MSI GT80 TITAN SLI
Gaming Notebook
RRP: $4,179 | Website: $4,179
W
hen it comes to gaming
notebooks, there are few
that can question MSI’s track
record. Their release schedule and
lineup is deep. When you’re looking for
the right gaming notebook, chances
are you’ll find out in MSI’s family
somewhere.
Prior to the TITAN SLI, MSI had
released the GT series, with each
generation featuring the most
powerful mobile GPU of it’s time as its
center piece. This time it’s no different
with the GT80 hosing NVIDIA’s latest
Maxwell based mobile GPU in the
980M. Different this time however, is
that for the first time, MSI has chosen
the SLI route. The reasons for this are
unknown but what it does mean is that
MSI has instantly secured the GT80 as
the most powerful gaming notebook
money can buy. Not only due in part to
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the SLI graphics, but it’s in the other
component choice as well. One simply
cannot find a higher spec’d notebook
anywhere short of the ones that you
configure yourself, from boutique and
specialist stores such as EUROCOM.
Outside of those vendors, MSI has
brought the hammer with the GT80
and it’ll take a herculean effort on the
part of the competition to exceed it.
If you don’t believe me. Consider
that the specification that I was testing
featured 16GiB of dedicated graphics
memory, with each GPU having
exclusive access to 8GiB respectively.
As if that wasn’t enough, MSI has gone
to the extreme end and outfitted this
model with not one, two or three SSD’s
but four M.2 drives. Each one is only
128GiB in size, but together in a RAID 0
configuration they grant you 512GiB of
blisteringly fast primary storage. The