Illegear warehouse in Kluang, Johor. Office in Singapore. You can contact @PrinceJ for details.

MSI service center can be referred to link below:

http://my.msi.com/service/msinewmap/


Edit: Name your PC shop boss on Lenovo lowyat thread, he dont need to do business anymore Y510p is not crap, in fact it is the most selling gaming unit in Malaysia (personal opinion) due to affordable (RM3999) and valuable (120% of GTX770M). Because of dual GPU, it will suffer driver issue (games compatible), micro-stuttering issue (I really dont know what), heat issue (current design need to be improved further).

This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 27 2014, 11:25 AM

Typical seller who follow angin , basically I dont trust what seller say, unless those who are really know about laptops.

A good guide for you is look at the units you want to buy, "molest" them until you satisfy. DO remember there is always a trade off in selecting laptop (good overall features, weak support or vice versa). Unless you are rich enough to go for Alienware. Ask yourself can you accept the tradeoff and which things you MUST have. Then easily you will find yourself which laptop you want to buy. You can start with your budget first, it is like buying a car.

For my case:

budget <RM6k (more than that really bankrupt)
overall features>support (at least not too bad, I can wait for few days when claim warranty)
high settings gaming performance (at least GTX770M, GTX780M too expensive)
I7 (4700MQ is okay and 2 yrs later I still can use for rendering)
decent cooling performance (this one is a MUST)
ram (8GB is enough, may be upgrade to 16GB in future)
SSD or HDD (prefer HDD 750GB or 1TB, MUST 7200 rpm if for 1TB, SSD currently still not too affordable)
2.1 built-in speaker (my Dell is 2.1 so I MUST have 2.1 for my next)
15.6" or 17" (I choose 17" bcs audio jack is on left while 15.6" is on right, MUST on left for my Senn can)
Weight (total weight < 6kg, save time for gym)
Sound card and driver (laptop built in always inferior to external, luckily ALC892 is not that bad and Creative SBC also do job well)
Screen (MUST matte or non-glossy, as long as I dont see my mirror then okay)
keyboard (when you spend something expensive, MUST make it backlit, SS keystorke is decent)
touchpad (MUST be good sensitivity and touch experience, though you can use external mouse, but there is always a situation you will use touchpad in future)
PSU and battery life (MUST 180W due to I7 + GTX770M and 3 hr normal use is enough)
maintenance (MUST be easy access to ram, hdd, gpu, cpu, fan)

GPU kick in indicator

white: intel gpu kick in
red: nvidia gpu kick in

Correct, it is Nvidia Optimus, if you go to Nvidia Control Panel, you will see both intel and Nvidia GPU plus another "auto select" options. Default is auto-select.

For me, if you own GT70, it will not gonna help a lot.

But if you own GE40 (battery can tahan 5 hrs), you may need it.

Actually, Nvidia gpu will use a lot resource only you run heavy task (gaming), normal use such as listening song, surfing wont use that much resource

If you use battery, just make sure you disable some unnecesary programs and go for power saver mode, this can save a lot power too. But all this based on assumption that you dont gaming using battery.


If I am not mistaken, ASUS G750JX dun have it either.

Now the driver is very stable, but annoying for me the light keep changing from white-red-white red, i just use Nvidia GPU as default, settle

MSI is a little special, it has the feature called NOS, which draws power from battery under extreme heavy load condition where exceeding the limit of PSU (say PSU is 120W, but system requires 130W, so 10W is drawn from battery)

Of course, if you have AC so you can detach battery unless you want to activate NOS

Quote from MSI GT intro:

Automatically apply more power to boost CPU and Graphics performance!


NOS is the MSI unique feature to use Hybrid Power design, combined with CPU Boost from Intel, GPU Boost from NVIDIA graphics and Cooler Boost 2 from MSI special design, this feature could brings much more performance enhancements to over 10% or even more.
On MSI GT series gaming notebooks, when the system total usage power is over the maxima limitation of 180W adaptor supply, NOS will auto turn on automatically to apply more currents and watts to support GPU to keep the boost work. It could let user get 10% more benefits on benchmarks and gaming performance.
When the battery capacity is less than 30% or the power consumption of system request goes under the maxima limitation of 180W, system will turn off the NOS automatically and back to normal mode.


This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 28 2014, 10:56 AM

I would say battery quality varies with everyone, good practise is always detach or disable charging when full charge or not in use.

I have DELL, my battery worn out 40% after 4 years, I was quite lucky with the battery. Normally for battery, warranty is 1 yr, so after 1 yr, pls take care.

If you want to check worn out %, you can install a software called CPUID HWmonitor, it can measure temperature too for CPU, GPU, motherboard, HDD

This post has been edited by shin2l: Jan 28 2014, 11:04 AM

depends on the person who do the upgrade job.

you - void
authorized msi seller - pass
msi service center - pass
other than above - void

MSI does have, but not sure your model has or not.

There is a screen turn off function on G panel

If you download a lot of large files (800MB~above), normally take whole day (6 hrs~above, tested with my DELL 1555 and GT70)

Oh, if you look at the update history then you will know what exactly updates you download.

usually "security update", "framework", check whether you install Microsoft office or not, much longer

Happy Chinese New Year

Yes, Malaysia GP60 is equipped with 64bit variant of GT740M (someone ask before)

You can confirm by yourself to look at demo set (Nvidia control panel)

Also, you can consider Z510 (I5 + GT740M) also

Hmmm, I am not sure about that. Specifically, it is not throttled down but limited performance compared to 128 bit version.

You can find all the model with GT740M using ctrl + F in lowyat catalogue v4, then look for notebookcheck review for GPU-Z snapshot.

You are welcome, which model is with 128bit gt740M? (curious to know)

The fastest way is look on demo set either at lowyat plaza or digital mall, then go to nvidia panel to find out, but high possibility is 64 bit variant for gt740m of GP60 2OD 475MY

If the seller only sell sealed box, so there is no chance to crop GPU-z image, may be their customer can help.

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@astria

during old time your GTX570M is fermi based right? Is this the same chasis as GT60/70?

I also want to upgrade to SSD in future, so come to learn something.

Based on my google research, you can either swap original HDD to SSD OR install another SSD/msata SSD on the msata SSD bay.

You can refer to the picture attached before you send to MSI authorized shop/service center to upgrade


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look at the snapshot


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GT70 2OC

Then your electricity bill shoots up gao gao, want better cooling from MSI, only GT series can do that, but not for mobile user.