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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM so we're checking out some msi systems here that are looking pretty freakin crazy so number one is the gt70 dragon edition 2 extreme so what makes a notebook extreme you might ask I would answer well the fact that it has an Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition inside that would be the obvious answer the next answer is the fact that it has a GTX 780 M inside so that's about as powerful as it gets for a mobile graphics card my third answer might be that it has what they're calling their exclusive super raid 2 which is 3 M SATA SSDs and raid 0 and a 750 gigabyte hard drive for mass storage and last but not least with their cooler boosts - as well as their special hybrid power design this notebook is capable of overclocking that normally 3 gigahertz core i7 Extreme Edition all the way up to 4 point 1 gigahertz what you do is you boot it up with a special hotkey and you can actually run it at significantly higher clock speeds now this is going to exceed the amount of power that a device like oh it looks like we have an external mouse plugged in so there's a yeah there's a touchpad off button here we go I got it you can turn the touchpad off so you don't accidentally hit it with your palm if you don't want to do that so here's the hybrid power design so what this does is if you exceed the amount of power that can be drawn from AC it in short bursts it'll actually allow the notebook battery to boost it up so you can maintain that extremely high performance level regardless of anything else it uses a 17.3 inch full HD screen and there is definitely more to come in terms of pool MSI notebooks stay tuned I've been complaining for so long that displays are not high resolution enough what is the freakin excuse for being able to put a 1080p display on this and only being able to put a 1080 to split but wait hold on this isn't a 1080p display this is a 3k addition so what this is is it's a notebook that finally ups the ante in terms of resolution 2880 by 1620 so you can see those icons are pretty well what you also might be able to see although it's hard to say because we're shooting this in 1080p is that the display is significantly sharper so what unless I had to do is they first of all they had to put a higher resolution display in here next they had to back it up with performance so this one also this is the GT 633 Kay it also features a core i7 extreme edition processor it's got 16 gigs of ddr3 memory an nvidia geforce gtx 780 m graphics card with four gigs of gddr5 Ram why do you need 4 gigs of DDR 5 Ram well that's the issue here is that when you increase the resolution this is what everyone's been afraid to do for so long when you increase the resolution you increase the hardware requirement in order to drive it and actually have a great gaming experience on the device so they had to put in all that graphics memory because as you increased resolution you need more vram to buffer the textures that you require now you also get some other cool functionality with the gtx 780 check out these three displays that are running right here all three of them are actually running off of this display so it has support for invidious 3 plus 1 so that is Nvidia surround over three displays with an auxiliary display giving you up to 4 display outputs off of a single notebook so this is a 15 point 5 inch model and honestly this is sort of just the beginning here so we still got the SteelSeries multi backlit keyboard but I want to move on I want to move on I love 3k and that's all sort of great and fine and interesting but check this out this is a whole new concept when it comes to gaming notebooks it's slim it's gorgeous it's aluminium and it is a 17.3 inch gaming notebook with a gtx 765 m a core i7 it's got that same super raid technology we talked about before and when you fold this baby down she is less than one inch in overall thickness so I'll do my trademark cell phone size comparison here to give you guys some idea so you're gonna see how it puts on the side you've got Ethernet HDMI dual display port USB 3 as well as audio ports and on the other side over here you probably won't be able to look but we've got two USB 3 actually I can turn this around we've got an SD card slot as well as cooling so check out the bottom of it fully aluminum on the bottom of it as well so ventilation comes in here and the way are still able to cool the core i7 CPU as well as the GTX 765 m if you were looking for a notebook that is stylish as well as high-performance and you don't mind the size I mean I guess if you want the large screen then you definitely want the size then you may not have to look any further than the GS 70 from msi can you see the backlit keyboard from the side here so it's a bit of a redesigned backlit keyboard there's a different typeface on it as well as a chiclet key design that was necessitated by the extreme slimness of the form factor of this notebook thank you for checking out our coverage of MSI's new flagship class gaming products in their notebook line don't miss any of our Computex coverage and as always don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips