MSI GT780DXR 17.3″ Laptop review

1. Introduction2. MSI GT780DXR (1)3. MSI GT780DXR (2)4. MSI GT780DXR (Super High Res Gallery)5. Installed Software, Hardware Configuration and Testing Methodology6. Synthetic: SiSoft Sandra7. Synthetic: PCMark 78. Synthetic: Cinebench R11.5 64 bit9. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark10. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage11. Synthetic: 3DMark 1112. Synthetic: Hard Drive Performance13. Real World: BluRay Playback with PowerDVD 1114. Real World: MKV 1080p Performance15. Real World: Flash HD Performance16. Real World: Media Encoding17. Gaming: Resident Evil 518. Gaming: F1 201119. Gaming: Far Cry 220. Gaming: Lost Planet 221. Gaming: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim22. Gaming: Total War Shogun 223. Technical: Acoustics Performance24. Technical: Thermal Dynamics25. Technical: Battery Life26. Closing Thoughts27. View All Pages

CyberLink MediaEspresso 6 is the successor to CyberLink MediaShow Espresso 5.5. With its further optimized CPU/GPU-acceleration, MediaEspresso is an even faster way to convert not only your video but also your music and image files between a wide range of popular formats.

Now you can easily playback and display your favourite movies, songs and photos not just on your mobile phone, iPad, PSP, Xbox, or Youtube and Facebook channels but also on the newly launched iPhone 4. Compile, convert and enjoy images and songs on any of your computing devices and enhance your videos with CyberLink’s built-in TrueTheater Technology.

New and Improved Features

• Ultra Fast Media Conversion – With support from the Intel Core i-Series processor family, ATI Stream & NVIDIA CUDA, MediaEspresso’s Batch-Conversion function enables multiple files to be transcoded simultaneously.
• Smart Detect Technology – MediaEspresso 6 automatically detects the type of portable device connected to the PC and selects the best multimedia profile to begin the conversion without the need for user’s intervention.
• Direct Sync to Portable Devices – Video, audio and image files can be transferred in a few easy steps to mobile phones including those from Acer, BlackBerry, HTC, Samsung, LG, Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Palm, as well as Sony Walkman and PSP devices.
• Enhanced Video Quality – CyberLink TrueTheater Denoise and Lighting enables the enhancement of video quality through optical noise filters and automatic brightness adjustment.
• Video, Music and Image File Conversion – Convert not only videos to popular formats such as AVI, MPEG, MKV, H.264/AVC, and FLV at the click of a button, but also images such as JPEG and PNG and music files like WMA, MP3 and M4A.
• Online Sharing – Conversion to video formats used by popular social networking websites and a direct upload feature means posting videos to Facebook and YouTube has never been easier.

For our testing today we are converting a 3.3GB 720p MKV file (2h:12mins) to Apple Mp4 format for playback on a portable device. This is a common procedure for many people and will give a good indication of system power. We are using the newest version which has been optimised for Sandybridge processors.

Nvidia Cuda acceleration is enabled.

Both results are very close, with the MSI GT780DXR system coming out on top thanks to the enhanced performance of the GTX570M. Another reminder that the final retail version of this machine will score slightly higher as it ships with a i7 2670QM, not a i7 2630QM as in this early prototype. We would estimate another 10 seconds cut from the final time.

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