Home T-34. Testing game laptop MSI GE620DX

Technical characteristics

Screen: 15.6 inches (1366×768), GLARE, LED lighting

Processor: Intel Core i5-2410M (Sandy Bridge, 2.3 GHz, L3-Cash 3 MB)

Memory : 4 GB DDR3-1333 MHz

Video card :: Nvidia GeForce GT 555M (650/1800 MHz, 2 GB GDDR3)

Hard disk: 500 GB

The number of speakers: 4 pcs.

Connection : Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + Edr, Lan

Connectors: USB 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, LAN, Audio, D-Sub, HDMI

Battery: lithium-ion (6 cells)

Operating system : Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Additionally: Cardrider, webcam 5 megapixel

Dimensions: 38.3×24.9×3.2 cm

Weight: 2.4 kg

The price of October 2011: 29 500 rubles

Recently, gaming laptops have fallen strongly in price. If three years ago a laptop, pulling all modern games, cost at least 50,000 rubles, today the productive model will meet less than 30,000 rubles. How companies seek such low prices and what to expect from a budget laptop, we will tell you using the example of MSI GE620DX.

In the tank

The laptop looks simple. There are neither characteristic of the senior models of the case cut, no decorative backlight or metal inserts. The laptop is made of simple plastic designed for textured aluminum. The GE620DX cover is held by two loops, no latches are provided. You can open the laptop with one hand – the lower half is quite heavy and does not break away from the table. The inside of the laptop is designed in the same style with the external: “aluminum” base and the black frame around the 15.6-inch display.

The keyboard is full -size, with island keys and a solid substrate. What is nice, all the buttons are in their places: “FN” with “Ctrl” is not confused, and there are no extra keys next to “Z”. Lucky with a touchpad: a large touch panel is drowned into the housing and dotted with small points. But with keys under the touchpad – trouble. It costs traditional for MSI swing, which is well stipulated only at the edges.

Above the keyboard there is a block of additional buttons responsible for opening a drive, launching a media player and the Favorite folder and turning off the laptop. All multimedia functions like controlling the volume or brightness of the backlight are displayed on the key combinations from "FN".

On the sides of additional buttons are two speakers. The couple still settled on the beard of the front face of the laptop. It is interesting that each emitter is responsible for its channel. The signal by technology is distributed ThX Trustudio Pro , That is, in theory the laptop provides "sound around". True, in life the volume is practically not felt – at such a small distance from each other, the speakers cannot create the desired effect. But in any case, the laptop sounds qualitatively. Quietly, but without a characteristic rattle at high frequencies.

Let's see

The display is standard. It is based on a TN matrix with a resolution of 1366×768, so that it is better not to recall Full HD films and large viewing angles vertically. It is worth forgetting about games in bright lighting: the screen is glossy and highlights. Although, if you set the goal, you can find a version of a laptop with a better matrix with a resolution of 1920×1080 on sale.

But there are no complaints about is the set of ports. There is one USB 2.0, pair USB 3.0, LAN, Cardrider, audio forces and d-Sub with HDMI. A written DVD-RW is installed on the laptop. Communication with the outside world occurs through Wi-Fi, Lan and Bluetooth.

Horse powers

The video card in GE620DX is unusual. Most often in laptops of this price category is worth GeForce GT 540M , But in our sample there is a younger version GT 555M , Equipped with 144 cuda-yaders frequency 650 MHz. Own video memory at the board – 2 GB GDDR3 at a speed of 1800 MHz.

Processors in GE620DX are found two types. In the simplest version, this Intel Core i3-2310M , Double-core crystal 2.1 GHz and L3-Kash 3 MB. Of the significant disadvantages of the “stone” we highlight the absence of Turbo Boost technology, which translates as “no automatic overclocking”.

The senior versions are put Core i5-2410M. This is the same two-tower, but with a standard frequency of 2.3 GHz, support for Hyper-Threading and the possibility of acceleration to 2.9 GHz. Note that installing these models from the MSI is an excellent move. Given that the laptop is designed primarily for games and is equipped with far from the fastest video card, this option is ideal in terms of price/performance ratio. In addition, crystals allow you to save a charge of battery. When the laptop works from the battery, the image processes the graphic core built into the processor Intel HD Graphics 3000.

On take -off

For tests, we took the senior version of GE620DX with the Core i5-2410M processor. The test program includes Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.1 , Resident Evil 5 , Devil May Cry 4 And Dirt 2.

As expected, the results were high. Due to the slight resolution of the screen in the plowed DX11 effects of Unitine Heaven Benchmark 2.1 laptop showed 9.2 fps and scored 233 points. For comparison – the same results, but on a large display a resolution of 1920×1080 it is possible to achieve levels on video cards GeForce GT 550 Ti.

The same with games. In the Resident Evil 5, the FPS counter did not fall below 49 frames even when the smoothing is on. In Devil May Cry 4, the result was even higher – 65 FPS. I did not let the laptop in tests with dx11. Dirt 2 can be played with ULTRA settings and 2X-stroke.

MSI GE620DX is a great gaming laptop for reasonable money. Let there are no metal inserts or backlights here, the screen does not support Full HD, but you can play modern games at high settings. And this is much more important than a beautiful body backlight.

Pros:

High performance

Convenient keyboard

Adequate price

Cons:

unsuccessful buttons under the touchpad

Gleeping display

Synthetic tests

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 2.1

fps

9.2

Overall

233

Table 2

Game tests

Devil May Cry 4 (DX10

Superhigh, AF 16X

1366×768

77.9

Superhigh, AF 16X, AA 2X

1366×768

68.8

Superhigh, AF 16X, AA 4X

1366×768

64.8

Resident Evil 5 (DX10)

High, AF 16X

1366×768

57.1

High, AF 16X, AA 2X

1366×768

50.4

High, AF 16X, AA 4X

1366×768

49.4

Dirt 2 (DX11)

Ultra, AF 16X

1366×768

38.1

Ultra, AF 16, AA 2X

1366×768

31.2

Ultra, AF 16X, AA 4X

1366×768

29.2

The armor is strong

In Russia, a special version of GE620DX is sold under the name T-34 Limited Edition. Technically, it Slots Muse Casino is no different from the standard model, just MSI releases it with the support of the company Wargaming.Net. The essence of cooperation is that the code is supplied with the laptop for World of Tanks , Giving the buyer 5000 gold (local game currency). This money is enough to pay for a couple of months of the premium account that gives a double experience for the battle.