MSI GX660R Laptop Review
Gaming and Temperatures
Published: 5th March 2011 | Source: MSI | Price: £1099 |
Games
For our gaming we used 4x anti-aliasing and maximum settings on every test but Crysis which was the 0xAA Gamer settings we normally use. However if you were to use 0AA and 1920x1080 the frames stay at a minimum of 25 and average around the mid 30's. Lets remember this is a laptop and not a 5850 in a basic desktop!
It would be easy to leap upon the Metro 2033 or AvP results as being very poor but they are, as we saw on the previous page, consistently about half of what we'd expect from our bench system with twice the cores and all the power available it wishes to suck out the wall. So if you've got sensible expectations, and of course you could tweak your IQ rather than run at the high levels we have here, then the GX660R certainly can game with the best of them.
Black Ops on the train with hardcore pumping audio anybody? Thought so.
Temperatures and Battery Life
Anyone who has suffered with a poorly-cooled laptop will know how ludicrously hot they can get. The few models that have focussed on keeping temperatures under control usually do so by giving you a screaming 40mm fan that makes dogs whine and your ears bleed.
MSI have given us a choice. We can have the peace and quiet of the standard cooling, or if we're in a particularly intense situation there is a extra fan that can be used to keep things cool and the obvious expense of a bit of extra noise pollution.
It's clear that the fan does its job keeping everything considerably more under thermal control than without.
Energy is, as we all know, converted to heat. Despite the rather substantial specifications of the GX660R the battery life is much better than we anticipated. We had a joke in the office that gaming in the background of the review video would probably mean the laptop died before the video was finished but actually you can play Crysis Warhead solidly for an hour and a half from a full charge, which is hugely impressive.
More normal use should see five or six hours from a full charge. Again you have to remember the amount of oomph under the hood and this is certainly better than a lot of laptops that are considered portable only because the charger doesn't weigh too much.
Most Recent Comments
the keybard is very similar to my two brothers' lappies.
they have a Sony VAIO F12 MOE/B Intel I7-740QM and a Sony VAIO VPCF21Z1E/BI Intel i7-2630QM.
Its nothing short of epic IMHO
how heavy is it?
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
TBH fellas for £1000 theres nothing on the markets that comes close in all the areas this ones does tbh. Its nothing short of epic IMHO |
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-msi-gx660r-i5-460m-253gh-6gb-ddr3-1tb-hdd-r0-ati-r5870-1gb-supermult-wifi-n-bt-wcam-9c-w7
This beats other manufacterers in many areas: including external appearance and internal specifications.
Good review OC3D...and a great laptop worthy of the OC3D gold award!
lol, Tom at around 25:50 I thought you had some special needs
I have a question for you!
How do you do the benchmark for Black Ops? Is there any tool?
Thanks (;
the way most game benchmarks are done are like this:
get hold of a copy of FRAPS here
then find a point in the game that has alot of AI, physics, particle systems, or volumetric lighting
create a save point
then,
run the game, from the same save point, with various settings and/or overclocking the graphics card(s), for the same amount of time.
you will be looking for lowest FPS and highest FPS (frames per second) during this time. the average is the two numbers added together and divided by 2.
nobody is perfect at this type of benching, it is only supposed to be a guide and a comparison
sure... you can move. it is best to. just try and do the same moves for each test. but, remember this: it is hard to keep track of the FPSs when you are doing TOO much moving about and stuff
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
TBH fellas for £1000 theres nothing on the markets that comes close in all the areas this ones does tbh. Its nothing short of epic IMHO |
http://www.pcpro.co....on-erazer-x6811
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Originally Posted by mgally
Have you seen this Tom, granted not as good quality chasis as the MSI but plenty of bang for buck http://www.pcpro.co....on-erazer-x6811 |
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Originally Posted by steve30x
The specs on that laptop arent near as good. The screen resolution is 1366 x 768 and its only got 4GB of ram , Its only got one HDD and the sound isnt as good. I would much rather the MSI becauyse it looks better and is much better. The only thing I would change is the graphics card. |
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