version and checksum values.
I believe that tool is still experimental (voltages listed are not reliable and you can't offset voltages, it just changes to a fixed value), i am looking for a better alternative to it.
If there is any, please keep it posted here.
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We need some tips from Sen7inel on how he managed it. I've sent him a PM. -
MSI should supply a slightly lower-voltaged vbios. I assume that they dont wanna risk it. But we cant benefit from 870m with stock configration.
For my case, i am able to run it as a 860m when it hits 92C, due to the fact that it underclocks and overclocks itself continuously (which may be harmful in long term).
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I I've just noticed it was you fdapp that couldn't flash the modded vbios. You have a gs70 not a GS60.
I'm still interested to know how we can adjust the voltages ourselves as I'd like to find a happy medium between a slight overclock and a nice undervolt. -
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EDIT: here it is!
View attachment GS70_870m.zip
GS70 870m owners: Use the guide located here, just replace the GS60 vbios' with the ones in the link above.
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