MSI GE60 2PE Apache Pro 15.6in gaming notebook

1. Introduction2. Unboxing3. The MSI GE60 2PE Apache Pro4. Testing Methodology and Configuration5. Sisoft Sandra6. PCmark087. Cinebench R158. Unigine Heaven9. Unigine Valley10. 3Dmark Vantage11. 3Dmark 1112. 3Dmark13. SSD and HDD performance14. USB 3.0 Bandwidth Testing15. BluRay Playback16. MKV conversion17. Video Encoding18. Titanfall19. League of Legends20. Bioshock Infinite21. Tomb Raider22. GRID II23. Temperature24. Battery Life25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
• Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
• Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
• Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

• SMP – Multi-Processor
• MC – Multi-Core
• SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
• MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
• GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
• NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
• AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
• IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

The performance of the 4700HQ is excellent. Memory performance is pretty strong too and sits about where you'd expect for a dual channel laptop solution.

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