MSI GT60 & GT70, U.S. models - Pre-Ordering & Pricing Now Available.....

[WhatsThePoint]

The official site list the GT70 with an Intel® HM67 Chipset not an HM77.

On the Official MSI site link I posted above in the specs for all the GT70 models and the GT60 model it shows HM77 as the chipset.

[rockelino]

What's the deal with the GT70 and GT60? the main 3 resellers that participate in these forums offer them for pre-order with "3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor" but no info regarding the number of cores/MHz/Cache/threads...

I just bought a brand new GT780DX-406 (literally a few days ago) with awesome specs and Intel Core i7 2670QM... should I cancel the order and go for the GT70???

[WhatsThePoint]

What's the deal with the GT70 and GT60? the main 3 resellers that participate in these forums offer them for pre-order with "3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Processor" but no info regarding the number of cores/MHz/Cache/threads...

I just bought a brand new GT780DX-406 (literally a few days ago) with awesome specs and Intel Core i7 2670QM... should I cancel the order and go for the GT70???

Intel has a NDA with resellers on 3rd generation Ivy Bridge CPUs.

They can't say anything until the NDA is lifted on April 29th.

[xMAR99]

I haven't seen any caching SSDs listed on any resellers websites! *Looks at Ken*

I'm considering a 750 7200rpm with a 60/120gb caching ssd + a 1tb 5400rpm instead of the ODD.

What do you guys think?

[Meaker]

I haven't seen any caching SSDs listed on any resellers websites! *Looks at Ken*

I'm considering a 750 7200rpm with a 60/120gb caching ssd + a 1tb 5400rpm instead of the ODD.

What do you guys think?

Xotic is under the 2nd HDD.

[xMAR99]

Wait, doesn't that give you the option to have 4 drives?

Primary, Secondary, Caching, and ODD bracket?

[Meaker]

You have 3-4 slots depending on the machine.

2xSATA + ODD SATA
2xmSATA + SATA + ODD SATA

How you use those is up to you. If you chose a config that was not compatible I guess they would contact you.

Technically you could go:

128GB M4 mSATA + 128GB M4 mSATA + 128GB M4 SATA + 128GB M4 SATA all in a giant raid array but it might be a bit overkill by that point lol. 2GB/sec straight line read speed.....

[WhatsThePoint]

Like 2.5" SATA SSDs,mSATA SSDs vary in performance also.

If you choose mSATA choose your drives carefully.



NBR doesn't allow linking to the site this performance chart was taken from.

See the SanDisk U100 all the way on the bottom.This is the one MSI is using.
MSI GT60 & GT70, U.S. models - Pre-Ordering & Pricing Now Available.....

[Meaker]

AnandTech - Micron C400 mSATA (128GB) SSD Review

As promised, performance of the C400 mSATA is nearly identical to the 2.5" version, making it a formidable competitor in the mSATA space. It's also insane to think that you can pull 500MB/s from something this small - oh what SSDs have done to the world. I have no issues recommending this drive should you be in the market for an mSATA based SSD. Furthermore, I hope to see more small form factor variants of other major SSDs. While I don't know that this mini PCIe/mSATA form factor will be what replaces 2.5" for ultraportables, it's clear that 2.5" drives are going to be the new 3.5" as far as SSDs are concerned and smaller form factors will emerge to take the place of 2.5" drives.

[GenTechPC]

screenshot of Super RAID on GT70, you get dual mSATA + one SATA, for non Super RAID models it will be just like GT780/GT783 with two SATA slot, also the Gt70 will have new version of S-Bar program :