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The tests were performed in a controlled air conditioned room with temperatures maintained at a constant 23c – a comfortable environment for the majority of people reading this. Idle temperatures were measured after sitting at the desktop for 30 minutes. Load measurements were acquired by running Furmark and Cinebench together.
The cooling system is not as good as the one on board the Asus G74SX … as it was able to maintain 2630QM temperatures around 70c under load. The GT780DR averages around 10c higher at 82c. The motherboard also runs around 5 c hotter than the Asus G74SX machine, peaking at 52c.
We attached 5 diodes to the bottom of the machine and measured the results after 1 hour of Crysis 2 gaming.
The air vents are right above two of the heatpipes underneath and transfer the heat under the machine and to the left side (right above), close to position 1.
The hottest part of the machine is right underneath the fan system which cools both the processor and graphics card, via multiple heatpipes. It can get uncomfortable here with the machine resting on a lap, rising to 46c under extended load. Some of the heat will transfer across the top of the machine, due to the heatpipe positioning. Not the best machine to use on your knee for long periods of time.
I love the keyboard, steelseries involved? wow never would have expected that. nice move from MSI. £1,499 is a great price considering. Why drop the backlighting for UK however? second class citizens as usual?
I love the keyboard, steelseries involved? wow never would have expected that. nice move from MSI. £1,499 is a great price considering. Why drop the backlighting for UK however? second class citizens as usual?
Good looking machine. MSI make surprisingly good laptops. I like them as ASUS more than Dell etc. better spec for the price.
Lets not forget its £300 less than the ASUS too. Unless asus bring their new range prices down this year. I love the look of this, and im not botthered about a bit of noise.
Ordered this a few days ago, will gifve you my views when I get it hopefuylly friday.
The MSI GT780DXR-446US laptop has enough juice to kick BF3 up to ultra and power out native resolution of 1080p just beautifully without a stutter. Which is primarily what I wanted it to be able to do in terms of benchmarking (along with hopefully carry through the next 3 years of game releases). Bottom line, it is a monster of a mobile machine.. And I say this without even slight hesitation.
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