Metallic Chassis with Brushed Metal Design
MSI has engineered a lightweight chassis using not only traditional aluminum, but also an Mg-Li alloy. As most of the chassis comprises of the special alloy, it is 44% stiffer and 23% lighter than an aluminum-only chassis, as well as being the first such backbone used in a gaming notebook.
Insanely Powerful. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
Discrete Graphics Card with GDDR5 3GB VRAM
The NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970M Series brings extreme, next-generation graphics performance to serious gaming notebooks. As the first graphics solution to reach a score over 9,000 in 3DMark 11, the GeForce GTX 970M delivers extremely fast and fluid gameplay at the highest settings and resolutions in a lightweight and portable design.
?SHIFT?
The whole new feature ?SHIFT? brings you total control over the system?s balance between performance and temperature. Switch between profiles ?Sport,? ?Comfort,? and ?Green? to find the perfect balance between system performance and temperature. SHIFT is activated by the FN + F7 hotkey combo, or via the Dragon Gaming Center.
- Runs CPU and GPU at the highest frequency for maximum performance.
- Limits GPU frequency to level 1. Maintain GPU temperature at a maximum of 89°C.
- Disables Intel Turbo boost and limits GPU frequency to level 2. Control CPU and GPU temperatures at a maximum of 85°C.
The Stunning Storage Speed
The first Super RAID design?one notebook with two M.2 SSDs RAID 0 (128GB or 256GB) units, is yet another world first courtesy of MSI. Two M.2 SSDs and one HDD can be installed in the same laptop without the need to expand the size of the laptop, increasing read, write, and saving speeds.
Cooler Boost 3
Ultra efficiency dual cooling system
The Cooler Boost 3 dual thermal system is made for next generation extreme performance CPU and graphics, this feature designed with independent launch key on the left aside of keyboard, user will be easier to call this program at a glance with 1 touch.
With advanced cooling efficiency, it doesn?t increase any extra space but lower noise. The heat been generated by core components transferred to the vent quietly without troubling users, and supports up to Core i7 Extreme CPUs and GTX880M 8GB graphics with lower temperature than others. When you enable Cooler Boost 3 with boosted fan speed, it could decrease the CPU temperature around 8~10?C and GPU temperature around 4~5?C, the noise will be lower than most of the gaming notebooks with its powerful cooling design.
Killer? E2200 Game Networking for smarter, faster, networking for all online entertainment
The benefit of the Killer Gaming LAN is the "Advanced Game Detect?" technology, which recognizes online game data packs and processes them first, accelerating them in the process. The best weapon against stuttering characters, freeze-ups, and lagging, it vastly improves all the online experience. Whether FPS or MMO gaming, you?ll have that advantage to response faster to get victorious.
SOUND by DYNAUDIO
To satisfy consumers desire to experience high quality sound effects, MSI partnered with top audio brand Dynaudio, which has a devoted aspiration for ?Authentic Fidelity? to meet this demanding standard. It equips the MSI GAMING-Series gaming notebook with top-notch audio features, creating a realistic sound and immersive effects. Any high quality stereo source is transformed into true-to-life, multi-channel sound. No need to purchase extra speakers, wires or speaker stands to appreciate room-filling sound.
AUDIO BOOST
The MSI Audio Boost design enhances the output sound detail and sound stage by 30% more. The gold flash audio jack provides stable sound transmission (reduced obstruction) and works in conjunction with the optimized headsets AMP (Audio Power Amplifier) design, characterized by low noise and low distortion, to greatly enhance headphone performance and faithfully reproduce each acoustic detail.
Top quality audio with sound blaster cinema
Hear your enemies perfectly, even on an ear-drum shattering battlefield. Thanks to Sound Blaster Cinema, youre getting amazing surround sound with just stereo headphones. Your most important gaming sound effects are reproduced crystal clear allowing you to focus on your game even during extremely long gaming sessions.
Customize Your Game Style
SteelSeries Engine is an app that transforms your keyboard in to a lethal gaming weapon. Here, you can customize each individual key, create different macros, manage keyboard lighting and customize the keyboard to your liking.
Interdevice Communication
Thanks to the unified software we have opened up new lines of communication between devices. Your devices will fluidly work together, for instance clicking the zoom/scope button on your mouse could activate an equalizer for your headset that focuses on the highs for better listening to footsteps.
Friendly UI design
The SteelSeries Engine is easy to understand by using pictorial representations of devices along with basic drag-and-drop techniques to assign key presses, complex macros, device profiles and buttons. Also features intuitive macro creation with customizable colors, fonts, and names for everything.
Every key can be customized to hot key as you want!!
Every gamer can easily customize every individual key as hot key to personalize his own play style, greatly increase the convenience on key usage.
* FN, F1-F12 keys except
Just one click!! quickly launch Apps from SteelSeries Engine
Gamers can freely choose any key as launch application button, no longer need to click the mouse for Apps start.
4 keyboard layers options!!
There are 4 layers for gamers to set 4 usage scenario or game. Not only that, while playing the game, gamers can easily and quickly switch layer*, such as a chat screen with friends. Communication with friends is not interrupted!!
*The layers switch key is ?Fn+1~4?
Intelligent keypress macro capabilities
There are virtually unlimited keypress macro creation capabilities. Anything you can do on a mouse or a keyboard can be programmed along with specific event timing. You can even program mouse events into keyboard macros. Your macros will be running at a high priority in your computers Operating System, yet it does NOT interfere with your real time actions during gameplay.
Create your own text macro
Besides keypress macro, SteelSeries Engine also can create the text macro for gamers? talk. By this way, gamers can have simultaneously multi-party conversation and do not waste time in doing repetitive typing.
KLM (Keyboard light management)
Depending on your mood and desires, you can choose from more than 1,000 color combinations and five different scenario modes for the keyboard, enabling you to be the coolest gamer at any LAN party!
Unlimited profile possibilities
Profiles are sets of macros, button assignments, and device configurations that are frequently used together. An unlimited number of profiles, with customizable names, can be stored in the SteelSeries Engine. It provides predefined profiles for common games which can be used directly or as templates for your custom macros.
Statistics to analyze and improve
Whether youre playing an FPS or editing in Photoshop, being better and more efficient is something we want to help you achieve. Use the Statistics module to record your keyboard or mouse actions. Then review the peripheral heat map, which shows with both color and numbers the frequency of your key or button presses. You can then use this information to fine tune your macros as well as your key and mouse button assignments to optimize your tools to play (and work).
Freedom to Play
SteelSeries Engine will automatically recognize what game you are playing and open your saved profile(s) for that game. You can create your own profiles for other applications and then have SteelSeries Engine open the corresponding profile when you start up your application.
One Application
The SteelSeries Engine 3 was created as a unified software suite for SteelSeries hardware catalog going forward. Currently it works with the devices of keyboard, headset, and mouse.
SteelSeries Cloudsync
Users now have the ability to backup, share, and sync your configuration profiles through the SteelSeries CloudSync across all your platforms. Simply log in with your SteelSeries ID and all your configurations will be available wherever you are.
The Real Deal:
A Keyboard All Gamers Desire For
Exclusive keyboard positioning and golden triangle layout offers a better gaming experience.
Show Off or Just Make for Fun
Best Live Streaming App Ever
XSplit Gamecaster lets you easily record your gaming experience and broadcast it live to Twitch, YouTube, UStream and more. It?s simple, easy to use and ideal for sharing your gameplay with friends, family or the world - or for capturing those perfect gaming moments, just for the heck of it.
Now, with the upgraded version, you can even edit your gameplay video and share it to your social media pages directly through Gamecaster.
- Organize and upload your greatest gaming moments
- Easy to use Express Video Editor
- Add a Webcam and show your game face
- Draw attention whilst casting with in-game annotations
- Use XSplit Gamecaster with all of your PC & Console Games
- Keep in touch with social features
Matrix Display With 4K 60Hz output
Imagine expanding your gaming real estate across three displays in full HD up to 120Hz from Display Port for a completely immersive gaming experience. With the Matrix Display, you can now use the latest surround view display technology to build the multi-display gaming experience, or with 4K (3840 x 2160) resolutions or multitask effectively by HDMI 1.4 by 30Hz and dual Mini Display Port 1.2 by 60Hz refresh rate.
A Must-have Engine for Gaming
The latest 4th generation quad core processor platform, representing superior performance over previous generations. The CPU performance has increased by 3%~7%, while the overall platform is 15% more powerful. Additionally, the GPU performance of 2D and 3D visuals, is even more noteworthy, with an average increase of over 30%. There have also been significant advances in user experience and battery life.
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