MSI GT60 Windows 8 - SSD Raid is detected as HDD (Optimize)

So I just got the GT60 and I have my OS installed on my Super Raid 128GB setup. The problem I have is that when I went to the "optimize" option of Windows 8, I saw that it detected my SSD Super Raid Setup as HDD and not SSD. I thought analyzing the drive might fix it, but it didn't. Now I'm afraid to optimize it for fear that it will defrag it instead of TRIM.
Edit: Somehow after 2 days of not checking on it, it somehow fixed itself... I don't know how it did it, but I didn't do anything to it other than some Windows updates and app crash fixes. I guess that fixed it...
Well as a side question, should I optimize the other 2 drives that I see?
BIOS_RVY
WinRe Tools
Should I run optimization on them?

Original devices? What devices?
My stripe size is 128kb.
I have used other benchmarks. Unfortunately mark the same results.
I have also looked at the firmware of the SSD are updated. I tried one without ssd raid, and I get 200mb result of reading and writing 90MB.
Something is wrong, why results so low?
PS: Seen this way, the raid is making me x2 speed, but why the low result?

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MSI Z87-G45 SSD Raid 0 - SSDs Not Detected

I have finished building a new computer and have two Samsung 840 250gb drives and I am trying to setup the BIOS to recognize the two SSDs for a raid 0 configuration. I have flashed the latest BIOS and ME drivers. I cannot seem to get the drives to show up.
My system:
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150
Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-2133
Samsung 840 Series 250GB 2.5" SSD x 2
EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB x 2
Asus Xonar Essence STX
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I have finished building a new computer and have two Samsung 840 250gb drives and I am trying to setup the BIOS to recognize the two SSDs for a raid 0 configuration. I have flashed the latest BIOS and ME drivers. I cannot seem to get the drives to show up.
My system:
Intel Core i7-4770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core
MSI Z87-G45 Gaming ATX LGA1150
Corsair Vengeance 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-2133
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Asus Xonar Essence STX
NZXT H630 ATX Full Tower
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Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

MSI Ge70 windows ssd question

Hello,
I am buying an SSD this sunday and was wondering how to turn a windows recovery CD into a clean windows 8 CD so i can install it on my SSD, since in win8 the key is encrypted into the bios.
Is there a way to remove most of the MSI things from the recovery CD?
Thanks in advance!
(also when i have installed win8 on the SSD can i remove all the partitions on my HDD and make it to 1 big HDD?)
--Kalekip21

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I am buying an SSD this sunday and was wondering how to turn a windows recovery CD into a clean windows 8 CD so i can install it on my SSD, since in win8 the key is encrypted into the bios.
Is there a way to remove most of the MSI things from the recovery CD?
you can do a clean install on the SSD,
use original W8 Installation, make USB W8 installation and install it on SSD
its recommended to disconnect your HDD temporary, before install W8 on SSD,
and to reconnect it when its done
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(also when i have installed win8 on the SSD can i remove all the partitions on my HDD and make it to 1 big HDD?)
yes eventually, but my opinion there is no need to do this, because:
you will lost recovery function
also by that way you will have second backup OS to boot from in a case that OS on the SSD become messed up.
this also can help for easy OS restore.
after OS install on SSD and your program installation/updates, customizations and so are done,
you can boot from your HDD and to do a image file with Acronis true image from the SSD and to store it on HDD
then in a case of OS problem on SSD, you can restore it very quickly, by boot from HDD and restore image on SSD.
P.S: What SSD storage you gonna install?

MSI GT60 with Vertex 4 SSD - Freezing, won't load Windows only in SATA III port

Hello,
New to the world of SSD's and trying to get my Vertex 4 to be able to operate at 6 Gb/s. I know that in my MSI GT60 that it has to be in port 1 because that is where the SATA III controller is, port 4 is just a SATA II. I was able to update the Vertex 4 to firmware version 1.5 and when it is plugged into port 4, no issues at all. It will run and take anything i throw it while running at 3 Gb/s in SATA II mode. My port 1 currently houses a 500gb Western Digital Scorpio drive.
As soon as i throw the Vertex 4 in port 1, issues arise. Sometimes i get a disk read error right after bios, sometimes it just freezes. On the latest Intel RST for my board, 11.2.0.1006 it can actually boot on occasion but 90% of the time freezes but still only reads 3 Gb/s when it does boot. It does the same thing in version 11.1.0.1006 and any older RST it just freezes or says disk read error and never boots.
I have my bios set to AHCI mode and i have tried the Vertex 4 by itself and also with the WD 500gb in the other port. When i switch back to Vertex 4 in port 4 and WD in port 1, no issues at all. Just trying to see if this is a known issue or anything else i can look at. I made sure to break the RAID 0 and it was a clean install of windows 7 to the drive.
Running on bios E16F3IMS.10M. The Vertex 4 is at its latest firmware as well. I do have one PCI device i can't identify in Windows and thinking it might be the issue but can't narrow it down. I have the Intel RST installed.
I also posted this on the OCZ forum and did their tips as well.
Thanks!
James

Hi everyone, I've still the problem with my windows 8 or my windows server 2012 installed on disk on vhd file.
I've putted on an other kingston ssd on sata2 and there is no problem! crazy

MSI GT70 Secondary Drive/750gb not detected while SSD in Raid !!

Long story short , my system crashed randomly for the first time ever (I left the room came back and the system had crashed) , then I got the raid boot failure message for the first time ever !
It was a perfectly clean system practically unused system.
I got the laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium.. this just before the Win 8 systems came out..
I deleted Raid Volume and then created a Raid Volume..
Installed Windows 8 , all this while Bios set to Raid !
I noticed my 750Gb drive was no longer visible in Windows.. i installed all the drivers i could think of but still my secondary HDD wasn't being detected in device manager..
Intel Rapid Storage Technology detected 699GB in Storage System View , while device manager didnt..
When i set Bios to either ACHI or IDE , Bios then reads the 750GB drive in boot priority list but then Windows fails to boot from my SSD's set to Raid !
When I set bios to RAID it only reads SSD , not the 750GB drive..
So basically when I set my Bios to raid my secondary 750gb drive disappears from the boot priority list + from Windows !
When I set to achi/IDE my raid disappears.
I want to keep my raid and have my 750gb drive !
How i dont know...
If i disable raid , only a single SSD drive is detected that leaves me with half the space.. so i cant even make do without Raid because ill lose half that space..
Another thing worth noting is that my Bios boot screen/time has increased noticeably compared to how things were originally. feeling sluggish !
Sorry for putting things in such a messy way..
Thanks for your input and help in advace !!!

thanks for updating me on that..
But to my luck , i had nearly been using the system for 2 days now..
Installed everything , played a few movies etc..
Then my system froze..
I had to force shut it down..
Now im getting the Raid boot failure status all over again..
So i went and reconnected the SSD's but the problems still the same..
I cant go delete my entire raid because what if this happens again..
I'm stuck in this non sense of a loop.. most disappointed , i spent so much money on this machine and i haven't once enjoyed it like i was supposed to..
Is it the raid card , is it the ssd , is it the raid software or is it something else.. :(
Why is my system doing this.. beyond disappointed all my efforts have gone to waste..

MSI GT60 0ND Restore Windows 8 DVD

Hi everyone, today i tryed to install Ubuntu on my MSI GT60 0ND, just for fun. After 2 days of using, I wanted to get back to Windows 8. I started to restore via msi restore disks. And found that 3rd disk is damaged.
I tryed to restore the disk. Copyed the OSImg3.swm, and noticed that just 0405, 0409, 0445 files are damaged.
So please guys who can upload 3rd disk or know the way to fix my problem please answer.
I need only 3rd disk, total disk quantity is 5.
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Intel Core i7 3630QM
RAM 12GB DDR3
NVIDIA GTX 675M 2GB
64 + 64 SSD RAID 0 (Super Raid)
750 GB 7400 rmp hdd

Easier to say which ones NOT to install.
http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GT60-0NC.html#/?div=Driver&os=Win8%2064
Don't install the Raid drivers unless you use raid.
Start with the Chipset, Intel Management Engine Drivers then install the others one by one depending on which devices your laptop is equipped.

Grub not detecting Windows on RAID 0 array.

I'm having some trouble with my RAID array. I have tried to research this, but all I can find is how to install Arch Linux ONTO an array, not how to detect Windows on one, and configure grub for it. I have two SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration, which holds my Windows 7 installation. I then have two HDDs in JBOD. One of those HDDs is my mass storage drive for Windows and Linux, the other is my Arch Linux install.
The problem is that--with os-prober installed--Grub isn't detecting my Windows install. I was trying Fedora when I converted my Windows install to RAID 0, and Fedora picked up on it when I ran grub-mkconfig with os-prober installed. Grub at that point was pointing at /dev/mapper/<some random-seeming string> for Windows, and it worked.
Now that I'm back "home" to Arch Linux, I am trying to get grub to see Windows, but it never detects it. /dev/mapper/ is empty except for 'control', and /dev contains sda and sdb, which are the drives that are supposed to be in the array. At this point, I'm completely lost. I'm not even sure if this is software or hardware raid. I thought it to be hardware, because my motherboard has a RAID option rom on it, which is what I used to build the array, but the /dev/mapper stuff makes me think it's software.
Can anyone at least get me pointed in the right direction?
Thank you,
KD0BPV
Last edited by kd0bpv (2012-12-08 10:25:12)

Well, I did add ntfs to my initramfs, but it still dropped into an emergency mode terminal. I checked to make sure that it was successful, and the ntfs kernel module was loaded. Any ideas?
# lsmod | grep ntfs run in emergency shell:
ntfs 191626 0
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf:
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES="ext4 ntfs"
# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image. This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""
# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way. This is useful for config files.
# Some users may wish to include modprobe.conf for custom module options
# like so:
# FILES="/etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf"
FILES=""
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
## This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
## No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
# HOOKS="base"
## This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
## work as a sane default
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems"
## This is identical to the above, except the old ide subsystem is
## used for IDE devices instead of the new pata subsystem.
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect ide scsi sata filesystems"
## This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
## No autodetection is done.
# HOOKS="base udev pata scsi sata usb filesystems"
## This setup assembles a pata mdadm array with an encrypted root FS.
## Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H mdadm' for more information on raid devices.
# HOOKS="base udev pata mdadm encrypt filesystems"
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#COMPRESSION="lzop"
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Hi Everyone Im New, Got Question About Upgrading MSI GT60 0ND With SSD

Hi Everyone I'm New, Got Question About Upgrading MSI GT60 0ND With SSD.
:welcome:So As I've stated I'm new here, or at least got a new MSI notebook.
Ive got the new MSI gt60 0ND with 750GB HD and 675 Ge-Force GTX , anyways to the bottom line.
I would like to Upgrade my computer with SSD that I bought and install the win8 on it, in order to speed things up, but I have encountered a few problems..
1. there is no sticker on the back of the computer that gives information about the serial number of my windows 8...
2. lets say in some magical way I could get the serial number out, can I use it to reinstall ? because Ive heard that you cannot use this CD key anyways unless you got a special win8 installation CD key from MSI because its MSI branded windows 8.
am I screwed ? ?? ? I thought it is possible to upgrade with SSD but it seems like MSI made it very hard, I do not understand why they even putted the warranty void sticker on the expansion bay's .... WEIRD..
Please help !! Thanks in advance,
David

Quote from: dudiz10 on 10-January-13, 19:20:54
Hi Everyone I'm New, Got Question About Upgrading MSI GT60 0ND With SSD.
:welcome:So As I've stated I'm new here, or at least got a new MSI notebook.
Ive got the new MSI gt60 0ND with 750GB HD and 675 Ge-Force GTX , anyways to the bottom line.
I would like to Upgrade my computer with SSD that I bought and install the win8 on it, in order to speed things up, but I have encountered a few problems..
1. there is no sticker on the back of the computer that gives information about the serial number of my windows 8...
2. lets say in some magical way I could get the serial number out, can I use it to reinstall ? because Ive heard that you cannot use this CD key anyways unless you got a special win8 installation CD key from MSI because its MSI branded windows 8.
am I screwed ? ?? ? I thought it is possible to upgrade with SSD but it seems like MSI made it very hard, I do not understand why they even putted the warranty void sticker on the expansion bay's .... WEIRD..
Please help !! Thanks in advance,
David
I think serial key of windows is in your bios which you cannot See however it should be automatically activates windows

Can I but ssd drive in msi gt60 without bracket

Hi guys,
I have ordered the ssd drive ( samsung 840 pro 128gb) then I realized that I should have a bracket to put it in my laptop msi gt60 0nd and it didn't came with the laptop
So, can I put ssd drive in msi gt60 without bracket?
If it not wich one should I buy

Quote from: mods on 23-August-13, 00:05:41
Egypt
Oh jesus. Sadly, I visited there back in 2006. I had a great time back then. Now I think I'll stay away. >.<
That being said, yeah, there isn't much you can do. I've had people paypal me money and then purchasing the part, and forwarding it to them (they were in AUS though).
Not sure I can do that this time around again though. I'll be gone for a week too starting on Sunday, so yeah, I wouldn't be able to get to it for another 2 weeks. =/

RAID & BIOS issues on MSI gt60

Hi,
I apologize if this is not the right section or this question was already submitted (I honestly didn't knew what to search for,i'm a newbie).
This is the problem:
I can't access to the BIOS anymore clicking repeatedly the "delete" button on my MSI gt60 0nc. I have also removed the RAID1, but in Windows there is only one HDD displayed in "Computer" and when I tried ubuntu it installed his data on both hard drives,as in RAID1. I can't understand if the RAID1 is really deleted.
What I did:
To delete the RAID1 I entered the "Ctrl+i" menù via rebooting, I couldn't restore via F3 recovery (it only opened a "Choose boot device" menù). I entered in the BIOS and changed the hard disks to AHCI. I had to make a clean windows 7 installation with a dvd that I already had. How to restore the BIOS and how to make windows recognize the second HDD as an usable separate disk? If it's possible I would also like to know if drivers have to be installed in some specific order to avoid conflicts.
Thank you in advance, good day!

It's working perfectly!! Thank you so much!
I rebooted and luckily no errors popped up. About the Ubuntu I will wait for the help of your friend before making any dangerous move then
That's a great article, I'm reading it right now. I'm not an expert but I would really like to become a "tech savvy" (this is the primary reason why I also want to install an unix based operating system)!
About the driver conflict thing that i wrote in the first post do you know something about it?
Basically:
"I would like to know if drivers in windows have to be installed in some specific order to avoid conflicts since I had some problems with the Intel 4000 graphics drivers. I read the order is not important, but an other user in this forum had the same problem with the Intel 4000 graphic after the clean windows 7 installation and he basically resolved it with a fluke. How can I avoid driver's conflicts?"

MSI GE70 2OE 2x ssd RAID 0 DON'T WORK PROPERLY

Hi!,
I have a problem with my raid 0, They are two Kingston mS200 60GB (http://www.pccomponentes.com/kingston_ssdnow_ms200_60gb_msata.html) running at 550MB/s read and write.
This notebook supports up to 900MB / s in RAID mode.
Well, I installed 2 m-sata ssd in the slots. I enter the BIOS, change the AHCI TO RAID mode. Reboot, I go back into the bios. I set up two ssd, the raid is created. The bios shows me "Intel Raid 0 Volume" (111,80GB).
Installed Windows 8.1, drivers etc ...
I make a benchmak with the "AS SSD BENCHMARK" program.
And the results are read "551.17 mb / s" and writing "179.10 mb / s".
I have tried everything possible and get these very very bad results.

Original devices? What devices?
My stripe size is 128kb.
I have used other benchmarks. Unfortunately mark the same results.
I have also looked at the firmware of the SSD are updated. I tried one without ssd raid, and I get 200mb result of reading and writing 90MB.
Something is wrong, why results so low?
PS: Seen this way, the raid is making me x2 speed, but why the low result?

MSI GT60 0NE-404US mSata/SSD/HD?

Hi I've recently purchased a MSI GT60 0NE-404US from ncix.com. The computer itself came with a standard 5400rpm HD. I'm looking at upgrading it with a SSD and now here are some questions:
Does the computer have 2 2.5" HD bays?
Does it have a mSata port so I can simply buy a mSata SSD?
Can I use the SuperRaid function as advertised?
Because I've reading the forums and online but none of them have the correct information regarding the my exact model. I just want to make sure which SSD is supported so I can make the correct purchase.
Much appreciated!

The only way to find out what you can use it to open the bottom of the laptop up and see what is there.
If you see a 'card' where the hard drive should be, then you have a SuperRaid card. If you don't have a card there, then you probably have another normal SATA port for a 2.5" HDD.
That's the only way to truly know, as the resellers (such as NCIX) can change and customize it for you and who knows what it really is.

MSI GT60 hardware acceleration?

I just purchased an MSI GT60 with an 3610QM i7 and I'm trying to get a virtual machine going, but it's telling me
"VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit CPU and will not be able to boot. Please ensure that you have enabled VT-x/AMD-V properly in the BIOS of your host computer. "
I don't see any options in my bios that look anywhere near this. I'm running Windows 7 64 Home Edition. I don't really know that much about this so if I could please get some help!
CPU-Z info
BIOS brand: "American Megatrends Inc"
Version: "E16F3IMS.30C"
date: "4/26/12"
Thanks!

Quote from: Svet on 27-August-12, 20:23:10
flash to the latest version 3.0M
http://www.msi.com/product/nb/GT60-0NC.html#/?div=BIOS
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<
I'm planning on dropping the RAID 0 and going for an SSD and a storage drive. Would that affect the BIOS version I would upgrade too? Also wondering if you know of any resources on doing that.
Thanks!

Insight the Ultimate Weapon, MSI GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS gaming notebook!

Just hands on this ultimate gaming machine of MSI GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS version with Super Pack from the market, it took me over $2500 but really more than worth of it after I got great gaming experience!
Let’s take a first look on the packing; GT60 Super Pack comes with big carton.
Open the carton; it comes with big color box and a gaming backpack.
Take both of them out, the box design is real gaming style with fantastic dragon logo, so as the gaming backpack.
Take a look at the sticker on the box, it exposure why this GT60 Dominator Pro so valuable and special.
Items   Description
CPU:   Core i7 4800MQ @ 2.7GHz, boost to 3.7GHz
Graphics:   GTX880M 8GB GDDR5, CUDA Core 1536 Unified
Display:   2880x1620, 3K resolution IPS vivid panel, 350nits.
Storage:   3xSSD 384GB Super RAID 2, 1TB HDD, BluRay Combo
Memory:   8GBx4, 32GB DDR3L-1600
System:   Windows 8.1 64bit English
Internet:   Killer Doubleshot GB LAN, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
Display Output:    2x Mini Display Port, 1x HDMI, 3+1 display at same time
IO ports:   3 USB3.0, 1 USB2.0, Aux In, Mic In, Headset out, Aux Out
Dimensions/Weight:   395 x 267 x 34~55mm, 3.48kg with 9 Cell battery
Open the color box you will find 2 black boxes inside.
One on the left is the GT60 Dominator Pro 3K IPS, the right side one is full of surprise! These gaming style accessories only comes with Super Pack version, not every GT60 Dominator Pro will have these great gaming gears together.
The gift box comes with Gaming headset, Gaming mouse, Gaming pad and Top Player Top Choice stamp tool. SteelSeries is really great and famous on gaming gear devices; MSI is also great on gaming notebooks, they are too professional to co-work with SteelSeries!
The SteelSeries KINZU gaming mice, 3200dpi/1600dpi, very accurate optical mouse for 3K resolution monitor.
Put the mouse on the mouse pad, with the fancy Dragon tattoo makes me feel I am ready to play games, Top Player Top Choice!
The SteelSeries SIBERIA V2 gaming mouse, this is high quality headset and customized version for MSI gaming notebooks with fancy MSI dragon tattoo!!
Take a look on the customized artwork, the dragon tattoo on the metal cover of both set, and the Dragon gaming logo in the headset as well, that makes this headset more gaming style and looks powerful!
This Gaming headset belongs to MSI notebook accessories! The sound quality is really good, detail is clear on mid and high frequency, subwoofer is powerful and really suitable for gaming, even you wear for hours still feel comfortable and stable, overall quality makes me feel it’s over $150 value!
Very special stamp tool, I would like to put chocolate on this and stamp on the Dragon Gaming Cake!!
Let’s start to reveal the first lady, no, the real steel of GT60 Dominator Pro!!
Look at the surface of the design, Dragon logo with light from darkness on the cover, and the metallic material on top cover and palm rest side, which makes the GT60 Dominator Pro looks high quality and gaming style.
Take a look on the cover side, the Dragon Gaming Logo is really fancy and stylish with backlit. Brushed metal design makes the cover looks high quality and solid.
Sound by Dynaudio speaker system, the best famous mobile sound system on this top level GT60 Dominator Pro gaming notebook is really amazing, great on sound detail and real good acoustic of human vocal and great sound stage presents!
We put all the accessories together and boot up to check further detail on GT60 Dominator Pro 3K IPS version! The display quality is vivid.
Let’s take a look on the detail spec., 384GB SSD Super RAID, Intel Core i7 4800MQ @ 2.7GHz, top level GTX880M 8GB GDDR5 graphics, 32GB RAM. It’s all top level and could use for 3 more years of ultra-quality games!
When first time to use MSI gaming notebooks, you will feel amazing about the SteelSeries keyboard is really good typing feeling and solid based. It comes with multi-color backlit and move the windows key to right side, that really professional design as a gaming notebook keyboard, and the only one with real gaming design.
Take a look in the SteelSeries Engine, the exclusive gaming software only for MSI gaming notebooks. This macro keys software built in Keypress macro, Text macro, 1 key launch program and Disable key function, besides F1~F12, all other keys could be used for macros setup, and 4 layers of keyboards o setup 4 sets of macros with 4 sets of different backlit combinations, so this is really a great software for smarter and stylish gaming experience.
With CPU-Z tool to check, the upgraded Intel Core i7 4800MQ @ 2.7GHz, TDP 47W, 4 Cores 8 Threads is really great performance, CPU Boost could up to 3.5~3.7GHz.
Because of Core i7 4800MQ and GTX880M, the 3D benchmarks comes with breakthrough scores than ever on the notebook platform, 3D Mark Fire Strike: P5351 pts.
The GT60 Dominator Pro on 3D Mark 11 gains P8461 pts, it’s whole new level of the gaming notebooks, and It’s over 15% faster than GTX780M!
The 3D Mark Vantage boost up to P33115 scores, it’s 14% faster than GTX780M!
Then we check on other software of DirectX11 3D performance, the Heaven Benchmark is world’s 1st software tool to test DirectX11 effects, this time we use Heaven Benchmark version 3.0 to test.
Set the Tessellation on normal to enable DirectX11 effects and run Benchmark, the Full HD resolution could get 78.2 FPS(Frames Per Second) high score result.
Since this GT60 is 3K IPS panel edition, of course we have to try 3K resolution, you could see that the result block is smaller at 2880x1620 resolution, the result is 42.7 FPS with same setup, so we could say that 3K resolution will reduce over 45% of the FPS rate in this test, but GTX880M is too powerful, so still over 40FPS, and most games we need to get over 30 FPS to play and feel smoother, at least 20 FPS to play a game, if lower than 20 FPS, that will makes people feel lag obviously and feel dizzy easily.
Since we tried some benchmark, of course we have to try at least a famous game to the real world experience. Battlefield 4, the biggest FPS game title since end of 2013, is one of the heaviest loading games on PC platform.
First we made Battlefield 4 detail at 1920x1080 with Ultra Graphics Quality setup.
The gaming frames is 46 FPS, really smooth and around 20% faster than GTX780M.
Once we tune up the resolution to 2880x1620, the FPS drops a lot because the Ultra mode also set 4xMSAA (Anti-Aliasing), that will impact the performance a lot in higher resolution, also make graphics memory demand around 3GB~4GB, seems the 8GB GDDR5 with GTX880M is prepared for upcoming games with such as 3K or even higher resolutions!
We could see it’s about 24~28 FPS under 3K resolution with Ultra Graphics Quality, most time it will reduce over 40% FPS rate of the gaming performance.
Seems to set the Battlefield 4 with “High” graphics quality on 2880x1620 resolution is more suitable to play the game smoother in every theme.
It’s about 42 FPS, close to the 1920x1080 Ultra graphics quality. So if we want to play heavy loading games at 2880x1620 resolution, set to High graphics quality setup is a good option for 3K gaming!
After these 3D and gaming tests, let’s take a look on the temperature of the cooling system. The room temperature is 25 degree C, the temperature of fan out part is 71.2 degree C, it’s not a surprise because of GTX880M and Core i7 4800MQ, even it’s a bit lower than most gaming notebooks with this 2 combinations. The palm rest and keyboard side is 30.6 degree C, it’s really cool for users to hands on.
After the fabulous experience of great 3D performance, let’s take a look on the benefits of “Super RAID 2”, normal 2.5” HDD is about 80~100MB/s, single SSD is about 400~550MB/s, BUT, GT60 Dominator Pro boost over 1536MB/s and average is 1477MB/s, that’s 15x faster than single HDD, almost 3x faster than single SSD.
If we check on the AS SSD Benchmark tests, you could see more detail of the storage access performance is amazing, the Sequential read is 1116.76MB/s, write is 786.79MB/s. 4K-64Thrd read is 665.09MB/s, write is 461.18MB/s, it’s ultra fast!
The GT60 Dominator Pro 3K IPS edition comes with Killer Doubleshot LAN and WiFi, it provides faster response time of gaming experience, when you at different LAN/WiFi environment, Killer software will ask you to make an internet speed test, this will fine tune your LAN/WiFi for smoother and faster online experience.
MSI also got a new software tool called “Dragon Gaming Center”, this tool is also good for hardware monitor and utility launch tool. Also could show the status of Hybrid Power enable or disable.
The ultimate weapon for enthusiast gamers:
The GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS version is extremely powerful, it comes with most of the features that a great gaming notebook could have, 3K IPS panel is really great effect of vision quality, SteelSeries keyboard with SSE is amazing for gamers to play their games smarter, Sound By Dybaudio present really good detail sound quality, Killer Doubleshot is faster for online gaming, of course the GTX880M is awesome for gamer to play Full HD even 3K resolution games, the backlit of Dragon logo and keyboard is really beautiful.
Conclusion:
The overall score I will give this GT60 2PE Dominator Pro 3K IPS edition with Super Pack is 95 out of 100, this is really great machine for any hard core gaming or power user usage, I would recommend any one to must-have this notebook if it’s affordable for you!!
Game Performance:   ★★★★★★★★★★
Storage Performance:   ★★★★★★★★★★
Gaming Design:      ★★★★★★★★★☆
Sound Quality:         ★★★★★★★★★★
Keyboard:         ★★★★★★★★★☆
Online speed:         ★★★★★★★★★☆
Price Range:         ★★★★★★★★☆

Ok either you work for MSI or you changed the settings in 3dmark11. I only scored around 5K with my GT60 2PE 3k. Any idea why I'm scoring 3k below you? Laptop was plugged in btw. Also how can you enter bios settings with this laptop? I suspect that maybe the hybrid gpu thing is affecting my score, and the Pc is probably not fully utilizing the GTX 880M, maybe in bios I can disable the integrated CPU's video card??? Please let me know. Thanks.

MSI GT60 review for music production (former MacBook Pro user)

Due to the upgrade limitations of MBPr (Macbook Pro Retina) I decided to try Windows after 7 years of using OSX. I chose the MSI GT60 over a Mac product by a close Margin and I still have doubts about windows 8.
The GT60
The hardware:
1. The casing - coming from a Mac, this casing is disappointing. It's not cool, sexy or anything. It's "plastiky" and the design looks like something from the late 90s. you're not impressing any chicks with this one and it's nothing I'd take to Starbucks.
2. The Keyboard - Excellent. It has a nice feel and the lights are kinda cool, but don't make up for the ugly design.
3. The Mouse pad - too small and cheap looking. It tries to hang with a MBP mouse, but it's not as responsive and fluid.
4. Connections - I can't think of any other connections I would want.
5. Ram Capacity - Blows away the Mac at 32GB. This comes in handy for music projects loaded with plugins and is one of the major reasons I went for this box over a Mac.
6. Super raid 2 - This is another cool option Apples don't have in their laptops. The ability to add 3 ssds in addition to another storage drive really makes this a lucrative music machine. Loading samples quickly greatly improves workflow.
7. Screen - This screen is good, but vs a retina...well...you know.
8. Optical drive - Mine is ...strange...sometimes it works sometimes it don't. Maybe w firmware update will fix it?
Performance - I loaded a Cubase project that even my Older 12 core Mac Pro had to wrestle with. That Mac Pro had 40GB of ram. Well, this GT60 pass with flying colors and with the most resource hungry plugins loaded it operated at an average of 60% CPU and 10 of the 12 GB of ram. I'm interested to see if more ram may help improve performance and/or reduce CPU usage.
Heat Myth - I read in other forums (and ofcourse ASUS) of the
so called" heating issues with the MSI Laptops. I do believe, by theory the ASUS gaming box may run cooler, but all the jibba jabba of overheating I never experience. The GT60 is not loud and it's not hot.
Overall, I find this to be a cool laptop for music production but if I didn't need all the extra ram or drives I'd probably stick with a MBP. They look way cooler. If MSI had put this hardware inside of an enclosure like that GS70 (but bigger), It would be cool.

While this is a review, let me just comment on a few things....
Part of the reason that half of what you get is possible, is because of how large it is.
You wouldn't be able to get 3 mSATA SSD's if you didn't get a GT60/GT70.
You wouldn't be able to get 32 GB of RAM if you didn't get a GT60/GT70 (actually, I guess the GE60/GE70's can handle that too).
The GT series also has a more beefy video card that requires more cooling than the GE or GS series laptops.
Either way, the GT60 is a great notebook overall. The screen could be better, but it's not bad by any means either. Compared to many other similarly or higher priced notebooks, it's just as good or better IMHO.
The keyboard is actually very nice, and while the backlighting is somewhat gaudy at times, it's nice to be able to see the keys in the dark.
The biggest downfall (personally) is the screen hinge and the back of the screen and how flimsy it is. That's honestly my biggest gripe about the notebook. I always feel or think I'm going to break the screen when I open or close the notebook.
Have you messed with the built in sound card at all? Got any thoughts on that?

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