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another day another gaming notebook or if MSI is to be believed another weapon to save mankind I mean really MSI really Wow for you the viewer I'm not recommending that you go watch that video although it is kind of hard to look away from because if you're that into cringe you guys should probably be dropping a like on this video to let us know if you're excited for the conclusion of scrapyard wars 2 which is coming this weekend with probably more cringe than the msi promotional video kingston kc 310 series business great SSDs feature firmware based power loss protection massive capacities and performance to spare in fact we're using them for our new production server click right here to learn more about them let's start as always with specs because a gaming laptop could have as many RGB keyboards as it wants but if it can't back it up with raw horsepower i'm not going to recommend you buy it at its heart the gt72 2 QE features an Intel Core i7 5700 HQ yes that is a Broadwell quad-core mobile CPU which means about a 10% improvement over the last generation equivalent 4720 HQ 16 gigs of ddr3 L memory and a gtx 980m graphics card the best mobile GPU available and only a stone's throw from a desktop GTX 970 in terms of performance so lots of raw horsepower under the hood looks good too with two massive cooling fans a metric but ton of heat pipes and expandability galore with 4 + dot 2 SSD slots a tuna 1/2 inch drive slot and four dimm slots available for upgraders to throw in up to 4 8 gig sticks for a total of 32 gigs I actually did try my 16 gig ddr3 modules in the bottom slots and while the BIOS and Windows picked up forty eight gigs of RAM which was sick unfortunately Windows only reported 32 as usable so who knows if that support will come in the future can you find in 64 gigs of RAM anyway withdrawing to the out the industrial design screams NSI with a game Reeb lack and red color scheme the screen backing is an aggressively sculpted brushed aluminum with an illuminated msi gt80 go the bottom has tall rubber feet to allow ample airflow through the red grills to the bottom components oh and there's a sub Wofford port down there as well a feature I usually ignore but this laptop perhaps actually more thanks to its large internal volume in that massive speaker on the inside actually has a surprisingly potent sound system on the back for IO we find power in for the large included power brick gigabit ethernet powered by a killer 2200 chipset to go along with the killer 1525 ac Wireless inside 2 mini DisplayPort 1.2 ports and an HDMI 1.4 a port for easy display expansion on the right side a blu-ray burner something I was surprised was missing from the last 17 inch gaming notebook I checked out and yet something I didn't touch throughout my entire time with this one as well as 2 USB 3 ports then on the Left we've got an SD card reader audio ports and 4 more USB 3 ports but you might have noticed what is why didn't you specifically say USB 3.0 you always do that well they're not two of them are USB 3.1 suckas that means 10 gigabit Mac's rated speeds on supported devices and you can check out this video by clicking a little I in the top right corner to learn the full deets of USB 3.1 cracking open the device we'll start with take that huge speaker girl with the Dynaudio branding sounds surprisingly good and then we'll follow up with one of MSI's characteristically solid steel series co-branded keyboards the layout is standard in all the good ways including a full number pad and properly laid out arrow keys take notes razor and in spite of its size msi has done a good job of keeping overall flex to a minimum but if I was to complain about something I'm pretty sure that's my job the keys have nice long travels but are a little stiff at the top oh and the function arrows function up and down are page up-and-down function left and right our home and end everyone needs to quit screwing this up especially when it's the one damn thing about an otherwise fully programmable macro compatible keyboard that can't be changed the touchpad is above average it tracks well it's responsive it's a nice size and it has the usual gesture support but this is going to be a loved it or hated thing it's seamlessly integrated into the plastic wrist rest surface that's separate from the rest of the metal bottom under the keyboard personally I like it because it'll keep crumbs out of the edges of my trackpad but it does make it harder to find the edge without looking down and you can accidentally run it a trackpad unexpectedly but that's not even my biggest complaint about the trackpad and there's always one isn't there it's again a Fitness related one the clicky buttons which I like normally are quite difficult to press down and I'd like to see that dial back a bit now let's move on to the screen like the Sager np97 73 that we checked out recently the 1080 IPS display in the GT 72 features and Vidya g-sync so unlike on the desktop notebook g-sync works by having the GPU communicate directly with the panel and instead of Nvidia creating a scaler they're just selecting g-sync certified panels according to good behavior with variable refresh solid color reproduction and pixel responsiveness and there's a couple of new features although they're not limited to notebooks g-sync now allows the behavior beyond the max panel refresh rate to be modified to either vsync or no vsync just like Andy's freesync and it allows games to be run in windowed full-screen mode now very cool but while variable refresh is undeniably a better gaming experience than the alternative it's not all rosy g-sync doesn't work with Optimus right now so if you want to use the onboard graphics to save battery you'll actually need to press this button which will prompt you to reboot to switch bummer the good news is that Maxwell's idle power consumption is much better than previous mobile graph six cards so it's not as much of a kick in the teeth as it would be so let's talk temps and performance now then I put it up against the np97 73 and the razor blade 14 2015 to see how it fared in I 264 CPU test the GT 72 walked away with it this is going to be due to the fact that it's literally over twice the thickness of the only other one of these notebooks also using a mobile CPU and the last generation one at that GPU is a bit of a tighter race here we have to look not only at temperatures of our GTX 980 or nine seventy I'm graphics course but also at GPU boost turbo speeds again MSI is looking really good here with solid boost clock speeds in Crysis 3 so then what about the gaming experience here MSI delivers almost the whole package the gtx 980m rocks and the new generation Broadwell cpu bridges the gap nicely between last gen mobile flagships and a full board desktop CPU but for some reason while I really appreciate the astonishing viewing angles of this particular IPS panel and the non oversaturated default color profile MSI opted for a 60 Hertz panel while competitors like Sager and a soos are coming to the table with 75 Hertz panels that from my experience can sometimes even overclock to a hundred Hertz making for a great mobile gaming experience my gt72 managed a mere 70 Hertz once overclocked which isn't to say that if we look past the hilariously stupid promotional video this isn't a Buttkicker of a laptop I just have some reservations at this kind of price I expect no compromises and while I accept that I am trading thin and light for cool and quiet in this case I mean it's gaming right now you can hardly hear the thing I don't think the 128 gig SSD and one terabyte hard drive are particularly competitive with other $3,000 machines the good news is at least there's a variety of configs available on the subject of variety Squarespace you pick out the 10 plate you want depending on what kind of simple powerful and beautiful website you want to build and you just kind of go to town on it for a little bit it 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