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KitGuru were the first to bring you videos and information on the upcoming flagship MSI GT80 Titan and today we are able to show you a few internal pictures of the pre-retail sample that we looked at way back in December. We hope to bring you a full indepth review in the coming weeks.
The interest in the new high end MSI GT80 Titan laptop is phenomenal, while the sheer physical size of the desktop replacement can split opinion, there is no argument over the insane level of hardware that is inside the case.
Open the high resolution images below.
Previous articles on the MSI GT80 Titan Gaming laptop are available here, here and here. Watch our full GT80 Titan video ‘preview' from late December over here.
It is important we point out that the MSI GT80 Titan featured on this page is not the final retail version, although it is unlikely the layout or cooling will change.
We can see two large fans on either side of the chassis which are in place above heatsinks to cool the Nvidia discrete graphics cards (Nvidia GTX980m). A bridge cable runs between both graphics cards. In between these graphics cards is the processor – cooled by a separate heatsink. MSI have assured us that the highest end Intel Extreme Edition processor will be an option for this system. Two thick heatpipes run from the processor along the length of the chassis and are cooled by the fans on either side. An additional speaker is positioned just below the heatpipes on one side of the chassis.
This is a serious cooling system comprising 8 thick heatpipes, and we admire the attention to detail on the build quality. We would have liked to see the PCB finished in black rather than green, to match the heatsinks and heatpipes above – however most customers are unlikely to ever look inside the chassis in the first place. Perhaps the final retail version may have a new black board in place.
As this is a pre-retail version of the MSI GT80 Titan, we didn't disconnect the additional cover to take a look at the mechanical keyboard for further analysis. MSI only had one sample and it was needed for CES, so time was also limited. We will have a closer look at the internals when we get a sample of the full retail unit for review.
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Kitguru says: If you want more information on the MSI GT80 Titan check back close to the end of January, and we will hopefully have a full review published by then.
The hardware is amazing yes, but does a 1080p screen take advantage of it? Not even close! You would only even need a single 970m to max out mere 1080p graphics, two 980’s is complete overkill
well i am sure it is easy to plug in a different monitor if you want better than 1080p
Try playing some more demanding modern games maxed out at 1080p
and keep 60fps with a single 970m or even 980m. No chance. Even the far more powerful desktop GPU’s struggle.
Which ‘far more powerful desktop GPU’s struggle’ at 1080/60hz? I can’t think of any that struggle with any maxed out modern games at 1080…
Check some GPU reviews for benchmarks maxed details and aa.
Assassins creed unity is the latest pig. Crysis 3 is another hog.
And no doubt the witcher 3 is going to be a power pig. These mobile GPU’S are not on the same level as the desktop couterparts.
Nvidia have got this mobile chip to around 75% of the performance of the desktop 980, so there aren’t actually a lot of desktop cards that are even considered ‘far more powerful’.
Assassin’s Creed is from Ubisoft anyway, so it’s buggy as fuck and poorly optimised, but Crysis gets 88fps on 970 and 95fps on a 980 with AA at 1080. 75% of those scores is 66fps and 71fps respectively. I wouldn’t call that struggling.
Where are you seeing these benchmarks James. None of the big tech sites gpu reviews seem to back what you are saying and as i use an overclocked GTX 780 myself (faster than a 980m) i can confirm your numbers are way off
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph8526/67724.png
88fps on 970 and 95fps on a 980 with AA at 1080.
My point was that you said ‘far more powerful’ desktop cards struggle with modern games at 1080, and that just isn’t true, apart from very, very few ridiculously poorly optimised games which account for less than 1% of games out there.
That’s not maxed out mate. That’s only on high. And using the lowest form of AA. .
Here it is using max settings without any AA.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2014/09/19/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/8
So as you see, while the 980M and 970M are good they are not capable of playing everything maxed out at 1080p/60fps
We also have a year of AAA titles incoming. Let’s see how GTAV does first. (27th January *maybe*)
OK, so one scenario of one game, on ridiculously overdone settings on 1080…. I’d still hardly say that constitutes saying “far more powerful desktop GPUs struggle” with modern games at 1080.
And going on to say about games that haven’t even been released yet is moving the goalposts a bit from the original statement 🙂
But never mind ey!
You want more games? There are more…. instead of having a wee panic about it you should go look at benchmarks for the GPU’S in question. .
Now maxing out a game is not maxing it out as max settings is “ridiculously over done”
and just good settings with crappy fxaa is now “maxed out” this could get confusing.
The GPU in question in the post you have a problem with is a 970M and there are far more powerful desktop cards. That’s just a fact. accept it.
Just to close.
Here are some benchmarks from the 970m with various already released games at 1080p
Hardly all maxed out with 60fps not even close.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-970M.126694.0.html
Dude, you said ‘far more powerful’ desktop cards are struggling to max out games at 1080. That just ain’t true. Sorry bud… Naming Crysis (a series of games that have never been able to run maxed on current hardware) doesn’t count IMO. That game is not indicative of the thousands of games currently out there.