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We measure power demand at the socket with a calibrated meter.
We measure under four test states.
Idle – resting in Windows with 0% CPU and GPU load.
Media – watching 4K videos on YouTube.
Gaming – playing Rise Of The Tomb Raider at 4k with all the settings maxed.
Synthetic load – stressed in Furmark and Cinebench R15.
At idle we measured around 100 Watts load. This quickly rises to between 150 and 350 Watts when performing general tasks such as watching high definition video files. When gaming, the power demand rises to between 400 and 500 Watts. Under synthetic forced conditions, we measured power consumption at a whopping 583 Watts.
Don’t buy MSI until they have fixed the issues with the GT72 and GT80: Read more: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/gt72-gt72s-and-gt80-gt80s-owners-gpu-upgrade-discussion.795236/ and here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18746748
That’s really pathetic!
What is pathetic?
What MSI has done and then the way they’ve responded.
Yep. My GT72 is not upgradable like MSI advertised.
You have the GTX 880M? Has anyone attempted at placing eurocom’s MXM maxwells in there?
You have the GTX 880M? Has anyone attempted at placing eurocom’s MXM maxwells in there?
Seems like the GT83VR is a step down from even the GT73VR lol. Raid 0 instead of Super Raid 4. No 120 Htz display, no 4K or turbo mode.
Not even G-Sync from my understanding according to MSI support. So what exactly are you paying extra for here?
Doesn’t seem like you’re getting much of anything here. Other than the two GTX 1080. Not worth as i think might just go back to Asus. Wait for their new GX800 to come out.