MSI GT70 Dragon Edition Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 7th January 2013 | Source: MSI | Price: £1900 |
Introduction
Like so many hardware items, laptops have split into two very distinct camps. On one side of the fence we have the kind of models that appear in adverts on the television, shouting loudly about their 1GHz processors and whopping 50GB of storage space at only £500 for the 12" version.
On the other hand, and definitely in the camp that today's review falls into, we have the behemoths. The gaming monsters. Stuffed to the gills with extraordinary power and truly blurring the lines between the performance of a desktop and a laptop.
MSI have quietly been producing some seriously high specification laptops and it's about time we put one through the OC3D tests and discovered if it's possible to move from the desk to the train without losing gaming performance. Thanks to some extremely competitive pricing we've gone straight to the top-of-the-range model, the GT70 Dragon Edition, available for a very acceptable £1700.
Technical Specifications
The specifications read like a who's who of high-end mobile hardware. The Core i7-3630QM is a quad-core running at a standard 2.4GHz but with a serious overclock available, which we'll get to soon enough. The screen is a full HD 1080 number, and the eye-candy is provided by the nVidia GTX675MX GPU.
There are loads of storage options available, and our test system comes with 2x64GB SSD's in RAID, along with a big storage drive for all your media. THX Dynaudio sound keeps everything sounding amazing, and the inclusion of a Killer DoubleShot network and wireless solution ensures that you never get the dreaded death by ping.
| CPU | 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM Processor |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows 8 |
| Chipset | Intel® HM77 |
| Memory | DDR3 1600MHz, SO-DIMM x 4 slots, Max: 32GB (8GB x 4) |
| LCD Size | 17.3" full HD (1920x1080) LED backlit, Anti-glare |
| Graphics | nVIDIA Geforce GTX675MX 3D Graphic Card |
| Graphics VRAM | 4GB GDDR5 |
| HDD (GB) | 2x64GB SSD in RAID0 + 750GB SATA |
| Optical Drive | BD Writer / Blu-ray / DVD Super Multi |
| Audio | Sound by Dynaudio, Channel: 7.1 |
| Webcam | HD Webcam(30fps@720p) |
| Card Reader | SD(XC/HC)/MMC/MS(PRO)/xD |
| LAN | Killer™ DoubleShot configuration (Killer™ Wireless-N 1202 paired with Killer™ E2200) |
| Wireless LAN | 802.11 b/g/n |
| Bluetooth | 4.0 |
| D-Sub (VGA) | 1 |
| HDMI | 1(v1.4) |
| USB 2.0 port | 2 |
| USB 3.0 port | 3 |
| eSATA | 1 |
| Mic-in/Headphone-out | 1/1 |
| Line-in | 1 |
| Keyboard | 102 keys |
| AC Adapter | 180W |
| Battery | 9 cells |
| Dimension | 428 x 288 x 55mm |
| Weight (KG) | 3.9 |
Most Recent Comments
Basically a 560ti desktop card in a laptop
, wish I wasn't a student as these things come at high cost 
it seems there is a new contender for the Viao
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Originally Posted by dugdiamond
nice laptop
it seems there is a new contender for the Viao |
Awesome laptop though, and it looks fantastic, probably the prettiest gaming laptop I have seen and the custom color lighting for the keyboard is very impressive, you don't get that much flexibility.
I would give it 9/10 .
Tanks for the review OC3D
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Not a chance, Im getting another Vaio!
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). Only issue I have with laptops that size is their weight; I buy a laptop, I don't necessarily want it to weigh a ton (to me, a ton is more than 9 lbs), or eat batter life... This unit, it seems, covers at LEAST one of those angles, which is shocking considering the level of hardware on tap.
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