MSI GT780DXR 17.3″ Laptop review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell January 18, 2012 Featured Announcement, Laptop / Mobile

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The GTX570M helps boost performance, smoothing out the frame rates at these high settings. We wanted to crank the image quality even higher so retested with more demanding settings below.

Increasing the image quality settings causes a real problem for the GTX560M powered Asus G74SX, dropping a few times to 19 fps. The GTX570M powered MSI GT780DXR however maintains playable frame rates throughout, dropping only once below 25 fps in our test environment.

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7 comments

Rupert Smyth
January 18, 2012 at 2:21 pm

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?
Jeff Re
January 18, 2012 at 2:28 pm

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?
Iain
January 18, 2012 at 2:32 pm

Good looking machine. MSI make surprisingly good laptops. I like them as ASUS more than Dell etc. better spec for the price.
Eric
January 18, 2012 at 4:33 pm

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.
Orion Field
January 18, 2012 at 4:37 pm

Ordered this a few days ago, will gifve you my views when I get it hopefuylly friday.
amythompson172
January 18, 2012 at 6:24 pm

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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