I see, for design, my vote is: Alienware>MSI, but overall MSI features offer is worth to have it.

If you live near PJ area, then go to Digital Mall

If you live near KL area, then go to Lowyat Plaza

I personally recommend you go to Lowyat Plaza (even I haven been there) bcs more models can be displayed compared to Digital Mall.

New MSI user bump in!!
Finally make my decision to purchase my first ever Gaming Laptop, GT70 2OC-673MY!!

My first impression:

HEAVY!! I knew the weight when I was in PC Fair, but didn expect the complete sealed box can be that heavy.

These few days I was busy with the software and hardware bundled with, bcs I am obsolete in mobile hardware for 4 years, time to catch up.


Overall I really satisfy with everything for GT70 2OC:

Good built-in 2.1 speaker by Dynaudio, I believe this is the best I can find for laptop built-in speaker.

Good sound card/ship of Realtek ALC892, impressive Steel series "blink blink' keyboard, decent cooling performance though it is one fan; when Cooler Boost in on, it is really a small hair dryer.....

1 TB 7200rpm HDD by Hitachi is fast enough, windows 8 boot time 4.3 second, great audio tuning software by Sound Blaster Cinema etc


Three things depress me a bit:

Touchpad area too small (my fingers too big), I keep touching the edge when swipe.

"Gold plated" audio jack is not "gold" enough, but surprisingly it can drive Beyerdynamics DT880 Pro 250 ohm with good audio quality (around 20~30 volume)

Metro Last Night code expired.... my first genuine game is gone forever.....


Weird thing: Why there are two "airplane mode" button on touch panel and F10.........

This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 6 2014, 10:30 PM

Thanks, but may take some time...Busy with work......

Looks like 2014 laptops will be featured with slim profile + 3K~4K screen. Finally, laptop trend become what happen in smartphone trend (slimmer)....

Ya, I will upload, using my ancient Nokia N8.....

I need to organize what will start first, mostly will focus on software part (my strong point), haha.

Provide some guide for those newbies what kind of softwares bundled with can be deleted.

In CES 2014, just read Toshiba comes out 15.6" with 4K screen.

This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 7 2014, 10:17 AM

For cooling performance, mostly slimmer laptop in 2014 will feature with dual cooling which depend on manufacturers how to promote and marketing in this year. ODD is not that important anymore compared to other parts bcs an external dvdrom can be purchased around RM100~200. Therefore, remove an ODD bay but save a lot of space for other improvements. I personally think this is a good point (if they can free external DVDrom...)


Actually, I notice a weird situation for MSI GE70 and GS70, both of their price is not much difference but GS70 offers more attracting features than GE70. So, eventually buyer will go for GS70 by just paying a bit.


Slimmer profile defenitely cant avoid throttle issue, so it is on buyer wise. I am surely a bulky supporter

This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 7 2014, 04:13 PM

If using ULV processor, it will be meaningless when come to MMO games...


You mean you prefer laptop comes with ODD then unscrew it, swap with SSD?

In that case, look for AMD Kaveri, haha.

Hmm, I am thinking if someone purchase slimmer laptop with 4700HQ, why not setting max cpu usage at 80~90% or so in Power Option? Bcs in gaming, users dont require that much of power...unless everything in high/ultra settings...


I know less in SSD but instead of using for caching, I prefer to use it being accessible storage like what you said. Not sure Western Digital Black 2 how it works.....

Previously, I was tempted to buy GX60 3BE, overall features are decent except AMD APU......if the performance can be up to I5~I7, I definitely will purchase, but reality is always cruel.....

I used to share some thread on how to upgrade their GX60 from notebookreview forum, but it is too time and resource wasting if spending too much on a laptop just to upgrade its performance to rival I7...

Hopefully, Kaveri can bring a good news to us (not me anymore).

For WD Black2, hmmm, I think I will go to separated SSD and HDD, maybe in future SSD will be quite affordable to us.

If 15.6" gaming laptop in slim profile, manufacturers may find difficulties in cooling performance issue in order to achieve decent gaming performance. 17" offers bigger space available than 15.6" without sacrificing cooling performance while maintaning decent gaming performance.

Thanks for WD Black 2 info, but it is really expensive......

Yes, you are right, I am same thought as you. I am thinking if WD Black marketed on this price, it is better to go dedicated SSD + HDD. However, for those users who own laptop which has limited space, this provide them a good option, just the price is enough for them to upgrade to 960 GB SSD........

For slimmer profile on 14", possibly targeting on customer prefer mobile than performance. 15.6" is kind of taste between 14" and 17". If customer have a choice that light weight (<3 kg) and slim (GS70 thickness) with decent performance (GTX level GPU) but 17", why not going?

My point of view is WEIGHT CONTROL and SLIM DESIGN, in old days when customer think of 17", first of all they will think: BULKY and HEAVY. Nowadays, the slim of Razer Blade Pro and GS70 have proved to us.

Should be no problem, I followed everything on the page and key in required information, also, I uploaded my proof of resit then everything is fine.

Edit: I completed a survey also, and it will free extend 3 months warranty



This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 9 2014, 12:29 AM

For temporary suggestion, can look to sellers @numbertwo, @fairuzhafeez and @HOTsteph thread as they list the specs quite detail. Or go to Techhypermart to search for description which is faster.

This issue I have faced in my GT70 before during file transfer, now gone already

BIOS no, driver update no, just try using different plug then settle. It just settle like that, I also forget.

Edit: Weird, I find out only 1 USB 3.0 jack (near audio jack) has some problem. I have 3 portable harddisk, done a small testing test. Transcend and Toshiba no problem in transfer for every port, but Seagate freeze in beginning of transfer in that port only. MSI anti-Seagate is it?? Haha

This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 13 2014, 12:55 AM

Not likely, bcs MSI may continue to release 3AAA GX destroyer series.

by the way, the SteelSeries Engine, I think existing MSI series can install bcs it is only software interface. So, let's see.

3AAA => AMD APU + AMD chipset + AMD GPU

this year, MSI renew their GP,GE,GX,GT,GS name, e.g. GS stealth

xxxx

You have GT70 2OD already!? which laptops can outperform yours (except Alienware M18 and Illegear RX)??

Haha, this year so tempting for you, everything is in big leap, e.g. slimmer profile, 3K~4K screen, NVIDIA GTX880M etc.

Haha, but if you are in sufficient light condition, the backlit keyboard will not be necessary, but I would say it is a must for gaming laptop.

If you check the video, the keyboard configuration is exactly the same with my GT70 and others . So, we existing MSI users no need worry too much. What I hope if MSI can able to include "music/song genre" control, so that every time I listen to different songs, the light showing is following the song genre too. Haha

For USB 3.0 connect/disconnect issue, it can be categorized into Win 7 and Win 8.

For Win 7, users need to install so called:

USB 3.0 Driver: Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver for Intel® 7/8 Series/C216 Chipset Family from Intel website as Win 7 does not have USB 3.0 support.

Edit:

For Win 8/8.1, I managed to solved my problem by replacing with Intel Driver for Wins 7 with some mod.

This post has been edited by shin2l: Mar 18 2014, 08:20 AM

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This post has been edited by shin2l: Mar 18 2014, 08:21 AM