MSI GT780DXR 17.3″ Laptop review

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

We measure from a distance of around 2 foot from the chassis with our Extech digital sound level meter to mirror a real world situation.

KitGuru noise guide
10dBA – Normal Breathing/Rustling Leaves
20-25dBA – Whisper
30dBA – High Quality Computer fan
40dBA – A Bubbling Brook, or a Refridgerator
50dBA – Normal Conversation
60dBA – Laughter
70dBA – Vacuum Cleaner or Hairdryer
80dBA – City Traffic or a Garbage Disposal
90dBA – Motorcycle or Lawnmower
100dBA – MP3 player at maximum output
110dBA – Orchestra
120dBA – Front row rock concert/Jet Engine
130dBA – Threshold of Pain
140dBA – Military Jet takeoff/Gunshot (close range)
160dBA – Instant Perforation of eardrum

The GT780DXR system is quiet when idle, with some minor fan noise audible when watching a bluray movie. The fan speed quickly rises when gaming, becoming clearly audible, rating at around 35 dBa. Maximum fan noise under synthetic stress conditions hits almost 38 dBa, which is quite annoying. It is not as quiet as the Asus G74SX and a lot of hot air is forced under the machine due to the vent system.

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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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