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    Intel just launched the latest Haswell platform this June, PC and NB brand keep refreshing their product lines, the Notebook platform runs faster than before,
    there are lots of new platform products in the market right now. MSI focused on the high performance and gaming platform, and refreshed very fast too.

    MSI NB main product line is Gaming series, they also come out latest GE40 as 14" gaming laptop.
    For Top Level still keep GT70 and GT60, High Performance gaming will be GE70, GE60 and GE40.
    Since MSI performance gaming notebooks are same price range as regular high end notebooks,
    but they still presents more features and performance advantages on gaming notebooks field.

    This time I got GE60 2OE, the latest performance level gaming notebook.
    The A cover looks like Dragon beard, will reflect different color style with different angles.


    Top cover used glossy cover design, the good point is vivid and looks shinning,
    the bad part is easy to scratch. They use laser reflect and red lines to increase the design style and speedy feeling.


    Inside accessories
    Driver CD, quick manual, clean up cloth and 2 years warranty card.


    Up side one is gaming style mouse, it's optical designed, but still good positioning on cloth,
    the red light will breath when use, handling feeling is also good, it will be better if enhance to laser mouse.
    Below is the battery with 4400mAH 6 cell design.


    Adaptor was made by Delta, it's good quality one from power supply brands, up to 120W, this one is slimmer than regular 120W adaptors, only 2.5cm.


    The placement of palm rest side
    SteelSeries keyboard gives good response feeling when using, also presents higher durability, but GT series keyboard is even better than GE series.
    Left 1 button "Cooler Boost" is turbo cooling fan function, left 2 button is keyboard backlit enable with vivid blue light.
    The holes on the up side comes with 2 channel speakers.


    The platform around keyboard used metallic material design, special cutting makes the shape looks better.
    Metal cover gives better touch feeling, and the signal lights at bottom side, the SD card reader on the right side.


    On the left side.
    Kensington lock\power input\USB 2.0\HDMI\2x USB 3.0\Line out\Line in\Headphone-out


    Here comes the sound quality experience, this is objective point of view, compared with other notebooks at same level.
    The sound is loud when adjust the volume to 50%, so don't need to worry about the volume small problem.
    High frequency - Not too sharp, rich detail with high class sound level.
    Mid frequency - Transparent sound stage, it will be better if the sound could be stronger.
    Low frequency - Good present on mid-low frequency, but no subwoofer means the sound is not so powerful as GT series with subwoofer.
    GE60 used total 4 speakers with 2 channels stereo, good performance on the mid and high frequency,
    also good on the sound stage and overall sound field. It's not like GT series comes with subwoofer, so the bass and low frequency was not so strong.
    Foy my personal opinion, GE is good for music and GT is better for movies.

    From left, BD Combo / DVD Super Multi\USB2.0\D-SUB\RJ45 LAN

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    Re: Full HD resolution performance gaming laptop - MSI GE60 2OE introduction

    15.6 inch LED backlit non-glossy panel at Full HD 1920x1080 resolution.
    HD WebCam with 1280x1024 photo and 1280x720 30fps video shooting.


    MSI GE60 2OE embedded with latest Intel Haswell paltform
    CPU with Intel Core i7 4700QM, 100x24 => 2.4GHz, L3 6MB,
    Quad Cores with HT technology become 8 cores. TurboBoost could auto overclock up to 3.4GHz, and used HM87 chipset.


    OS used Windows 8
    Get into the brick of the desktop, you will see the familiar Windows interface and GE60 original installed software from MSI.


    Windows 8 start page, left side bricks is often used bricks, include internet, massages and office works.


    Right side is more about entertainment Apps bricks.


    System performance benchmarks
    Nuclearus Multi Core => 24379
    Fritz Chess Benchmark => 25.65/12310


    CrystalMark 2004R3 => 336870


    CINEBENCH 11.5
    OpenGL => 57.42 fps
    CPU => 6.68 pts
    CPU (Single Core) => 1.50 pts


    PCMark7 => 6220


    Windows 8 System performance tests


    GE60 2OE with Core i7 4700QM compared with last generation GT70 with Core i7 3630QM, CPU performance is almost the same.
    At same default frequency with 2.4GHz, Fritz Chess Benchmark score add up around 3%
    CINEBENCH 11.5 single Core add up 9%, multi CPU around 6%
    Although the CPU performance of Haswell platform enhancement did not higher than last few generations, but still in reasonable range.

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      Re: Full HD resolution performance gaming laptop - MSI GE60 2OE introduction

      Right up side with big heatsink and fan for thermal solution, down side is 2 DDR3 DIMM slot, this 2OE version comes with 2x 8GB modules overall 16GB RAM.
      Middle and upper side are 2 mSATA slots support SATA3 interface, and used 2 SSDs become Super RAID storage.


      One pipeline to transfer Intel Core i7-4700QM CPU heat, and 2 pipelines to transfer the heat from nVIDIA GTX765M graphics.
      Above 2 parts of the pipelines was lass than MSI GT series, GT series used 2 pipelines for the CPU and 3 pipelines for the MXM GPU module.
      Right lower side is the 2.5 inch HDD port, MSI apply 750GB 7200rpm HDD, with 2 SDDs Raid 0 becomes great storage combination with fast system and good capacities!


      GE60 built in with 2 mSATA3 ports, 64GBx2 SSD Raid 0 become C: Drive for OS installed,
      and D: Drive with 750GB 7200rpm HDD for data storage, becomes great OS performance and good capacities.
      AS SSD Benchmark - 1031
      Seq Read - 987.70 MB/s Write - 810.57 MB/s
      4K - 64Thrd Read - 403.75 MB/s Write - 146.58 MB/s
      CrystalDiskMark
      Seq Read - 967.0 MB/s Write - 749.3 MB/s


      SSD Benchmark TOTAL => 3681.60
      ATTO DISK Benchmark over 256k tests already reach highesst reading speed to 1050MB/s, writing performance also up to 894MB/s.


      GE60 2OE used new SSD as TOSHIBA THSNF064GMCS 64GB,
      The performance was really good on the mSATA product line, and great IO perfornace on Raid 0 combination.
      GE60 with 2 mSATA SSD slots was really attractive for high performance storages demand users.
      D: was data drive, use high performance 2.5 inch HDD as 750GB 7200rpm version. Let's take a look on the performance.
      ATTO DISK Benchmark over 32k reading tests up to 123.4MB/s, writing is 122.8MB/s
      CrystalDiskMark
      Seq Read - 124.6 MB/s Write - 122.1 MB/s


      The highest reading speed is over 120MB/s, it's good on 7200rpm 2.5 inch HDD products,
      if you compare with SSD Raid0 system it's not fast, but if you compare with regular laptops with HDD, it's really on the top performance.
      GE60 make it to be D: Drive for saving data, 750GB is a good combination for good performance and capacities.

      System temperature (room 29 degree C)
      System idle mode - 47~49


      Full loading on CPU with LinX -86~91 degree.


      The CPU of Haswell architecture is hotter than last generation Ivy Bridge,
      This time we could see that Core i7-4700QM did over 90 degree C, although it's easy to see on other brand regular notebooks,
      but MSI got better thermal design on their gaming series, the previous 2 generations of Core i7 4C8T CPU was around 80 more degrees.
      Haswell architecture will be a test for the thermal design of all the notebooks' brands.

      Enable Cooler Boost
      System idle - 40~43


      Use LinX program for CPU full loading -85~90


      Use 2 temperature status to present MSI Cooler Boost performance,
      The idle mode and full loading mode highest temperature gap up to 6 degree C, CPU full loading temperature gap is 1 degree.
      So we knew that Cooler Boost did have some advantage for the thermal, but that will makes the fan on full speed, so it will have a little bit higher noise when using.
      But the noise is not so high frequency, so if you are playing games or watch movies, you could enable Cooler Boost to make system cooler.
      According to my user experience, many notebooks with Dual Core CPU will over 50 degree C on idle mode and over 90 degree C on full loading,
      So we could say that MSI still keep their better thermal design and performance on the GE60 with Core i7 CPU and high performance GPU.

      Matrix Display technology, HDMI 1.4 interface supports up to 4Kx2K resolution.
      Use HDMI output on EIZO FlexScan EV2736W with 2560x1400 resolution.
      And could still use VGA output to ASUS MX279H display with 1920x1080 resolution.

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