MSI GX740 with 5870 1gb ddr5

[Ghost_Chill]

Told you not to buy the Vantec enclosure.

Anyway, I bought that Targus PSU from eBay on Saturday, and it was in my mailbox today, which is fast even for USPS Priority from Texas to Illinois. Got it hooked up right now, and it's working great. It's much bigger than I was expecting, so I will definitely keep it as the primary and use the stock MSI PSU for travel.

Does the new PSU get very hot under high load?

[Bearclaw]

Told you not to buy the Vantec enclosure.

Nah I'm very satisfied with it. Plug and Play eSATA that's not very big and very quiet. About the lockup, it was a random thing, did the same thing again on purpose and nothing went wrong.

Now I can download games from Steam without worrying about HDD space.

Directory Junction works with it as well, which is a huge bonus since I can run Steam right on the disk but still have the Steam installed on my main disk.

[saturnotaku]

Does the new PSU get very hot under high load?

I played Crysis for a while, and the PSU was barely warm to the touch.

[Ghost_Chill]

I played Crysis for a while, and the PSU was barely warm to the touch.

Nice, that's the reason I wanted to change my PSU, while playing Starcraft 2 on ultra it gets very very very hot.

I hope mine gets here soon.

[elemir]

Hi, i have just bought a gx740 and its great ^^
The lastest vBIOS from msi is the one dated 2010-07-02 ? and if so, this is the one you guys recommend to uptade?
Thanks

Edited: i forgot one more thing, wich bios version are you using guys?
Thanks again

[palicao]

I bought this lovely laptop and I was playing aaaall the week end

but then I saw the ati driver panel and I realized the drivers were "old" I then proceeded to upgrade the drivers through the ati website with the latest mobility drivers and... weird enough, the gpu is not recognized... it states that is simply a generic ati mobility 58XX without mentioning the actual model while, when running the drivers earlier from the clean installation, it stated clearly the model.

it's that normal? or it is somehow a problem? I haven't got a powerful computer with a nice graphic adapter since loooong time so probably I won't notice the difference but I would like to understand why the drivers that I have says 8.7320 and they're dated back to may, even if I downloaded the drivers directly from the ati website >.>

am I doing something wrong? am I missing something? usually we're supposed to stick with the manufactorer driver which I did downloading the whole thing from msi website.
but is there a way to have updated drivers or I'm bound to wait till a msi new release?
for the moment I'm reverting back to the old drivers

[Bearclaw]

Newer drivers will say 5800 series because MSI didn't certify them. Nothing is wrong you can still use those drivers.

I always download the drivers from MSI's website and at the moment it's on cat 10.5 released in June.

Just get the drivers from MSI's website and they will say 5870. Newest drivers straight from AMD will say 5800 series.

[palicao]

Just get the drivers from MSI's website and they will say 5870. Newest drivers straight from AMD will say 5800 series.

thank you very much. that's what I kinda supposed >.> but I wasn't sure

[Ghost_Chill]

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The connector comes with the PSU. It's 5,5x2,5 with a black tip.

Are you sure its the black tip? When comparing them side by side, it appears that the yellow tip connector matches better.

[saturnotaku]

Are you sure its the black tip? When comparing them side by side, it appears that the yellow tip connector matches better.

It's the small, black tip.