Official MSI GX640 Owner's Thread

[mdsniper7]

Originally Posted by lackofcheese

I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find a flaw in any laptop.

maybe but it makes me wonder if that is flawed and I can see it what can't i see hmmmm. What to do amazon will exchange it but 2 in a row is scary, the first time it was really bad, I wonder if they got a bad batch

[lackofcheese]

Well, I'll find out tomorrow if Amazon really has gotten a bad batch. If that's the case, though, I'd just return it and get one from a different store.

[mdsniper7]

let me know lack and thanx

[bankergolfer]

We should feel sorry for our friends who bought the Lenovo Y460. Their CPU and GPU temps under load are up in that range and higher.

Originally Posted by lackofcheese

The slight protrusion in the upper middle of the picture?
You can be almost certain the melting point for that plastic will be above 100 degrees Celsius, and if your laptop is running above 100C you've got more to worry about than melting plastic...

[bankergolfer]

I don't have any of those defects. If it were my laptop, I'd return that lemon for an unblemished one. We deserve better.

Originally Posted by mdsniper7

yea but cheese wouldn't u be mad if everyone else is getting great looking lappys and yours has bad workmanship, I mean I am paying 1100 bucks you know. Also my lcd screen isn't flush and its already kinda chipping away, its weird.

[lackofcheese]

For those of you interested in extending the battery life of their GX640, this post over in the ASUS subforums might be of interest. If he's getting almost 3 hours on the G73JH's 75Wh 8-cell with the i7-720QM, I'm thinking 4 hours wouldn't be out of the question with the GX640's 85Wh 9-cell and the i5-430M.

[catacylsm]

Well i get 2:30 to 3 hours on the 9 cell with the q9000 and 4850 on minmal brightness + powersaver and wifi on,

Someone give it a shot because 4 hours seems quite nice, although the 4850 runs relatively low clocked when idling anyway.

[bankergolfer]

How do you get your 3DMark Vantage scores to show up in the blue background graphical user interface? When I run Vantage, my results are viewable on the Futuremark website only.

[bankergolfer]

Finally got around to running 3DMark Vantage.

Stock clocks and system (625/1000); PCIe x16
3DMark P 6957
CPU 7304
GPU 6848
GPU temps: 78*C

I have no idea if these scores are good or bad (had a better feel with
3DMark06). Perhaps someone could let me know if these are good or bad.

And I also ran 3DMark06:
3DM 11301
SM2 4851
SM3 5545
CPU 2598
GPU temps: 78*C

These scores are better than the 3DMark06 scores that I got for the Envy 15 2nd Gen:
Stock clocks (500/800):
3DM 7947
SM2 3097
SM3 3413
CPU 2807
GPU temps: 43*C

Next step is to re-run these tests after a clean Windows 7 install.

[lackofcheese]

The Vantage score looks exactly like it ought to be to me - around 7k for both the GPU and CPU scores. For reference, the HD 5870 gets around 8k, which is what you would expect given the 700MHz vs 625MHz clock speed.