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MSI CX623 Laptop Review – Core i5/Geforce 310M

Left 4 Dead 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter game. It is the sequel to Valve Corporation’s award-winning Left 4 Dead. The game launched on November 17, 2009, for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 in the United States; it launched November 20 in Europe. It builds upon the cooperatively-focused gameplay of the original and uses Valve’s proprietary Source engine, the same game engine used in Left 4 Dead. The game made its world premiere at E3 2009 with a trailer during the Microsoft press event.

In a similar fashion to the original, Left 4 Dead 2 is set during the aftermath of an apocalyptic pandemic, and focuses on four survivors fighting against hordes of the infected. The survivors must fight their way through levels, interspersed with safe houses that act as checkpoints, with the goal of reaching a rescue vehicle at the campaign’s finale.

We tested at 720p and all other settings on maximum. AA and AF were disabled.

Left 4 Dead 2 runs quite well, as long as you leave the Anti Aliasing disabled. This is not being sold as a gaming laptop, but it seems reasonably capable if you don't mind running with lower settings.

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17 comments

  1. Great looking laptop, not so sure about the keyboard flex, although more laptops seem to have this problem now. it is down to cut price support beams or something?

  2. The pinstripe is cool, liked the close up shot. interesting how they make the pattern with dots.

    Good battery life, seems all round very impressive, apart from hardcore gaming.

  3. If they sold this with a better GFX id be all over it.

  4. Excellent, I actually saw this in PCWORLD over here last week, and was t empted, but I wasnt sure about the performance. Hey whats with MSI putting a warranty void over the screw? thats a bad move, how are we meant to upgrade it? send it back to them for an extra cost 🙁 that pissed me off.

  5. 310M seems to suck hard. rest of it is good however. but id need something more beefy for my laptop in gaming side.

  6. Not many ports down the sides, id like 3 USBs, 2 on one side and 1 on the other, not most of them on the back, its a pain to get there. a few other ideas I like with the design, but that pinstripe thing would hurt my eyes.

  7. Foretold Beyond the Grave

    Good review, battery life is impressive considering the power of the CPU. Im not keen on the styling myself, it loks like a toshiba machine I had years ago.

  8. What about the build quality? it looks ok, but are all the parts fitted well?

  9. Not for me, im a sony man through and through

  10. Temps are good and battery life. the pros outweigh the cons, shame about the lackluster gfx performance.

  11. I have had a MSI 3 series laptop for years now and have no intention of replacing it. I only surf and play flash gameson the move. I can recommend them as a laptop they rock.

  12. For 600 quid it seems fairly good although acer do a machine with a better gfx and the same CPU for 650.

  13. I like it, its better than my desktop machine right now 🙁 im poor !

  14. The overall machine looks like it would burn your eyes out in sunlight, so many reflective surfaces. good job getting the pictures taken without burning all the surfaces out! Not my scene really I like alienware.

  15. MSI make great machines, i love their gear.

  16. i bought this laptop yesterday from an ebay saller for 415pounds new i think i made a good deal 😉

  17. I had one last two day … its stupied laptop .. its said it will switch to nidia GPU with it have load gaming and it didnt most time + you can not switch to 1 gb nvidia card manully or by and way ..there is no way to switch manully btween GPU in it .. I which i can sell it with helf price ..its ig lose