My son is middle-aged, and does quite well for himself. He may get a small bargain, but I'm NOT giving it away, LOL! Currently he has a somewhat dated Acer 8940, and we recently discussed the GT780R. He expressed an interest, so he may want to take it with him.
As to Optimus, we are hoping the kinks have been worked out. It seems to be up in the air for the moment.
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The only reason I don't like Optimus is that it'll just be another thing that can break. Murphy's Law is a scary thing...
And if anyone's interested, on the linux front, I was able to install Ubuntu 11.04 Nasty Narwhal successfully. You just have to make sure you're not installing the Grub in the wrong hard drive. Be sure to choose the sector with the long name and not the default sda or you'll end up corrupting raid and or the entire boot sector (or so i believe.)
Now, I'm off to test more games...
But wait there's more!
Things i found out that might be vaguely interesting
1) if you're into disabling windows services like me, know that if you disable Micro Star SCM (MSIService.exe) your keyboards (colored led lights) won't work properly.
2) Once the webcam is enabled through S-Bar, it'll stay enabled even if s-bar is turned off and after reboot.
3) USB3.0 is definitely faster than USB2.0.
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Why expresscard slot is not available in most of the laptop lately??
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USB 3.0 is faster and has taken over the world. It has not only replaced ExpressCard but also IEEE 1394 (Firewire).
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Hmm, are the Seagate Momentus Hybrid Drives any good? If they are, I might just get one of those instead of getting a true SSD.
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This and other helpful information can be found HERE!
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Hey guys, I've ran some benchmarks and here are the results:
Crysis
Metro 2033
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@ Ken,
My son won't get it for FREE, LOL!
The UPS tracking is behind again! Last report was "Los Angeles, CA, United States 06/28/2011 2:24 A.M. Departure Scan". Do ya reckon they decided to fly it around the world a couple times, before they deliver it? You wanna bet this thing gets delivered today, before they change the tracking info?
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Question for all GT780 owners. Can you, please check is you GPU stays at 2D clocks at desktop. My GTX560M(it has the same vbios as GT780) maxes up to full speed when I am opening and maximising windows, when I am opening the browser and then goes down to 2D clocks. So, I am wondering is that drivers issue or MSI made bad vbios.
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Just put my order in at GenTech. Thanks Ken!
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I don't see what the problem is though? -
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I hate bank wires! , thu - friday . off here , sat sun , off in US , will take 4+ days to get my cash in kens bank
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Is there a hdd caddy for optical drive? i really want to upgrade my OS partition to SSD but wants a bigger space w/o using external HDs. -
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Avoid the cheap ones and avoid the issues desktopsheavyonlap had.
NewmodeUS, Hard Drive Caddys for Notebooks. More expensive, but they work. Best on the market. -
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Well, I'm assuming you didn't uninstall the preinstalled oc software thing so i'm just going to go ahead and install afterburner and see what happens. hehe -
. Mafia 2 rank c
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Well now I have money available to buy a computer with SSD. But I want the Optimus with the 570M. And I want a new computer now. And we don`t know when the new GT780R come out.
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Hello everybody, I've been following this forum about a week now since I've become very interested in the gt780r and you all have been very helpful.
However, I seem to be in the same position as Storm Shark, and leaving for school on August 19th puts me in the danger zone if deciding to order a machine with the 570m and (hopefully) optimus, which would be amazing for school. Will it be possible to send in the laptop to upgrade to the 570m from the 560m in a few months or so and get the added benefits of that gpu, including optimus?
Also, I've seen a couple posts regarding battery life, can anyone confirm a +/- 5 hour battery when fully cahrged and in battery saver mode?
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greetings everyone!
About to pull the trigger on buying my GT780R!!! Ordering from PowerNotebooks as they have the best price for my configuration needs.
Getting the stock screen, CPU and RAM. Upping the second HDD to a 1TB 5200 RPM drive. It is my data drive and the faster 500GB will be for OS and programs.
This is my first non-Dell laptop. I'm on my 3.5 year old Inspiron 1720 as I type this and it's been just fine. I'm a software developer, so I've barely ever called Tech Support. But when I read about the markup with the name brands and how Asus/MSI/Sager and others were the real brains behind the machines, I had to go closer to the source.
As for the Wireless card, the GT780R is not compatible with the intel 6300 I heard because it needs 3 antennae and the laptop only has two. So I like the 6230 not for the Bluetooth (have a dongle if so required), but for the interaction with my HD TV. Has anyone used that? Any comparison between the 6230 and the Bigfoot 1102 for range, etc?
This will be my development machine primarily -- some gaming, but I couldn't resist the memory, processor, etc. for Visual Studio. I also do photo and video editing, so the GPU will be a plus.
To that end, the first thing I'm doing out of the box is repaving it. I have Windows 7 Ultimate (wish I could get the machine without the OS fees) that I will put on it. The drivers disk should have everything I to reinstall for the control panel, keyboard lights, etc, correct?
Has anyone here repaved this bad boy yet?
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GT780R is compatible with intel 6300, because when you buy it from a retailer like powernotebooks or gentech... They will take it apart and install that third antena for you. BTW the 6300 works with 2 antenas only aswell.
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"Hi Ken,
After check with our RD, the current GT/GX series doesn’t support Optimus. The discrete graphic will be on all the time.
Should you have any further question, please feel free to let me know.
Regards,
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BTW, my current GT780R will be arriving back today! Thanks!
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About UPS Ground shipping, it's transit by train and if it missed scan in California then you won't see any update till it reaches destination, because they won't try to stop the train just scan the packages, I see this all the time so I wasn't even worry about your package.
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Hey ,
Check the "3DMark Vantage in comparison" section: Preview: Asus G74SX 3D Gaming Notebook under Review - Notebookcheck.net Reviews
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and also if you compare the CPU Performance of ASUS G74 VS MSI GT780R
G74:
PCMark Vantage: 7227 points
PCMark 7: 2489 points
GT780R:
PCMark Vantage: 8599 points
PCMark 7: 2516 points
AND BTW GPU
G74:
3DMark 03: 37888 points
3DMark 05: 22198 points
3DMark 06 (1280x1024): 15216 points
3DMark Vantage : 9227 points
3DMark 11 : 2040 points
GT780R
3DMark 03: 38098 points
3DMark 05 : 21979 points
3DMark 06 1280x1024: 15369 points
3DMark Vantage: 9314 points
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All GTX for the 500 series support Optimus, 570M included. It is all over the Nvidia homepage.
See here: GeForce.com - Get the Most Out of Your GPU
Either the person you spoke to doesn`t know what he was talking about, or they do not know how to make it work on the GT780R and didn`t explain himself correct.
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If you want to know the exact clock difference check out some earlier post I made in this thread
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