{"id":86466,"date":"2016-02-23T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86466"},"modified":"2016-02-23T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T11:04:43","slug":"new-monstrously-powerful-msi-gt80s-laptops-arrives-on-south-african-shores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86466-new-monstrously-powerful-msi-gt80s-laptops-arrives-on-south-african-shores","title":{"rendered":"New monstrously powerful MSI GT80S laptops arrive on South African shores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love ourselves some ridonculously expensive hardware, take <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/85035-this-monstrous-pc-can-run-seven-games-on-seven-monitors-at-once-and-costs-a-cool-r475-000.html\" target=\"_blank\">this R475,000 super PC for example<\/a>, especially a beefy gaming laptop.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways they\u2019re impractical, but it\u2019s for that very reason that we love them so. Speaking of which, few gaming laptops encapsulate that monolithic nature quite like MSI\u2019s GT80S Titan series.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msi.com\/product\/notebook\/GT80S-6QE-Titan-SLI-Heroes-Special-Edition.html\" target=\"_blank\">MSI GT80S 6QE Titan SLI Heroes Special Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>(R83,390 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeltech.co.za\/laptops\/11702-msi-gt80s-6qe-titan-sli-hereo-special-edition-i7-6820hk-32gb-256gb-m2-1tb-hdd-184-geforce-gtx980m-sli-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rebeltech<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86468\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MSI-GT80S-6QE-Titan-SLI-Heroes-Special-Edition.jpg\" alt=\"MSI GT80S 6QE Titan SLI Heroes Special Edition\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MSI-GT80S-6QE-Titan-SLI-Heroes-Special-Edition.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MSI-GT80S-6QE-Titan-SLI-Heroes-Special-Edition-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adorned with a <em>Heroes of the Storm<\/em> motif, the MSI GT80S 6QE is an example of the best a gaming laptop could be, sporting two GTX 980Ms in SLI and a blisteringly fast Skylake CPU for good measure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Core i7-6820HK<\/li>\n<li>32GB DDR4 RAM<\/li>\n<li>2x Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M in SLI<\/li>\n<li>256GB SSD<\/li>\n<li>18.4-inch full-HD display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>R83,390<\/strong> may seem like a lot of money, and it is, but that\u2019s also a lot of high performance hardware.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msi.com\/product\/notebook\/GT80S-6QF-Titan-SLI-29th-Anniversary-Edition.html\" target=\"_blank\">MSI GT80S 6QF Titan SLI 29TH Anniversary Edition<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>(R105,999 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evetech.co.za\/n\/1841\/msi-gt80s-6qf-titan-sli-core-i7-gaming-laptop-deal-with-2tb-ssd-and-64gb-ram.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Evetech<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86470\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MSI-GT80S-6QF-Titan-SLI-29TH-Anniversary-Edition.jpg\" alt=\"MSI GT80S 6QF Titan SLI 29TH Anniversary Edition\" width=\"734\" height=\"626\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As opposed to being the best a gaming laptop could be, as in the case of the GT80S 6QE, the MSI GT80S 6QF makes use of NVIDIA\u2019s most powerful mobile GPUs yet, the GTX 980 \u2013 initially called the <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80899-gtx-990m-notebook-gpu-is-as-fast-as-a-desktop-gtx-980.html\" target=\"_blank\">GTX 990M<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These mobile cards are as fast as their desktop variant, and the 6QF has two of them! It also comes equipped 64GB of DDR4 RAM as well as the epic i7-6930HQ Skylake CPU.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Core i7-6920HQ<\/li>\n<li>64GB DDR4 RAM<\/li>\n<li>2x\u00a0Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 GPUs in SLI<\/li>\n<li>2TB SSD<\/li>\n<li>18.4-inch full-HD display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We really want one of these beauties, but a <strong>R105,999<\/strong> laptop would mean selling a kidney&#8230; or two. The scary thing is how close we were to making the trade.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>On the subject of hardware<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86444-pre-order-a-samsung-galaxy-s7-and-get-a-free-gear-vr.html\">Pre-order a Samsung Galaxy S7 and get a free Gear VR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86430-the-most-expensive-vr-system-yet-htc-vive-priced-at-r12300.html\">The most expensive VR system yet: HTC Vive priced at R12,300<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86348-intel-ssds-to-soon-reach-10tb-capacities.html\">Intel SSDs to soon reach 10TB capacities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86338-single-pascal-gpu-suggested-to-be-as-powerful-as-dual-gpu-fury-x2.html\">Single Pascal GPU suggested to be as powerful as dual-GPU Fury X2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love ourselves some ridonculously expensive, almost monolithic hardware, and few gaming laptops encapsulate that quite like MSI\u2019s GT80S Titan series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":86472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12327,17322,17324,1085,5203,1969],"class_list":["post-86466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gaming-laptops","tag-gt80s-6qe-titan-sli-heroes-special-edition","tag-gt80s-6qf-titan-sli-29th-anniversary-edition","tag-hardware-2","tag-msi","tag-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86466","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}