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    Experienced with MSI and/or Sager? Need advice!

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ma_251, Oct 12, 2014.

  1. ma_251

    ma_251 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    I am buying a gaming laptop with the GTX970M. I have narrowed it down to:

    -MSI GT60 Dominator 1065 with GTX970 3GB
    Price: 1499$
    or
    -Sager NP8262 (Clevo P150SM-A) with GTX970 6GB (Available at the end of October)
    Price: 1399$


    I want advice of the community regarding these laptops specially which laptop may have better heat management.

    P.S. My budget is strictly under $1500 so if anyone has another laptop in mind with GTX970M pls do mention.

    Thankyou
     
    ma_251, Oct 12, 2014
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    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    The GT60 comes with a better keyboard, better speakers, better video outputs and IPS screen vs TN.

    The sager is cheaper, has more vram and is a bit slimmer.

    Over all I would give the win to the MSI since the interaction with a nicer speakers/keyboard/screen (which is what you are always looking at) makes the whole experience nicer.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Oct 12, 2014
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    ma_251 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thankyou for the quick reply.

    Any advice on the heat management? I can confirm that Sager has separate fans for CPU and GPU while I am not sure this is the case with MSI. I think MSI has 1 fan? But cannot find confirmation.
     
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    The MSI uses a single larger fan where as sager use two smaller ones. Both have similar heatsink fin area. Either will cope fine with the 970M.
     
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