Reviews - MSI GT725 notebook: gaming power to go?

[Arbre]

Hey all, i just want to ask if its possible to change the hard disk without voiding the warranty. If so, how?

[ScubaSteveO]

Still considering buying this laptop. I have noticed alot of people complaining about alot of bleed at the bottom of the screen. Is this the European version or the US version. I know the US version has a better screen on it. I would love to hear an update from some owners on the performance of this model.

[Avatar76]

That would be my foremost complaint of the UK GT725, the light bleed. However it's only noticeable when screen is blank or displaying a very dark background. During daily use, I rarely notice. For the price I paid, I still believe that it's great value.

[superscaper]

There's a new VGA driver now released on MSI's website.

Haven't tried it yet.

[wastedagen]

Hi,
Just joined because I need an answer to what is probably a simple question.

I am currently in the market to buy a new laptop and am looking at the two choices of MSI GT725. The MSI GT725-210UK and the MSI Gaming GT725-087UK. The only difference other than screen size is the CPU.

As I do a lot of video rendering as well as play games (crysis), can someone please tell me which would be the best/fastest processor out of the two MSI Laptops for video rendering? The 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 or the 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P9500.

If say, i'm rendering 1 video at a time would the 4 cores of the quad core be used to give a faster render time than the 2 cores of the dual core?

Or are the extra cores only used when carrying out multiple tasks?


Thanks for any advice..............

[dodyryda]

hi.. i'm looking at the same issue here too which is better for video editing /rendering the 9000 quad 2ghz or dual core 2.53ghz 9400.. does anyone know...?//

[wastedagen]

Hi
I did some research and found out a bit of info.

For most games, these only utilise 2 cores so the dual core 2.53GHz would be better than the quad.

But for video rendering the quad would be better. But this obviously depends on the video rendering software. I use TMPGEnc Xpress 4 and this does utilise multiply cores.

Hope this helps..........

[superscaper]

I'd bought the GT725-087UK before the quad core model came out in the UK. I've got Crysis and although I can't directly compare to the quad core model so I don't know whether it would run better, it certainly runs very well on the dual core.