Gizmodo Reviews GS60 Ghost & GS70 Stealth in Round-Up

Gizmodo just finished their round-up of the best thin and light gaming laptops and rated the MSI GS60 Ghost and GS70 Stealth as one of the best thin and light gaming laptops. It came up on top over ASUS’s latest thin and light G501, Aorus X3 Plus, Alienware 13, Acer Aspire V17 Nitro, HP Omen and more.
“The $1750 MSI GS60 Ghost Pro and $1800 GS70 Stealth Pro are almost identical—both sport a classy aluminum chassis (I was struck by how strong yet thin each of them were), excellent SteelSeries keyboards, well-balanced Dynaudio speakers and plenty of power under the hood."

the "SHIFT" function is new on GTX900 series and three modes been provided for users to change the freq/fan speed/temp results by different scenario.
It's suitable for users who need to change the scenarios by their needs and pretty convenient for dropping temp/fan noise.
Quote from: 魔法戰車 on 04-December-14, 10:46:03
I like the Shift function, so you can decide which mode that you wanna use, just like modern cars, one button to race, and press again to be Hybrid…cool!!

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     I have no idea who can say no to this shining and charming beauty....
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    MSI GS60 Ghost Pro 2QE Golden Edition:
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    •   OS: Windows 8.1
    •   Display: 15.6″ WQHD+, IPS (2880*1620)
    •   Memory Supplied: 16G 2*8GB DDR3L 1600
    •   Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX970M GDDR5 3GB
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    It also has a convenient design that the earmuff can be folded, in order to make the headset into a plat one and easy to put in your bag.
    The performance of the headset is high-end and highs that don’t get brittle. About the deep bass, it also quite stunning. Overall, it can make the music carry listener’s heart.
    It deserves you to put it on the top of your gaming headset list.
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    Using Mg-Li alloy as the material, its chasis gains the advantage of both ultra-light and solid.
    According to MSI official website, the idea of design comes from the stealth fighter, so it shows dynamic streamline in its design. Beside the visual effect, it makes you feel comfortable when typing due to the slimmer front edge and solid palm rest. The high gloss finish and bright gold will reflect light, so it change color slightly in different lighting condition. Overall, it delivery supreme visual treat.
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    The touchpad looks cool as well, the material it made let the surface being anti-skidding and you wont leave your fingerprint on it.
    It has Dynaudio speaker and Steelseries keyboard these two famous brand as it high-end equipment. 4 channel speakers and comfortable tactile keyboard. Moreover, the Graphics card it equiped is GTX 970M,
    One of the lastest high-end Nvidia GTX graphics card. It is the first gaming notebook to equip GTX 970M .No doubt MSI regard themselves as the leader brand of gaming.
    Sound Blaster Cinema 2+Dyanudio, Bravo~~
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    All of above are the unboxing of hardware part.let’ talk about some function and feature of this treasure.
    Dragan Gaming Center which is preinstalled in this MSI laptop. With this application, you can monitor the status of the important elements in the system. You can also quick start a game or an utility through it.
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    Comfort- System locks GPU chip temp and dynamic adjusts the GPU chip temp
    Sport- Defaut and without any control.
    I am not afraid about the high temperature and noise from fans, so I like to use the default one, Sport mode~
    If you are playing a game in the library, please do choose Green mode to keep the fan from being busy.
    The "Shift" is MSI exclusive function, the idea comes from the shifting gear in automobile.
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    With the XSplit Gamecaster preintalled in GS60, you can share your game just in time through live streaming while playing it. however, I won't use this function because I don't wanna share my skill to the others, hahaha~~
    The Steal Series Engine, it is my favorite. You can set the keypress macro、text macro or lauch application just in one key. For example, while playing Leaque of Legend, we always need to press Q、W、E、R、T
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    You can also choose the color you want for the keyboard backlit with Steal Series Egine. This function shows the gaming feature indeed.  
    That's see the multi-color backlit of it. What a show off!!!
    Below is the hardware information showed by Nvidia Experience UI and GPU Z
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    I can't wait to see the 3D MARK 11 P score...
    Here it got P9272 at sport mode. Outstanding!!
    For 3D MARK Fire Strike, it got 6515 at sport mode. I have to say that GS60 Ghost Pro punches above its weight.
    The result of Valley Benchmark 1.0 is below, score 1560 and FPS is 37.3.
    Testing the Call of duty Ghost with FRAPS, while play the game, it goes smoothly and the fps showed at top-left is around 100~200. As you can see the delicated scenery and character there, it seems like act in the reality.
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    Take a look at its outward appearance again, bring it oudoor to see its color under natural light.
    Fantastic~~
    I would like to say, the GS60 Ghost Pro Golden is Lamborghini in gaming laptop!! It will be all the rage.

    This year, GTX970M performance is even better than 880M, with GS60's slim design, I can only say the advance of technology is so amazing!!!

  • GS70 Stealth Noob Question. Help?

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    It has Turbo Boost. It just doesn't say it on the webpage.

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    Which GS70 model do you have? The GS70 Stealth?
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  • First Look: MSI GS70 Stealth Gaming Laptop at Computer Shopper

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       Review result: Features 4/5  Performance 4/5 Value 4/5

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    Ta-da~~~ What comes across your mind, when you hear MSI? It is DYNAudio. The sound that comes out from the Audio Boost, which is the gold-plated audio jack, cannot be heard elsewhere and the speakers made by the high-end speaker manufacturers, DYNAudio, along with Sound Blaster Cinema are all proud elements of MSI.
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    You can share it on Facebook~~
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    It is very convenient and appealing~~ I myself use this function very often~~
    I don’t know how the day passed playing games with GS60. Size, weight, design, performance and many special functions provided only by MSI! Today I fell in love with GS60 Ghost.
    Top Player Top Choice MSI GS60 Ghost!
    I highly recommend it to everyone with confidence!

    WOW~~ GS60 Ghost have good performance and very slim.. game caster function is interesting...goodbye Macbook~~

  • Requesting disassembly/assembly Guide For MSI GS60 Ghost Plese

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    Quote from: Carolyn;106986
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    Adam

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  • GS70 and GS70 Stealth

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    I have a small question that is on my mind and hoping someone can shed some light on the situation
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    Quote from: Subzie on 03-February-14, 05:27:23
    Hello all
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    I dont think there is any difference. My understanding is they are same device:
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    GS70 2OD-001US(1x128GB MSATA, 1x750GB HDD 16GB RAM) $1549
    GS70 2OD-002US(SuperRaid 2x128GB MSATA 1x1TB HDD 16GB RAM) $1789

  • GS70 STEALTH Ram Upgrade

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    Just checked the specs of it and it does say 16gb max.
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    http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GS70_2PE_Stealth_Pro.html#specification

  • GS70 Stealth RAM issue

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    I assume you have hasswell CPU inside which officially support only 1.35V RAM. You can google "Haswell notebook 1.5V RAM" and will see possible problems.
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