MSI is known for its gaming laptops which produces the scores 2nd to non and we all respect MSI for that and those laptops are powered enough for any kind of task, they always perform well and we know that.MSI GT660R is a good gaming laptop, not for extreme gaming but good level gaming and very good cooling fans as well so lets start from design,The red border of the special keys (above the keyboard), the silver red loudspeakers and the chrome-coloured touchpad are piled on and emphasise the gaming aspects of the laptop.
The sufficiently stable lid has no planar surface, rather it's slightly tapered off with the MSI logo. This prominent form of a blunting edge continues in the display border, on the wrist rest and on the touchpad. The logo on the lid is also illuminated, like the air inlets on the front and the silver stripes on the lid (right+left surface) and on the wrist rest (right+left). In the outer photos these are noticeable as silver ornamental This 16-inch system is portable in theory, but its 7.4-pound weight will likely keep it sitting on your desk most of the time. Still, at 15.6 x 10.6 x 2.2 inches, the system is nearly 3 pounds lighter than the Toshiba Qosmio X505, and unlike that 18-inch system, it will still fit in most regular size notebook messengers or backpacks.stripes. Behind the plastic there are, however, LEDs, which illuminate orange.The 3.5 kilo construction isn't built as rigidly as you might assume for its bulk. With two hands we can slightly bend the chassis, yet there were no resulting creaks. No area clearly gives way under pressure; only the area above the keys (special keys i.e. turbo) can marginally be depressed.The honeycomb pattern on the wrist rest makes us expect good grip. However, this isn't so, as the pattern consists of a glossy finish. On the test device it was rather the countless stickers that gave a certain amount of grip to the hands. High gloss is a particular theme on the GT660R.
Though the keyboard is full size and the keys are springy, we found ourselves making more typing errors than we normally do. Something about the spacing is slightly off.normal. There's plenty of room on the deck, even with the full number pad on the right, as MSI left at least an inch of deck around the keyboard, so we're not sure why the layout has these little issues.The touchpad is pretty big--3.2 x 1.9 inches--but it could be even larger if the designers had used more of the available space. The slightly rough touch surface and mouse button has a thick chrome outline that flows down into a chevron shapeMSI made some placement and size choices that we're used to seeing on netbooks, but not full-size laptops. The right Shift key is a little undersized and shifted to the left to accommodate the arrows. Plus, there's an extra backslash key between the Alt key on the left and the space bar. This made executing keyboard shortcuts harder because the Alt key isn't where our fingers expect it.As previously mentioned, the MSI GT660 series features Dynaudio-branded premium speakers and a built-in subwoofer. For those readers who aren't familiar with Dynaudio, these are the folks who supply car speakers for Volvo, Volkswagen and Bugatti. Like many of the premium speakers on multimedia notebooks, Dynaudio tweaks the audio drivers and equalizer settings to deliver a high standard of sound quality. When I first opened the notebook and tested the speakers I was pretty impressed ... then I noticed that I had left the protective plastic covering the speakers. two USB 3.0 ports as well as ExpressCard54 (upgrade cards). The connections are distributed throughout the three sides of the laptop, which also includes the rear. Its use for eSATA, HDMI, VGA, power and Ethernet is pleasant, as it limits cable-chaos on the desk. All awkward cables are thus banished from view; only USB and audio remain on the sides.The four audio connections allow connecting a 7.2 home system inclusive of SPDIF.MSI equips its gaming flagship with the rarely deployed, expensive Intel Core i7-740QM (378 US Dollars / 1000 retail cost). The high-end quad-core processor has a relatively low base clock speed (1.73 GHz) but a very high turbo speed (2.93 GHz). The 740QM has 256 KB level1 cache and 6 MB level 3 cache. The TDP is 45 Watt, like its sister model, the 720QM (4 x 1.60 GHz).Intel Turbo Boost means dynamically overclocking the processor according to the application's needs. Individual cores of the processor (also the four virtual threads) are overclocked completely automatically. Therefore the performance should always be available to applications as it's needed. Therefore on an i7-CPU it doesn't matter whether a program or game is multi-core capable.Hyper-threading adds four virtual threads to the four physical cores. Applications can thus access up to eight cores. In this case, not all cores clock at 2.93 GHz, but rather at 1.9 GHz. Only when an individual core takes on the complete computation and the TDP isn't otherwise busy.Battery only lasted for 2 hours and 26 minutes on the LAPTOP Battery Test, just 1 minute under the category average. We don't expect gaming rigs to last very long on a charge due to their heavy hardware requirements, but the GT660 did beat both the Origin Eon18 1:00 and the G73Jh 1:53. The Qosmio X505 still did better 2:51, even though it's a much larger system.The GT660's Intel WiFi Link 1000b/g/n wireless radio delivered strong throughput at 15 and 50 feet from the router, 34.1 and 24.1 Mbps, respectively. While comfortably above what we'd expect from most notebooks in this category 26.3/17.7 Mbps.
MSI always does well and they this time...?
Lets run some tests....
- Cool Design.
- Awesome lighting.
- Good GPU performance.
- Out class Audio quality.
- Overclocking.
- Short battery life.
- Should have 1080p screen.
- Heavy.
