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MSI GX660R Core i7 Notebook One Touch Overclocking & Fan Control Linus Tech Tips

2011-01-31
now I know it's been a while but I did promise you guys some follow-up videos about the GX 660 are from MSI so this is my first series of follow-up videos and I'm just gonna show you guys the touch sensitive buttons here at the top of the laptop and what a couple of my favorite ones do I mean first of all there's the one that I hate which is the wireless button which because it's only a visual indicator a light whether it's on or off I turn off my wireless on a fairly regular basis we got one of those for Bluetooth we got one of those for Eco mode as well so you can see that's going to change from eco mode to movie mode to gaming mode to presentation mode to office mode to turbo battery mode and off so that's pretty neat little thing I actually don't know what this one does what happens if I press that okay well I don't know what that one does yet okay this one don't over what that does here these are my favorites though these are the ones I actually care about so check this up okay so our core speed is 931 megahertz I'm gonna turn on prime95 and you're gonna see the course B is going to jump up 21.86 to gigahertz okay now check this out check this out I'm gonna press the turbo button BAM turbo on okay so first it went down and now goes up one point nine five five gigahertz so it actually overclocked the bus speed not the multiplier so this is a one touch overclocking button that actually doesn't affect intel speedstep it doesn't affect turbo boost so here watch this if I take my prime95 and I stop it and then I do for example a single-threaded small FFT single thread so if I stress a single core you're gonna see that my clock speed is going to be been two point six five two gigahertz whereas if I turn turbo off so I'm gonna press the turbo button again and it's gonna go back down until speed step is enabled and wait is that the same no that's not the same that's less excellent so that was what I was trying to demonstrate now here's another cool feature this is the OMG the laptop is noisy button listen slowly ramps up but basically this is like a turbo cooling mode for the laptop that allows you to if you're if you know you're gonna be doing something intensive you don't have like a laptop cooling pad available you want to make sure that everything is going to stay running nice and cool well that's one way that you can make sure that it is going to be running as cool as possible regardless of what you are doing with it if you're running a game if you're running anything else doesn't really matter so here we've got prime95 on you're gonna open up my I actually don't know if my copy of real temp is going to work on this CPU so I guess we'll find out and it does so even running quad instances of prime95 on this quad core eight thread processor we're not getting above 70 degrees which is pretty darn respectable for a notebook that is overclocked cool beans thanks for checking out Linus tech tips don't forget to subscribe and that would make me happy
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