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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 46 The OverClocker Issue 34 | 2015 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