If you're one of them, then I'm buying all my "upgrade" stuff from you lol. Especially that delicious, delicious 16GB Crucial Ballistix CL9 matched pair - if it works for you.

@Unseen83: At least you got LoVo. I'm stuck with an RM200 Kingston Value stick up my GE40's ***. Thank God it actually works.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 06:10 PM

Ehem @kevink82. Ehemmmmmmmiminterstedmmm.

@Storm88: Serbu = all go buy from you lar. Attack in a good way brah...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 06:16 PM

What can I say. I like their stuff. If they can give us great service AND great products, better deal for all of us, rite?

MSI gets loyal customers in return. Loyal customers bring in EVEN MORE loyal customers. What's not to like.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 06:22 PM

Them Ballistix came in yet? Faster faster review.

And you should stock SSDs from Crucial too, maybe even Plextor. Later we can go upgrade at our "favourite" authorised dealer lol.

BTW, your lobster picture is REALLY making me hungry darnit.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 06:29 PM

Later end of this month wait for my magical PM, Mr Authorized Dealer!

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 06:48 PM

Shhhhhhhh.

This thread has ears...

Don't call it spamming, it's "constructive conversation" lol. Besides, MSI now basically has one of the most active threads in the Notebook subsection - isn't that a good thing?

As for wrapping, I'm planning to DIY wrap the eye-sickening glossy plastics inside oni with CF (and the metal palmrest because it gets kinda warm). For the lid I'll probably source some 3M automotive clear vinyl (like Invisible Shield, only for cars).

Or maybe get black brushed aluminium vinyl for the plastic parts AND CF for the palmrest. Hmmm, decisions, decisions.

I'm actually regretting peeling off the specs sticker. It was such an effective heat shield for my left palm. Now my palm feels warm when the GC gets to barely 60-70c. Ugh.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 08:26 PM

Wait later I put vinyl. Will look nice AND feel nice.

3M actually not THAT expensive. Large square grid of 3M CF pattern enough to cover Kancil bonnet is around 50-60. Other weird patterns like brushed alum and stuff will be like 70-80 at most, same size. Problem is, you'll have to have the patience to cut it and paste it yourself.

Or you can send to "laptop skinning" shops that prolly use substandard vinyl and charge you double that...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 5 2013, 11:44 PM

I must warn you first. My hands have ZERO artistic sense. So it might look horrible.

Well, even with *ehem* paste and my GPU hovering around 70c the palmrest still feels very warm. Problem is, the GPU is RIGHT underneath my left palm, with probably only a few millimeters of metal and plastic separating them. It's a non issue when I'm in an air conditioned room but otherwise it feels like the palmrest was designed to HELP the GPU vent heat, straight to my palm - rather than properly insulated to keep my palm cool.

The price you have to pay for having a nice, shiny brushed aluminum palmrest lol - especially one with a hardworking mid-range GPU right behind it.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 12:31 AM

Woah that's not half bad!

Do remember, MSI-NB nicely worded his reply. "MSI RECCOMENDS...". It was never "MSI WILL VOID WARRANTY UNLESS..."

Similarly, even our beloved Dell "recommends" all upgrades be done by Dell personnel. Illegear too.

I'll take that as a wink2 hush2 way of saying "As long as you don't poke a screwdriver clean through your processor..."

Remember, if MSI does officially condone user mods, all sorts of sheet will happen. WHILE the "sheet" can be worked out, I can understand if MSI doesn't want to be on the receiving end of abusive users taking advantage of that situation.

It's just a legal thing. They have their own asses to protect.

While I'd give an arm and a leg for a company that's brave enough to screw all of this and provide all that freedom OFFICIALLY to their customers, it's not particularly easy to fully implement.

Well, like I said before, as long as they "fairly" judge each warranty claim than it's all good.

ALSO, this "Gamers Meetup" thing might be a good platform to provide users with the opportunity to upgrade. Just take a few techs along and set up an "upgrade/quick service corner", users bring their stuff and the techs can help install them for a small fee (or even better, for free). Also the techs can help clean up user units that have dusty fans or help repaste for a reasonable fee.

Us gamers like these kinda "goodwill gestures". Especially the ones who aren't that proficient in doing things themselves. Does a lot on the CSR side of things. Happy customers are loyal customers after all.

Heck, I'm actually very happy just by having an OFFICIAL MSI rep monitoring the thread. That's already one thing you guys have over other brands, kudos.

That's just me with me long winded 20 cents as usual. YMMV.

@zakov: GS40? YES PLEASE MSI. But do wait for Maxwell first so that I don't have to sell my kidneys.

I already sold my liver for the GE40...

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 02:57 PM

@unseen83: I can only suggest maa. I don't want to be the one pulling my hair to implement lol. I lazy.

Twenty minute hack job. Total damage: RM25 for the CF Vinyl (still a lot left over also).

Next, the screen frame. It's a pain to DIY so I might go get some professional help.

@davidmak: It's not that it WOULDN'T work, it just MIGHT NOT work. Not all 1.5v RAM can run at 1.35v (because that's all Haswell is feeding our RAM with).

So MSI (like Asus) is trying to limit the amount of angry villagers with pitchforks banging on their front door when their 1.5v RAM refuses to work with their shiny new Haswell lappy.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 06:44 PM

I HATE the shiny black plastic underneath. Better crumpled protector than shiny cheapy plasticky plastic.

And no, my own vinyl work asso shoddy maa. Not straight cut everywhere, how can do for others?

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 06:49 PM

Didn't try gaming yet. Besides, I'm back at my folks = air conditioning. Sure won't notice anything.

Actually not 100% ngam. My inner perfectionist is SCREAMING but I know if I adjust summore it's just gonna get worse, so better not do anything.

Ended up covering the extremely shiny mouse pad button and the battery edge below the screen too. Now stopping completely before I start wanting to cover the spaces between the chiclet keyboard (which will be horrifically complicated).

But now everything looks extremely stealthy, if not a bit cliché with all the CF everywhere lol.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 07:27 PM

Hmm. Unless you are hellbent on getting MSI, why not the Illegear RS15 Lite? At least its Intel + 770. Sure you don't get the fun extras like a big adapter for future upgrades to a 780 or shiny colourful keyboard. But that 770 is serious business wooo.

Jusssayin.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 07:36 PM

Don't worry, not even going near the keyboard lol. It's just ridiculous.

Testing ME3 now, though I doubt I'm gonna feel anything with the air conditioning going on.

Plus I'm now thinking that this cheapo X-Lite II cooler (which I leave at my folks') ACTUALLY works better than the FUIYOOH U2 Plus. There's just so much air volume it's not funny anymore.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 08:31 PM

Problem is with the X-Lite (and everything else for that matter, save for the Deep Cool MultiCores) is that the single huge fan gives greatest air volume... to the center.

My GE40's bloody vents are at the front end lol.

Actually, the U1 fans are bloody good. It's a single fan for one USB connection and it's damn powerful (for such a small fan, that is). I use them stacked with the U2 Plus double fans, which don't even blow half the amount of air as the U1 single fan, even when you add them together. Plus it attaches fine to the U2.

Now thinking of buying another U1 fan from Thundermatch LYP, the ONLY place I know of selling them. They're cheap too.

Oh, and yeah the CF skin helps. Temps are about the same, after taking into account the colder AC air being circulated into the lappy. But the CF skin DOES helps moderate the heat to my palms.

Before it felt like I was putting my hand on a toaster. Now it just feels like someone's warm bum after an hour's worth of exercise...

The bummy heat lingers a bit longer though, due to the fact that it's not being conducted as efficiently to my palm. Maybe the engineers at MSI intended for the palmrest to serve as a secondary heatsink for the GPU, thinking "gamers will prolly use a gaming keyboard or a Nostromo... why not we...".



This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 09:44 PM

Actually, post *ehem* repaste *ehem* and also after turning Turbo Boost off, the WASD area (aka. the CPU) never feels even warm, much less the other parts of the laptop lol. Of course putting your hand just an inch over to the left side puts it right over the heatsink fins (read: WARMNESS), but the WASD area itself remains comfortable most of the time.

It's just the extremely hard working GPU and the area around it (dat palmrest).

Not that I didn't anticipate it happening. MSI DID stuff a 760 into a laptop an inch thin after all. I hear the Razer Blade is EVEN HOTTER at full load.

This post has been edited by Eiraku: Sep 6 2013, 10:33 PM