Review of MSI GT660 Gaming Notebooks

The popularity of gaming notebook is the most obvious sign of the future of laptops overtaking desktops. Increasingly popular with professional gamers, who use it commonly in tournaments and LAN parties, the class of mobile game station has gone refined in recent years, reaching its own clearly defined personality. We are not referring only to the design developed, which has its roots in the same imaginary referred to by the most popular 3D games but also a wealth of technological innovations that have allowed these notebooks to reach unimaginable benefits, while maintaining a discreet portability.

The MSI GT660 Notebook, we are concerned in this review and previously the subject of our preview at CeBIT , as well as other portable gaming machines of last generation, represents the culmination of this evolutionary path: 3.5 Kg weight, redundant hardware for any type of use, and up to 3 hours of battery life (measured in our lab tests, not an abstract assessment of the producer)!

As the Formula 1 cars are the testing ground for new technologies and solutions which later culminates in mass production, so gaming notebooks integrate a range of innovations that expand the boundaries of mobile computing, allowing to reach new horizons of speed and efficiency.

The new frontier is that of "performance on demand. All the new notebooks are capable of shaping their services, and consequently their consumption, according to user requests, with the aim of eliminating any waste of resources. MSI Turbo Drive Engine + (TDE+). MSI GT660 this possibility of user control is extreme, and involves not only the presence of an operator of energy-saving owner (MSI Eco Drive Engine) but also the latest version of Overclocking MSI Turbo Drive Engine + (TDE +). A double turbo, because as we shall see in detail in subsequent sections, is added to the Intel Turbo Boost from Intel.

The first configuration available in Italy called the MSI-009IT GT660R offering, priced at 1859 euros, a wealthy hardware components: quad-core Intel Core i7-720QM, 6GB DDR3-1333 on three benches, 1TB storage space shared between two hard disks with rotation speed of 7200RPM, and a top range video card Nvidia GeForce GTX 285m with 1GB dedicated GDDR3 memory.

As full-bodied, however, the technical MSI GT660 does not do justice to the real quality of this laptop. Only direct experience can accurately capture the design work done by designers MSI cooperation with the Dynaudio sound engineers: the shape of the frame of the GT660 was, in fact, designed around the speaker system to enable better propagation sound. The goal is to provide a multimedia experience without the shadow cone, according to the theme chosen by MSI for 2010, "Sound, Performance, Vision, which was also the leitmotif of the major exhibitions of MSI Fairs International CES Las Vegas since at Computex Taipei (this address will find a complete report by Taiwan's Fair).

MSI GT660, which is soon joined by a twin model with ATI graphics, GX660, and a larger version of diagonal, MSI GT760, is the flagship of the renewed family of G-series notebook, which since the beginning of the house in Taiwanese mobile segment accounted for the flagship of its production. Many models and composition available, from budget-GX633 and MSI GX723-055IT 020IT with Nvidia GeForce 130M GT (located respectively around 600 and 800 euros) for the GX740 and GT740-067IT, 004IT, with video card performance category ATI Mobility Radeon HD and GeForce 5870 GTS 250M (with prices ranging between 1200 and 1500 euros).

In 2010 was also introduced another innovation: the MSI gaming notebooks boast the league's most powerful red dragon rampant marking machines "Powerful Turbo Extreme Gaming," an exclusive club of players who are already part of the European team Fnatic.MSI and American champions Team Evil Geniuses. Members of these two teams are touring the world with their MSI GT660 laptop in the tournament itninerante MSI Beat It" : until the last leg of August 30, anyone can launch his challenge to try to win one of many prizes and participate in the final in Beijing in September!