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A very important part of overall system responsiveness is down to hard drive performance. We use two of our favourite benchmark utilities Crystalmark X64 Edition and HD Tach to rate performance from the onboard SATA controller.
MSI aren't using a Solid State Drive in this particular version of the GT780DXR and as such we can't expect class leading performance. Still, to help improve overall speeds they have configured the two drives in RAID 0. Overall sequential throughput is decent, at around 200 MB/s in both sequential read and write tests.
The ATTO Disk Benchmark performance measurement tool is compatible with Microsoft Windows. Measure your storage systems performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Several options are available to customize your performance measurement including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode with the option to run continuously. Use ATTO Disk Benchmark to test any manufacturers RAID controllers, storage controllers, host adapters, hard drives and SSD drives and notice that ATTO products will consistently provide the highest level of performance to your storage.
ATTO mirrors the results in CrystalDiskMark, peaking at around 200 MB/s in both the read and write tests.
In the real world, we found the system to be quite responsive, although it still felt sluggish when compared directly against the Sony Z series we reviewed a short while ago, which featured Dual SSD in a RAID 0 configuration.
I love the keyboard, steelseries involved? wow never would have expected that. nice move from MSI. £1,499 is a great price considering. Why drop the backlighting for UK however? second class citizens as usual?
I love the keyboard, steelseries involved? wow never would have expected that. nice move from MSI. £1,499 is a great price considering. Why drop the backlighting for UK however? second class citizens as usual?
Good looking machine. MSI make surprisingly good laptops. I like them as ASUS more than Dell etc. better spec for the price.
Lets not forget its £300 less than the ASUS too. Unless asus bring their new range prices down this year. I love the look of this, and im not botthered about a bit of noise.
Ordered this a few days ago, will gifve you my views when I get it hopefuylly friday.
The MSI GT780DXR-446US laptop has enough juice to kick BF3 up to ultra and power out native resolution of 1080p just beautifully without a stutter. Which is primarily what I wanted it to be able to do in terms of benchmarking (along with hopefully carry through the next 3 years of game releases). Bottom line, it is a monster of a mobile machine.. And I say this without even slight hesitation.
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