Hi. New GE70 2PE user here. I just recently had this to change over my 3-year old Sager NP8130, 1st reason for the Qualcomm Atheros = Bigfoot Killer hardware-based packet prioritization, 2nd reason due to Haswell arch over Sandy Bridge.

I seem to see 2 issues with my notebook so far:

1. RAM usage super high? 3 displays and then open steam/origin/chrome already eat 60ish% RAM. Previously it was even worse when I set Optimus to automatically choose between nV or iGFX, but even after I set everything to run via nV the RAM is still high. Any tips?

2. Laptop unable to wake after a long display turned off. I know that the laptop doesn't sleep coz my Logitech G13 clock still moves, I set my power option to only turn off display after 5 minutes of inactivity, but it just stuck when I tried to send keyboard/interrupt to turn the display back on.

Welcome to the club!

For your first concern, check what apps are eating your RAM.

For your second concern, check the power settings further. My experience (GE60 Apache Pro), even if I set it to just turn off display after 10 mins, it does hibernate after 20 minutes. This setting can be found while digging deep into the power settings advanced menu.

For the first one, I suspect it might the pre-installed apps running on background, like Dragon Army Center, Killer Gaming, the steelseries stuffs.

For the second one, I actually disabled all the other settings already in Advanced Power Management, just to make sure that I only turn off the display. But well probably I missed some of them while customizing the power profile.

can you call up the task manager and go to the process tab, then align by Memory?

edit: sorry i mean take a screen shot and paste here. see what i can help you here

This post has been edited by storm88: May 8 2014, 06:39 PM

hi bro. How is ur laptop now? is the problem fixed ady?

I expect you have 8GB RAM.
Even with those pre-installed programs like Steelseries and DragonArmy, 60% RAM usage is abnormal. My GE60 with Steam, only 40%.

hello.. any msi gp60 2pe user here? planning to get one for my son, please share your experience with me..

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May I ask, how is the warranty service for MSI compare with Lenovo & Asus. Please rate by order. Thanks

Your request should be limited to region, for Malaysia, my opinion is:

DELL >= Illegear > Lenovo > MSI > ASUS

MSI warranty service sounds little bit confused to me, you better check with authorized sellers or MSI sc. By the way, only DELL, Illegear and Lenovo offer warranty upgrade. These are the 5 brands I know only, others I am not sure.

already did that, the top one was network restriced localhost (svchost stuff) which took out about 10% of mem (I use percentage rather than real value so that I know what's the real culprit). Currently it has not happened yet, but I'll get a snapshot once it happens again.

and for someone who asked about the total RAM, yeah, 8GB.

Msi-nb hey, is all msi gaming laptop out of stock currently. I asked a few shop they said so. I m looking for gs70 s.pro.

If i cant find 1 this week i will nees to go for other brand.

This post has been edited by whyteaz: May 11 2014, 08:03 PM

thank you for the info

Hi, please check PM.

Pretty much this. Dell will go to your house and replace broken items for free(while under warranty). And no questions asked. Sometimes the replace almost everything and don't have to go through retailer.

Once I called on Thursday and on Friday they came and replace the whole motherboard including processor, gcard, heatsink, and fan. I hope MSI can do this. Sending back to the manufacturer usually takes 2-3 weeks atleast.

This post has been edited by koopa: May 12 2014, 04:55 PM

Too bad for DELL is the Alienware is quite expensive, and other specs are not that attractive compared to other brands. But int terms of warranty, it is the best, my old DELL studio after 4 yrs still can be used.

thumbs up for Dell, my XPS m1210 still working.

Errr... Wait, MSI warranty got that bad?

DELL, Lenovo and Illegear offer warranty upgrade, so surely better than MSI. And if you dig the history last year, some users did complaint the warranty service of MSI. Mainly due to the period of repair (bcs send back to Taiwan factory), similar to ASUS, but better than ASUS bcs MSI is still new in Malaysia.