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MSI GT680 Gaming Laptop Review (SSD/Bluray/i7/Nvidia)

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell June 8, 2011 Featured Announcement, Laptop / Mobile

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

Cyberlink PowerDVD 11 is one of the finest solutions for the BluRay experience on Windows and we found this software to work perfectly with this chipset. We tested with the new Bluray Disc of TRON LEGACY.

The additional power of the Core i7 helps lower the processing overhead, dropping to 7 percent and leaving plenty of free cycles for multitasking, if needed.

We then recorded the CPU demand over a specific set of time to get a ‘real world’ rolling scale of activity. The Core i7 processor is easily capable of delivering a fantastic High Definition media experience.

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10 comments

  1. k0rn
    June 8, 2011 at 9:49 am

    Awesome ! I love the look, very alienware, but better value.

  2. Ned
    June 8, 2011 at 9:51 am

    the spec is really very good for the price. I think the GFX is the weak spot however. but adding something more powerful might require more space inside, as well as adding to the price. probably cost 2k for the higher end nvidia mobile gpu

  3. Kim
    June 8, 2011 at 9:52 am

    I have one of these already 🙂 I can highly recommend it, but I dont have the one with the SSD, mine is raid 0 – two mechanicals.

    Only negative is the heat on your lap, even when watching youtube videos. it can get a bit toasty imo

  4. Derek
    June 8, 2011 at 11:11 am

    Very loud design and I agree, almost alienware like in appearance.

    I do like it however, but I wish more of these manufacturers would offer backlit keyboards like apple do. its really helpful at night or in darker condfitions.

  5. Garry
    June 8, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    I really like the looks of it. the panels along the edges is nice. Can the colours be controlled like alienware via software?

  6. Todd
    June 8, 2011 at 1:13 pm

    Do they make a 17 inch version of this?

  7. Davis
    June 8, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    I dont like the styling, its over the top imo. Good spec but needs a different chassis design

  8. Joseph
    June 8, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    Core i7 is great, id love one myself for mobile. This is 4 and 4 core, right?

  9. Minni
    June 8, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    They make brilliant laptops but i had their last gt and the battery failed in 9 months. They replaced it eventually

  10. J C
    June 9, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    17″ version with backlit keyboard and better graphics will be a blast later on this year, MSI gaming is the best!!!!

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