The MSI GT75 TITAN 8RG-094 Review

IT HAS ARRIVED



!@#$ing CORTANA was loud AF!
Good God this thing reboots faster than my Desktop!

 

**Borrowed @Ultra Male 's Format...

CPU: Intel® 8th Generation Coffee Lake Core™ i9-8950HK 6 Core - 12 Thread Processor, 2.9 GHz (Max Turbo Frequency 4.8 GHz), 12MB Smart Cache
Memory: 2400 MHz 32GB DDR4 RAM( HID Default)
GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5
Sound: Dynaudio Tech Speakers 3W *2 + Subwoofer 5W *1 with Nahimic 3 Sound Technology
Thermal Paste: Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut on CPU + GPU, and Fujipoly Extreme Thermal Pads on heat sensitive surfaces + Bottom Service Panel Ventilation Mod
Screen: Chi Mei N173HHE-G32 17.3" FHD (1920*1080), 120Hz 3ms Wideview 94%NTSC Color Anti-Glare w/ G-Sync Technology
Wireless: Killer Wireless-AC 1550
Storage: 2x500GB Samsung 860 EVO (3D VNAND TECH) M.2 SATA SSD
Keyboard: SteelSeries per-Key RGB Mechanical KB with Anti-Ghost key
Mouse: SteelSeries Rival 650 Wire/less Laser Gaming Mouse
Power: 2x 230W AC Power Adapters
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-Bit
Transportation Contraption: Everki Lunar

Grand Total $3,878.21

Bought from: HIDevolution

 

First run after tweak session(Hotfix Drivers).




Second Run after Driver Rollback


Time Spy (had some stuff running in BG).


Cinebench


After my "minor" debacle...

 

So far so good, The BLOAT is REAL though...sheesh
1.So far only thing I dislike is that the illumination on the Trackpad bleeds in the center. So mine is Red/Purple/Blue instead of just Red/Blue.
2. Damn Ethernet keeps dropping...
3. Gotta love Windoze Update, why cant I just go from 1709 to 1809?
@Ultra Male I am ready with TeamViewer whenever you are. For timezone reference, I am in Texas(CST).

 

PM Sent

 

@Ultra Male Thanks for all the Tweaking. I am now running Firestrike but its telling me the driver is not "approved". Is this something we did?

 

That's because Hotfix drivers are not approved by 3DMark. So dumb especially considering the fact that every driver since the past 3 years have a following Hotfix Driver coz nVIDIA can't get its crap together and release a stable driver. It's like all their drivers are in BETA.

Revert back to the latest official driver for now to test Firestrike and remember to set the power management mode to Adaptive not Optimal then reboot for the change to take effect.

 

https://www.maxon.net/en/products/cinebench/

https://www.hwinfo.com/download/

@Ultra Male Ready?

 

Sounds like Micro$haft. Put my initial Firestrike in third post.

 

oh wow! So you got your score much higher I thought you were like in the 17K range initially.

 

Keep in mind this is also the free version so its whatever settings it gives me.

 

Oh that's PAINFULL...

My SSD is CRIPPLED in that ole USB External Enclosure.



Here it is in the Laptop, its an older drive but already a HUGE improvement.

 

OK sheesh, 5 games installed and I ate up 311GB of 500GB....

I think I shoulda bought a bigger drive...lol

 

Anyone here paying more attention to the girl than to your SSD speeds?

 

That's not even my best...

 

annd BSOD....

I dont think this laptop likes the SSD. I am getting a **** load of Reset to \Device\RaidPort0, was issued.

And now the disk disappeared...
@Ultra Male have any idea's? This is the Kingston SSD(2.5) I put in. I really don't need it but wanted to see how it did.

Yeah I got something goin on, I restarted the Laptop,it did the pwr LED blink a few times and the BIOS is different now.

 

Hows your temps? Cannot wait to see if the 2080 is available in the GT75 soon, pleaseeeeeee MSI!

 

Look at the 3rd post, with the Firestrike Benchmarks.

 

Oops sorry I missed that, was browsing quickly at work. Thanks

 

What are your temps with extended gaming?

 

To be honest I have yet to do a full gaming session on it as I have this Massive desktop(in sig) that I am playing on while I tinker with the laptop.

I really need to leave **** alone...

 

All good

 

So after all the "tinkering" and finally getting the BIOS back to the way HIDevolution did them. So far it is running great. Below is 13m or so with fans set on auto.

l

 

Now for the Everki Lunar 18.4...

It JUST fits in there and there aint **** for room in the "accessory area".

 

No gpu

 

So for a bit of an update.

It runs Ghost Recon Breakpoint BETA on full blast ultra and its buttery smooth (other than the beta quirks). Remnant was nice, handles Assassins Creed:Odyssey without A SWEAT. Metro Exodus was Gorgeous even without "ray tracing".