20-02-2017, 09:32 PM
Mine is an MSI GX660R, in its day (it is over 5 years old) it was one of the top gaming laptops, up there with Alienware.
I use it pretty much all the time, it goes on after breakfast and stays on until the wee hours, then it goes on standby overnight.
I do use a cooling stand similar to that I have about 3 of slightly differing designs. I use one in the front room and another in my game room.
While testing the cooling this today I made an interesting discovery. I have been using Logitech ARX to monitor my Laptop temps, and while I was running rF2 I was getting differing results. At Monza running windowed I was getting around 60 with the load mainly on the graphics card. Later I tried the same test at Sebring and was on getting half the framerate. I changed to full screen and was getting better framerate but still only about 40. The strange thing was most of the load was being taken by the CPU (like it was with FSX). Not sure what is happening here?
If I get an influx of cash I may get a tower (I have 3 around the house; 1 is dead but the other 2 still work with there AGP graphics and single core processors), but for now I'll have to make do. Most of the time I get on well with my trusty old MSI. After all that dust and the rock hard thermal paste I'm going to get it cleaned and repasted each year. It still does all the non gaming work very well, and I do have my Xbox One S for playing Assetto Corsa.
I use it pretty much all the time, it goes on after breakfast and stays on until the wee hours, then it goes on standby overnight.
I do use a cooling stand similar to that I have about 3 of slightly differing designs. I use one in the front room and another in my game room.
While testing the cooling this today I made an interesting discovery. I have been using Logitech ARX to monitor my Laptop temps, and while I was running rF2 I was getting differing results. At Monza running windowed I was getting around 60 with the load mainly on the graphics card. Later I tried the same test at Sebring and was on getting half the framerate. I changed to full screen and was getting better framerate but still only about 40. The strange thing was most of the load was being taken by the CPU (like it was with FSX). Not sure what is happening here?
If I get an influx of cash I may get a tower (I have 3 around the house; 1 is dead but the other 2 still work with there AGP graphics and single core processors), but for now I'll have to make do. Most of the time I get on well with my trusty old MSI. After all that dust and the rock hard thermal paste I'm going to get it cleaned and repasted each year. It still does all the non gaming work very well, and I do have my Xbox One S for playing Assetto Corsa.