LoL..

Eiraku will never let that experience with his adapters go...

Do batteries really cost that much? RM 500?

Also, while batteries costs RM 500 and adapter costs RM 100... the headache and time spent on friend adapters = priceless

There are some things money can't buy.. for others, there's Master Card.

OMG I am so sorry!

Been so busy lately. I'll PM you tonight on that!

A thousand forgiveness!

Hey guys.

How many of you over here are using the MSI GS70 Stealth here? The missus wants that laptop (that's more powerful than mine... yes... lol).

Basically, what I want to know is, with the GS70, the basic HDD model, has anyone opened the bottom cover before? I just want to know what is the configuration there. Does it come with two SATA slots or what.

Thanks!

LoL.. Yeah, he would be more likely to have one opened before.. geek's porn.. LOL.. the insides of a laptop!

Enjoy your porn.



To any GS70 owners out there, especially those who purchased the HDD edition only.

Is yours anything like what is in the photo above in the spoiler?

What it shows is a standard SATA, and two mSATA directly on the motherboard.

I am just wondering if the HDD version only has the mSATA slots or not.

Edit:
I added a pdf of a disassembly guide for the GS70.

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The 2 SSD slots = mSATA, which is located above the Crucial SSD.

I just needed to confirm if the HDD version came with the mSATA ports or not, since I went to some shop last night that called up MSI and said need to bring in to have a special mSATA board installed and all. =\..

Edit:
Here's another picture, courtesy of zzloo.

For this one, there's only one mSATA SSD installed in additional to the standard SATA HDD.



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Sounds good!

Thanks!

Very subjective. Notebook is very compromising when it comes for gaming. For me 90% of my gaming is done on the desktop. The GE40 is just the portable compromised machine. LOL

These powerhouse are still useful.. when on the move and stuff.. and especially small machines such as the GE40 or the GS70 that packs a punch.. I always find the response from friends/colleagues fascinating, how they would be surprised that a small light machine can boot up and play Skyrim Ultra etc... LOL

On both.

What it uses is RAID 0, where it will treat 2 or more drives to be like one.

If you want to upgrade, you will need to upgrade 2 x SSD of the same size.

So currently it comes with128GB, consisting of 2 x 64GB mSATA SSD.

If you want 256GB in RAID 0 setup, you'll need to get 2 x 128GB mSATA SSD.

And so on and so forth.

It's one of those where some gets it others don't. There's a video on YouTube currently with a guy replicating the issue on his Shift key, complaining about Newegg.com etc.

Usually opening the keys and fiddling around with the retainer clips and/or metal holder etc can solve it. Fix it at your own risk. LOL. Any slight angle variation can cause undesired results, especially with long keys that can warp shape easily like the space bar.

No worries.

Do enjoy your machine, it's pretty good. The only grip I can say about it is.. the foot print is much larger than most standard 17" (as they had to make it thin and what not), so finding a bag/back pack that fits is a little more challenging as they don't make as many 17" bag/back packs like TicTacs anyway, and that the numeric pad's keys are smaller than the other keys on the keyboard, so it takes some getting used to.

Eiraku,

Just to wake you up from the dead with regards to this thread. ..

LOL

Planning to change from the current Azurewave crap.. I am planning to get a bluetooth mouse.. and we all know how this Azurewave thingy has bad drop out and connection issues with bluetooth active at the same time.. so yeah..

What are you currently having in your GE40? Still using bluetooth + wifi on it simultaneously?

Also, with regarding to MSI supplying 90w adapter for a 130w sucking machine, it's not an oversight. It was intended. Just that they didn't put a warning that's all. I remember reading somewhere about how MSI, to keep the weigh down on their lighter portable machines, they will provide with smaller adapters and will use the battery + adapter to source the power as and when the machine needs it.

What are you deciding between?

Heat under gaming is not too bad as long as you're in a well ventilated and air conditioned place. It does get warm when you're rendering/processing images/videos for long period. I know I had mine hit 90+ then. But under gaming it rarely passes 80.

Alternatively you get a notebook cooler to help with the airflow, and also remember to reapply a good paste as well for the CPU/GPU. MSI put too much.

Hmm..

I know my GE40's CPU does give out whining sounds when under load.. not the FAN.. But for me that was really faint and can only be heard with a really quiet room (no aircond/fan/music/etc).

I bought my GE40 back in July and it was mentioned a few times there? LOL

But then remember that shipping is quite expensive though. I got freaking lucky that mine was USD 50 for FedEx.. it's usually about USD 150-200+ generally. So you may not save much.

Hmm?

I purchased my GE40 from the USA for USD 1,347.88 with no issues at all. It came in via FedEx, with the full price and content declared...

Just an update for whoever is looking for the GE40.



Picked up the GE40-20C 290MY which comes with FullHD screen.

I just calibrated and tested the screen. The screen on the standard 1600x900 model had 68% sRGB gamut, the new FullHD screen has 99% sRGB gamut, as well as much better viewing angles.

So make sure to pick up the FullHD model if possible. Unfortunately I didn't do a full test on the old screen, so I can't comment on the difference with contrast/brightness etc.

But a big thumbs-up on the improvement.

Just a quick update on the GE40's screen between the FullHD 1920x1080 model and the standard 1600x1080 model.

In additional to having a much better colour gamut (99% sRGB vs the 68% sRGB on the standard screen), the viewing angles are also much much better. I'll take some viewing angles shots and try to upload them by the end of the week.

Further update. 1920x1080's screen for the GE40 is at 240 cd/m2 versus the reported 120+/- of the original 1600x900 screen.

Come to the dark side (or bright side)... come~ come~~

68% sRGB on the 1600x900 vs the 99% sRGB on the 1920x1080...

Also.. the viewing angle is absolutely crazy! Absolutely no colour shift AT ALL at the extreme angles for both vertical and horizontal! There's still contrast/brightness shift, but at the very extreme levels... Hehe........... poison~ poison~