[Introduction] New MSI Rep!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to introduce myself, I'm Myco and I'll be working with Geno as his back up for now, here on NBR!

Happy to be a part with this community and I look forward to hearing from all of you!


Thanks!

 

Welcome Myco!

Both me and myco will be here to support everyone on NBR.

 

Welcome Myco.

 

Good to have you here Myco!

 

Welcome to the forums Myco I hope you can bring us closer to MSI so we can find news, tips and general info we need. Everyone I hope you treat Myco well and remember, as much as we want immediate help with particular issues, or to know about all secret future products, Myco and Geno have certain limits of what they can share.

 

Good to see you here, Myco!
Hey I was wondering about something. Is it possible to put a second hard drive in the MSI GT72? Some pictures/videos I've seen of it look like it has a physical bay space for one, but no connector, and a youtube video shows someone putting one there but they kind-of had to fudge things with connecting it.

 

Thanks everyone!

hey pianoplayer - yes, there are people who have opened their GT72 to do some modding and add another SSD, but we actually don't support it. The physical space for the SSD is just the molding that was used for the laptop.

 

Hi Myco - and welcome!

Can you confirm if the newer dominator GT72 lines out there have Thunderbolt 3 40Gb/s on their "superport" USB type-c connector? It seems the information on the website, reviews, etc is terribly confused as to this feature's existence. I've even found product info on the msi website that does and does not claim to have it - almost like there are 2 sets of pages for some of the products - all referring to the Skylake GT72 systems.

Thanks in advance!

 

I can confirm that all new models of GT72 have Thunderbolt 3.

 

Fantastic! Ordered!

 

Okay, Myco, that's kind-of what I was figuring. (It was a laptop I was possibly considering, but for now I think I'm going with a different one. A 17.3" is bordering on a bit large, although I'm sure I could handle it. Don't want smaller than 15.6" though cause I want the dedicated numeric keypad. Interestingly my dad's similar-sized but 7-year-old Dell D830 doesn't have that.)

Since you're under an NDA, I guess you can't yet talk about the MSI GTX 200 Titan, 20" laptop with a screen density higher than that of the Sony Z5 Premium 4K smartphone, with two 3.5" hard drive bays, dual blu-ray burners, dual Xeon E5-2699 V3 Socket LGA 2011 v3 CPUs, 512GB of DDR4-4266 ECC registered RAM (there's a desktop dual-socket board with 16 DDR4 slots, and ECC can come in 32GB/slot), quad GTX Titan X graphics cards swappable for the top-end Quadros or Teslas, full-size desktop-style mechanical keyboard including physical numeric keys, etc, to go on sale on December 26 for $199.99 ... just kidding!! (okay a guy can dream I guess even though he can't afford a beast like that. Maybe MSI has something in the works that would blow away the Eurocom Panther 5SE, which uses an older Socket 2011 with Xeons, Quadro GPUs, four 2.5" bays, etc....)

 

The GT80 is fairly close to that but has a slightly higher price tag

Also, dual burners? Got to get with the times Let the optical media go.....

 

You're right, Meaker. Hmm, instead of the blu-ray burners, maybe a few hot-swappable SATA bays would be more appropriate? And/or, if possible, a hot-swappable PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slot for a PCI-Express SSD? Which reminds me ... youtu.be/vF3YRCVvaFw?t=10m36s

 

Hey @myco

Do these SuperPorts support Mini HDMI( Type-C) to DVI? :O

Just curious if that thing works like that... I ordered the "Planet Crushing Price Killing Interstellar annihilation" GT80S.... God help us all.

It's advertised to support video out through, I just know for sure how it works.

 

Welcome Myco!

Glad to see MSI is adding support to our community.

 

Hot swappable click in place M.2 PCI-E 4x drives that slot in via the front

 

The Super Ports are USB Type C so anything Type C cable will work with the port.
In the case of DVI, the GT80S has an HDMI port as well so you can get cables or adapters for that port. I hope that helps! Enjoy your GT80S!

 

This is pretty confusing. I swear I've seen reviews of skylake gt72s sporting a 10gbps type C port, just like the new gs60. Shouldn't it be 40gbps to meet the thunderbolt 3 spec.

 

Yay, thanks D

 

I just bought a MSI g72 Dominator Pro G 034. First question is it normal to have light bleed on the screen because if i viewing movies it is really noticeable in the bottom right and left corners of the screen? Also I was playing Battlefront on Ultra settings everything was running very smooth but the workload caused the fans to spin faster offcourse. Then the right fan started making a high pitched noise during heavy workloads and even with my earbuds on i could hear it. So is that normal? Should i be worried aboutthese issues??????

 

Is the superport on a GS60 (Ghost Pro) also a thunderbolt 3?

 

I would love to have this clarified as well. The gs60 I have does have a type c port, but what it actually can do is all over the place. I've seen specs list it as a 10Gbps port. Others say its a thunderbolt 3 port. I've also seen a description stating the following: "The USB SuperPort (Type C), exclusively designed by MSI, supports Thunderbolt 3 (optional), DisplayPort and USB 3.1 connections with a single connector". Optional?

 

Welcome Myco. I've enjoyed my GT70 2PE and still do even though I've started to have some display problems. http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...0-owners-lounge.658595/page-249#post-10158922

Other than this issue it's been a great machine that has served me well. I will most likely have to send it in for service after the holiday since I can't even get into the bios or select a boot device anymore.

It's great to see manufacturers provide community support.

 

I agree I've been around notebooks and computers, and we have way better support and community knowledge now

 

Hey Soul0merk, Georald,

The GS60 currently will transfer at 10gbps until they are Thunderbolt 3 certified with a firmware update in the near future. I hope this clears it up!

 

Interesting, so a firmware update in the future can turn it into a 40Gbps port. Good news then, thanks!