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

Mechanical keyboards are the best!

 

Thats how i have always disabled hibernation, but this isn't working. Still tells me I dont have the rights.

 

Hi my GT80-001 is coming, they could give me a hint of what utilities install?

 

The screen is just the best ever. it's beautiful ips but u can put ur face right in front of it like a tn panel and your eyes dont hurt. it's a better screen than any ips panel i've used, from dell to acer to quinx. Mine overclocks perfectly over 100hz but i stop at 96. Games are perfectly smooth like butter with vsync. The screen is my number one favorite thing about it

 

All in all, the GT80 offers a lot of things, but particularly:

-Despite using HQ processors, we don't seem to suffer from severe performance drops
-Amazing stock screen with great overclocking potential. I can't say there aren't better screens out there but I would be lying if I said this was not one of the best screens in general.
-Mechanical keyboard that after months, completely changed my typing experience. My previous laptops feel weird, even the regular desktop keyboards feel like something is missing haha.

 

hello guys just order my msigt80 -009 after ordering it i found out that there a 4gb and 8gb 980 msi couldint find the information about which one is which if any1 can help me out please thanks

 

To my knowledge the GT80 980m are all 8gb cards, this is also stated in the specs of your model on us.msi.com website.

 

There is no 4gb 980m sli version. Some websites, like newegg, improperly spec the unit. MSI verifies that it's 8gb. That was my big fear as well but even though the specs where I bought it said 4gbx2..it was 8 x 2

 

Ok thank you for that anything i need to know or dow load ounce i. boot it up and what about oc the screen

 

anything i should know guys after updating gpu drives anything else? heard people having problems with bandwidth latency and heads up guys i should know of thanks

 

hi guys recently purchased an SLI-001 waiting to receive it from xoticpc.com
32GB of ripjaw DDR3L 1600 ty newegg.
i7 4940mx 3.1Ghz Extreme Edition. ty newegg.
128GB mSATA x2 is fine for now, raid 10 later...
i know the extreme addition is kind of a waste of money with the cooling capabilities this laptop features.
I was planning to do a water cooling loop for the CPU. (major overclocking.)
I have a question, do you guys think its worth it to tie in the GPU's to the water cooling loop? i mean based on the design the water blocks would be intricate or i would have to manufacture one giant water block that covers the cpu and gpu's also gddr5 ram. I'm kind of leaning towards just water cooling the CPU at this time, the only problem is that i don't know if there is a water block that will fit this socket. I was wondering if you guys know if there is a water cooling block for the G3 socket? I could not find one but i was able to find fan coolers for that particular socket type. Also wondering if you guys know the screw hole pattern dimension for the socket in question?
As far as the water cooling design goes, I'm pretty sure i have a plan as to how I'm going to stealthily incorporate a water cooling setup. i have already ordered a majority of the parts for this water cooling system but am lacking a sufficient water block design. If you are wondering how I'm going to do this, please feel free to msg me, i'm looking for ideas as to best design layout.
another thing that crossed my mind is the capabilities of the chip set, how much overclocking can this mother board actually support without getting bottle necked.

 

What are you talking about? As far as i know there is no msi gt80 titan with 4940mx processor. Are you sure you're not talking about sager np 9377 s?

 

Hi kelvin crews

The processor on the GT80 are welded... so you can't change it.

A watercooling is a good idea, but I think it's not possible to do this...

 

I bought a processor off of newegg. To replace hq with. So thats what im talking about.

 

They are welded into place huh?

 

Yes so you must be highly skilled or not realizing the they are not upgradeable. But let's say you do get it swapped and soldiered in well. U still need an unlocked bios which isnt avaliable to make it work fully otherwise it will be handicapped.

 

Yes, the CPU is welded. Everything else is modular. The GPU's are MXM, which is a rarity today on its own.

 

As mentioned the CPU can not be upgraded. If you're looking for a better one you have to get the 009 model which has the i7-4980HQ installed.

 

These guys on here are like the best of the best at laptop overclocking/modifying.
Ill bet if you ask them what the best route is to acheive your goals they will head you in the right direction

 

Would of been nice to know that earlier

thanks to Hutsady, i was able to get my order changed to a SLI-009 model, and was able to cancel my order on the 4940mx CPU.
As far as the Liquid Cooling goes, I am a Machinist/Engineer, I have access to Solid works CNC, and manual machines, i have access to any material/shape needed. to be honest all i really need is the old cooling block and i can reverse engineer a water block. The only thing i was worried about was the height restrictions from the fittings, but they do make 90 degree elbow swivel fittings that are pretty low pro. As far as the the reservoir, pump, radiator, that will all be on the outside of the laptop as a stand alone unit. the only thing that will actually be inside the laptop are the cooling lines and water block. as far as where i want to drill the holes for the water lines, is still up in the air, as far as how i want to connect the lines from the laptop to the cooling unit is also still unknown, but koolance offers quick disconnect fittings that are dripless. So i was thinking of having a male and female quick disconnect out of the side of the laptop and just connect the lines prior to boot up.
heres what i was thinking.
http://koolance.com/exos-ac-power-adapter
http://koolance.com/ex2-755-exos-2-v2-liquid-cooling-system-aluminum
http://koolance.com/products?path=62_60

 

Glad to hear that worked out for you kelvin crews and Xotic got you line out with the 4980.

 

but now thinking, without the ability to overclock anything on the cpu, this setup is almost pointless...

 

Trust me you can overclock the 4980 and it reacts very well. The limit is the wattage though. In my case it overclocks better than my 4930mx did.

Stock is 38ghz on all 4 cores and xtu will allow 6 bins to run to 4.4,4.4,4.5,4.6 ghz if I remember correctly.

 

how far were you able to go before temperatures started to become unsafe. i hear this cpu runs at like 86C on load with turbo boost? that seems kind of high. I also thought the turbo boost was locked and multiplier was locked?

 

Currently the boost time is locked yes. The multipliers are unlocked along with dynamic core voltage and other features. As for all Haswell cpus they all run hot but the GT80 does a good job at keeping the temps manageable for it's class.

To learn some more about the temps and overclock capabilities check out the test and tube thread here in the msi section.

 

even a stock 4890hq wont bottleneck your dual 980m's in games. There is no game that taxes the cpu enough to bring down the GPU usage of those two cards. If your going for benchmark numbers then yes. If you are worried about cpu bottlenecks, then add some AA to the game and make the gpu the bottleneck lol

 

Question: with that water cooling setup wouldn't you then be restricted to only using the laptop when "docked"?

 

No I want to keep the heat pipes there unless I want to plug into the liquid cooling dock. My thought was to re-solder/braise/thermal glue the heat pipes back on once I install the water block. This way I can still use my laptop everywhere. Unfortunately, it doubles as my work computer. I don't want to have to carry two laptops onto a plane. My ultimate goal is change as little as possible about the laptop, but in the process transform it into an overclocked beast.

The only way someone would be able to tell it was water cooled, would be the quick disconnects for the cooling lines, either protruding from the back of the laptop or the left side of the laptop. I Have decided to go from the right side of the case. I haven't decided whether or not I am going to Drill precision holes into the housing for the GPU fan and the heatsink on the right side, then duct the lines through the heat sink, or i might just remove the battery as a whole and try and find a smaller replacement, Anyone know if this battery is super special or anything? Is it welded to the motherboard? (haha). I mean who really uses this laptop without it being plugged in anyway. I think MSI should come up with a non-battery edition and then just cram a small closed loop water cooling system in it and call it a day. the only issue would be that i would have to run the cooling lines on the exterior right side of the case, i cannot let that conflict with my gaming hand

 

Coming up with a reliable connection method that does not introduce air into the system is going to be quite the challenge, good luck

 

Kelvin crews, that's pretty awesome that you can custom-make the cooling there.
It is a big challenge, and please be gentle while integrating your solution onto the NB, because MSI may not honor the warranty in case anything wrong happens, but we all hope not. *knock on wood*

 

To be honest with you, I am extremely excited about doing this little project. The last liquid cooling setup I did was an Athlon 2500M chip in a desktop computer.

I could only think one of one way to get the air out of the system, mild risk may ensue. It involves connecting the inlet line to the laptop by means of the quick connect. Connect a drain line by means of a quick disconnect with a small ball valve, to like a bottle or something to refill reservoir. turn cooling system on and crack ball valve for like half a second and shut pump down. Note this will pressurize the system but will effectively remove the air. With connecting and dis connecting, the amount of air introduced into the system is negligible. If i just knew about the battery information maybe i could find a smaller replacement and just have it there for power loss situations which gives me enough time to shut down properly. This would give me a ton of room to run lines and such.

 

Do you plan to make an external WC solution or internal and what are the reasons of doing so? I mean if you want to get the best temps and OC the hell out of it you'll likely need to have dual PSU mod. But even then, the components are not really designed for that much of an overclock. 980M has it's limits already reached by Meaker, Mr. Fox, johnksss and others) If no OC is involved then stock air cooler may provide sufficient results.

Or it's just for fun?)

P. S. Seems like WC laltops may appeal to a wide audience, considering the fact how much people are interested in it) But the downsides are clearly the size, weight and price of such machines. Smth like WCed laptop with single CPU and GPU with a size of GT80 to fit it all and 6Kg of weight is not the best choice for portable gamers, hm...

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Anyone play the newly release Project Cars on their GT80 yet? Amazing game and graphics as it pushes my machine to a whole new level at 60fps. If you enjoy the challenge of realistic driving simulations you don't want to miss it.

 

you think my gt80 can max it with the overclocks?

 

Probably pretty close since I run it at base clocks, either way I tested on a few different levels and the game looks stunning even when not maxed out. As for myself I started using the Nvidia experience recommendations and then kept pushing it up. Most options are maxed except for grass, AA and texture filtering to take into account fog, rain and excellent lighting effects during weather changes.

 

looking at the recommended specs, I should be able to max this game on a single 970m let alone two. Very low requirements for the gpu. Im def getting this soon

 

Hey guys, this has probably been asked before (apologies if it has!), but how noisy are the fans on this beast? I'm tempted, and realistic enough to know it won't be silent under load, but still curious as to how noisy it is in a fairly demanding game such as GTA?

 

If you press the cooler boost button ( and u prob should)..it is very loud.
But ive grown to love that sound very much. it's a smooth hair dryer kind of sound

 

if you leave the fans on the normal profile they aren't that loud at all during gaming. If you are benching/overclocking and use the turbo fan button, you can definitely hear it

 

Bwahahahaha! I like the answer. My wife probably wouldn't like the noise

 

Halo, sorry to pick at this but in normal usage do you know if it will be any louder than my current AW M17?


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Does the GT 80 support RAID 5?

In fact, neither the BIOS nor the Windows RST tool allow to create any RAID array other than RAID 0, and some "manual/automatically" synchronized recovery setup - which is to say, there's not even proper RAID 1!

Have I missed anything, or does the GT 80 not support anything other than RAID 0?

I read here that the GT 72 only supports 0, 1, and 5 - has the situation been made even worse with GT 80, which doesn't support 10, 5, and 1?

 

When running the cooler boost button aka wide open yes, I can say this because I don't know much that's louder. The fans on the MSI GT80 are very large and have 4 exhaust outlets. Under normal circumstances they are probably similar but this is very hard to say for sure compared to another machine. Any gaming laptop with high end components will use more power, dissipate more heat and need a higher CFM cooling solution so I would say they are all going to be very comparable though.

Check out youtube, there are videos of benchmarks of the GT80 and you can determine the fan noise. Some videos even measure the fan db I believe which might be useful.

 

This game is all CPU! Bottlenecks the heck out of my sli and i get 40-60 fps with everything on max. Honestly the game doesn't look as mind blowing as the screens they released, and the performance is meh, not too impressed so far. When im driving in the rain I don't see rain droplets on the car itself, just the screen, and the landscapes are mostly plain. This is with visuals all on and gfx max with 4x AA

 

Wow sorry to hear that, I think the backgrounds and scenery is great with the active weather and time on several of the highway tracks.

The cpu is used heavily because of all the scenery shadows and lighting I would assume. I also play with track IR so in helmet view quit a bit.

 

I did try a few more tracks and I def see the graphics now, but for what it is, it should not be this taxing. At this point sli is pointless. What are your graphic settings? Can you post them here?

 

That's really crazy if your cards are not getting taxed at all below is my current visual settings, I think the only thing turned down is grass high instead of very high and AA at 4 instead of 8. Both of my cards run around 70+pct usage in clear weather if I remember correctly probably around the same for cpu so I wouldn't think the 4720 would have too much trouble but I will do some logging later too.

 

thanks, do we really need smaa if we have AA enabled anyways? Also, just tried the California track, pretty gorgeous looking. The issue occurs when I have 20 cars on my screen at the beginning of a race, that's when I see the gpu usage drop and the cpu bottleneck.

 

Maybe im unusual but I use sweetfx for almost all games. Smaa looks beautiful to me and allows me to use vsync and have a 96hz refresh rate. Of course, i've always been against AA since it first came out so I suppose im biased.
Post processing seems to me like the future of AA anyway. With FSMAA and SMAA T2x.

 

That's a long time to be against AA, I remember using it back in the radeon 8500 days. It hurt performance sure but helped with the usual 800x600 / 1024x768 monitors back then.