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MSI GT683R First To Ship with Nvidia GTX 560M

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MSI's new gaming laptop is one of the first to host the GeForce GTX 560M GPU.

Tuesday MSI said that its new GT683R gaming laptop is one of the first to ship with Nvidia's fresh-out-of-the-oven GeForce GTX 560M GPU. It also sports Intel's new second-generation Core i7 2630QM CPU and a hefty pricetag of $1,599.99.

“As the first GTX-class gaming GPU in the 500 Series, the GeForce GTX 560M delivers blistering frame rates and beautifully rendered scenes with Direct X 11 done right,” said David Ragones, director of product marketing at Nvidia. “The MSI GT683R will be first out of the gate with this gaming workhorse.”

As revealed on Sunday, the GeForce GTX 560M comes packed with 192 CUDA cores and clocks in at 775 MHz with 1559 MHz shaders. The 1250 MHz GDDR5 memory resides on a (up to) 192-bit bus, with peak a bandwidth of up to 60 GB/s.

"The GeForce GTX 560M and NVIDIA Optimus mean gamers get 50 frames per second in Duke Nukem Forever and five hours of battery life in Microsoft Office," said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook products at Nvidia. "That's real power and real portability."

Weighing in at 7.7 pounds, the actual laptop features a 15.6-inch Full HD display (16:9; 1920 x 1080), dual 500 GB SATA HDDs in a RAID 0 configuration, two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, and MSI's Cooler Boost technology which allows the user to manage the CPU and GPU fans with a single touch. The laptop's GeForce GTX 560M discreet graphics uses 1.5 GB of DDR5 VRAM and is backed by 12 GB of DDR3 system memory.

As for other features, the new gaming laptop provides Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit), HDMI 1.4, a built-in 720p HD webcam, 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN, Bluetooth, MSI's Turbo Drive Engine (TDE) technology for one-touch overclocking, Dynaudio speakers with support for THX TruStudio PRO, Gigabit Ethernet, a 7-in-1 card reader and more.

Interested consumers can purchase the laptop from Amazon here although the site has it listed as $1,495.00.

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    verbalizer , May 31, 2011 9:17 PM
    nice but too expensive, and I want surround....:D 
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    quickmana , May 31, 2011 9:32 PM
    Optimus technology bugs me, it makes the screen flash a disconnect for a second while it switches between internal graphics and the discrete card. I find myself disabling it, but then battery life is about as good as a desktop computer :) .
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    stingstang , May 31, 2011 9:56 PM
    Woooow, 50 fps in Duke Nukem? Wait a second...that means it sucks. It should get AT LEAST that much in a game sporting a 6 year old engine.
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    techseven , May 31, 2011 10:09 PM
    stingstangWoooow, 50 fps in Duke Nukem? Wait a second...that means it sucks. It should get AT LEAST that much in a game sporting a 6 year old engine.


    Its Duke Nukem Forever, a brand new game...
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    verbalizer , May 31, 2011 10:52 PM
    Quote:
    Its Duke Nukem Forever, a brand new game...

    ^+1
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    nebun , May 31, 2011 10:52 PM
    quickmanaOptimus technology bugs me, it makes the screen flash a disconnect for a second while it switches between internal graphics and the discrete card. I find myself disabling it, but then battery life is about as good as a desktop computer .

    deal with it...it's called technology
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    TeKEffect , May 31, 2011 10:59 PM
    techsevenIts Duke Nukem Forever, a brand new game...


    I think he was referring to the fact that the game took so long to develop that the engine is already outdated
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    lee3821 , May 31, 2011 11:41 PM
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    560M discreet graphics

    I'm assuming you mean Discrete.
    Honestly, I still love my Acer TimelineX. It was a great deal-$800, i5-480M, HD6550 switchable, 9 hours battery life if I baby it.
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    fir_ser , June 1, 2011 2:48 AM
    Cool gaming laptop but it’s not for me, at the current price it is expensive, and I prefer playing games on a desktop.
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    amk-aka-Phantom , June 1, 2011 8:11 AM
    Let's see if Asus G74, which will also have GTX 560M, will be better priced...
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    climber , June 1, 2011 11:23 AM
    Check out the real specs for the GTX 560M, it's only marginally better than the GTX 460M, no where near as good as the GTX 485M. The important part of the naming convention is the "60/70/80/85" in the GPU. I'd rather have a GTX 485M with it's 384 CUDA cores and a 356-bit memory interface and 90GB/s memory throughput.
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    macewrox , June 1, 2011 12:33 PM
    Two HDD's in Raid 0? On a laptop you're moving bashing and bumping around? Uh - no thanks.
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    cknobman , June 1, 2011 1:23 PM
    macewroxTwo HDD's in Raid 0? On a laptop you're moving bashing and bumping around? Uh - no thanks.


    Agreed, not to mention the power draw those things have, increased risk of data loss on a raid 0, increased heat, and many other drawbacks.

    If they just had to go with 2 hdd's would have been much better to make 1 of them a small, cheaper sdd for the os and a few games. I know the cost would go up but it would be worth it.
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    agnickolov , June 1, 2011 7:16 PM
    Just a couple of months back I bought an ASUS G73SW (460M). I wish these chips were released earlier. I mostly care about the switchable graphics, however, since I primarily use it as a workstation with occasional gaming over the weekend. Also, the 15.6" form factor is too small for me - I prefer 17.3". It makes a difference working 8 hours a day in front of it. I'm sure ASUS will soon release a 17.3" model with 560M, but it's too late for me.
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    jenesuispasbavard , June 3, 2011 12:31 PM
    lee3821I'm assuming you mean Discrete.Honestly, I still love my Acer TimelineX. It was a great deal-$800, i5-480M, HD6550 switchable, 9 hours battery life if I baby it.

    I have the same and it's awesome. Super light, and plays Starcraft 2 = I'm happy.
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    Anonymous , November 22, 2011 1:07 AM
    Very nice,I want to have one ,but the price,I hope can drop.
    http://www.laptopadapters.com.au/7800mah-9cell-msi-gt683r-laptop-battery-p-154144.html