New MSI GT70 - 890

Hey guys, I just bought a MSI GT Series GT70 DominatorPro-890. I had Asus G750 JavaScript and then JZ model before this, but bad thermal throttling led me to msi.

So, is the the forum for this notebook? The asus had an actual asus forum, for specific laptops, in which you could make threads and ask questions and all that. But is this the forum for the msi, or is there another website for that?

Also, my asus came with backtracker, which put windows and recovery all onto a usb for me, in which I could do fresh installs of windows with all drivers onto any harddrive in my laptop through the usb. Does the msi have a program like this?

Also, I've seen a few posts on here about downloading a fan control software thing, is that something that should be done?

I'm new to msi, old to laptops and pc's. I knew my asus like back of hand, and built several gaming and workstation pc's in the last year so I am fully knowledgable on both components and processes.

I'm going to be using this laptop for some gaming, but maily sony vegas 12, cyberlink powerdirector 12, maya, solidworks, autocad, and adobe cs suite.

Are there any first things to be done when getting my laptop? Other than the normal clean up bloatware type stuff?

I plan to change out hhd for 2x 1tb Samsung evo ssd's, and add in my 4x 8gb ddr3l 1866 ram. I have those from previous asus. Should I also change out the wireless card? Does it have miracast/widi?

Anything to help out please.

 

The number of times G750 becomes the "Javascript" edition amuses me.

There are lounge threads for the different models, msi do have a program to create recovery media yes. Fan control is nice to tune it to your liking but not required.

Welcome to a world where you can get in to clean and maintain the system if you want to without taking the motherboard out of the case