MSI GT660 with Nvidia GTX285M

Does anyone have any noise issues with the actual CPU? I understand that the cpu doesnt acutally make noise so could it be my motherboard? its coming directly from the i7 ive unplugged the fan and took the cover off and still the noise is coming directly from the cpu itself. any help?

 

This is more than likely an inductor whine issue. I do not hear anything from my gt660 but I have had other notebooks with this same issue when running off the battery. All modern notebooks can experience this issue.

 

I cannot seem to find the info anywhere in manual or on the web. I have GT660(with a single 500HDD) and yesterday got a Sata3 SSD for it (Corsair Force Series 3 128GB). I installed it into main slot(moved 500GB HDD that came with it to a secondary slot) and loaded Win7 64B. While Siw-System All in one soft shows as Sata600(Sata3) the Intel Rapid Storage tech shows as Sata2(3g) only. Does GT660 have Sata3(6g) or only Sata2(3g) ?
Registered here and on MSI forums just to ask this, so MSI is left unanswered - appreciate in advance anyone that knows!!!

 

It has only SATA II 3g

 

All 3 ports are Sata2(3g)? 2 HDD and optical(from what i understood u can stick SSD there as well for total of 3 SSD's in the system?)? Seems weird that such a loaded system with USB3.0 etc. would not have at least 1 Sata3(6g) port.

 

Here is the chipset spec sheet link, below is cut and pasted from the datasheet:

http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/datasheet/322169.pdf


Integrated Serial ATA Host Controller
— Up to six SATA ports
— Data transfer rates up to 3.0 Gb/s
(300 MB/s).

 

thank you for your help, yeah thats disappointing news, the SSD(Corsair Force3) drive i tested in my desktop at 540mb/sek seq. reads only does 240mb/sek in gt660 oh well - should have investigated further b4 purchase

 

Any idea if GT660 supposrt MXM v.3.0 B socket for Graphic cards or is it different? I am thinking of upgrading my GPU(currently GTX-285M) and possibly CPU(currently- I7-740QM). Any help will be appreciated greatly!

 

You are safe to upgrade the CPU and GPU. GT660 has the identical main board like it's RAID version brother. You can upgrade the any MXM 3.0 B module as long as the power consumption is below the design spec.

 

You can use even gtx 580m but with new heat sink.

 

You have ms-16f1 it is the same mainboard as in gx 660. Only one difference is vga card. If you want I can fix yours mainboard or.... Just use PM.