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    Where is my turbo mode (MSI GX60)

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by rayven1lk, Jan 19, 2013.

  1. rayven1lk

    rayven1lk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey guys,

    I ordered and received the MSI GX60 1AC-021US. However instead of a turbo button I just have a button labelled P1. I thought I must have seen this button on a different model, but after going online and looking through pictures, MSI has advertised the one touch turbo drive engine which is activated through the turbo button. As a customer, I feel cheated and a victim of false advertising. I just wanted to make sure if this was something applicable to only the US models before I file a formal complaint with them.

    For your reference, here is a picture of the advertisement I found:
    http://gentechpcforums.com/Images/MSI/GT60W/GX60_1AC-021US_ProductOverv.jpg

    Thanks.
     
    rayven1lk, Jan 19, 2013
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    Sublime865 Notebook Consultant

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    Negatory on the turbo. P1 is a hotkey app launcher. Honestly, the turbo doesn't really do much - use MSI Afterburner to clock your 7970M to 920/1400, and use AMD PSCheck to lock your 4 processor cores at 2.7GHz.

    We get the shaft in the US - there's nothing Gentech can do about it, MAYBE return it less cost of re-stocking.


    All that said, I leave my video card at stock clocks and lock my processor at 2.7GHz and it is unholy performance.


    We're pretty active over in the owners lounge: http://forum.notebookreview.com/msi/692264-offical-msi-gx60-owners-lounge-77.html

    If you want to extract the best performance out of it, there's 77 pages of awesome XD but in all seriousness, the latest 13.1 drivers from AMD really unleash it, and above and beyond that you're going to want AMD PSCheck (though I think setting it to high performance mode supposedly does the same thing), MSI Afterburner and Kombustor (benchmarking, essential for overclocking), and I posted a guide in that forum for overclocking the card with the MSI Afterburner.
     
    Sublime865, Jan 19, 2013
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    rayven1lk Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey sublime,

    thanks for the heads up. truth be told, this is the first time I've gotten a gaming laptop and I'm very unfamiliar with OCing, guess I should start reading your guide :) Another thing I wanted to mention was I've been trying to update my graphics drivers, but windows 8 is giving me a hard time. It ended up crashing and I had to wait for MSI to deliver me some recovery disks. Its just that while updating the drivers, the computer restarts and windows starts configuring itself till it gets stuck at 15%.
     
    rayven1lk, Jan 19, 2013
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    sangemaru Notebook Deity

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    rayven,

    MSI laptops (GX660, GT683, GX60 etc.) have rewritable EC controller. You need the app by pherein to set the speeds on the fan, and RW-everything to enable controller write, and then you can make your own profiles for the fans, going up to max fan speed.
    If you need better cooling just google those 2 things.
     
    sangemaru, Jan 19, 2013
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    Ah yes, the 15%. Leave it. It takes like half an hour or more. It will do this to you a few times. At least, it did to me. I got my discs but by the time they arrived I was already settled back in to Win7. If you want to keep using 8 and want it to seem more user friendly since the GX60 lacks a touch screen - give Start8 a try. I have little against 8 aside from the lack of support (Windows 7 has years of crazy corporate help desk techs on forums since it is so widespread in the corporate world, Windows 8 has not the time in service or wide acceptance of 7). Start8™ for Windows® 8 - Bringing back the Windows Start menu
     
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    AMD are not as supportive of mobile ocing as Nvidia so I don't think they got permission to do it.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jan 20, 2013
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    Can you link it for me? Cause I just cant find it. To know more I just want to ask. Is there any posibility to modify firmware to use a key that is for a backligh keyboard like a P1 key?
     
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