compact lightweight
subdued inexpensive dongle if any of those words
are part of your vocabulary go ahead and delete them
right now because when MSI called us and
asked if we wanted to check out their latest and greatest iteration of the gt8
series we actually had to go check and see if we had enough space in the
warehouse and after careful consideration and a
game of Tetris in real life we realized that this photo on MSI's website was not
to scale so as big as it was we could
make it happen so fast forward two weeks and here we are with the MSI
gt83 vr7 RF Titan SLI by MSI or as I'll
be calling it Ryan but is its
performance as big as its name
let's find out shall we cuz that's what
we
do the Phoenix oour is a full-sized
minimalistically designed keyboard complete with Cherry MX switches and a
new white backlit variant check it out at the link below the first thing you'll
notice about Ryan aside from his aggressive shape is that he's freaking
uh huge if you know what I mean the
second thing you'll notice is that he is freaking heavy the laptop itself weighs
over 13 lb and when you add on the Twin
power bricks at 3 lb each that a evoke a
certain you know failed 9s game console
you end up with a total carry weight of
19 lb I hope you've been working out but
what all will you get to bring with you no dongles me thinks with a diagonal
screen size of 18.4 in and a maximum
thickness at the back of 69 mm Ryan has
plenty of room in the trunk for Hardware
he's packing dual GTX 1080s in SLI a
Ballin cooling system with 15 heat pipes
two 29 blade fans and a smaller 25 blade
fan and he's got room for io2 you get
support for up to three external 4K 60 HZ displays if you use the Thunderbolt 3
Port as a DisplayPort Port he's got a
Blu-ray burner and a plethora of audio outputs
including toss link and an extra
headphone jack for the excellent included ESS saber DAC for your portable
headphones not that you'll be using Ryan on the go much balancing the gt83 on my
bony frail lap is an exercise in
frustration a laptop this is not especially when you
consider the placement of the steel series designed keyboard on the subject
of which linear RGB Cherry MX speed
switches May appeal to some but I actually personally miss the tactile
bump of the previous models Brown key
switches to be clear this is still a
full mechanical keyboard on a laptop which is dope as as the kids say but
that doesn't make it immune to criticism not only did they again replicate this
key for some reason the significant lip around the edge of the keyboard returns
with no wrist rest included to make it more comfortable it is something you'll
get used to but there's definitely a learning curve and the same goes for the
trackpad I tell you guys the number of times that I typed something and reached
down to yeah right to its credit it's got a
smooth consistent feel with satisfyingly tactile buttons and touching this corner
turns it into a lackluster numpad for
emergencies but it clear clearly sidelined by the keyboard and the
internals meaning that's just another usability disadvantage though In
fairness to MSI if you're carrying this monstrosity around they probably expect
you to have a mouse in Your Wagon as well and you could even throw in a USB
numpad if you were into that sort of thing but will you also need some
speakers MSI doesn't think so and in
this case we actually agree the Titan's
four speaker one subwoofer setup got
plenty loud in our testing with a surprising fullness to the sound even if
it's a little light on the subbase and the aforementioned ESS saber DAC allowed
us to drive even high-end headphones with MSI's nemic 2 providing excellent
virtual surround for gaming before we move on to Performance testing though we
really need to talk about the display you don't often see an 18.4 in LA top
monitor but its strange size doesn't
make its Factory calibrated 100% srgb
IPS panel any less beautiful where it
does lose points is its resolution
refresh rate and lack of standout
features like g-sync a balls to thewall
gaming laptop powering a 1080p 60hz
gaming experience with screen tearing
feels a little like watching Emma Watson
get married to a gopher it's just a
total mismatch so then with all of that out of the way let's move on to testing
our Ryan is speced to the max with a one
terabyte twin mvme raid zero storage array that MSI calls super raid load
games Works in seconds all right then let's load games
we'll be comparing against our Sager
np9873 and the Acer Predator 21x on the
laptop side as well as two comparable desktop setups with the answer to the
most important question coming first is
Ryan worth his weight in frames per
second actually yes the Sager tops the
charts but the Titan gt83 crushes the rest of the competition
with our Predator 21x actually coming in
below our desktops to the surprise of
nobody who has ever picked it up
waited averages aside though the Titan found itself near the bottom of our
performance laptop pack with the direct X11 modes of both DSX mankind divided
and Rise of the Tomb Raider but gained significant traction with the DirectX 12
modes for Honor saw the Titan in turbo
mode pick back up to become the highest
of our minimum frame rate performers and only the GTX 1080ti desktop surpassed
the Titan turbo minimum in GTA 5 with
that said though its average frame rates were again at the back of the lineup
with Ghost Recon wildlands echoing that average result Under full ID to 64 load
our CPU got up to a Coy 88° while fermar
worked our heat pipes over time with toasty gpus at 85 and 90° with cooler
boost enabled temperatures dropped to 85 on the CPU with the gpus at 85 and 81
but of course it gets uh shall we say a
fair bit louder so who is the Titan gt83
Ryan Edition 4 exactly with its MSRP of
$5,400 and minimum effort one-ear
warranty it's not going to be winning any Top Value Awards I mean seriously
MSI you could have at least given us the full version of windzip to go along with
our Norton trial but I can't fault the
performance and while our desktops
obviously come ahead in terms of performance per dollar they aren't as
portable as Ryan and compared to
similarly spec offerings from Acer and sagger the gt83 Titan is right in the
ballpark or should I say baller
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