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MSI GT83VR 6RF-028UK GTX 1080 SLI Laptop Review

The Gears Of War 4 game's plot is set 25 years after Gears of War 3 and focuses on JD Fenix, the son of Marcus Fenix. Gears of War is a third-person shooter game, with its core concepts being derived from Resident Evil 4s “over the shoulder” perspective, Kill Switchs cover system, and Bionic Commandos swinging action akin to moving between points of cover. (Wikipedia).

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Above are the settings we used to test Gears Of War 4. These settings are basically maximised for image quality. It is important to point out that when we tested this game there was no SLI profile and running with SLI enabled would cause a minor performance hit. We therefore disabled SLI to test.

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These results are very good, although we hope that SLI support is fixed in the coming weeks. With a single GTX 1080 in operation 4K performance is what we would consider borderline playable. With both GTX 1080's in action we are likely to see a solid 60fps+ at a 4K resolution – exactly why you spend all this money on a laptop with two GPUs.

I found running at 1440p and downscaling to 1080p improved the graphics quality a little, while maintaining an excellent frame rate.

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8 comments

  1. Don’t buy MSI until they have fixed the issues with the GT72 and GT80: Read more: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/gt72-gt72s-and-gt80-gt80s-owners-gpu-upgrade-discussion.795236/ and here: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18746748

  2. That’s really pathetic!

  3. What is pathetic?

  4. What MSI has done and then the way they’ve responded.

  5. Yep. My GT72 is not upgradable like MSI advertised.

  6. You have the GTX 880M? Has anyone attempted at placing eurocom’s MXM maxwells in there?

  7. You have the GTX 880M? Has anyone attempted at placing eurocom’s MXM maxwells in there?

  8. Seems like the GT83VR is a step down from even the GT73VR lol. Raid 0 instead of Super Raid 4. No 120 Htz display, no 4K or turbo mode.

    Not even G-Sync from my understanding according to MSI support. So what exactly are you paying extra for here?

    Doesn’t seem like you’re getting much of anything here. Other than the two GTX 1080. Not worth as i think might just go back to Asus. Wait for their new GX800 to come out.

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