MSI GT72 2PE Dominator Pro (072UK) Review

There is a lot of software installed ‘out of the box' although to be fair most of it is relevant to the hardware in the GT72 2PE Dominator Pro. I was however a little disappointed to see Norton software installed – I would prefer the option to install my own anti virus software. I admit I deinstalled this software before running any tests as it kept popping up reminders to register or pay for it. I also consider Norton software to be a resource hog.

An overview of the hardware in CPUz and GPUz. You can get an overview of the system from our link, here. The 32GB of DDR1600 memory is running at 11-11-11-28-2T timings. The Nvidia GTX880M is a powerful mobile discrete graphics card – it is built on the 28nm process and has 1,536 CUDA cores, 32 ROPs and 128 Texture units. The massive 8GB of GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,250mhz (5Gbps effective) and is connected via a 256 bit memory interface.

Comparison Systems (for specific synthetic test compares):
MSI GS60 2PE Ghost Pro 15.6 inch (Intel I7-4700HQ).
MSI GT70 2OC (Intel Core i7 4700MQ).
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 11
3DMark
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
Cinebench R15 64 bit
FRAPS Professional
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Unigine Valley
SiSoft Sandra
CrystalDiskMark
ATTO Disk Benchmark
Cyberlink PowerDVD Ultra 12
Cyberlink MediaEspresso
GRID AutoSport (Direct X 11)
Tomb Raider (Direct X 11)
Total War: Rome 2 (Direct X 11)
Wolfenstein The New Order (Direct X 11)
Thief (Direct X 11)

Technical Monitoring and Test Equipment:
Asus USB BluRay Drive
Thermal Diodes
Raytek Laser Temp Gun 3i LSRC/MT4 Mini Temp
Extech digital sound level meter & SkyTronic DSL 2 Digital Sound Level Meter
Fuji XT-1 with 18-50mm lens and Sony RX100.

Game descriptions are edited with courtesy from Wikipedia.

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