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cormachcormach Member UncommonPosts: 106
in Hardware

I'm looking at getting an MSI GT680R in the near future. I have no experience with MSI at all, and was wondering what other peoples experiences have been. I've done some research, and most people seem to be pretty happy, unless their laptop has the 5870 graphics card, and those seem to be a little buggy.

I've also looked at Asus and Toshiba Qosmio, but don't really care for the style of Asus (so far), and the Toshiba seems a little too big.

 

Thank!

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

    That laptop has likely been yanked off the market as part of the Sandy Bridge recall.

    It's hard to get a fast enough processor for gaming into a laptop, so if you want a gaming laptop, you really should wait for Sandy Bridge to re-emerge.  Or on a tighter budget, perhaps Llano, which will give passable but not great gaming performance, but without the overheating problems that have previously been intrinsic to gaming laptops.

  • cormachcormach Member UncommonPosts: 106

    I thought that only applied to the P67? Is all Sandy Bridge mobos?

  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

    It's the SATA 2 controller in all Sandy Bridge chipsets.  It's conceivable that a laptop that only uses two SATA ports will use the two SATA 3 ports and not even put the SATA 2 ports on the motherboard, and those might come back to market pretty quickly.  But for now, it's easier to decline to sell a product than to go ahead and sell it and have to replace it later.

    Note that Nvidia video cards tend to trail significantly behind AMD video cards in performance per watt right now.  That means that with an Nvidia card, the laptop will run significantly hotter to deliver the same performance, and that can be a problem.  The only real reason to consider an Nvidia card for a gaming laptop right now is if you want the Optimus switchable graphics so that the video card can turn off entirely and run off of the Intel integrated graphics while you're not gaming.  That can greatly improve the battery life, but that doesn't matter in a lot of gaming laptops.

  • thinktank001thinktank001 Member UncommonPosts: 2,144

    I wouldn't even consider picking up a gaming laptop after my buying my e1705 from dell.   However, if you absolutely must have one then I would suggest picking up some kind of cooling unit, or an extra year on the warranty.   I am so glad I did, since my nvidia card crapped out just before the extended warranty ran out, and the replacement unit did also. 

  • duelkoreduelkore Member Posts: 228

    Would like to comment on MSI as a laptop vendor, not the issue of a gaming laptop.  I have personally sold MSI for a couple years to customers and own an MSI laptop.  I have never had an MSI laptop comeback for hardware repair.... unless a customer breaks the screen or power jack.  Do not mistreat a power jack on any make or model laptop.   They are solid and smartly designed.  It is quite easy to remove the cpu heatsink and clean. That is a common issue with laptop, cleaning the fans.  IT is also quite easy to access the hard drive and ram slots on MSI. 

    Now, a gaming laptop discussion is something I wont chime in on, but MSI makes a laptop that I have owned and serviced for a while and never had any issues with (nor dumbass customers).

  • cormachcormach Member UncommonPosts: 106

    Duelkore, thanks a lot! That was what I was looking for.

    I've already got a 4 1/2 year old Dell, and don't plan on buying any kind of Dell in the future.

  • wallet113wallet113 Member Posts: 231

    I own a Asus G73JH and I can pretty much play any games out there.

    Intel  i7 Q 740 1.83 Ghz, ATI Mob. Radeon HD5870 1 GB, 8 GB of RAM, Intel SSD 80 Gig (OS drive), WD 350 Gig HD (storage), windows 7 (x64)

     

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