MSI GT70 2OC Gaming Notebook

Our review sample machine had underwent some internal ‘testing' before it reached us, so it is quite difficult to work out what will be installed for the customer. In the interests of being completely transparent however we have shown the machine above, exactly as we got it. We never like seeing Norton software preinstalled as it is really has turned into a monstrous bit of bloatware over the years.


An overview of the hardware in CPUz and GPUz. The system is using the Intel Core i7 4700MQ processor. This processor is clocked at 2.4ghz with a maximum turbo speed of 3.4ghz. You can get detailed information on this processor, over here. MSI have installed 8GB of DDR3 memory, clocked at 1,600mhz with timings of 11-11-11-28 1T. MSI have opted for a single 8GB stick, rather than 2 x 4GB sticks, which means it will be running in single channel mode. The reasoning behind this is that the customer can upgrade the memory to 16GB without having to ditch the memory already in the machine.

The Nvidia GTX770M is clocked at 706mhz and has 24 ROPs, 80 Texture Units and 960 Cuda Cores. The 3GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,002mhz  (4Gbps effective) and is connected across a 192 bit memory interface.

You can get validation on the system, over here.

Comparison Systems (for specific synthetic test compares):
MSI GS70 2OD Stealth (Intel Core i7 4700HQ)
MSI GE40-20C Dragon Eyes (Intel Core i7 4702MQ)
PCSpecialist Inferno 11.6 inch (Intel Core i7 3630QM)
MSI GX60 (AMD A10 4600M)
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (featuring Core i5 3427U)
Lenovo ThinkPad Edge S430 (featuring Core i5 3210M)
PC Specialist Vortex III HD72 (featuring Core i7 3610QM).
Asus G74SX-91013Z (featuring Core i7 2360QM).
Dell XPS 14z (featuring Core i7 2640M).
AlienWare M18X (featuring Core i7 2960XM Extreme Edition).
MSI CX640 (featuring Core i5 2410M).
Intel Core i7 2600k desktop processor.
Intel Core i5 2500k desktop processor.

Software:
3DMark Vantage
3DMark
3DMark 11
PCMark 7
Cinebench 11.5 64 bit
FRAPS Professional
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Unigine Valley
SiSoft Sandra
CrystalDiskMark
ATTO Disk Benchmark
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 12
Cyberlink MediaEspresso
GRID 2
Total War ROME 2
Batman Arkham Origins
Battlefield 4

Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Asus USB BluRay Drive
Lacie 730 Monitor (Image Quality testing)
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Nikon D3X with R1C1 Kit (4 flashes), Nikon 24-70MM lens.

Game descriptions are taken with courtesy from Wikipedia.

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