MSI GT780R: Gaming Notebook with Fresh Design and More Power

MSI GT780R Gaming Notebook with Fresh Design and More Power - Who does not crave a notebook with a high specification and performance? Surely almost everyone wants. Notebook category is usually pegged the price is quite high with large dimensions and weight. Notebooks are usually filled classroom devoted gaming notebook to play games that require 3D graphics look smooth and processor performance to the specifications above. When we look, not many notebook manufacturers that have a gaming notebook category. Only a handful of manufacturers that spawned a gaming product, one of which is the MSI that has spawned many different series gaming notebook which had several times come into our test kitchen.

MSI GT780R is the latest series of gaming line of notebooks that are mostly intended for gamers. Unlike its predecessor, this notebook has a design of the casing is completely new. When you read our previous articles, the class gaming notebook MSI-colored casing with a shield-shaped casing with dragon skin motif on his body, both in the 500 series GX, GT, and GR. In the 700 series, MSI began to introduce a notebook with a design that is not too eccentric. When you look at the picture below, the chassis design uses a classic design with a matt black color cast aluminum with a motif on the cover of the LCD screen is equipped with MSI symbols so that the LED will light when the notebook is turned on. Although this design looks very ordinary, but for us, this notebook still looks gorgeous.

MSI GT780R dimensions can be said for carrying large-sized screen 17.3 "with resolution that you can set up to Full HD 1920 × 1080. His weight reached 3.8 kg (plus adapter is large enough and weighs 0.8 kg), making it less convenient for mobile invited.

This notebook is equipped intel core i7 processor 2630M Sandy bridge that runs at a speed of 2 GHz and is equipped with Intel Turbo Boost to reach speeds of 2.9 GHz and has a 6 MB L3 cache. As before, the processor of this type will make the performance of a notebook like an F1 racing engine. Besides the processor, MSI GT780R is also packed with 16 GB of DDR3 memory configuration with 4 GB installed in the SODIMM slot 4, you will not need to upgrade it again. Moreover, given the data storage capacity is not too large. MSI simply embed the hard disk of 500 GB as much as two and in RAID-0 and we've found a configuration in the previous MSI notebook series. This configuration is believed to provide read and write speeds are fast.

Playing games is not enjoyable if not supported by sound systems are qualified. MSI GT780R still instill yard Dynaudio speakers to provide sound systems that satisfy your ears, making you feel like in the third battle arena to play RPG games. The speakers are placed above the keyboard on the left and right and comes with a sub woofer that can reasonably give a good bass sound. Not just playing games, Dynaudio speakers also work quite nicely when used for watching movies and listening to music.

Talking about the display, this notebook uses a glossy screen will be slightly annoying if you use it outdoors with the sunlight blazing because it will catch the shadows around you. However, you can meminimalisasikannya by raising the brightness level. Viewing angle is also quite good because the screen does not change the color degradation is excessive when viewed from the left and right. The screen will change color degradation when you see it from the top side.

Completeness and ports on this notebook can be said to be very complete. Call it two USB3.o and eSATA ports that contributed to complement these notebooks. Total USB ports are also given quite a lot. On the left, you will find two USB3.0 ports and one USB2.0 port, while on the right you will find two USB2.0 ports. The overall total, MSI provides five USB ports so you need not fear running out of places to connect various devices that use USB. One thing we like about the placement of these ports is the placement of the port D-sub, HDMI, eSATA, and Ethernet on the back of the notebook. The position is to make the connections will not interfere with other connections as normally used in the three long periods of time and rarely removed (eg, multiple display with D-sub or HDMI, external storage with the eSATA connection which usually form large).

The inside of this notebook was no less interesting to the outside. Part handrest use motif matt black aluminum with a trackpad that looks different from the 500 series. This notebook trackpad has a large area so that your fingers to move freely when doing multitouch gestures.

For the keyboard, this notebook has a full keyboard like a desktop computer keyboard with Numpad on his right. Special, the keys on this notebook using chicklet keys design with aluminum materials supplied by the manufacturer SteelSeries gaming, add a thick aura of this notebook as a gaming machine that is second to none. Unfortunately, the keys have a weakness with this design, the keys to each other have a considerable distance away and Berpenampang keys are not too big so it makes your fingers have to move extra, jumping from one console to another console.

Is the optional given over? Not yet. MSI GT780R still keep a variety of other optional, such as a keyboard with a backlit color that can be altered and combined with the help of applications included in the package. In addition to the colorful keyboard, you can also turn on the backlit in part only (divided into 3 parts). You can even set certain buttons that light up, such as the A, S, D, and W. Not satisfied with it all, you can also set the type of movement keys, a flashing or wavy. This feature makes the notebook is very festive. At the top of the keyboard there are several shortcut keys, such as turning off and turning on a backlit keyboard, webcam, cooling fan speed control, browsing, wireless, LAN, and so forth.

We were a little curious and tempted to look beyond the contents of the MSI GT780R so we immediately took a screwdriver and remove the bolt-bolt. Below you can see the depths of this notebook, which is two 500 GB hard disk, cooling system that uses heat sinks and Hear the cheek with a fan at the end of the casing and two pieces of memory DDR3 SODIMM 4GB x 2. Where is the rest of the memory is placed? With cooling systems, we feel that the notebook is not too hot even when we used to play 3D games for almost 3 hours continuously.

Conclusion

Want to have a gaming notebook that has a high specification with a big screen? Notebook MSI GT780R can go into your grocery list. In addition to top class specifications, this notebook also has optional that is no less interesting as a backlit keyboard with colorful settings, CPU and GPU fan settings, a keyboard with keys from Stellseries, and fascinating speakers from Dynaudio. Values ​​plus it will give you satisfaction when the notebook MSI GT780R tersediri already in your hands. Indeed, survival of the notebook is not too high. However, we can understand given the components included in it requires high power to be able to provide the required high performance when you run through hordes of zombies that face.

Excess

Complete a given port.
screen 17.3 "full HD.
High specification.
backlit keyboard.

Shortage

Adapter weight.
The weight of heavy notebooks.