{"id":69897,"date":"2014-10-16T06:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T04:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=69897"},"modified":"2014-10-16T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T05:02:25","slug":"gtx-980m-970m-gaming-laptops-sa-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/69897-gtx-980m-970m-gaming-laptops-sa-pricing","title":{"rendered":"GTX 980M, 970M gaming laptops – SA pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Nvidia announcing its new GeForce GTX 980M and 970M GPUs, laptop manufacturers have unveiled their gaming notebooks<\/a> which would support the mobile graphics unit.<\/p>\n

MyGaming made a promise that day, a promise that the moment we saw SA pricing for these powerful gaming laptops we would share that information with you. Today, we deliver on that promise.<\/p>\n

Local PC retailer\u00a0Evetech<\/a>\u00a0gave us a heads up as soon as its stock arrived – two variations of MSI gaming laptops which come fitted with either the 980M or 970M.<\/p>\n

The new GPUs are aimed at gamers who don\u2019t want to sacrifice performance when moving to laptop gaming, with Nvidia promising the GTX 980M will deliver 75% of the performance of the recently released GTX 980.<\/p>\n

Here are the specs of the laptops, along with SA pricing.<\/p>\n

MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro – R39,999<\/h3>\n
\"MSI<\/a>

MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0MSI GT72 2QE Dominator Pro<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU<\/strong><\/td>\nIntel Core i7-4710HQ 3.5GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GPU<\/strong><\/td>\nGeForce GTX 980M 8GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/strong><\/td>\n16GB DDR3 1600MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SSD<\/strong><\/td>\n256GB SSD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HDD<\/strong><\/td>\n1TB HDD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Display<\/strong><\/td>\n17.3-inch LED (1920\u00d71080)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dimensions<\/strong><\/td>\n428x294x48mm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight<\/strong><\/td>\n3.78kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battery<\/strong><\/td>\n9-cell Lithium Ion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro – R30,999<\/h3>\n

Available in red or silver.<\/p>\n

\"MSI<\/a>

MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro<\/p><\/div>\n

\"MSI<\/a>

MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro<\/p><\/div>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0MSI GS70 2QE Stealth Pro<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU<\/strong><\/td>\nIntel Core i7-4710HQ 3.4GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GPU<\/strong><\/td>\nGeForce GTX 970M 3GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/strong><\/td>\n16GB DDR3 1600MHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SSD<\/strong><\/td>\n256GB SSD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
HDD<\/strong><\/td>\n1TB HDD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Display<\/strong><\/td>\n17.3-inch LED (1920\u00d71080)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dimensions<\/strong><\/td>\n418.5x287x21.8mm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Weight<\/strong><\/td>\n2.66kg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Battery<\/strong><\/td>\n6-Cell Li-Polymer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

The Dominator, our preferred choice, comes with the normal laptop features \u2013 such as Windows 8.1; Bluetooth; Wi-Fi; and Ethernet, USB, and audio ports \u2013 and a SteelSeries \u201cfull colour\u201d LED-lit keyboard.<\/p>\n

It also has Matrix display support, which allows for up to 4 displays to be connected to the laptop for those who are not satisfied with the standard 17.3-inch screen.<\/p>\n

Value for money, or is laptop gaming still too expensive? Let us know what you think in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n

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Fancy getting a fibre broadband connection?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first wave of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M and 970M laptops have arrived in SA – here’s how much they will cost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":69905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12327,21,5203,13029,13027],"class_list":["post-69897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gaming-laptops","tag-headline","tag-msi","tag-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970m","tag-nvidia-geforce-gtx-980m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69909,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69897\/revisions\/69909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}