1 00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:05,279 playing alone sucks I had so much fun at 2 00:00:03,540 --> 00:00:09,420 whale land that I'm ready to pack up and go to another land party but no 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:13,460 compromises this time I want all the performance and I want all my games 4 00:00:13,639 --> 00:00:20,880 this is not gonna work if only there was some portable device that you could use 5 00:00:19,020 --> 00:00:27,420 to replace your desktop but without compromising on performance maybe it 6 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:29,939 could be battery powered with a keyboard 7 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:34,559 it's a laptop when MSI heard that we wanted to go all out on a mobile battle 8 00:00:32,160 --> 00:00:40,200 station they stepped up to sponsor this video with the Titan gt77 the most 9 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:44,160 powerful laptop they offer and we're going to be upgrading it and extending 10 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:47,360 it to the limit to make it a true desktop replacement 11 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:06,960 let's start with what it comes with every gt77 includes a 128 Gigabyte flash 12 00:01:02,579 --> 00:01:08,700 drive an m99 RGB gaming mouse and a 13 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:13,020 little lucky the dragon keychain all of which I'm going to oh my God find at 14 00:01:10,799 --> 00:01:15,960 some point here because this machine is designed for people who want the most 15 00:01:14,340 --> 00:01:20,040 Overkill possible performance there's actually not a ton of choice when it 16 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:25,500 comes to configurations our model the 12uhs has a 3080 TI more on that in a 17 00:01:23,220 --> 00:01:30,380 bit but there's also a 3070 TI available if that's too fast for you and in either 18 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:37,560 case you can choose between an I9 12900hx that's what we've got or an i712 19 00:01:33,780 --> 00:01:39,900 800hx each with the same 8p core 8 20 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:43,740 e-core configuration we've got all of this linked down below now being in 21 00:01:41,759 --> 00:01:51,180 North America our laptop is equipped with a 120 hertz 4K IPS display that's 22 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:56,640 what they claimed DCI P3 coverage of 100 percent 23 00:01:52,979 --> 00:01:58,979 like like a hundred like wow all right 24 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:04,200 and if you're in other markets there's also a 1080p 360hz option in case you're 25 00:02:01,979 --> 00:02:09,899 looking for every possible competitive Advantage for gaming good gravy and the 26 00:02:08,220 --> 00:02:13,800 best part is that if anyone tries to steal it not only will they get tired 27 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:17,760 trying to carry it down the street but you can throw this power brick at them 28 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:22,920 likely stop them in their tracks I think I trust it farther than I could throw it 29 00:02:20,540 --> 00:02:27,120 330 Watts nice reversible power connector but before we plug it in why 30 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:31,020 don't we crack it open and see what it needs that 31 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:36,060 330 Watts for 11 screws later it's time to reveal a 32 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:40,319 feature that is exclusive to laptops of this caliber assuming I can actually get 33 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:43,920 anything open come on baby come on you can do 34 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:50,120 okay this is sick check this out not one not two but four memory slots so you can 35 00:02:48,180 --> 00:02:59,760 load up a whopping 128 gigs of ddr5 memory in this thing 36 00:02:54,180 --> 00:03:03,540 and four count them one two three four 37 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:06,420 SSD slots that wild or what a quick word 38 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:11,640 by the way about these n.2 slots the two up here are wired directly to the CPU 39 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:15,659 while these two go through the chipset MSI helpfully silk screens this info 40 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:20,400 onto the motherboard or you can just follow the traces if you're a big nerd 41 00:03:18,239 --> 00:03:25,560 for now though three of them are painfully empty and that just won't do 42 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,540 for our Overkill laptop build here is 43 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:31,440 this thing on hmm well maybe we should power it off 44 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:35,519 before I poke around too much more with the screwdriver the fastest way to fix 45 00:03:33,420 --> 00:03:38,340 this problem is to unplug the battery which I mean we should be doing when 46 00:03:36,959 --> 00:03:44,599 we're working on it anyway step one is to double our included 47 00:03:41,519 --> 00:03:48,180 memory from 64 gigs to 48 00:03:44,599 --> 00:03:50,099 128 gigs with these two 64 gig kits from 49 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:53,220 crucial it should be noted that having four sticks like this does put 50 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:57,239 additional strain on our integrated memory controller so we're going to be 51 00:03:54,959 --> 00:04:03,360 limited to 3600 Mega transfer per second speeds 52 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:05,060 holy crap are we putting 32 terabytes of 53 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:09,720 storage in this thing 32 terabytes of storage in a laptop the 54 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:14,040 number's gotten so big it sounds small again because like it can't possibly be 55 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,919 that you know what I mean like if I say yeah there's 32 terabytes of storage on 56 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:23,699 this laptop you go oh wow it's a Chromebook probably then you're thinking gigabytes no no no no 57 00:04:20,419 --> 00:04:25,919 order of magnitude higher we actually 58 00:04:23,699 --> 00:04:30,120 missed something the key night among you might have noticed that this m.2 slot is 59 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:37,440 a little bit special it actually supports PCIe gen 5. unfortunately Gen 5 60 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:42,720 ssds haven't quite hit the market yet but this laptop will be ready when they 61 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:49,580 do probably this fall when all the next gen CPUs arrive until then we're gonna 62 00:04:44,940 --> 00:04:52,680 make do with our Gen 4 8 terabyte drive 63 00:04:49,580 --> 00:04:55,800 and each one of these is four times our 64 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:58,380 original storage which means we're at 60 65 00:04:55,800 --> 00:05:03,240 next our original storage that's actually more in storage than the cost 66 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:07,220 of the laptop to start with and before you ask yes we're going to be raiding 67 00:05:05,460 --> 00:05:13,680 them we did raid zero right that's really stupid like really stupid 68 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:15,540 OneDrive fails whole thing gone but 69 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:18,900 realistically we're just loading it up with games anyway right so we're almost 70 00:05:17,460 --> 00:05:26,580 ready to do that but first there's a few things that we want to take a look at inside this is a 99.99 watt hour battery 71 00:05:24,180 --> 00:05:29,940 that is literally as large as the law will permit if you want to take your 72 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:35,400 laptop on a plane with you not that I would necessarily ah yeah you could 73 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:42,180 travel with it portable workstation sure we've got a pair of two watt speakers as 74 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:43,580 well as a Wi-Fi 60 capable killer Wi-Fi 75 00:05:42,180 --> 00:05:49,740 card which is right there to be clear uh killer no 76 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:55,740 longer means bad it's actually um got it's an Intel chipset so cool of 77 00:05:52,860 --> 00:06:04,860 course the PS De La Resistance is the 3080 TI this is a full-fledged non-max Q 78 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:08,039 design with 16 gigs of gddr6 that will 79 00:06:04,860 --> 00:06:10,620 suck back up to 175 watts to hit a 80 00:06:08,039 --> 00:06:14,580 maximum boost speed of 1640 megahertz and with an integrated mux switch you 81 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:18,660 can be sure that you're connected to the 3080 TI directly rather than routed 82 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:26,100 through the igpu which means you're going to be getting the most frames possible out of your laptop that 175 83 00:06:23,220 --> 00:06:31,440 watts is part of the 250 Watts total that MSI's overboost provides to 84 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:34,620 distribute between the CPU and the GPU 85 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:37,319 via into Lydia Dynamic Boost 2.0 what it 86 00:06:34,620 --> 00:06:42,180 essentially means is that in GPU limited games where you need every single one of 87 00:06:39,539 --> 00:06:48,660 those 175 watts to feed the 3080 TI you'll still have 75 Watts left over for 88 00:06:45,539 --> 00:06:51,539 the 12900 HX to hit a maximum turbo of 5 89 00:06:48,660 --> 00:06:56,880 gigahertz on the flip side in CPU limited games or other applications 90 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:59,460 either of the 16 core CPUs available for 91 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:06,360 this laptop can draw up to 150 watts leaving just 80 remaining for the GPU 92 00:07:02,039 --> 00:07:10,560 unfortunately no you can't have 175 and 93 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:12,479 150 because it's just not possible to do 94 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,720 in this form factor and like you'd be overwhelming your brick remember you've 95 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:19,560 got to have all kinds of other power available for connected peripherals and 96 00:07:17,819 --> 00:07:26,160 all that good stuff too right now keeping this mess cool are four fans 97 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:28,440 that's right one two three four fans and 98 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:33,900 a laptop which are all fed through the ventilation holes in the bottom panel 99 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:37,139 there are also a total of six exhaust 100 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:40,560 vents although In fairness this back one 101 00:07:37,139 --> 00:07:42,599 kind of counts as one gigantic exhaust 102 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:47,580 more impressive than the number of fans though is the number of heat pipes let's 103 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:51,479 count them shall we one this one goes 104 00:07:47,580 --> 00:07:53,280 from GPU to just this heatsink two this 105 00:07:51,479 --> 00:07:57,720 one goes almost in a complete square and is also dedicated to the GPU feeding 106 00:07:55,620 --> 00:08:01,919 both this radiator and this one with heat now because we can share our power 107 00:08:00,060 --> 00:08:08,220 that means we also need to share our cooling so this one runs over to this 108 00:08:04,740 --> 00:08:09,660 and this heatsink in case our GPU is 109 00:08:08,220 --> 00:08:15,240 getting extra power and needs extra cooling there's a little heat pipe right 110 00:08:11,759 --> 00:08:18,419 here that seems to be just for memory it 111 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:20,699 looks like memory then number five this 112 00:08:18,419 --> 00:08:27,300 one goes from our CPU all the way over to these radiators right here one two 113 00:08:22,979 --> 00:08:29,819 six this one is almost a full circle 114 00:08:27,300 --> 00:08:35,279 again and goes one two covers three radiators and goes over the CPU seven 115 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:37,979 these two RADS and the CPU took a little 116 00:08:35,279 --> 00:08:40,979 while to power on thanks to our Bizarro raid zero boot configuration 117 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:47,459 um like over a minute okay this is an 118 00:08:44,580 --> 00:08:52,380 interesting strategy to accommodate the powerful internal components NSI has a 119 00:08:49,620 --> 00:08:56,279 bit of a caboose on the back of the machine and I guess rather than try and 120 00:08:54,180 --> 00:09:01,440 stealthify it they're like business in the front party in the back 121 00:08:58,380 --> 00:09:04,440 let's go full RGB 122 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:07,200 RGB butt where where it loud and proud 123 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:12,660 right just just own it just own it yeah I'm a big laptop 124 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:15,140 yeah anyone else noticing a problem right now 125 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:27,000 sure it's going to ramp up to be very clear but yeah there it goes at idle it is 126 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:29,360 damn near silent okay this is hilarious 127 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:34,740 we have a grand total of 372 Steam games installed on this 128 00:09:31,980 --> 00:09:38,180 machine and the best part we're not even close to filling it up 129 00:09:41,459 --> 00:09:49,080 this is kind of nutty we're not getting the full benefit of our 120 hertz 130 00:09:45,839 --> 00:09:51,779 display on Ultra nightmare at 4K but 131 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:57,480 that's unreasonable but what we are seeing is anywhere from 80 to 110 frames 132 00:09:56,339 --> 00:10:02,040 per second I would not have thought this level of 133 00:09:59,940 --> 00:10:06,899 performance possible for a laptop even just a few years ago 134 00:10:04,680 --> 00:10:12,480 this is a cool little feature if the FPS indicator isn't enough for you to know 135 00:10:08,959 --> 00:10:15,180 you can check if the integrated GPU or 136 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:19,260 the dedicated GPU is running simply by looking at the color of the little LED 137 00:10:16,860 --> 00:10:23,399 on the power button so it's red right now which means our dedicated graphics 138 00:10:21,180 --> 00:10:26,279 card is running but 139 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:30,000 actually tabbing out of the game won't be enough to change that if I exit the 140 00:10:27,899 --> 00:10:37,040 game does it take a little while to 141 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,040 to decide to switch over to the igp 142 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:42,180 so there we go yep it's white now oh and 143 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:48,240 it's red again oh because when you're plugged in obviously you might as well 144 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:49,560 just use the 3080 TI cool 145 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:54,180 for a game at the other end of the spectrum I fired up CS go and the idea 146 00:10:51,839 --> 00:10:59,279 here is that I want to see what kind of power our CPU is drawing now compared to 147 00:10:56,700 --> 00:11:05,120 our GPU so we're running at some of the neighborhood of 250 300 frames per 148 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:10,860 second and yeah our GPU is only in the 149 00:11:07,740 --> 00:11:13,640 neighborhood of 120 130 watts and our 150 00:11:10,860 --> 00:11:18,660 CPU actually is only sitting at about 60 65. again it's surprisingly quiet in 151 00:11:17,820 --> 00:11:22,200 game but we're barely stressing the cooling 152 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:27,300 system to be clear I can hear it just fine but 153 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:32,100 compared to the way that some gaming laptops especially like the high-powered 154 00:11:29,459 --> 00:11:34,920 reasonably thin ones will just sound like they're going to take off from the 155 00:11:33,540 --> 00:11:38,300 table it's downright reasonable 156 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:47,360 you know for little tiny speakers 157 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,360 honestly not bad 158 00:11:54,180 --> 00:12:00,000 97 damage gosh darn it 159 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:04,860 yes I wish to exit something we haven't talked about yet is the i o on this 160 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:10,860 thing put some desktops to shame each of these USB type A's runs at 20 gigabit 161 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:16,260 per second we've got one two three of those a uhs1 SD card slot headset Jack 162 00:12:14,459 --> 00:12:23,279 and then back around to the other side that is not one but two Thunderbolt four 163 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:28,860 ports as well as a mini DisplayPort and an HDMI out oh yeah two and a half gig 164 00:12:25,980 --> 00:12:32,399 Lan too and more cool stuff MSI has gone with a low profile Cherry MX keyboard 165 00:12:30,779 --> 00:12:36,300 powered by Steel Series so you can use steel series software in order to 166 00:12:33,839 --> 00:12:41,220 configure everything from per key macros to perky RGB lighting we also have a 167 00:12:38,820 --> 00:12:46,200 large glass touch pad fingerprint sensor and 720p IR webcam and the infrared is 168 00:12:45,180 --> 00:12:51,839 really important because that means you can use Windows hello and you never have to type a password or a pin again though 169 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:55,920 if you do prefer a pin it's actually got a number pad 170 00:12:52,980 --> 00:13:01,079 for you gaming accountants out there millimeters thick and 1.8 pounds lighter 171 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:06,480 the gt77 looks like an obvious win compared to the gt76 that it replaces 172 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:10,139 you guys can check it out at the link in the video description man you can pack a 173 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:14,760 lot of performance in a gaming laptop these days assuming that it's got a large butt 174 00:13:13,860 --> 00:13:20,519 um I mean if you look at it it's all basically cooling right like they've 175 00:13:17,700 --> 00:13:25,680 taken the normal laptop form factor here 16x9 they've gone yep 176 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:28,860 all cooling well that would have been extra thickness but it's actually 177 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:32,779 probably quite a bit more efficient to do it this way which would explain why 178 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,779 it's so quiet