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MSI GT680 (GT680R) - World Fastest notebook?

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The fastest gaming notebook ever to be unveiled at CES 2011

Driven by a desire to “insist on the best,” MSI will be exhibiting a number of powerful G Series gaming notebooks at 2011 CES, including the top end GT680—the “fastest notebook on the planet.” When tested with PC MARK Vantage tools, it attained a speed of 18,162 points. It has the fastest operating system in the world, performing some three times faster than the average speed of high end gaming books currently on the market.

Eric Kuo, associate vice president for global sales, MSI Notebook, points out that the GT680 is the world’s most powerful laptop. It features Intel’s latest four core CPU, nVidia GeForce’s newest generation high end discrete graphics card, and four DDR3 memory slots expandable to 16GB of memory. It also supports accelerated dual hard disk architecture, which not only doubles storage capacity, but also kicks up read-write speed by approximately 70%.

Kuo added that another reason that the GT680 is the fastest NB in the world is the fact that it uses MSI’s own TDE+ (Turbo Drive Engine+ technology) which allows both the CPU and GPU to turbo simultaneously. Just one touch of the luminescent Turbo hot key located above the keyboard throttles up performance, making the MSI GT680 the king of gaming books.




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It's very odd that they used a PCMark score for a gaming notebook. They should have been advertising a 3DMark score.
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It's very odd that they used a PCMark score for a gaming notebook. They should have been advertising a 3DMark score.
Very keen observation We were just chatting away about this here in the office.

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So someone made an observation that PC Mark Vantage was being used because 3D Mark Vantage would require a DirectX 10 GPU, which this new notebook does not have

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So someone made an observation that PC Mark Vantage was being used because 3D Mark Vantage would require a DirectX 10 GPU, which this new notebook does not have

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If it can't run DX10, then it's obsolete. DX11 is a superset of DX10 containing all DX10 capabilities and then some. Any DX11-capable graphics card is also DX10-capable. And since 3DMark11 is now released, it's possible to compare graphics cards in a full DX11 environment anyway.

MSI is hiding something.
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MSI is deff hiding something now all they need is a damn bloody backlit keyboard and im good to buy them. It must not have a proper gpu and of course the newest sandy bridge quadcore.
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If it can't run DX10, then it's obsolete. DX11 is a superset of DX10 containing all DX10 capabilities and then some. Any DX11-capable graphics card is also DX10-capable. And since 3DMark11 is now released, it's possible to compare graphics cards in a full DX11 environment anyway.

MSI is hiding something.
I am sure that MSI is hiding something. Yes, they could have leaked for us the 3D Mark 11 bench but this test was probably performed before the official release of 3DMark11.

As I read the specs from the current most powerful GPU from nVidia - GeForce GTX 480M - it mentioned no backward support of DirectX 10; maybe they assume as such?

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MSI is deff hiding something now all they need is a damn bloody backlit keyboard and im good to buy them. It must not have a proper gpu and of course the newest sandy bridge quadcore.
That's not what it says in its press relase

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Hahahahaha you may be right whats the press release info then or you signed that REDnda? lol
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I am sure that MSI is hiding something. Yes, they could have leaked for us the 3D Mark 11 bench but this test was probably performed before the official release of 3DMark11.

As I read the specs from the current most powerful GPU from nVidia - GeForce GTX 480M - it mentioned no backward support of DirectX 10; maybe they assume as such?

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It does not need to claim "backward support" since DX10 is included in DX11.

When Microsoft first released DirectX 10, it functioned in a similar way to how you're currently thinking: it was a separate release and comparatively unrelated to previous DirectX versions. To use an analogy, DirectX 9 is one box and DirectX 10 was a different box of the same size. Microsoft had to ensure backwards support for DirectX 9 because it didn't "fit" in DirectX 10.

DirectX 11, however, is a different story. Using the box analogy, DirectX 10 is a box and DirectX 11 is a much bigger box. The DirectX 10 box fits entirely inside DirectX 11, so when you have DirectX 11, you are "carrying" DirectX 10 with you.
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More leaks in specs:

- 15.6-inch HD/Full HD LED-backlit display,
- 2.0 GHz Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor,
- up to 16GB of RAM,
- GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB graphics card,
- 2 x 500GB hard drives in RAID 0 (1TB of storage),
- 802.11 b/g/n WiFi,
- Bluetooth 2.0,
- HD webcam,
- 7-in-1 card reader,
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports,
- HDMI output
- 9-cell battery.

No price and delivery date yet!

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More leaks in specs:

- 15.6-inch HD/Full HD LED-backlit display,
- 2.0 GHz Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor,
- up to 16GB of RAM,
- GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB graphics card,
- 2 x 500GB hard drives in RAID 0 (1TB of storage),
- 802.11 b/g/n WiFi,
- Bluetooth 2.0,
- HD webcam,
- 7-in-1 card reader,
- 2 x USB 3.0 ports,
- HDMI output
- 9-cell battery.

No price and delivery date yet!

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only 2 usb ports? I know they're both 3.0 but still only 2 usb ports? I always have 3 usb peripherals plugged in and quite often have a fourth. I know you can hub but hubbing should only be required for 5+ devices imo. Only 2 usb ports!?!
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According to the latest marketing pics, there are a total of 4 USB ports and it will have USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 present. It will also support HD Stereo Audio with 2 speakers and a sub-woofer. To be available in February at €1449, VAT included









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An update from CeBIT 2011

http://tv.hexus.net/show/2011/03/MSI..._the_spotlight

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