Technical characteristics
Screen: 17 inches (1920×1080)
CPU: Intel Core i7-3610QM (2.3-3.3 GHz)
Memory: 8 GB DDR3-1333 MHz
Video card :: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660M + Intel HD Graphics 4000 (built -in)
Hard wheels: 750 GB (5400 rpm), SSD (120 GB)
Connection: Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0, Lan
Connectors: 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0, Lan, D-Sub (VGA), HDMI, 2x 3.5 mm Jack
Operating system: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Additionally: Cardrider, webcam
Dimensions: 41,8×26.9×3.9 cm
Weight: 2.7 kg
Price for April 2013: 42,000 rubles
If you are acutely not enough public attention or you feel that your posts in the forums are ignoring, we know an easy way to improve this business. Go into a branch where they actively discuss home computers, create a topic of type “Yes, you don’t understand anything, bought a laptop for 42,000 rubles, so it is the cooler of all these PCs, Crysis 3 flies, does not lie anywhere” and hides in the bushes of the day three. The effect will be "what the doctor prescribed". In addition to the fact that you will learn a bunch of recipes for preparing your own liver and unusual areas for relaxation, you will be seen about why laptopes do not need to buy, the worse they are more ordinary PCs, and in general, that you do not mean a gram in iron. Naturally, to answer all this is a matter of honor, and today we will tell you what to appeal to in order to leave the winner. The MSI GE70K laptop will act as the main argument. It was no coincidence that he got on this subject. Firstly, we have long cherished the idea of comparing a laptop with an ordinary systematic. And secondly, we frankly did not want to write another boring review: we already had similar models, and the configuration has been tested five times already.
We count
So, the first thing to do on the forum is to calm down novice economists and great collectors who prepare systems with GeForce GTX 680 on board and six -manner in the juice of top -up motherboards for the same money. To do this, take a calculator, open Yandex.Market "and we begin to fold.
The processor will be a sensitive blow. GE70K is worth it Intel Core i7-3610QM. This is not the most powerful, but quite serious quadructor based on the latest generation architecture Intel Ivy Bridge. The frequency of its work is 2.3 GHz, however, if the temperature allows, it accelerates to 3.1-3.3 GHz, depending on the number of loaded nuclei. A distinctive feature of Core i7-support for Hyper-Threading technology, which does not allow computing blocks to idle in vain.
A stand for our opponents is that Intel does not offer a choice in the top line. For the home segment there is only Core i7-3770. Yes, it is more producing and starts with 3.4 GHz, but you also need to give for it nearly 10,000 rubles plus another thousand for cooling. We do not pay attention to attempts to suck the cheaper Core i5: they do not have Hyper-Threading, so they are not suitable for us.
Two more powerful expenses – a video card and a tandem from SSD and a 120 and 750 GB hard drive, respectively. The first item will facilitate the wallet for 4300 rubles, since the GE70K is equipped GTX 660M – An analogue of the desktop GTX 650 Ti on architecture Nvida Kepler. The second will require 5,000 rubles. Are not conducted for divorce with refusal. Without it you will have to forget about almost instant loading Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (five more thousand), and about the overall responsiveness of the system.
The motherboard will eat your portion of money. Cipcete installed in the laptop HM76 Express in terms of function is identical to adults H77 Express for 3000 rubles. Its main ability is the ability to switch between a video of a video -manner built into a crystal Intel HD Graphics 4000 And a discrete video card. In laptops, this is necessary to save battery charge, in a PC – for the opportunity to use technology Intel Quick Sync , encoding films in any formats (including tablet) in a couple of minutes. The rest of the costs are not so significant. Two slats of DDR3-1333 MHz RAM will get up at 1600 rubles. Writing DVD drive and cardrider-at 1000 rubles.
As a rule, on this, forum regulars stop and, shaking the calculator (which has 30,900 rubles on the screen), declare themselves with geniuses, and you, sorry, are called not very good words. Here the main thing is not to cherry away – it is not at all difficult to erase a joyful smile from the opponent's face.
Additional expenses
To begin with, we remind you that such a configuration will need a power supply of 400 watts, which means another 1,500 rubles for a model of an eminent manufacturer. Naturally, it is useless to you, since those half -brick on the wire hold your laptop in working condition and simultaneously charge the built -in battery.
The second kick is the case. It's funny, but you also have it, and in the case of GE70K it is also decorated with red stripes and a gray insert on the lid, and inside is decorated for polished aluminum rolled up for varnish. For a PC, the simplest iron box will cost no less than 2000 rubles. At the same time, you don’t even have to dream of any additional functions to him. While MSI offers a number of bonus keys that allow you to switch between video cards, disperse the cooling system, forcibly turn off the monitor or Wi-Fi/Bluetooth (by the way, another 500 rubles).
Looking at the haggard enemy (we know that we have a forum, but you can imagine something), we ask, and what we will display the picture? That's right, on the monitor. GE70K has a 17-inch TN mature with decent color reproduction and brightness, which, coupled with a matte coating, allows you to play even with a bright sun. At the same time, permission from the display is 1920×1080. Many will say that for 17 inches and such fillings, so many pixels are useless, but in fact, for working in Windows, it is the most, and in order to get a comparable clarity at home, you will have to pay at least 3300 rubles (this is for 21.5 inch, they didn’t find less).
Four speakers placed around the perimeter GE70K will be contributed. They provide sound, albeit not perfect (highly high frequencies), but clean enough and loud enough to cope with films and games. Plus they add at least 600 rubles to our piggy bank.
We also have a trump card with a keyboard, but not anyhow, but from Steelseries , with which we are familiar with other MSI laptops. There is a standard layout, and a digital block, a hard substrate, and a long course of full -size keys. The only trouble is the unusual location of the arrow and "Home/Insert" sets. How many? Yes at least a thousand, or even two.
Well, the latter in the list of iron is a touchpad with the support of a multi -line and a discrete swing with right and left clicks. It is interesting that the touch panel is allocated not only with a frame, it is also with a non -standard embossed surface that allows you to closely track when the working area ends. However, we will not put a touchpad for balance, we still have to buy a mouse, and without this we have 39,800 rubles. That is, the PC, although it is cheaper, is only 2200 rubles. Of course, they could be attributed to the battery, but it will look like a crook: it is a system unit like a fifth leg. Therefore, we will continue to put pressure on another.
Nice bonuses
It is very reasonable to ask the PC supporters what they will do with their iron friend when the time comes to go, say, to the country? Where they will remain Battlefield 3? The answer is one: at home. It will be enough for you to throw a laptop, charging, a mouse in a backpack and, after funny garden digging, enjoy the views in Bioshock Infinite. And to drag all this economy is really and without a car. With a thickness of 3.9 cm, a laptop weighs some 2.7 kg.
Another indisputable plus of the laptop is the number of wires. There are at least five of them in a regular computer (two power supply and monitor, video cable, rodent, keyboard). There is only one cable in the laptop, from BP, and in camping mode you can do without it completely. The built -in battery for 4400 mAh is enough for three hours of office work or watching films and about an hour and a half of games. To the same, it is necessary to add the savings of the place of the house. For a PC, it is necessary to allocate and force a separate table, the laptop needs only a temporary platform in a size of 42×27 cm, which, if necessary, is easily released. In the advantages of any gaming laptop and the ability to turn it into a home console or media player. Connected to a large plasma via HDMI, bought a wireless joystick and rejoice. This is with a systematic only on condition that it stands in the same room with the TV.
We retreat
Only two points will not work out: the number of connectors and the possibility of upgrade. While even the simplest home PC has at least four to six USB, a full set of video/audio outputs and all sorts of Esata and Firewire, our laptop is able to boast of only a pair of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0, HDMI, D-SUB (VGA) and LAN. Of course, this is enough for the main needs, but if you want to connect some external audio card and a couple of drives will have to be bought up by branches.
Ambush and upgrade. The maximum that can be done with GE70K is to remove the lid on the bottom and replace the hard drive with a more voluminous model or build up the RAM to 16 GB. That's all. In the PC, you can always "pump" any detail, and you can’t argue with it. The only strong argument here is that if, in a year and a half, the laptop stops pulling games, it takes off with a small loss in money and the version is more powerful. Old iron with a PC for the same period is almost twice cheaper.
Why did we choose a gap of a year and a half? Yes, because, judging by the tests, the GE70K should be enough for so much. At the time of writing, he coped with almost all our test games in resolution of 1680×1050 and maximum, okay, just high settings. Given the pace with which the graphics in the modern game industry are developing, the fillings will not be enough after the next generation consoles and a large number of projects for them will be released. And before, after a year and a half, it makes no sense to wait for this. By the way, in terms of performance, GE70K is still inferior to a similar configuration in home, but not critical, about 20%. (You can compare with the GTX 550 Ti tests on the neighboring pages, however, it is dispersed there, so keep in mind). There are failures only with new Crysis 3 and Bioshock Inifinte. But here we sin on the driver, too much difference with the rest of the projects.
In defense of the PC
As a rule, after such a fierce attack, all forum trolls should sharply have urgent affairs, by virtue of which they will not be able to continue an exciting conversation. But we were not afraid of them before, it would be tight if the vacant places are taken by experienced, reasonable glands. We are unlikely to challenge the arguments we have given, and they are unlikely to be, education will not allow. But go to our positions on the other hand and deliver a vile blow to the back – just spit.
Their main argument will be the inability to plan a laptop for specific goals. Roughly speaking, buying a laptop, we must agree to the configuration of the manufacturer, which is far from always well balanced. When collecting a home PC, we can play parameters, choosing iron for our own needs. Photoshop is needed? We save on the video card and take a powerful processor, more memory and SSD. A game machine is required? We save on a crystal with a stronghold, and throw the proceeds at GPU. And, I must admit, in each case the result will be higher than the laptop will give. In addition, you can always press money on trifles like a good keyboard or a large screen with Full HD support.
Does this mean that someone lost? No. There is no such thing in the “laptop against the PC” dispute as “won” or “lost”. Each type of device has its advantages and disadvantages. And we really hope that after this article you can make your choice.
As for the model we have considered, GE70K has everything to enjoy the game. Yes, the laptop is noisy, and when playing on the https://superb-casino.co.uk/ knees, heating marks noticeably, but at the same time the model offers an excellent price/performance ratio, decent screen and convenient controls. Competitors? Of course, they are, but for similar configurations they are already asking for completely different money.
Pros:
Convenient governing bodies
Light weight
A good set of connectors
Cons:
noisy
heatingly heats up under load
Table 1
Synthetic tests
3dmark 11 (Perfomance)
Graphics
2 209
Physics
7 585
Score
2 459
PCMark7
Score
4 453
Unigine Heaven Benchmark 3.0
Fps
12.7
Scores
531
Unitine Valley 1.0
Fps
10.2
Scores
256
Table 2.
Game tests (personnel per second)
Aliens vs. Predator
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X
46.8
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 2X
38
Veryhight, 1920×1080, AF 16X
30.8
Veryhigh, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 2X
21
Batman: Arkham City
Ultra, 1680×1050, AF 16X
40
Ultra, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 2X
37
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X
36
Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 2X
34
Max Payne 3
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X
33.2
Veryhigh, 1680×1050, AF 16X, AA 2X
23.1
Veryhight, 1920×1080, AF 16X
28.8
Veryhigh, 1920×1080, AF 16X, AA 2X
20.8
Bioshock Infinite
DX10, ULTRA, 1680X1050, AF 16X
28.1
DX10, Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X
21
DX11, ULTRA, 1680X1050, AF 16X
18.9
DX11, Ultra, 1920×1080, AF 16X
14.1
Crysis 3
High, 1680×1050, AF 16X
15
High, 1920×1080, AF 16X
8
Max, 1680×1050, AF 16X
21.5
Max, 1920×1080, AF 16X
18
Med, 1680×1050, AF 16X
25.4
Med, 1920×1080, AF 16X
21.6