MSI GX 680 Officially announced

GX 680 officially announced by MSI with specifications, but no information about price.

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MSI Enthralls Gamers With GX680 Laptop - Softpedia

Processor Intel Core i7 2630QM Processor
Operating System Genuine Windows 7 Ultimate/Professional/Home Premium
Memory DDR3 up to 16GB
Display 15.6" Full HD (1920x1080) or HD (1366x768) LED backlight
Graphics Nvidia GeForce GT 555M / 1GB GDDR5
Video Output 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Hard Disk Drive 500GB, 750GB,320GB + 320GB RAID 0,500GB + 500GB RAID 0,750GB + 750GB RAID 0
Optical Disk Drive Blu-ray / DVD Super Multi
Interfaces 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0, 1x eSATA, 5-in-1 card reader
Sound 2.1ch speakers, Sound by Dynaudio, THX TruStudio Pro
Communication 802.11 b/g/n WLAN, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, 1x Gigabit LAN
Webcam HD (30fps@720p)
Battery 9-Cell Li-Ion
Dimension (WxDxH) 395 x 267 x 55mm
Weight 3.5Kg(w/Battery)
Other Features TDE (Turbo Drive Engine), Dynamic LED effect, Cooler Boost

 

Doesn't the 460m and 5870 and probably the 285m except for DX11 outperform the 555m? Seems a step sideways or back in the gpu department and puts in direct comparison with the dell xps 17 3d which has a 120hz screen and can likely be had for the same or less than this will likely go for.

 

Sounds indeed, like another rebaggage to me,

May be wrong though Alc.

 

Yep, I would have thought a 6870 at least... its still a downgrade from the 5870 in the 660s but it fits the pattern of going back and forth between ATI and Nvidia cards. Now a 6970 would be a fantastic update. It seems like their just shuffling graphics cards through the unit with little if any benefit.

 

Yeah, unless they intend to release to a certain area/place/country, i suppose they could dub releases of the 6 series msi's as many times as they like.

 

So in around 6 months they are going to release a laptop with even WORSE graphics than the 460m?

 

It is such a huge disappointment that MSI forced me to jump ship. Seriously, I recommended their laptop lines to all my friends/co-worker but the new line-up with weaker GPU just let me down completely.

 

So where did you jump? Ive jumped a few times and keep wandering back. lol.

 

GX680 is awesome sucks......3.3kg non-MXM3.0 (integrated graphic chip) heavy laptop£¬I would go for GT780

 

As long as the GT780 is coming out with the GTX 560m and not the GT 555m. They are bragging about using gamers to help with the design of the 780's, but no gamer in his right mind would ok the GT555m for a gaming GPU. I know its a cost move. They are worried about cost being to high and want to offer a cheaper laptop, but why not use the AMD 68XXm for a cheaper price since those GPU's are cheaper compared to Nvidia's.

 

Anyone one know whether the GX680 comes with Optimus technology?

 

No idea, although that would be the only reason I could see for going with the 555 instead of the 460 GPU. They tend to avoid optimus on the gaming GPUs.

 

Alienware m17x r3. Size is much more portable, has switchable graphics that offer up to 5 hours of battery life, lighter, quiet fan on idle, hdmi-in ( for ps3/xbox360), 6970m gpu ( identical to 5870 crossfire performance), redesigned heatsink. Therefore, I jumped

 

The 6970 is a nice card, is the m17x really more portable than the gt680r? I would think its 2-3 lbs heavier. Have you got it yet or are you waiting?

 

Another indication that MSI will be using a GT 555M spec that's different than Nvidia's official GT 555M.

Can't use 1GB of VRAM with a 192-bit bus so MSI would have to be using 128-bit....though with GDDR5 it does come out better than Nvidia's GDDR3 versions.

 

Wow, great.
460m: 192sp 192bit 1.5GB GDDR5
555m: 144sp 128bit 1.0GB GDDR5

I wonder if they have the balls to call it a 'gaming' notebook.

 

Yep they did... theres another post in the MSI forum with a link to an MSI press release talking about their latest gaming notebook the gx680 with 555m gpu.

 

There is a size comparison video uploaded by member Mandrake at the Alienware section showing M15X and M17X r3. In terms of thickness, they are almost identical (M15x battery area is slightly thicker, surprise !) So the r3 is just a wider version of M15x. Alienware also resigned the cooling system (Mandrake also took his system apart to show the internal component). The chassis is a made by magnesium/plastic to reduce weight. Keyboard flex is not as rigid as r2 but it is much better than the GX660. GX680 is about 7.7 lbs and r3 (according to member's feedback) is about 9 lbs　（ｄｅｆｉｎｉｔｅｌｙ　ｕｎｄｅｒ　１０　ｌｂｓ　ｆｏｒ　ｓｕｒｅ）. (But you are comparing 15" to 17"） I have not get it yet, will get one soon as Ｉ　ｎｅｅｄ　ｔｏ　ｇｅｔ　ｈｏｍｅ　ｔｈｅａｔｅｒ　ｓｙｓｔｅｍ　ｆｉｒｓｔ　 　６９７０ｍ　ｉｓ　ａ　ｂｅａｓｔ　．．．　Ｉ actually prefer single card because SLI/Crossfire is very picky about drivers. The speaker is not as perfect as GX680 but its still better than most laptop because they use Kxxxxxx (forgot the brand) speakers in r3.

Tips: you can haggle to get discount from Dell by phone, just need to be persistent. If one fail, try another.

 

Complete fail on MSI there if they put the 555M rubbish in the GT780 i will just keep my dam GX660R with the 5870M in .

 

lots of laptop users want to run linux, and ati sucks for that...so their you go

 

This can be a solid gaming machine especially if the price is around 700-800 dollars. Im sure that the gx680 can play most if not all games at high at 1366x768.

If they are charging a premium for a slower but next gen hardware then the machine is crap.

Also its not unusual for people to think that the gt 555m is a much greater card than a gtx460m. I mean the 5xx is greater than 4xx in terms of numerical value. So they would equate it as being better. thus msi makes more with less...

edit haha this was an old thread didnt realize its an old thread, 1.1k pretty expensive but still like the gx660 w/ tradeoffs better cpu with lower gpu

 

WRONG. Its still MXM 3.0... just like the gt640 with gt 250m
You can put any 'integrated' core onto an MXM board.
They don't go and use separate motherboards for these, ever. They use a different MXM type A heatsink, probably.

I just don't see why they didn't make this the barebone, or make 2 barebones. ms-16f2 with a lesser card instead of the 460m... it would be like 699$!
[edit: maybe I answered my own question]

 

THats exactly what I thought when I was looking to buy. I have a GTX460 in my Toshiba and wanted a more portable machine to move around. I was dissapointed to learn the GT555 doesnt even have Optimus in the GX680 which is available but MSI chose not to enable it. Its subpar performace that for a little more money will get you a rockin vid card that will use the same power supply. 150Watt.

 

well look on the bright side....you have a future proof cpu socket and i think you can upgrade your gpu down the road to something better.

 

If you can get it cheap its a notebook with an mxm-b slot.also performance should be close to the 128 bit 460m

 

^ Thats what I was saying ^
BUT
the ms-16f2 and Clevo p151hm barebones with 460m will always be cheaper.
That is where they screwed up IMO, not with the 555m, because of course there was the gt740 and gt640 barebones with gts 250m and no one complained.

Anyone heard about a gx780 barebones? I can't imagine what the model is, ms-17f2?

 

what would be a better laptop, the sager with the 580? sure seems like a lot of manufacture,s are using the 555, even sager

the msi gx 680 allmost looks like the asus g60,s.......

 

Does this MSI gx 680 have 144 stream processors with 128 bit bus 1 GB GDDR5? Isn't that the best 555m out there?

 

Well any of the loads with a 560M for a start. I've got the barebone version of the 683R on the way.

Yes it is, it's a 460M 128bit with some shaders disabled on an MXM-B card and downclocked a little. I am curious if it has the same voltage as the 460M (since the 460M only operates at 2 voltages and they are very strangely done), it could OC quite a bit if so.