MSI GE60 Review | MSI new Multimedia Gaming Notebook

MSI is one of the Brands who really keep up with the times and don’t hesitate to release their latest series shortly after the processor Ivy Bridge officially released, this can be seen from the emergence of -based laptops Ivy Bridge as MSI GT70 and MSI GE60 and the MSI GT60 which is also accompanied by a new GPU from the Nvidia 6xx series. On this occasion Pemmz will do a review for MSI GE60 which is a multimedia Class Notebook and workstation + Gaming that can be relied on for all the needs of its users, is everything that MSI claims is true? Let’s see this review.

Keyboard Layout

Although MSI GE60 is Multimedia Gaming Notebook, but still armed with Steel Series keyboards which is Gaming choice keyboard, same as Gaming Notebook owned by MSI others are also accompanied keyboard layout which is almost the same. The Layout Steel Series is one of the best for gaming keyboard-class notebook designs layout indeed thought of for comfort in playing games as seen from the picture above. Frequently used buttons form a triangle. MSI also eliminates distractions such as the Windows shortcut being moved to the right so that when playing games there is no error in pressing the button which causes us to exit to windows in the middle of the game.

Sound System

In terms of sound, MSI GE60 use Audio Panel coated Gold so that the sound results are better than from laptops or notebooks in general, besides that with software support MSI which is able to boost the system output by 30% enhance the sound system, produce stable audio and is very useful for headphone users to get loud sound with clear details. In addition, MSI also supports THX studio pro which is used as a codec to use various sound enhancers from THX and according to THX standards.

TDE Engine

Just like other gaming laptops, MSI invents TDE technology (Turbo Drive Engine) which intelligently detects all workloads from the user and adjusts the clock speed above the standard (but at a safe limit) for the benefit of more performance, this is very useful if you are using this Notebook to work on heavy software loads and also Gaming. but even in turbo mode mode, if no application that requires full load is detected, then TDE will intelligently lower the clock speed as needed.

Cooler Boost

As is TDE engine, MSI also include Cooler Boost Technology which serves to make a fan or fan run at full speed when needed, for example when you are in a room that is not hot or with less air circulation, even though it is a little noisy but does not interfere with performance when we are active Notebook we.

16:9 wide LED non-glare display

MSI GE60 use 15.6 inch screen Anti Glare or better known as screen Matte with Full HD resolution, It is suitable for those of you who like to be outdoors or in a bright room, because it will not dazzle your eyes and reduce eye fatigue while playing games and the image becomes sharper.

GPU Boost

GPU boost is a technology designed to help process performance and increase performance above the standard if needed, or make performance more stable and adapted to the load of the application used. Battery Saving also works by switching the discreete GPU to the Onboard GPU.

APPEARANCE

As usual, before going to the performance session, we will see from the appearance of the MSI GE60 as follows:

five_pictures3_2566_20120423161523 — front panel

The front panel of the MSI GE 60 has changed in terms of design, for the design there are patterns that adorn the entire panel so that it looks even sweeter, the casing material uses high quality plastic material with good build quality.

five_pictures6_2566_20120426154604 — Inside view

From the inside, it can be seen that the MSI GE60 uses a full keyboard and touchpad which are set to the same standards as other MSI gaming, under the keyboard space, with a steel series keyboard that is comfortable to use for gaming.

five_pictures4_2566_20120423161529 — View left

From the left, you can see there is a security lock, DC adapter, exhaust fan, USB 2.0, HDMI out, 2x USB 3.0, front panel audio.

five_pictures5_2566_20120423161539 — View right

from the right view you can see optical DVD drive, USB2.0, D-sub out, Gigabit LAN.

From the appearance, you could say that the MSI GE60 has all the connectivity problems starting with USB 3.0 for high speed USB transfer, HDMI output for display output, front panel audio, all basic and standard output requirements from multimedia have been well met.

Real world benchmarks

testing of the PC mark Vantage can be carried out without any problems, and from the results listed the PC mark score reaches 9991, and this is a very good overall score, all functions can be run and the existing features of the MSI GE60 without any problems, from that score to the overall multimedia performance is very good.

3D mark Vantage achieves a very good score, this is helped by the amazing CPU performance, because of the ivy bridge technology, which works very efficiently, for GPU performance also 384 shader cores really help the overall 3d performance. This also proves that this laptop is a mainstream and optimal gaming laptop class. for games dx 10 can run well.

Real Gaming Benchmark

Resident Evil 5

Resident Evil 5 is a game that utilizes GPU and CPU so that in benchmarking standards it is very necessary for performance scaling. and from the MSI GE60, the performance is very good, this proves the GT class (mainstream) GPU has gone up to the top level, and is also helped by the performance of the latest ivy bridge CPU.

Lost planet 2 is a very demanding game and just like resident evil 5 also lost planet utilizes multi core CPU architecture, the more efficient the performance the better the overall performance. from this GSI GE60 the score obtained is very good, every area can be smoothly played with FPS above 35 at high detail.

CRYSIS 2

in Crysis 2 testing we get an average of 40s at a resolution of 1600 × 900 and this DX9 high mode detail also proves the GT650’s performance is very good, Crysis 2 is GPU Bound so the processor is not too much help, in this case the GT 650M can be categorized as a Gaming class GPU capable of playing crysis 2.

Unigine Heaven benchmark

We don’t include Unigin as a synthetic benchmark because performance is directly related to Gaming and its stability, so the performance shadow of DX 9 and DX 11 can be obtained from this benchmark (latest games) from the test side, we are testing DX11 with high detail and Tesselation at normal level. the results obtained are respectable enough to run DX11 games but not with FULL HD and high detail, but can be at 720p and medium-high detail.

Conclusion

The MSI GE60 is a Multimedia Gaming laptop that has high performance and complete functionality from MSI at a price that matches its current performance.

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