***The Official MSI GT80 Titan Owner's Lounge***

I have a desktop with 4930k and triple 780 Ti aswell, I choose the Titan because of screen size and keyboard

 

I choose the Titan over another desktop and previous AW18 due to.

Keyboard being mechanical and placement away from heat.

Screen size and quality and external 4k support.

Methodical design and quality with interior and exterior.

True 900m series sli gpu support.

All in one package for a real complete gaming machine.

 

I got mine for the same reasons as those above, which have come together for me to become some kind of fold out desktop experience I can use anywhere. I have a surface pro 2 so knew I could carry a backup if it was too cumbersome to use when out and about, but I've found it's size and layout mean for entirely different reasons to anything else i've used in my lap that it's actually a lot more usable and because of the hardware that is inside makes it unbeatable for me.
I've now replaced my desktop entirely with it, the only part of the user experience for me that is marginally worse is the fans run louder than my desktop when gaming, to the point where I use headphones a lot of the time I wouldn't of before, Far Cry 4 on ultra settings is not as bad as Assassins creed unity on ultra though so it's a variable problem rather then it just ramping up on every game you play.
At first as my new desktop experience I was just connecting in the old peripherals like I would with a desktop and leaving the gt80 to the side but I've sat my lg 29 ultrawide on a box (so it's higher than the open screen) so I can use the gt80 in front of me still with the other screen as an extra, I also have an lg 22" I used with the ultrawide on the desktop but this set up with the ultrawide above the gt80 screen is preferable for me.
Watching a film or youtube at 1080p on it doesn't budge my fans from idle but if you're needing to use something that is going to tax the machine in a public place then be prepared for it's impression of darth vader deep breathing.

 

I found a cell phone piece on ebay that I purchased to try out, visually it looks spot on but I will let everyone know once I receive it. It was 4.99 so I figured worth a try.

 

The Sager 9733 unit is great from a hardware perspective....the choice of stock screen is abysmal though. I think the Titan is probably the better overall choice if all you are going to do is gaming. Better Keyboard, better stock screen choice and good build quality.

Negatives for me would be the four m.2 SATA slots (eliminating using a fast 2.5" SSD in SATA3 mode such as the 850 Samsung Pro) and the socketed CPU. However, the socketed CPU should be good enough for gaming purposes.

 

Hello!

What I am saying is that you will get the benefit of SLI without issues with GT80 titan. I am saying you are expecting too much out of the CPU, which will bring you marginal additional performance, on select games. You do not need a desktop CPU to enjoy SLI, specially with games that are taxing on the GPU. Does that mean that more CPU performance is useless, not at all! But you won't get 50% more performance or anything crazy like that.

The Sager SLI 980m is most likely a great laptop too, specially the choice of hardware available. I, however, went with the MSI due to proven quality for me, mechanical keyboard and the excellent stock screen. Even though the Sager has upgradable CPU, you won't be able to upgrade it beyond the 4th gen series of intel CPUs, and its game performance (note: game, not overall performance) won't be that greater compared to 4720HQ. You can check HTWingNut's Sager review, he got very small performance differences in a handful of games, testing different CPU speeds. It really depends on the game to get any benefit.

I didn't go with a desktop because I needed a laptop, and while I do play at home, I don't play always on the same spot/ place. I do take my monster titan out to friend's houses as well. I was originally considering the GS30, but the Titan was a nice looking, well featured laptop that simply caught my eye.

 

Hello every one !! I'm getting ready to buy a new laptop and trying to figure out which way to go .. I think the gt80 is my go to right now . I was on new egg today and saw a unit with sli 970 cards what do you guys think of that ? Is that wroth it.. The other unit I'm looking. At is the Alienware 17 with amplifier . But I'm worried. About all the issues I'm hearing a out .. The screen just stands out to me .. So my question is will the 970 sle be good and is the 1080p screen nice on the gt80

 

Oh yeah one more thing to you think the future mxm cards will cost a ton . Like they do now ?

 

If you prefer battery time then it's best to go with an ultrabook such as GS30 but if you want even more battery life then you can consider getting the ones with regular Intel HD Graphics. However, it will not give you much performance in gaming at all, basically any games is not playable.
If you want something in between then it's got to be the GS60 but battery life cannot be that good.

 

guys which do u think is better? gt80 with 970m sli or gt72 dominator pro with 980m?

 

If gaming performance is what you are after, the GT80 with 970m SLI will be stronger than the GT72 with a single 980m.

 

I have had my msi gt80 titan for a week now and I love it I got the sli 970 version but I honestly thought I would be getting better fps I can't get over 70fps in leauge maxed out and eso everything maxed I get 60 to 70 and I big fights it drops to 35 40 fps I was expecting better for 2700 but I love the key bored maby I don't have it set right idk any suggestions should I be getting better fps my cpu and gpu stay very cool around 60 on cpu and 50 60 on gpu

 

You can make sure the power options are set to High Performance and double check in Nvidia Control Panel to make sure SLI is turned on. You can then run a benchmark since its easier to compare your results to where you should be. 3DMark is free and the most popular one http://www.3dmark.com/.

 

Thanks for the reply I'll give it a shot when I get off work

 

I know the power options are set to High prefomance I would of thought that sli would be factory enable perhaps I'm wrong

 

I was having a lot of problems with dropping frames on my -001 model. Evolve was stuttering at 40-50 FPS, Dying Light and Shadow of Mordor would drop to 40 constantly. Synthetic benches like Fire Strike came in right at target however. Computer was set to High Performance. Dragon Gaming Center was set to whatever the max mode was (can't remember the name, Sport Mode?)

I noticed that whenever I had Intel XTU open, even if I hadn't changed any settings, all of a sudden CPU usage would jump dramatically, and I would keep 60fps in my games. I figured the culprit was Dragon Gaming Center as XTU was overriding it. I uninstalled it and the CPU usage problem went away.

Very happy now, depending on the game, I get 85-95% of the performance of my desktop at stock settings (a 4770k with SLI Titans.) Before uninstalling Dragon Gaming Center I was getting around 60% of my desktop's performance.

 

Nice so un install dragon gaming center and should fix it huh

 

It usually is yes, but it doesnt hurt to check.

 

Someone in this thread explained a while ago that the dragon gaming center applies a factory overclock, I know with my machine -023 (980's), if I don't have it in sport mode it goes from super smooth on ACU and FC4 to being crap so don't do anything too hasty. Hopefully one of the non newbs will advise on risks if their are any to uninstalling.

 

It might or it might not, it just happened to work in my case. GPU and CPU boosts/speeds, cpu voltage etc. are all the same whether it's running (sport mode) or disabled. I ran a few games with HWinfo64 monitoring in the background, and disabled Dragon Gaming Center halfway through each run and the only things that changed were one CPU core would jump from 30% to 70%-90% and FPS would go to 60fps and stabilize.

 

So i read online that nvidia will be releasing a patch today or soon that will disable all over clock tuning for the gt 900m series graphics cards. It was said that it was a bug in the system that was letting people able to overclock the graphics cards and now they have found were it is and there fixing it. Reason is because they said the way the graphics cards are made they were never suppose to be able to overclock and now is a reliability and is shorting the life of the cards. What is your thought on this?

My thoughts is anytime you overclock a graphics card, cpu, or even hard drive you know that it will shorten the life as is. Why is this becoming a fall back issue on nvidia, who knows? But i do believe there should be a warning on the overclock software saying we are not reliable for any damages or issues that occur if you are to overclock this graphics card, with out it i see how people can point there finger at nvidia.

 

Something is definitely up. I have 0 issues with league of legends maxed, limited to 60fps and it never drops from 60. when I return home next week, I can test it further.

 

You are late to the party , this forum is fully aware as it was released a few weeks back.

 

Is anyone using the desktop driver mod?

 

So how do you guys like GTX 980M SLI? Does it let you keep your FPS at 60 in most games? I am curious about the most demanding games, like Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Assassin's Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4, Watch Dogs (fully patched), you know... the games that are NOT well optimized.

What about micro-stutters? Are you getting them in those demanding games? Do you play with or without V-Sync? AFAIK, to get rid of micro-stutters, you need to use V-Sync and play games @ 60fps @ 60Hz most of the time!

 

Regarding power settings, for whatever reason my GT80-001 was defaulting back to "Balanced" every time I let it sleep or shut it down. After trying to change this behavior by choosing "High Performance" or a custom power setting many times (no joy) I found a workaround: make a copy of Balanced if you think you might want it and then edit the Balanced setting to what you want.

Anyone else see this default to Balanced issue?

Otherwise I couldn't be happier with this machine. The keyboard is outstanding, and something I've wanted in a laptop for 20+ years. I wear glasses with progressive lenses and with a desktop system I'm constantly having to shift focus from the keyboard to the screen and back (I look like I'm nodding all the time), with the Titan the two are close enough to the same plane so that isn't as issue: no more hunting for focus!

Obviously performance is thumping, there's no sacrifice coming from my desktop (i7 with nVidia 970), fan noise is present but not enough to be distracting, and my only worry is reliability as at least two members have reported SSD failures so far with this model which seems unusual given the normally high reliability of SSD cards.

Fingers crossed, having to send this pup in for service would really put a jinx on my janx.

 

Hey guys, What are the advantages of GT72 vs GT80?

 

Did somebody try Throttlestop with gt80? It seems to not working correctly.

 

Yes I tried it with no luck at all. My understanding is it isn't supported any longer so I just considered it a dead end.

 

Does anyone have the dual 965M version? what's the benchmark like?

 

Is it possible to change battery settings so it doesn't continually charge the battery and reduce its lifespan?
Short of simply disabling battery altogether in Hardware Manager and enabling it when its near empty?

 

Obvious ones are, GT80 can have dual GPU and it has a mechanical keyboard, and of course a slightly bigger screen

 

There is a hope !

I need new amibcp tool 5.00 version to unlock BIOS. Old version 4.55 can read bios corectly and I am able to change visible options in bios however during saving bios I receive an error .

 

This is already done by Windows. It will not over charge your battery.

 

I'm not sure that's the case.
I turned my Laptop on and it went to 99% (down from 100% the day before). An hour or two later it reads fully charged.

 

The 965M being based on the same chip should scale just like the 980M and 970M SLI.

 

I heard the 965m is come from defective 970/980m, something like that.

 

All mobile GM204 cards have units disabled, it's just the way that chip binning works.

 

What do you guys thing the upgrade cost will be for the next gen?

 

GPU that is

 

You don't want to have deep discharges on Li-ion batteries. You must charge them often. Deep discharges are only done for calibration but it's optional.

 

Around $800/GPU-board (MXM-B)

 

I sold my desktop, is that with SLI 970m will be able to play in FULL HD for about three years?this model breaks easily ?, because I live where I live the warranty will not cover the event of malfunction

 

Probably yes. Considering DirectX 12 will make it even faster in some cases I really hope the 970M will last a little longer.

 

Hey guys just got my GT Titan 047 single 980. It appears I'm having an issue of not seeing a 2nd SSD that I think I've read others have had. Thoughts?

 

What a bummer, the only thing you can try testing the position on the board just to ensure its the drive failing and then decide if you are going to exchange the system or buy a different drive.

 

I've just got my 009 in, anyone chime in on any tweaks for CPU, undervolt multi settings etc in xtu, what are you guys using with success?

 

There should be 2 in there. The panel to check is easy to remove. On the bottom of the computer you'll see several screws, towards the top left and mid right will be ones marked with a HDD symbol next to them. Undo those two screws, flip the computer back over, then slide the access panel a little to the right, then move it up and away. See if there are two physically there.

 

Well.. it appears not to be there. (also not in #4 although pic doesnt show that slot) Haha?

 

I just see the one m.2 drive. I would contact the place you got it from or maybe MSI directly. MSI's number will be on a sticker on the bottom of the computer.