MSI GT740 Notebook for Gamer

MSI GT740 released with the latest addition to its gaming series. The 17-inch notebook equipped with the Core i7 820QM and GeForce GTS 250M on cutting-edge components and wants to attract players despite the proud price of about € 1,450 for themselves. Whether it can convince its performance and MSI has corrected now well-known vulnerabilities, please refer to our detailed Testbericht.Wie the little brother GT640 (15.4-inch) has also the only currently available model of the GT740 (GT740-i7247W7P) on a GeForce GTS 250M Nvidia and Intel‘s Core i7 720QM. Our tester was equipped by MSI, however, equally with the somewhat stronger Core i7 820QM. Four GB of DDR3 memory at 1066 MHz while providing the necessary reserves, the integrated 500 GB hard drive provides tidy storage. Not least because of the display size of 17-inch ideal, the approximately 1450 euros GT740 expensive than desktop-replacement notebook.

Who does not want to spend so much money, takes up 15.4-inch GX623 and GT628 models. The GX623 will cost about, depending on the equipment between 800 to 1000 Euro. The processor range extends from the Core 2 Duo T6500/T6600 (2.16 / 2.2 GHz, 800 MHz FSB and 2 per MB of L2 cache), the P7350 (2.00 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache) to the P8700 (2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache). Has four gigabytes of memory, hard disk is 320 or 500 gigabytes in size. When people rely on ATI graphics card Radeon HD 4670, still an absolute price / performance tip among the cards.

The GT628 is a bit more expensive, at Euro 1050 to 1250, offers a video card to GeForce GTS 160M stronger. When one processor has the choice between the Core 2 Duo P8700 (2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache) or Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 (2.00 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 6 MB L2 cache) . The quantity is again four gigabytes of memory, hard drive offers a capacity of 500 gigabytes.