MSI CR42 CX41 S12T laptop coming

The 14-inch body thickness control in less than 25mm, which is certainly not super this standard, in an ordinary notebook 25mm thickness is relatively thin, so this design choice, whether there will consumers pay for it? The evaluation of the MSI CR42 using APU platform processor, the appearance does not change, then the performance will be how well it?

Some time ago, the MSI  series laptops announced new S40 and L40, which uses metal body and S40 touch-screen design is the biggest selling point of this series of products, fine workmanship and stylish design makes this series different from the entry of the  L Series , while prices tends to be mainstream.

In this evaluation, the MSI CR42 with 6cell MSI CR42 Battery bring touch of the use of the latest AMD A4-5000M quad-core accelerated processor, equipped with 500GB 5400 rpm mechanical hard drive, and 2GB DDR3 1600MHz speed memory. Used in graphics cards AMD Radeon HD 8330 graphics card, in order to help users get more graphics processing performance. This software uses CINEBENCH R11.5 evaluate the performance of the processor performance, and ultimately get its single-core 0.39 pts, multicore get 1.47 pts.

Here we adopt the most common 3DMark Vantage on AMD Radeon HD 8330 graphics card to run sub-test of the actual, and ultimately won the E6606 Entry mode points, while the GPU project won the 7857 points, so that the results can be said on the mobile platform is an entry-level performance , most of the software application to respond.

Here we test the MSI S12T with 7800mAh MSI S12T Battery actual thermal conditions. Our testing method is still at room temperature at 28 degrees Celsius, so this notebook running Furmark pager pager comes with software and AIDA64 program, allowing GPU and CPU are working in a high load, especially GPU, almost is running at full speed. Then, after more than an hour, respectively, see this notebook's internal core temperature and body surface temperature.

Surface temperature, we use professional temperature detection device of the notebook cooling performance testing. In order to facilitate the distribution of temperature we observed the whole, we got through the instrument detects temperature distribution, recording and mark the various parts of the temperature distribution of thermal imaging by the above chart you can see, CR42 palm rest and touchpad area to keep the temperature good, and most of the keyboard area temperatures are very low, so you can get more comfortable typing operating experience. Most of the heat accumulation in the bottom of the fuselage near the heat vent. Overall, this MSI CR41 cooling performance is good.


Another machine uses a low voltage processor, in fact, be a little creative in the standard platform notebook ultra-pole of this processor, heat sink design can be more comfortable, easier to do notebook thin body, while adding a separate graphics card , but also functionally different from the majority of ultra-pole of this product. Overall, the MSI models CR42 is a good product, whether popular or needed touch longer market test.

Many people on the metal production of electronic products have good impression, CR42 cover and palm rest part of a metal material, silver-gray cover feels Ice cool, addictive, and there on the surface of the top cover slight brushed effect, although the metal is no longer bright, but this benefit is not easy to leave fingerprints, while allowing richer detail, of course, cover the same portion of the palm rest.

MSI CX41 with MSI CX41 Battery scheduled for the mainstream market is a touch-screen laptop, from design concept, the machine is up and down in the appearance of no small effort, making the machine to join metal material texture better from a visual point of view, which can be considered nowadays notebook development of a direction, no longer the main direction of high performance, but also pay more attention to details of the appearance, the fact that many consumers buy a computer will have to see eye margin.


The first of the 3DMark Vantage test. 3DMark Vantage is the industry's first dedicated test based on Microsoft DX10 API to create a comprehensive benchmarking tool, and can fully play multiple cards, multi-core processors, in the current and future period of time to meet the PC gaming performance testing requirements.

First through 3DMark Vantage test HD4600 integrated graphics, in 1024 x 768 resolution, score 17,994 points, including GPU score 17,084 points, this result has been relatively close to some of the current mid-card, and compared with the HD4000, with about 60% 70% performance increase. The Intel HD Graphics 4600 also supports DX11.1, OpenGL 4.0, in parallel computing, HD 4600 also supports OpenCL 1.

Test HP HSTNN-YB4J Battery with 3DMark 11 is the most authoritative DX11 graphics capability test software, can well reflect the DX11 graphics performance. Since the relationship between the notebook screen resolution here only test Performance mode. By comparing the results can be seen, HD 4600 in 3DMARK 11 P mode graphics to score 1,000 points mark, the results were very close to GT 630M significant independence, the amplitude of the leading HD 4000 close to 40% improvement is obvious.

Surface and then test NVIDIA GeForce GT 745M graphics card, 1024 x 768 resolution, scored 35,069 points, which GPU score of 32,049 points, the results from the run points of view, graphics performance has indeed been greatly improved. I believe we are no strangers to Resident Evil, Resident Evil last 5 we used as a carrier for the product benchmark to test the performance of the game, and this year we upgraded to a unified Resident Evil 6. Although the version of the upgrade, but it still is DX9.0c, from the test results in general, fluency is acceptable, if you want smooth play this type of game is quite laborious.

Commonplace CPU performance of I, greatly enhance the graphics performance of its bright spots, if the HD4000 can beat the previous entry-level single, then now you have a catch in the end HD4600 graphics capabilities. In the integrated graphics core performance is significantly improved circumstances, supplemented by high-performance Nvidia Geforce GT745M alone significantly, is definitely the game lovers of the Gospel.

Haswell architecture processor laptop large number of listing, the new upgrade a notebook craze will follow soon, for those who are still using older models SNB platform or user Haswell platform, we recommend that you buy the notebook, after all, the price relative similar circumstances, or choose the latest platform technology is more cost-effective. As for the IVB platform blind users is not necessary to upgrade, Haswell mainly in the set was to boost the more obvious, the current HD4000 is enough to meet the daily entertainment needs.

MSI CR643 chose 6cell MSI CR643 Battery and the most popular 14-inch mold with a resolution of 1366 × 768, LED backlit touch screen brightness to the author's feeling is very high, and the warm bright colors, high contrast and high brightness is very conducive to viewing pictures and movies, for a located in the notebook, video applications, not necessarily accurate color reproduction, but to please the eye as much as possible, which is CR42 doing very well. And touch can bring a different kind of operating experience, experience with Windows 8 system is generally good.