~GX660(R) Owner's Lounge~

Yea finally,i got from ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver installed it successfully! Maybe i selected the wrong ver at first..
Thanks anyway!

 

well, my new laptop doesn't even get to the POST screen anymore, I only get a black screen, HDDs are on, fan is on, but that's it. I've removed the battery for more than 8 hours, tried it again, same results.

It's going back to MSI with RMA, seems i'm not the only one with this issue: http://www.xoticpcforums.com/showthread.php?t=7034

 

any 1 using this machine with 940xm? what is your temperature when idle and full load.

 

i buyed msi gx660 and i would to say the 940xm es or not load? temp in idle or full?

 

I just came to post my current stable OC speeds which I use to game: 900/1030.

With these I got 13762 3dmark06 and I have yet to test Vantage (My last P9600+ score was with 870/1030) but it should be about the same.

Lost planet 2 all high DX9 is averaging 40fps on both A and B tests.

I can play Crysis all high 1920x1080 over 30fps average (the minimum seems to be 20 so far).

I'll try other games etc to check stability. Furmark 16 minutes reached 86C and never went past that. Current games and tests max at 72C.

Man, I am really happy with my machine.

 

ryzek hello, you test with 10.10 drivers? how to overclock mobility hd5870? bios mod ?

 

to oc the gpu, google the amd gpu clock tool

 

Hello everyone. I've just bought the GX660 (i5 2,53GHz/5870/4GB) after reading these wonderful reviews on the forum.

I was thinking to get the R version, but it was € 500 extra, but it didn't seem necessary for me. (I've bought it for € 1300, 1800 USD) I'll will receive the laptop Wednesday.

But I was wondering, can you replace the CPU in this laptop, or is it soldered on the main board?

Thanks.

 

Same for me. The R version didnt have sense for me because i wanted to get the highest possible fps on games, so the fullhd screen was a disadvantage in my case. More money and less fps :S

However it depends on your budget and your needs: the r version is very good and you can still game at fullhd with very good fps, play a movies, text and image editing, etc.. on a fullhd screen, and a faster processor, more ram and more hdd space and performance, bluray...

In my view, for just gaming, the GX660 is better because the high resolution of the R version will lower your fps a lot, no matter the +2Gb and the i7 upgrade because your graphic card will bottleneck you.

And there's also good to consider that all of us have a unique kick- laptop that almost no one own

 

Doesn't the GX660 have a FullHD resolution? I've mailed with the seller and he told me it had a FHD 1920*1080 screen. He could be wrong of course.

I am considering to get a i7 next year, just to keep he laptop up-to-date.

One more question, does the GX660 also have space for a second HDD?

 

well maybe you have ordered a special model with fullhd res. There are lots of models.

The one i own is the same version available on xoticpc.

Yes, it has space for another hdd, and upto 12 g of ram.

In my view i would upgrade the cpu till your i5 gets old (and a new processor cheaper and faster), so you will save a lot of money. Actually an i5 is more than enough for the most common tasks.

 

Okay, glad to hear that. I'm planning to get a SSD HDD.
Can't wait till I receive the laptop. ^^

 

Yeah waiting is the worst part. The laptop if ****ing awesome ^^. Finally I tweaked it and I'm getting about 50-60 average fps on SC2 @ultra , with a mininum of 20 and up to 80 sometimes. The next step is getting the same fps with AA enabled + overclock

 

my inly complain for the laptop is that having a vga port instead of dvi... the rest are awesome, like the 3 slot ram and 2 usb 3.0 and raid capable

 

guys with the GX660R, would you mind posting some benchmarks in this thread?

I posted my own, but I'm running separate hard drives, and not RAID.

 

Fait

total: 216,33

 

score 394

See last post in that thread

 

hehe now I just need to find a way to get this in my laptop .. PCI-Express OCZ Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive Launched | PCI-Express OCZ Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive Launched
And I'm back in busi ness

 

but the difference with gx660 and gx660R is only processor,memory,secondary hd?

because if is the difference, i would to flash bios gx660r up gx660?

-2 day incoming to arrive

 

GX660R has the following that the GX660 does not.


BD Combo

FHD Screen (GX660 only goes to 720p)

Quad-Core CPU standard

The ability to RAID the HDDs in a RAID 0 array. GX660 lacks RAIDable BIOS.


Those are the main differences.

 

If you just wanna play games, get the GX660 for better performance/cheaper price.

If you want it to last and be used for a lot of things, get the GX660R.

 

Just got the GX660 out of the box, amazing device! But got a quick question, how to make the webcam work? Windows won't find it..

 

press FN (next ton ctrl blue button) + F6

 

Yeah thanks! But 2 minutes after I've posted it, I found the button on the keyboard.. Idiot me. ^^ Played Assassins Creed 2 for a minute, amazing graphics, all on high! Going to download Crysis in a second.

 

my gx660 have a fhd panel, i5 460m

i not understand if i flash bios gx660r up gx660

 

Mine GX660 got 1080 FHD resolution/screen. And Raid 0 possibility. Bluray is optional.

 

i have this resolution, i have installed a secondary hd and i have dvd ram not bluray...

coming soon for reduce temperature

 

How can you see the Radeon HD5870 card in your specs? All it says is ATI Mobility HD 5800 Series in system specs.

 

MSI drivers will say 5870, latest AMD drivers say 5800 series.

 

and which are better?

 

Latest from AMD

 

ahhabahahah my 5870m in my gx660 have memory clock -100 mhz in comparative 5870m gx 660 r but my bios ati is latest. with version have all people thread? i want to try and combine lastest bios (for user gx660R) with +100 mhz clock memory (for gx660 user).

posted your bios version plus the bios file ati

 

I'm a bit curious about this as well. Anyone have a "newer" vBIOS?

According to GPU-Z, mine is 012.020.000.033.037960

 

I have the: 012.020.000.037.038120

 

No, what you are seeing is the core clock with power plugged in and with battery in use. Open ati overdrive and you will see that core clock comes down from 400 to 300 mhz on desktop, and 700 to 400 when playing, when you unplug the power adapter.

It also depends on your power profile (on ati ccc). I didnt know why starcraft 2 went from 60 fps to about 20-30 sometimes, and it was because of that.

Greetings!

 

I have BIOS 012.020.000.032.038258. How do you update your gpu bios? Btw, I wanted to recovery my device, but when I'm in the recovery menu I get the error "Recovery isn't possible in this environment. Please try again later." How can you fix this?

 

Btw does anyone get the same problem as me, after sleeping when I have left a youtube tab open in chrome, and I then go to play it, it will crash my computer (music plays just the cursor is stuck and I can't do anything at all).

Really annoying, anyone know why. Only thing i've noted is, it doesn't do it on battery.

 

right click the video, go to settings, turn off hardware acceleration

 

Oooh, good shout! I've done it and hopefully it won't happen anymore.

Do you know why this happens out of curiousity?

 

kyosh1n 012.020.000.032.038258
Napbree 012.020.000.037.038120
Forge 012.020.000.033.037960
Elmolivez 012.020.000.033.037960 5870M 700 GPU 1000 MEM GX660R
Rhadamanthis 012.020.000.037.038120 5870M 700 GPU 900 MEM GX660
The Red 012.020.000.033.037960 5870M 700 GPU 1000 MEM GX660R
DrewN 012.020.000.037.038120 5870M 700 GPU 900 MEM GX660R

your?

i want to modify my clock mem to 1000 mhz

 

I'm not sure what you mean, but ATI overdrive let's me overclock the gpu core to 960 and the memory to 1200!

 

Elmolivez 012.020.000.033 5870M 700 GPU 1000 MEM

I also want to know where to get the latest vBIOS

 

So, nothing to do with the speech of ati overdrive. Because as you and I have the same last bios, I have a gx660 and a gx660r you, you respect me you have default 700/1000 5870m 5870m while I have on my 700/900. I want to edit my bios with +100 mhz on memory. msi gx660r you have, right? you can post a screen of 5870m gpu z?

 

is not completed bios version text

 

012.020.000.037.038120 700 GPU 900 MEM here. Same as you.

Is anyone using Afterburner with their GX660(R)s?

 

Then the problem is the bios, even if that is the last (comparing the numerology) has at least 100 Mhz.

Regarding msi afterburning, you may edit the configuration file afterburner and put the vendor id or the type of card?

I use overdrive too much because you can not go beyond the limit 960 gpu/1200 memory.

unless ..... unlock voltage ... Intriguing

 

Sorry here it is:
012.020.000.033.037960

 

Hi guys,

Got my GX660R yesterday, gotta say I'm very impressed with nearly every aspect of the laptop. However theres one massive hang up I've got... there's several reviews on the next saying that the black levels and screen quality is awesome on this model, but I can't say I agree.

I've had it sat next to my Toshiba Satellite (Pro P100) whilst copying files over and noticed this....



I can't get over how poor the brightness & black levels are compared... is this a known issue, anyone else had this?

 

Post you screen form with 940xm cpu z?

your psu is original 150w or targus 180w?

6200 wifi how do you install?

 

I haven't read anyone praising the black levesl of this machine haha. The problem is the WLED they use for backlight, which offers tremendous brightness specially on very bright areas like outside during the day, but on low light ambients it looks grayish.

The second problem are the viewing angles, which just suck as they are very small. To improve black levels, go to the ati control panel, destkop and displays, configure the panel with 130ish saturation, reduce brightness a bit and adjust contrast to your liking. I do have great colors and I actually use around 30% of the backlight AT MOST, so black levels and colors are not a problem to me. The viewing angles are though.