Insanely Powerful. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M Discrete Graphics Card with GDDR5 4GB VRAM The NVIDIA Geforce GTX 980M Series brings extreme, next-generation graphics performance to serious gaming notebooks. As the first graphics solution to reach a score over 10,000 in 3DMark 11, the GeForce GTX 980M delivers extremely fast and fluid gameplay at the highest settings and resolutions in a lightweight and portable design. The Stunning Storage Speed Super RAID 2 design gives the storage performance up to 1500MB/s storage performance, the reading, writing and saving speeds is 15x faster than a single 750GB 7200rpm HDD. And one more HDD can be installed in the same laptop without the need to expand the size to put recovery system, to backup and put more data. Cooler Boost 2 Thermal Cooling System Compare to last generation of Cooler Boost technology on GT series in 2012, MSI Cooler Boost 2 technology make a better balanced design, we use thermal bridge connects both CPU cooling and Graphics cooling system together, once CPU or Graphics is hotter than another side, the bridge could transfer the heat to another side faster, so the cooling performance is over 15% on most usage, chip temperature is 15% lower at same watts, and up to 25% lower noise of the laptop system! Killer™ E2200 Game Networking for smarter, faster, networking for all online entertainment The benefit of the Killer Gaming LAN is the "Advanced Game Detect™" technology, which recognizes online game data packs and processes them first, accelerating them in the process. The best weapon against stuttering characters, freeze-ups, and lagging, it vastly improves all the online experience. Whether FPS or MMO gaming, you’ll have that advantage to response faster to get victorious. SOUND by DYNAUDIO To satisfy consumers desire to experience high quality sound effects, MSI partnered with top audio brand Dynaudio, which has a devoted aspiration for “Authentic Fidelity” to meet this demanding standard. It equips the MSI GAMING-Series gaming notebook with top-notch audio features, creating a realistic sound and immersive effects. Any high quality stereo source is transformed into true-to-life, multi-channel sound. No need to purchase extra speakers, wires or speaker stands to appreciate room-filling sound. AUDIO BOOST The MSI Audio Boost design enhances the output sound detail and sound stage by 30% more. The gold flash audio jack provides stable sound transmission (reduced obstruction) and works in conjunction with the optimized headsets AMP (Audio Power Amplifier) design, characterized by low noise and low distortion, to greatly enhance headphone performance and faithfully reproduce each acoustic detail. Sound Blaster Cinema 2 Sound Blaster™ Cinema 2 brings the audio experience of live performances, cinemas and recording studios right into your living room. Powered by SBX Pro Studio, Sound Blaster Cinema 2 is designed with many customizable features such as multi-channel speaker calibration, maximizing every speaker’s potential in different layouts, as well as professionally tuned profiles, making the most of common headset and headphone models available on the market. Customize Your Game Style SteelSeries Engine is an app that transforms your keyboard in to a lethal gaming weapon. Here, you can customize each individual key, create different macros, manage keyboard lighting and customize the keyboard to your liking. Unlimited profile possibilities Profiles are sets of macros, button assignments, and device configurations that are frequently used together. An unlimited number of profiles, with customizable names, can be stored in the SteelSeries Engine. It provides predefined profiles for common games which can be used directly or as templates for your custom macros. Statistics to analyze and improve Whether you're playing an FPS or editing in Photoshop, being better and more efficient is something we want to help you achieve. Use the Statistics module to record your keyboard or mouse actions. Then review the peripheral heat map, which shows with both color and numbers the frequency of your key or button presses. You can then use this information to fine tune your macros as well as your key and mouse button assignments to optimize your tools to play (and work). Freedom to Play SteelSeries Engine will automatically recognize what game you are playing and open your saved profile(s) for that game. You can create your own profiles for other applications and then have SteelSeries Engine open the corresponding profile when you start up your application. Friendly UI design The SteelSeries Engine is easy to understand by using pictorial representations of devices along with basic drag-and-drop techniques to assign key presses, complex macros, device profiles and buttons. Also features intuitive macro creation with customizable colors, fonts, and names for everything. Every key can be customized to hot key as you want!! Every gamer can easily customize every individual key as hot key to personalize his own play style, greatly increase the convenience on key usage. FN, F1-F12 keys except Just one click!! quickly launch Apps from SteelSeries Engine Gamers can freely choose any key as launch application button, no longer need to click the mouse for Apps start. 4 keyboard layers options!! There are 4 layers for gamers to set 4 usage scenario or game. Not only that, while playing the game, gamers can easily and quickly switch layer, such as a chat screen with friends. Communication with friends is not interrupted!! The layers switch key is “Fn+1~4” Intelligent keypress macro capabilities There are virtually unlimited keypress macro creation capabilities. Anything you can do on a mouse or a keyboard can be programmed along with specific event timing. You can even program mouse events into keyboard macros. Your macros will be running at a high priority in your computers Operating System, yet it does NOT interfere with your real time actions during gameplay. Create your own text macro Besides keypress macro, SteelSeries Engine also can create the text macro for gamers’ talk. By this way, gamers can have simultaneously multi-party conversation and do not waste time in doing repetitive typing. KLM (Keyboard light management) Depending on your mood and desires, you can choose from more than 1,000 color combinations and five different scenario modes for the keyboard, enabling you to be the coolest gamer at any LAN party! The Real Deal: A Keyboard All Gamers Desire For Exclusive keyboard positioning and golden triangle layout offers a better gaming experience. Show Off or Just Make for Fun Best Live Streaming App Ever XSplit Gamecaster lets you easily record your gaming experience and broadcast it live to Twitch, YouTube, UStream and more. It’s simple, easy to use and ideal for sharing your gameplay with friends, family or the world - or for capturing those perfect gaming moments, just for the heck of it. Now, with the upgraded version, you can even edit your gameplay video and share it to your social media pages directly through Gamecaster. - Use XSplit Gamecaster with all of your PC & Console Games - Keep in touch with social features - Organize and upload your greatest gaming moments - Easy to use Express Video Editor - Add a Webcam and show your game face - Draw attention whilst casting with in-game annotations Realistic Gaming Experience Than Ever in 4K UHD With resolution of four times higher than Full HD, ultra high-definition (UHD) display delivers amazing images for immersive gaming experience with up to 8 million pixels. Experience a new level of clarity with breathtaking and brilliantly lifelike detail that makes you feel like you're actually in the game. Matrix Display Matrix display features up to 3 external displays with up to 4K resolutions, allowing you to output to 3 displays simultaneously using HDMI 1.4 and dual Mini Display-Port 1.2. Users can out put these displays and work with multi-task at the same time. (Overall 4 monitors include notebook’s monitor on GT Series) Handle the big screen with support of up to 3840 x 2160 resolutions to watch your movies or play your games in true HD when connected to an HDTV. A Must-have Engine for Gaming The latest 4th generation quad core processor platform, representing superior performance over previous generations. The CPU performance has increased by 3%~7%, while the overall platform is 15% more powerful. Additionally, the GPU performance of 2D and 3D visuals, is even more noteworthy, with an average increase of over 30%. There have also been significant advances in user experience and battery life.