Turbo-Gamer. The 15.6-inch device, costing more than 2000 Euro, promises performance and acoustics at their best. A turbo switch overclocks the i7-740QM as well as the GeForce GTX 285M. 12.800 3DMarks06 and RAID 0 make performance fans sit up and take notice.

MSI GT660R-i74129BLW7P: high-end gamer with brilliant equipment and strong turbo performance?

MSI doesn't really belong to the shrinking squad of premium manufacturers, which every now and then produces a laptop for more than 2000 Euro. Rather, the manufacturer made a name for itself in the ranks of mobile gaming fans through aggressive pricing for well-equipped laptops. The youngest examples of this are theGE600-i5447W7P (ATI HD 5730 for 800 Euro) or the GX640-i5447LW7P (HD 5850 from 1050 Euro). Weak points on the MSI gaming systems were typically the inputs, the system noise or the workmanship.

With the GT660R-i74129BLW7P MSI's flagship gaming model is presented. You've got to be rather savvy to want one of these, as the price of 2200 Euro means that only very demanding customers will be able to raid their bank account. Features of the device are two 500 GB hard disks in RAID 0 (speed), the extremely strong Geforce GTX 285M graphics card, the turbo switch for overclocking the CPU and GPU, as well as the built-in sound system from Dynaudio (2.1).

In this review we find out if the high price can be justified. Can MSI shake off the weaknesses of the cheaper GT-, GE- and GX-models and make a non-plus-extra gaming laptop?