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Accidents happen where life happens. Protect your favorite Adorama products and purchase a protection plan to stay covered from accidental damage, mechanical or electrical failure, and more.
If we can’t fix it, we’ll replace it at no additional cost.
Protect your product from drops, spills, and more.
Enjoy your gear without fear. We have you covered!
When regular use of your product over time results in mechanical or electrical failure.
We will never charge you a deductible after the purchase of a plan.
Our claims process is simple & easy and our customer service team is happy to help.
Adorama Protect powered by Extend is available for purchase to customers in the United States. Not available for purchase Internationally or in U.S. Territories.
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17.3" FHD (16:9) Super Clear Matte-Type Screen (1920x1080)
4th Generation Intel Mobile Core i7-4720HQ Haswell Processor
3.6 GHz
Intel HM87 Chipset
128GB mSATA SSD + 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive(Upgradeable)
2 Detachable 2.5" 9.5mm (H) SATA Hard Disk Drives
None
External Optical Drives Available
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M (6.0GB) GDDR5 (Maxwell) with Optimus Technology
PCI-Express 16X
Microsoft DirectX 11
16,384MB (16GB) DDR3 1600MHz (Upgradeable)
Two 204Pin SODIMM Sockets
64-bit Wide DDRIII Data Channel
Sound Blaster Cinema
4x Built-in Dynaudio Speakers + Dynaudio Subwoofer
Built-in Microphone
S/PDIF Digital Output
Bigfoot Killer E2200 Gaming Network LAN
Bigfoot Killer N1525 Wireless-AC LAN + Bluetooth 4.1
2-in-1 Card Reader
SDHC / SDXC
4x USB 3.0 Ports
HDMI 1.4
Bigfoot Killer E2200 LAN
mini-DisplayPort v1.2
Microphone
Headphone Out Jack
Power System
6 Cells - Smart Lithium-Ion Battery Pack
19 V DC, 150W
100 - 240 V AC, 50/60 Hz Universal
Copper CPU Heatsink
Full Sized Steel series Backlit Keyboard with Numeric Key Pad & Anti-Ghosting Key
Integrated Touchpad with Scrolling Function
Built-in FHD Type Digital Web Camera (30fps at 1080p)
Kensington Lock
Windows 8.1
16.47 x 11.29 x 0.85" / 41.83 x 28.68 x 2.16cm
5.70lbs / 2.58kg

The Stunning Storage Speed
The first Super RAID design-one notebook with two mSATA SSD RAID 0 (128GB or 256GB) units, is yet another world first courtesy of MSI. Two mSATA SSDs and one HDD can be installed in the same laptop without the need to expand the size of the laptop, increasing read, write and saving speeds.
Sound Blaster Cinema 2
Enhanced Wrap around Sound
All MSI gaming laptops this year feature upgraded Sound Blaster Cinema 2 wrap around sound, making the already cutting-edge Sound By Dynaudio 2.1 channel sound system, even better with optimized software solutions in particular for wrap around sound, human voices, virtual bass and low quality audio sources. Sound Blaster Cinema and MSI's superior sound system complement each other exceptionally well.
Customize Your Game Style
Steel Series Engine is an app that transforms your keyboard in to a lethal gaming weapon. Here, you can customize each individual key, create different macros, manage keyboard lighting and customize the keyboard to your liking.
KLM (Keyboard light management)
Depending on your mood and desires, you can choose from more than 1,000 color combinations and five different scenario modes for the keyboard, enabling you to be the coolest gamer at any LAN party!
Unlimited profile possibilities
Profiles are sets of macros, button assignments and device configurations that are frequently used together. An unlimited number of profiles, with customizable names, can be stored in the Steel Series Engine. It provides predefined profiles for common games which can be used directly or as templates for your custom macros.
Statistics to analyze and improve
Whether you're playing an FPS or editing in Photoshop, being better and more efficient is something they want to help you achieve. Use the Statistics module to record your keyboard or mouse actions. Then review the peripheral heat map, which shows with both color and numbers the frequency of your key or button presses. You can then use this information to fine tune your macros as well as your key and mouse button assignments to optimize your tools to play (and work).
Freedom to Play
Steel Series Engine will automatically recognize what game you are playing and open your saved profile(s) for that game. You can create your own profiles for other applications and then have Steel Series Engine open the corresponding profile when you start up your application.
Friendly UI design
The Steel Series Engine is easy to understand by using pictorial representations of devices along with basic drag-and-drop techniques to assign key presses, complex macros, device profiles and buttons. Also features intuitive macro creation with customizable colors, fonts and names for everything.
Every key can be customized to hot key as you want!!
Every gamer can easily customize every individual key as hot key to personalize his own play style, greatly increase the convenience on key usage.
Just one click!! quickly launch Apps from Steel Series Engine
Gamers can freely choose any key as launch application button, no longer need to click the mouse for Apps start.
4 keyboard layers options!!
There are 4 layers for gamers to set 4 usage scenario or game. Not only that, while playing the game, gamers can easily and quickly switch layer, such as a chat screen with friends. Communication with friends is not interrupted!!
Intelligent keypress macro capabilities
There are virtually unlimited keypress macro creation capabilities. Anything you can do on a mouse or a keyboard can be programmed along with specific event timing. You can even program mouse events into keyboard macros. Your macros will be running at a high priority in your computers Operating System, yet it does NOT interfere with your real time actions during gameplay.
Create your own text macro
Besides keypress macro, Steel Series Engine also can create the text macro for gamers' talk. By this way, gamers can have simultaneously multi-party conversation and do not waste time in doing repetitive typing.
The Real Deal
A Keyboard All Gamers Desire For Gamers, Exclusive keyboard positioning and golden triangle layout offers a better gaming experience. Discrete GraphicS Card with GDDR5 3GB VRAM, The NVIDIA Geforce GTX 970M Series brings extreme, next-generation graphics performance to serious gaming notebooks. As the first graphics solution to reach a score over 9,000 in 3DMark 11, the GeForce GTX 970M delivers extremely fast and fluid gameplay at the highest settings and resolutions in a lightweight and portable design.
Dual Fan Thermal Cooling System
Stay stealthy and cool with the quiet yet efficient dual fan thermal cooling solution for optimal airflow. The automated cooler boost feature intelligently increases airflow during extreme gaming sessions to keep you cool in the heat of battle.
SHIFT"
The whole new feature SHIFT brings you total control over the system's power management. Switch between profiles Sport," Comfort," and Green" to find the perfect balance between system performance and temperature. SHIFT is activated by the FN + F7 hotkey combo or via the Dragon Gaming Center.
Sport: Runs CPU and GPU at the highest frequencies for maximum performance.
Comfort: Limits GPU frequency to level 1. Maintain GPU temperature at a maximum of 89deg. C.
Green: Disables Intel Turbo boost and limits GPU frequency to level 2. Control CPU and GPU temperatures at a maximum of 85deg. C.
Killer Double Shot Pro with Smart Teaming
MSI GT72 is the first notebook in the world featuring Killer DoubleShot Pro, supporting both Killer Gbit LAN and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. With the help of Killer DoubleShot Pro, latency is lowered by 3.5 times on average compared to other 802.11ac devices. It also comes with the Smart Teaming feature, which optimizes the usage of the wireless and wired connections simultaneously, enabled via the Killer Network Manager.
Audio Boost 2
By utilizing dedicated headset amplifiers, an isolated audio board and gold-plated audio jacks, Audio Boost 2 delivers the most advanced listening experience of any gaming notebook, improving on measurable parameters in traditional audio solutions by an average of 30%. It provides gamers a more detailed aural picture of their surroundings, helping in-game, while also minimizing distortion and providing a powerful amplifier which has no trouble powering even the most demanding gaming headsets. Gold-plated jacks will give you less noise interference and ensure the long-term durability of the jack
A Must-have Engine for Gaming
The latest 4th generation quad core processor platform, representing superior performance over previous generations. The CPU performance has increased by 3%-7%, while the overall platform is 15% more powerful. Additionally, the GPU performance of 2D and 3D visuals, is even more noteworthy, with an average increase of over 30%. There have also been significant advances in user experience and battery life.
Show Off or Just Make for Fun
Best Live Streaming App Ever
XSplit Gamecaster lets you easily record your gaming experience and broadcast it live to Twitch, YouTube, UStream and more, It's simple, easy to use and ideal for sharing your gameplay with friends, family or the world - or for capturing those perfect gaming moments, just for the heck of it.
Expand The Vision
Imagine expanding your gaming real estate across three displays in full HD for a completely immersive gaming experience. With the Matrix Display, you can now use the latest surround view display technology to build the multi-display gaming experience with up to 4K resolutions or multitask effectively by HDMI 1.4 and dual Mini Display-Port 1.2. Handle the big screen with support of up to 3840 x 2160 resolutions to watch your movies or play your games in true HD when connected to an HDTV.