Just bought a new gaming laptop and was wondering if anyone knew how it will preform with the new MMO's coming out in the next few years.
Specs: MSI
| GS70 StealthPro-212 |
| • | Windows 8.1 | | • | Intel® Core™ i7-4700HQ Processor | | • | 17.3" Full HD Anti-Reflective Display (1920x1080; 16:9) | | • | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 870M 6G GDDR5 | | • | Matrix Multi-Monitor Display Support | | • | Dual Fan Thermal Cooling | | • | Full Color Programmable Backlit Keyboard by SteelSeries | | • | Super RAID 2 (128GB SSD x 3; RAID 0) + 1TB HDD (7200RPM) | | • | 16GB DDR3L 1600MHz System Memory | | • | Killer™ E2200 Game Networking | | • | Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 | | • | USB 3.0 x 4 | | • | HDMI, mDP x 2 | | • | Built-in 720p HD Webcam | | • | World-Class Dynaudio Premium Speakers | | • | Audio Boost Technology | |
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looks good bud ... enjoy
i just did one of these liking it alot
http://www.asus.com/ROG_ROG/ASUS_ROG_G750JW/
May I recommend asking for advice before buying something rather than after?
In this case, it will be a nice gaming laptop. The only glaring flaw is three SSDs in RAID 0. If any one of the three has trouble, your data is gone--all of it, including that which is on the other two SSDs, though the hard drive data will be fine. I can't think of any good reason to get RAID 0 in a laptop; a single good SSD is so fast that RAID 0 doesn't offer any meaningful real-world benefits for most consumer uses. RAID 0 can still make sense for storing massive amounts of data very quickly, e.g., recording uncompressed video, but that's about it.
As for a price tag, I tried pricing out something analogous here (with a single 500 GB SSD), and it came out about $200 cheaper than what you paid:
http://www.xoticpc.com/force-1763-22069-870m-msi-gt70-dominator-barebones-p-7176.html?wconfigure=yes
I love these "I just bought this, how is it" threads.
They are almost as good as the "How will this last for games that aren't out yet and no one can possibly have any idea?" threads.
This one is a two-fer.
Good buy. I have been laptop gaming for a few years now due to traveling so much for work. I started laptop gaming with something that had a 2gb 550m. It got the job done for about 2 years. About a year ago it crashed and went to something very similar to yours except the GPU is a GTX 765m, and I was so surprised I could run games like Skyrim on ultra, SWTOR on max settings, etc. Next time I get a gaming lapop, I've definitely got with at least a GPU that ends with a 70m or higher, i.e. 770m, 870m, etc. I know if I would've went from a 765m to a 770m, it would've given me about 15-20% more gpu power. But hind sight is 20/20.
But yeah, all that to say, good buy. Will never be as good as a desktop for the same price, but in instances like my situationwhere traveling is part of life, it's a great buy imo.
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Now that I have a look at the site, one thing that would scare me some is that they advertise how thin it is. Thin means not much space for heatsinks, which makes cooling it much harder. You're going to have to be very careful about cleaning dust out and not covering any vents at all while it's in use.
When you're looking to spend $2000+ on a potent gaming laptop, I'd argue that "reliably keeps cool" ought to take precedence over thin and light; I would not be surprised at all if heavy gaming loads routinely force clock speeds to throttle back before long. 0.85" is awfully thin for a higher end gaming laptop; it's much, much easier to dissipate the sort of heat that gaming laptops put out if you make it 1.2" thick or so.
Nice laptop, MSI has been doing a great job on Laptops the last 3 years. But you have to remember these laptops are meant to be plugged into a wall most of the time. The battery on these will drain incredibly fast.
I would not worry about the SSDs in Raid0. Just means you don't have to think about loading times.
The issue I see is that you got the 2k display instead of the 3k display. I think its around that price range where MSI starts offering 3k displays.