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MSI CX623 Laptop Review – Core i5/Geforce 310M

Our good friends at Cyberlink kindly supplied the software for our Bluray and conversion tests.

Cyberlink PowerDVD 10 is one of the finest solutions for the Blu-Ray experience on Windows and we found this software to work perfectly with this chipset. We tested with the Bluray Disc of Avatar, one of our favourite sci-fi films in recent years.

Some of you might have been expecting the CX623 to outperform the FX600 in this test, however the FX600 has the nVidia GT 325M onboard, a more powerful graphics solution than the 310M on the CX623. This additional GPU power helps to make up for the slightly weaker processor.

We then recorded the CPU demand over a specific set of time to get a ‘real world’ rolling scale of activity. The Core i5 processor is easily capable of delivering a fantastic HD media experience.

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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