Well considering 5760*1080 res is less taxing than a single 4K panel, I assume performance will be decent. I don't have three monitors to test at the moment, but maybe I can try something in two weeks, at work hehe.
You can close the lid indeed when using external monitors.
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So far, 980m runs real cool. Even my slightly OC GPUs rarely reach 80/70~ celsious (one does run hotter, don't know why). But this is only for taxing games like witcher 2 max settings and ubersampling. Light games sometimes don't even break 50 degrees lol.Midou likes this. -
Ugh, buying a laptop is hard. I'm stuck between the two SLI behemoths of this year: the MSI GT80 Titan and the Aorus x7 Pro...
The x7 is slim, portable, elegant, and an actual laptop but it gets hot as hell and it's louder than hell...
The GT80 is by far the fastest and most powerful laptop out right now and with the upgradable features, it'll probably stay that way for a while but it's soooooo big and impractical.
I just want to be able to game as hard as I want wherever I am. Maybe I should stop playing AAA titles.... >.<
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I am perfectly okay with it. I would worry about it if I could tweak it at very high speeds. 4980HQ gets hotter because it consumes up to 80W, and 4720HQ only around 60W with turbo on. After regulation to 47W TDP begins, both will drop temps sharply to the range of 80s and that is their final temp while on use.Midou likes this. -
, well i still didn't get mine but if it is anything like my AW M18x (which is another behemoth) than i can tell you that carrying it depends on your size, I'm 183cm and i have no problem carrying it on my back to everywhere i go for the past 4 years (though it can only fit in selected few BP and the weight of it is taxing on the back pack ), size wont really matter unless you are trying to open it in confined spaces like airplane seat (impossible in economy class but possible in higher classes), if you game a lot with the native screen than the 18.4" is a huge advantage over the 17" screen.
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Thanks everyone for helping me choose a GPU/CPU for my MSI GT80. I've now placed an order on Newegg (GTX 980m SLI and i7-4720HQ). Hopefully, I'll have the laptop in a couple of days.
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For those of you that bought this for being able to go somewhere and game, how is the noise level when on the integrated 1080p screen? If I brought it to a friend's house to game there with friends, would the noise level bother them?
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980M SLI should cope ok with 3x 1080p, a little memory tweak would help kick it up a bit more of course
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Got my GT80 TITAN SLI-009 Yesterday, hell of a Machine
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- Nvidia Geforce Experience not able to identify the latest driver. Check for updates not working, its showing - I have the recent driver installed (stock one -345.09) which is not correct, is this a issue that graphics card not able to identify proper driver??
- Speaker Bass is too low coming out from it, any way to tweak it?
- Couple of options are disabled in Intel XTU (Power Time Window/Turbo Boost Technology/Core Voltage Mode/Processor Cache Voltage Mode). Is that normal? Can anyone share the screenshot of XTU for 4980HQ model?? Any suggestions appreciated for overclocking, I changed couple of options to get higher speed, same time considering temp also.
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With nvidia I had to physically go to the site and download drivers too, no updates were recognized for me either.
As for XTU they have those options disabled in the bios so we are out of luck unless we unlock it. As for the best settings, a couple of us have tried and used different settings. For me with the 4980 it seems to run the most stable and coolest by running -50 to -60 dynamic cpu voltage offset.
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The "Turbo Boost Short Power Max" and "Turbo Boost Power Max" have no effect on the GT80 and almost all other laptops.
Unless you have an unlocked BIOS don't lose your time tweaking those bits.
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@avik86: What's your LCD panel? You may run MonInfo[1] or the following command:
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Thanks @GTVEVO , Will post the Benchmark results.
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Looks like it's a Samsung LTM184HL01[1].
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I just overclocked my GT80's Display to 100Hz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It looks like I'll be a member here soon. Yesterday I started looking into some of the highly customizable Sager models out there because as far as I know, Sager and MSI are the only companies that currently make 980M SLI laptops. Well I like the Sager. It's a bit more plain and boring than the GT80 Titan but it doesn't have the mechanical keyboard and it's a bit lighter and a bit cheaper depending on the configuration. Well, I was just about sold until I noticed something rather odd...it only has ports for two outputs...
To say the least; it's settled now. The GT80 Titan is the only laptop on the market that fits the criteria that I'm going for. I'm hoping to be a happy owner very soon!I do have two quick questions, though:
1) I plan on ordering from XoticPC...when I customize a GT80 there, it still comes with the goodies, right? (the wrist-rest, backpack, etc.) If so, that means I shouldn't select anything under carrying cases, correct?
2) I'm sure the answer is in this forum somewhere but I don't have the attention span to read all 51 pages...the last I heard, the 4980HQ was giving people issues with higher temperatures. Has anyone found a fix to that? I plan on getting the better thermal compound and the copper cooling upgrade thing that they have. Are there any other problems with it? -
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The 4980 has lived up to my expectations even when compaired to my previous machine the AW 18 I paid an outrageous amount for the 4930mx and it did NOT deliver.
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If the source have a variable frame rate it would be better to have G-Sync enabled (if possible) and/or to match the source frame rate with your display refresh rate.
To avoid tearing you just make the maximum frame rate equal to the refresh rate. That's probably the easiest option since there's an option for that in Nvidia Control Panel.
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For 60hz content 90hz usually works well, as noted for films if you have issues setting 96hz should see you ok.
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I got the laptop. It is a beast. Before I run benchmarks and test the system, I used the MSI recovery utility - which created 5 .iso files. I believe these files can be used to restore Win 8.1.
I apologize in advance for possibly trivial questions - as I haven't used Windows for more than a decade now. I was wondering how I would be able to use the .iso files for Windows restoration. Suppose that I burn 5 dvds from the iso images, and that I create a Windows bootable media as well. In case of an OS or a hard drive failure, do I use the bootable media to boot and format the disk and then use the first of the five dvds to start the Windows restoration process? Would I need to run the application(s) named "dvdRecovery1" / "dvdRecovery2" / "dvdRecovery3" that is on the first recovery dvd?
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Here are some results. Please let me know if they look reasonable. Thanks!
If you need me to run some other tests or need info about something else, feel free to let me know.
Tests carried out using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M(2x) and Intel Core i7-4720HQ
3DMark Fire Strike Score: 12514
Graphics Score: 19019
Physics Score: 9336
Combined Score: 4097
CPU Max. Core Temperatures: 83C, 88C, 87C, 85C
GPU Max Temperatures: 68C, 79C
3DMark Sky Diver Score: 28349
Graphics Score: 58316
Physics Score: 9017
Combined Score: 17306
CPU Max. Core Temperatures: 86C, 91C, 90C, 88C
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Yesterday, I introduced two friends of a similar name to my GT80 Titan.
They won't cling together for too long as the brothers will go into a desktop rig. But I think they belong to the same bloodline - both powerful and good looking. Wouldn't you agree?
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Wow, that's crazy..........
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You set a custom resolution in the nvidia control panel.
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Disabled some processes and re-ran Fire Strike. Hopefully these numbers look better.
Wan't aware of this much fluctuation in numbers between runs!
3DMark Fire Strike Score: 13216
Graphics Score: 19086
Physics Score: 9542
Combined Score: 4843
CPU Max. Core Temperatures: 80C, 84C, 85C, 83C
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Hey, everyone. I'm still banking on buying a GT80 soon and I have the credit line at PayPal approved. To just confirm, I asked a sales rep. at XoticPC if the GT80's that they sell come with MSI's perk package (wrist rest, case, gold keys, etc.) and he told me that only the 047 (980M) and the 071 (x2 970M) come with all of the extra goodies. He also told me that no cases that they sell could hold the GT80 so there's that.
I don't know if that's true or not but I thought I'd just give everyone a warning. Has anyone bought a GT80 from NewEgg? Does it come with the entire package? I was originally considering their open boxes but I doubt an open box would come with it.
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I just looked at NewEgg on the open box 001 listed
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152707R&cm_re=gt80-_-34-152-707R-_-Product
It shows at the bottom of the specs "Features Package Contents" Backpack included. I would say it would as it was probably a return on someone that denied to accepted delivery. The new 001 and 009 show the same so I would suspect they will come with all the goodies also. I was told the Gold Keys were a limited edition run but also remember there was a big port strike that I think several units were stuck in and probably now are in circulation. -
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