MSI's GT660 Gaming Notebook Gets Spec'd

[hot74rod2003]

i dont understand why someone would pay all that money for something to play games on that tiny screen??????

 

[sliem]

Someone who likes games and can't or don't have time to play on desktop.

 

[soo-nah-mee]

For the most part I just don’t get the whole “gaming” laptop thing. The ONLY practical reason I can think of for buying a high-end gaming laptop is if you travel constantly for work and you like to play games in your hotel room.

For the price of this crotch-scorching beast, you could build a really nice desktop rig with a 24” monitor that would SMOKE it. And you would have enough left over for a basic 14-15.5” laptop that would take care of your travel needs.

Need a gaming rig for LAN parties? Just be a man and shoulder an Antec 900 the 100 feet from your car to the venue. Make a second trip for the monitor. Boo-hoo.

 

[carlhenry]

[citation][nom]soo-nah-mee[/nom]For the most part I just don’t get the whole “gaming” laptop thing. The ONLY practical reason I can think of for buying a high-end gaming laptop is if you travel constantly for work and you like to play games in your hotel room.For the price of this crotch-scorching beast, you could build a really nice desktop rig with a 24” monitor that would SMOKE it. And you would have enough left over for a basic 14-15.5” laptop that would take care of your travel needs.Need a gaming rig for LAN parties? Just be a man and shoulder an Antec 900 the 100 feet from your car to the venue. Make a second trip for the monitor. Boo-hoo.[/citation]

i'd prefer this rather than bringing a whole rig... ohhh the cables! the horror! the horror!!!! seriously it'll be a pain bringing a full atx at LAN parties (imo).

 

[frozentundra123456]

Like I said in my post earlier, a gaming laptop makes sense to me if you arent a "hardcore" gamer and value occasional portability more than high end graphics. However, I would agree that only a realtively "basic" gaming laptop in the 1000-1500 dollar range makes sense. This allows you to play almost any game out today at moderate settings and still take the laptop with you. I dont see the point of super-expensive gaming laptops though.

 

[zeroabg]

[citation][nom]Maxor127[/nom]Gaming notebook. Ha. One of the funniest contradictions. Whenever someone tells me they bought one, I just shake my head sadly. I could probably put together a real gaming desktop machine AND buy an affordable but useful notebook for a lot less.[/citation]

Considering this has to be what at least 1500-2000? And having recently built an amd phenom 955 setup with a 9800gtx (for about 650, had to get the mini p180 its just beautiful) and bought a core i5 5650 laptop from the egg (also 700) i'd have to agree.

 

[Guest]

I have one of the "gaming laptops" Max rags on so much, an ASUS G50V which is abt 2 years old and I'm still able to play just about every game on it. I paid around 1300 for it and being military its much easier than a desktop to move around. Currently playing BC2 on it at 1680x1050 with high graphics multiplayer w/o a problem

 

[jerreece]

which doubles the CPU, RAM, and graphics performance with the push of a button

Marketing B.S. quite frankly. Even a 100% overclock doesn't necessarily equal double (100%) performance gains. And we all know there's no way they're putting a 100% OC on any of those components. So saying it "doubles" performance is a flat out marketing lie.

But who knows what 'data' they use to claim "double".

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]HavocMI[/nom]I have one of the "gaming laptops" Max rags on so much, an ASUS G50V which is abt 2 years old ,...[/citation]

The best looking laptop in the world! The amazing orange trim! I have 1 too.It is too bad quad core is impossible with it.

 

[falchard]

It could be double the performance at a push of the button if the laptop turns off cores, memory, and switches to IGP when not pushed.

 

[athreex]

[citation][nom]DoofusOfDeath[/nom]My Dell Precision M6500 has had a similar configuration and came out almost 6 months ago. I paid just $3000 for it, with a fantastic warranty as well.[/citation]

I hope they gave you like 10 year warranty cause plus a Dell technician that sleeps with you as well, cause....Damn !! $3,000


[citation][nom]qwoz[/nom]"which doubles the CPU, RAM, and graphics performance with the push of a button."[/citation]

I don't know if anyone notices it, but this part of the article seems a little bit confusing. If I wasn't aware or didn't have any knowledge on PCs, I had imagined ...(with the push of a button)..you go from 6 Gb to 12 GB, then from a 3 Ghz to 6 Ghz and from a GTX 285M to a 480M.

 

[stephen0983]

i'm getting MSI's gx740. 5870 mobility and 1650x1050 on a 17" with i7.

 

[Guest]

I just have to laugh at some of these comments, its hilarious... ASUS offers almost identical software on their gaming laptops, look at the g71 and models similar. They all have over clocking technology. The laptops run at a standard configuration that would come just like in a desktop pc you build yourself. The overclocking is increasing the frequencies that the transistors can handle, most hardware is capable of some overclocking with minimal damage, in the case of the new I7 chips they can actually overclock a chip fairly high with out premature ware. If any of you people know anything about msi is that they have always offered amazingly fast graphics cards with overclocking on them and still cover it under warranty, Asus offers very similar features on their cards as well. Two companies that don't cheap out on their products like dell, hp, sony, acer, and many others. To all the people building gaming desktops for around $1200-$1600 im going to laugh again... that must be a very cheap low end gaming pc then... a decent gaming rig should range about 2200-3000 with good case and high end overclockable parts and fast ram and cpu.

 

[soo-nah-mee]

[citation][nom]Fuoman[/nom]To all the people building gaming desktops for around $1200-$1600 im going to laugh again... that must be a very cheap low end gaming pc then... a decent gaming rig should range about 2200-3000 with good case and high end overclockable parts and fast ram and cpu.[/citation]I'm laughing at you.

Antec 900 case - $100
Corsair 650w PSU - $80
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black CPU - $180
Asus Crosshair IV mobo - $230
Xigmatek S1283 CPU cooler - $35
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 4GB (2x2GB) - $100
WD Caviar Black 1TB HDD – $95
Optical Drive - $30
Radeon HD 5870 - $390
Aftermarket GPU cooler - $40
Windows 7 - $90

Total cost $1370

...and if you say this is low end, you are clueless.

 

[Guest]

Its about lifestyles...I gotta killer rig at home, hooked up to a 24" FHD LED monitor, but I really can't take that to work can I? Gotta Asus G73 for $1199 with a ATI 5870 which can pretty much smoke any current gen games out there, and still look (and run) a lot cooler than any desktop ever will. In addition, the bridge in performance between laptop and desktops are closing in. With a SSD in there, the rig scores a 7.0 in WEI, and plays GTAIV with everything at very high without a hitch, all of that while I'm on my lunch break! can't beat that!