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Killer E2500, which aims to crush latency diverting heat effectively and efficiently, frequently addressed aspects on laptops
with its Lag and Latency Reduction especially on a mobile chassis.” was a top priority.
Technology. The 802.11ac adapter is First, MSI beefed up the Cooler With an assist from the gaming
another Killer chip, the Killer N1535. Boost TITAN increasing the number peripheral experts at SteelSeries, MSI
Compared to previous generations, Tang of heatpipes to 15. The company also equipped the GT83VR TITAN SLI with
says the Killer E2500 “has better program redesigned the cooler’s fin structure Cherry MX Speed Silver keyswitches. A
prioritization over previous versions and in order to increase its surface area and linear switch developed with gaming in
effectively uses the Ethernet controller to maximize airflow. The cooling fans also mind, the MX Speed Silvers have a very
optimize bandwidth. Its newest Advanced received an overhaul. MSI made the fan short actuation distance, a mere 1.2mm.
Stream Detect 2.0 technology will prioritize blades wider and thinner, which made The total travel distance of 3.4mm is
games and real-time communication.” room to increase the number of blades. similarly short. The switches only require
Between the CPU and GPU fans, 52 45cN of force to actuate, the same as
Cool Your Jets blades work to cool the chips. According Cherry’s MX Reds.
In addition to supplying the GT83VR to Tang, the end result is a 30% increase “When designing the keyboard, our
TITAN SLI with enough juice for its in airflow. engineers studied the optimal wrist angle
components, MSI had to devise a cooler and length where it would cause the least
that could keep the laptop’s hottest (as Mechanical In A Mobile fatigue over time,” Tang says. “When
in, literally) components in check. The From an input device standpoint, a standard wrist rest is used with the
solution was the Cooler Boost TITAN. one clear advantage desktop PCs have GT83VR, the keyboard on the laptop is
Although it was based on the cooler traditionally enjoyed over laptops is the actually very comfortable to type on.”
inside MSI’s last-gen GT laptops, Tang option to use a keyboard with mechanical
says the new cooler went through several keyswitches. From gaming to everyday Big Picture
revisions before being completed. typing, mechanical keyboards tend to be A laptop can have all the latest hardware
“The biggest gripe we heard from users far superior to the low-quality keyboards and still fall short if it has an inferior
was that the GT series was overheating typically found in laptops. Again, MSI display. Gamers need a clear picture of
and throttling,” he says. “Our engineers was determined to build a laptop to rival the action, but a high-quality screen is
know that there are only so many ways of any desktop, so addressing one of the least even more important for professionals
whose jobs depend on things like on-point
color reproduction. To serve both of these
audiences, MSI gave the GT83VR TITAN
SLI an IPS panel and complemented it
with homegrown software.
The benefits are clear. Compared to
TN panels, the GT83VR TITAN SLI’s
panel offers 40% better contrast and 20%
increased brightness. As mentioned, the
panel boasts a 94% NTSC color gamut.
By using MSI True Color Technology,
users can configure the GT83VR TITAN
SLI’s display precisely to what they need. For
example, Gamer mode boosts brightness,
while Movie mode tweaks contrast for a
proper cinematic experience. For professionals,
True Color Technology can set the display to
100% of the sRGB color gamut.

Super-Size Me
At 13.13 pounds, MSI’s GT83VR
TITAN SLI is unapologetically large.
Using a pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 GPUs in a laptop is bound to present thermal challenges, so MSI’s Considering all of its cutting-edge hardware,
engineers went to work devising a cooler capable of dealing with all the heat. The end result is the Cooler though, it’s also unapologetically awesome. If
Boost TITAN, which has a whopping 15 heatpipes to help wick away heat from the laptop’s CPU and GPUs. you want to take as much computing muscle
with you as possible, this is how you do it. ■

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