Technical characteristics MSI GX640
CPU: Intel Core i5-430M (dual-core, 2.26 GHz, L2-kesh 512 KB, L3-Kash 3 MB) * Chipset: Intel HM55 * RAM: 4 GB DDR3-1066 MHz * Video card: Mobility Radeon HD 5850, 1 GB GDDR5 * Screen: 15.4 inches (1680×1050), glossy coating * Hard disk: 500 GB (7200 rpm) * Optical disks drive: BD/DVD-RW * Basic connectors: VGA, HDMI, ESATA (USB Combo), 2x USB 2.0, ExpressCard/54, Audio * Sound: Support High Definition, two speakers, microphone * Net: Wi-Fi 802.11B/G, LAN * Additionally: Windows 7 Home Premium, 2 megapixel webcam, cardrider, included corporate backpack and mouse * Battery: lithium-ion, 6/9 elements * Dimensions: 36x26x3.6 cm * Battery weight: 2.7 kg * Price: 45,000 rubles
On the market for desktop computers AMD And NVIDIA in recent years there have been a nostril in the nostril. Only one manufacturer will break out – you will not have time to look back, as a competitor is already a decent answer. With mobile graphics, the situation is a little different. In the lower and middle price categories, AMD and NVIDIA also play catch-up, but for some reason AMD has not been asked with top mobile solutions. Formally in every generation Mobility Radeon , Starting from nine -thousandths, a really powerful chip was listed, only laptops with such video adapters almost did not reach the shelves of stores – unlike models on competing solutions NVIDIA.
It seems that this year the situation can change. AMD not only announced new top adapters of the series Mobility Radeon HD 5800 , But she also managed, firstly, to make a sufficient amount of suitable chips, and secondly, to agree on the use of their decisions in the laptops of leading Taiwanese manufacturers. They have already taken their products to the Russian market, and about one of these laptops, MSI GX640 , Today we will talk.
Correct filling
In 2009 and the beginning of 2010, most gaming laptops sold in the Russian market looked quite strange. All attention was paid to the processor, and their eyes were closed on the video card. As a result, a clear imbalance was observed: in conjunction with an excessively powerful quad -core Core i7 Graphic boards of average performance worked.
MSI GX640 configuration approached more reasonably. The emphasis is made precisely on the graphics, but it should be borne in mind that with the names in AMD this time cheat. The nearest desktop analogue AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5850 – This is not Radeon HD 5850 , but noticeably less productive Radeon HD 5750 , Therefore, streaming processors in our chip are not 1440, as one might think, but “only” 800. And the memory bus is not 256-bit, but twice.
However, by the standards of laptops, even this is very, very much. Due to the significantly increased GPU frequency and the use of fast memory GDDR5 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 works much faster than HD 4830 past generation, and with a good margin is ahead of GeForce GTX 260M – The most chassis in gaming laptops NVIDIA. They saved the processor on the MSI, and right: from an extra pair of processor nuclei in games, not too much. Double -core Core i5 copes with them no worse than the four -core monster Core i7.
The disc subsystem has been thought out: MSI GX640 uses quick and at the same time capacious hard drive Seagate volume of 500 GB and at the speed of spindle rotation of 7200 revolutions per minute. What is important, such discs are equipped not only by test samples, but also by the GX640 retail copies. But the Blu-Ray drive seems to be absent in Russia sold in Russia.
VIP department
Search for a laptop bag is an extremely complicated lesson. Yes, in stores there are a huge amount of all kinds of portfolios and nylon shoulder bags, only here is a three-piece suit and a backpack, whether it is convenient, incompatible three times. Fortunately, there are companies that are concerned about the issue of image. One of them is an Italian company Tucano , In the assortment of which there are just a lot of stylish high -quality bags for every taste. The company uses good materials, monitors the accuracy of sewing and, most importantly, the appearance and internal convenience.
For young people there is a series of covers and bags Tucano Youngster for 1300-2000 rubles. It is made in bright colors – purple, pink, blue, blue – but it looks very restrained. The laptop department is protected here with elastic and dense material and opens so widely that you can work with a laptop without taking it out of a bag. There is a bag for both 11.1-inch RS and a 17-inch "poppy" in the model range. And the most pleasant thing is an external-organizer on a zipper, where you can put a mobile phone, business cards and other little things. Each compartment is highlighted with its own color – it is easy to navigate in the bag.
The next series – TUCANO TASCA , which includes women's bags for laptops with a diagonal up to 15.4 inches. These are the real women's setchela bags-with a flat bottom, two long handles borrowed from the road bag, and some unimaginable number of all sorts of departments, pockets, compartments. Only girls will be able to deal with all this pile of piles, in whom such a number of things accumulate in bags that you wonder. For a laptop, a middle department is intended, well protected from external influences. A bag is produced in two color variations: black, pink, burgundy and coffee grounds, costs 3,500-4000 rubles.
The latter on our list are cases Tucano Giorno , in shape resembling the same nondescript black suitcases with which the regiments of computer stores are littered. However, Tucano Giorno is pleasant in appearance made of good material and neatly stitched shoulder portfolios, which are not a shame to wear Charles Casino even with a suit. They cost, respectively-2500-3000 rubles, there are models of black, blue, burgundy and gray-brown color for laptops with a diagonal up to 15.4 inches. As usual, there is a huge number of interior departments and a large protected pocket for the laptop itself. It is especially convenient to travel with this bag: behind it has a special department for attaching to the handle of a suitcase.
In work
MSI GX640 is made in the same design as the previous generation of MSI gaming laptops. Outwardly, he is no different from his predecessors: the same black aluminum “rough grinding”, the same bright red plastic inserts, the same brilliant mesh panel next to the base of the lid.
The use of the old chassis clearly allowed the company to minimize the costs of developing a new model, as a result of the MSI GX640 costs only 45,000 rubles – this is more than a democratic price for such a productive portable computer.
However, this savings also have the opposite side. The GX640 model has inherited a couple of shortcomings of its ancestors: the keyboard with a non -optimal layout that you still have to get used to it, and not too roomy battery compartment – coupled with a powerful gluttonous filling, this is poured out in a record for a short time of autonomous work (however, a game laptop, and to expect something from it -THet would be strange).
Our GX640 with a six -element battery worked for only an hour with a little. And in the viewing mode of DVD with the maximum brightness of the display, the laptop devastated the battery and completely in 50 minutes. GX640 with a more capacious battery was not tested, but according to MSI, a model with a nine-element battery with an Intel Core i7-Q820 processor can last without recharging for two hours-this is a much more optimistic result.
Of course, the watts consumed, in strict accordance with the law of energy conservation, are released in the form of heat – and for its removal, the cooling system has to work as it should be. On the tests we had a very noisy engineering model, which did not have to wait for silence: even in a simple fan worked quite noisily, and calculating the laptop and completely hummed the demanding game – however, the cooling system coped with its duties. MSI claims that serial laptops work significantly quieter.
The case that was obtained by the MSI GX640 from the last generation of gaming laptops is designed to use the LCD matrix with the parties to 16:10 and a diagonal of 15.4 inches. Now such displays are gradually leaving the market, giving way to the screens of the 16: 9 format, so the MSI had to install a display with electro -luminescent backlighting, inferior in brightness of the LED. This is not to say that the screen is very dark, however, even when the brightness was put to the maximum, we had a desire to raise it by one or two steps.
However, the shortcomings of the MSI GX640 end – then there are continuous advantages. Despite the highest performance and more than decent functionality, the MSI GX640 turned out to be surprisingly compact and light. The case in size is the same as that of other ordinary “spots”, and the mass (along with a six -element battery!) is only 2.7 kilograms. Of course, you can't call such a laptop really mobile. But from the GX640 game models is one of the most suitable for frequent transportation. The screen is dark, it has a high resolution for its size – 1680 by 1050 pixels. The touchpad is convenient – it’s not scary if the full mouse is not at hand.
The set of connectors is maximum: in addition to standard interfaces on the sides of the GX640, you can find not only the HDMI digital video output, but also the ExpressCard/54 slot, and the ESATA port combined with USB. There are also four audio ranges, so you can connect any acoustic system to the laptop without problems.
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MSI GX640 is not just one of the most productive gaming laptops sold in our country. It is also amazingly compact and light-most direct competitors weigh per kilogram or two more. And the most amazing thing: with such a wonderful combination of the qualities of the MSI GX640, it turned out to be really affordable – it is one of the most inexpensive gaming laptops in the Russian market.
Table 1
PCMARK VantageoverallMemorytv and Moviesgamingmusiccommuni CationProductivityHDDDDD
HP Envy 15 (Core i7-720q) 592940834360606150863909 5220 3890
ASUS G51J (Core i7-720q) 61494157 4591 6228 6078403645114005
MSI GT740 (Core i7-820q) 6223 416240755652 6773 4607 47813703
MSI GX640 (Core i5-430M) 5919 4617 38224941618141614514 4196
Table 2
3dmark06overallsm2.0SM3.0cpu
HP Envy 15 (AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4830) 7255281829253087
ASUS G51J (Nvidia GeForce GTX 260M) 11 211491948593054
MSI GT740 (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M) 757630542921 3299
MSI GX640 (AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5850) 11 560 5073 5728 2548
Table 3
3DMark Vantage3Dmark ScoregPU1, FPSGPU2, FPSGPUCPU1, FPSCPU2, FPSCPU
HP Envy 15 (AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4830) P41479.7810.4734541439.5413.8810 421
ASUS G51J (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M) P518712.5611.444100151115 83.96 25 396
MSI GT740 (NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS 250M) P38269,468,0429991 1590.38 72,7523 475
MSI GX640 (AMD Mobility Radeon HD 5850) P7184 22.22 20.04 7219 965,449,757081