Display / Input Devices

Display

MSI equipped the GT 780 with 17.3 inch display that has a matt finish. Furthermore the display featutes a 1920 x 1080 FullHD resolution and also comes with LED backlight. The antireflection has been done very well. It almost can't be any better and therefore there is no scenario in which you'll see reflections of environment objects. With 258 Candela per squaremeter the brightness is also above average. Furthermore the contrast ratio is very well and even the black level is superb. In general: the display is very good a definitely perfect for gaming.

Input Devices

Concerning the development of input peripherals for the GT 780 MSI teamed up with SteelSeries to deliver a good result. The keyboard therefore got comfortably big keys which measure 15 x 15 mm. Writing texts as well as gaming is convenient. The only thing that might have the potential to bother people is the noise the key strokes make. A neat feature for gamers concerns the keyboards background light. Thanks to an intuitive software it can be set to a lot of different colors. Furthermore SteelSeries and MSI decided to remove the left Windows key. Gamer like this because in this case they wont accidentally hit it and therefore the wont be redirected to the desktop when in a gaming.

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 7 - DirectX 9 / Image Manipulation / Importing Pictures
Page 2 - Preview	Page 8 - Web browsing / Data decryption / Windows Defender
Page 3 - Specifications / Chassis	Page 9 - Futuremark
Page 4 - Display / Keyboard	Page 10 - Gaming Benchmarks
Page 5 - Test Setup	Page 11 - Battery Eater / Power Consumption
Page 6 - Video Playback / Downscaling Transcoding / Storage	Page 12 - Conclusion

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