MSI GT660 Gaming Laptop seems to be a huge laptop while the market is flooded with thin and light laptops. MSI GT660 develops a school of its own, featuring big body, cool looking and excellent performance. Let’s review what surprise MSI GT660 laptop will bring to us.

Unique Design of MSI GT660

MSI GT660 gaming laptop is made of ABS engineering plastic as usual notebooks. But MSI GT660 is unique in its glossy, beveled lid complete with glowing MSI logo.

There’s a mix of matte and glossy–though the latter dominates–and the piano black of the display bezel and top of the deck fades into a glossy slate color, which then turns into a textured honeycomb pattern on the palm rest surrounding the touchpad.

We can find some funky cuts along the edges of MSI GT660’s rear, lid,  palm rest, keyboard and screen, etc.

This 16-inch system is portable in theory, but its 7.4-pound weight will likely keep it sitting on your desk most of the time.

16-inch LED backlit screen with resolution of 1366 × 768

In addition to large and highlighting LED screen, MSI GT660 also has outstanding speaker units which below the spindle in red circle-type.

Besides, there is a separate speaker unit in the back edge of body, which creates vivid sound effect while playing games or watching movies.

MSI GT660 gaming laptop is equipped with lighting system. It looks more mystic in the dark with all lights booting up.

With max opening angle of 180°

Full size chocolate style keyboard provides more space for easy controlling and small independent keys allow you to set shortcuts quickly.

We appreciate the red accents on the keys for the exclusive use of games.

Eight touch shortcuts on top of keyboard: Button setting, intelligent acceleration, active cooling, wireless switch, Bluetooth switch, energy saving mode and lighting effects.

MSI GT660 Touchpad

MSI GT660 left side interfaces：2 USB3.0, USB, SD card reader

MSI GT660 right side interfaces：USB, CD driver, headphone jack, microphone jack, audio input and output interfaces

MSI GT660 back side interfaces：cable, VGA, power connector, HDMI HD video output interface, eSATA interface

MSI GT660 air outlet and air intake

Powerful Configuration of MSI GT660

MSI GT660 comes with built-in Intel Core i7 720QM processor, which is a native quad-core design of the CPU with advanced Nehalem architecture. Compared to previous generation of Core 2, it was significantly improved and strengthened, adding three cache systems, intelligent speed and integrated DDR3 memory controller.

The 1.6-GHz Intel Core i7 Q720 CPU and 6GB of RAM earned this notebook a score of 6,028 on PCMark Vantage. MSI includes a TurboBoost function to overclock both the CPU and GPU. To access this feature, just tap the Turbo button on the strip at the top of the deck. When it’s on, the orange LED will light it up. Turbo mode had only a modest effect on performance: its PCMark Vantage score increased by 143, and its 3DMark06 score increased by 115.

Windows 7 base score: 5.9

Comparison of graphics rendering capability

Comparison of SYSMark2007 MSI GT660 performance

Comparison of PCMark Vantage MSI GT660 performance

HD test

Heat and Battery Life

Heat test of keyboard surface (with Turbo and active cooling techniques booting up)

Heat test of bottom side (with Turbo and active cooling techniques booting up)

MSI GT660 is equipped with a piece of 11.1V–87Wh battery with 7800mAh capacity. Compared to common 48Wh battery, MSI GT660 battery life will last for 164 minutes.

MSI GT660 gaming laptop sports MSI Turbo Drive Engine+ technology that enhances the frequency of processor and improves the performance about 2 times.

GTX 285M graphics card 3D performance after booting up Turbo

Frame number increases from 44.1 to 46.5 when booting up Turbo in BiohazardⅤ.

MSI GT660 Gaming Laptop Specs:

CPU: 1.73-GHz Intel Core i7-740QM

Operating System: MS Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

RAM: 4GB

RAM Upgradable to: 12GB

Hard Drive Size: 1 TB

Hard Drive Speed: 7,200rpm

Hard Drive Type: Multiple Drives

Display Size: 16

Native Resolution: 1366×768

Optical Drive: BD-R DL/DVDRW DL

Optical Drive Speed: 4X

Graphics Cards: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M

Video Memory: 1GB

Wi-Fi: 802.11b/g/n

Wi-Fi Model: Intel WiFi Link 1000 BGN

Bluetooth: Bluetooth 2.0+EDR

Size: 15.6 x 10.6 x 2.2 inches

Weight: 3.4Kg

MSI GT660 Internal structure

MSI GT660 hardware structures chat

MSI GT660 dual cooling system

Pros:

1. Powerful CPU and 3D performance;

2. Lighting effects and great audio and video enjoyment

3. USB3.0 port and four audio ports

4. TurboBoost and active cooling technology

5. Outstanding cooling

Cons:

1. General battery life

2. Low mobility

3. A bit noisy after booting up active cooling

MSI GT660 gaming laptop sports exclusive TurboBoost and active cooling technology. We can experience the highest level games smoothly with MSI GT660 in the magic lights as well as superior effect of audio and video.

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