Great Gaming laptop for beginner.
Well.... I bought this laptop June/7/2013. After using almost 2 years, I am finally writing a review. Overall, this laptop is great for the price.
With gtx 780m, Intel i7 - 4700MQ, and 12gb of Ram, this beast can handle most of game for Medium ~ very high setting. Steelseries keyboard is definitely a beast keaboard, probably third best keyboard I ever used for the laptop. - Alienware and Razer Blade is the top 1 for me- Sound Quality is ok for the laptop. Also, what I really like about this laptop is that the graphic card and the CPU and be upgrade able. I am planning to upgrade graphic card to GTX 980m and cpu to i7 - 4900MQ
However, the worst part of this laptop is the material choice. This is (or was) the top of the laptop line for MSI, but they decided to use bit of aluminum and plastic. If I spent around $ 1800 for the laptop, I would like to see full aluminum or rubberize finish on the laptop. Also, even though this laptop has strong graphics card and cpu, it decided to use only one cooling fans. Therefore, if you did not put new thermal compound, the temperature of gpu or cpu will go up to around 94 C ( 201 F)
In conclusion, I think this laptop is ok if you are a person who think price per performance is very important, but if you are the person who like the premium feeling to the laptop, you won't like this laptop.
| Standing screen display size | 17.3 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920x1080 |
| Processor | 3.2 GHz Intel_Core_i7_4700MQ |
| RAM | 12 GB SO-DIMM |
| Memory Speed | 1600 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 1024 GB SATA |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA Geforce GTX780M |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 4000 MB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11bgn |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 3 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 2 Hours |
