MSI GX 60 mit 7970

[stadler5]

Finally see a MSI barebone with a 7970 graphics card times the performance with the AMD CPU. The price will be great.

MSI Gaming-Notebook GX60 mit AMD A10-4600M sowie Serien CR und CX - Notebookcheck.com News

[DaCM]

Yes, but my excitement lasted until I checked the performance of the AMD A10-4600M and saw that it's on the level of a Sandy Bridge i3 m CPU...
Would have been awesome for 1200 dollars though.

[Vahlen]

Yes, but my excitement lasted until I checked the performance of the AMD A10-4600M and saw that it's on the level of a Sandy Bridge i3 m CPU...
Would have been awesome for 1200 dollars though.

Unfortunately you also can't crossfire the 7970 with the APU, but this is definitely an exciting product from AMD even if the performance is still a bit below par. Having the ability to effectively crossfire the iGPU and a discrete card together would mean a huge increase in performance ceilings for the 15inch and under laptops.

That being said $1200+possible discounts could make for a good buy, I worry though that the CPU's slow speed could be a bottleneck for the powerhouse 7970.

[mitsuhide]

the A10-4600M is even no faster than the Pentium B960

[Meaker]

We have no idea how fast it will be in gaming with the integrated graphics turned down and using a dedicated chip.

Also they tend to be overclockable and CPU performance is not usually the limiting factor.

I think with some tweaking it could really work.

[DaCM]

We have no idea how fast it will be in gaming with the integrated graphics turned down and using a dedicated chip.

Also they tend to be overclockable and CPU performance is not usually the limiting factor.

I think with some tweaking it could really work.

Yes, it would be great if it would . At that price point the 7970m + iGPU power would be crazy.

[perfectblue]

Wonder how much are the benchmarks shown in the pics...

[Botsu]

Can I get one with an intel quad core, pretty please MSI/AMD :P

(OCed) A10-4600M is no slouch but I wanna play some dolphin/pcsx2 and unfortunately AMD CPUs are no good for that...

[Meaker]

You can get a GT70 with a GTX680, it's going to cost yah though.

[R3d]

All aboard the CPU bottleneck train! Seriously though, make the barebones version $1000 or less and make Trinity overclockable and I'd consider one. Seems like a waste of the iGPU though, I wish that AMD made a 45w Trinity with a beefed up CPU and cut down GPU.