playing alone sucks I had so much fun at
whale land that I'm ready to pack up and go to another land party but no
compromises this time I want all the performance and I want all my games
this is not gonna work if only there was some portable device that you could use
to replace your desktop but without compromising on performance maybe it
could be battery powered with a keyboard
it's a laptop when MSI heard that we wanted to go all out on a mobile battle
station they stepped up to sponsor this video with the Titan gt77 the most
powerful laptop they offer and we're going to be upgrading it and extending
it to the limit to make it a true desktop replacement
let's start with what it comes with every gt77 includes a 128 Gigabyte flash
drive an m99 RGB gaming mouse and a
little lucky the dragon keychain all of which I'm going to oh my God find at
some point here because this machine is designed for people who want the most
Overkill possible performance there's actually not a ton of choice when it
comes to configurations our model the 12uhs has a 3080 TI more on that in a
bit but there's also a 3070 TI available if that's too fast for you and in either
case you can choose between an I9 12900hx that's what we've got or an i712
800hx each with the same 8p core 8
e-core configuration we've got all of this linked down below now being in
North America our laptop is equipped with a 120 hertz 4K IPS display that's
what they claimed DCI P3 coverage of 100 percent
like like a hundred like wow all right
and if you're in other markets there's also a 1080p 360hz option in case you're
looking for every possible competitive Advantage for gaming good gravy and the
best part is that if anyone tries to steal it not only will they get tired
trying to carry it down the street but you can throw this power brick at them
likely stop them in their tracks I think I trust it farther than I could throw it
330 Watts nice reversible power connector but before we plug it in why
don't we crack it open and see what it needs that
330 Watts for 11 screws later it's time to reveal a
feature that is exclusive to laptops of this caliber assuming I can actually get
anything open come on baby come on you can do
okay this is sick check this out not one not two but four memory slots so you can
load up a whopping 128 gigs of ddr5 memory in this thing
and four count them one two three four
SSD slots that wild or what a quick word
by the way about these n.2 slots the two up here are wired directly to the CPU
while these two go through the chipset MSI helpfully silk screens this info
onto the motherboard or you can just follow the traces if you're a big nerd
for now though three of them are painfully empty and that just won't do
for our Overkill laptop build here is
this thing on hmm well maybe we should power it off
before I poke around too much more with the screwdriver the fastest way to fix
this problem is to unplug the battery which I mean we should be doing when
we're working on it anyway step one is to double our included
memory from 64 gigs to
128 gigs with these two 64 gig kits from
crucial it should be noted that having four sticks like this does put
additional strain on our integrated memory controller so we're going to be
limited to 3600 Mega transfer per second speeds
holy crap are we putting 32 terabytes of
storage in this thing 32 terabytes of storage in a laptop the
number's gotten so big it sounds small again because like it can't possibly be
that you know what I mean like if I say yeah there's 32 terabytes of storage on
this laptop you go oh wow it's a Chromebook probably then you're thinking gigabytes no no no no
order of magnitude higher we actually
missed something the key night among you might have noticed that this m.2 slot is
a little bit special it actually supports PCIe gen 5. unfortunately Gen 5
ssds haven't quite hit the market yet but this laptop will be ready when they
do probably this fall when all the next gen CPUs arrive until then we're gonna
make do with our Gen 4 8 terabyte drive
and each one of these is four times our
original storage which means we're at 60
next our original storage that's actually more in storage than the cost
of the laptop to start with and before you ask yes we're going to be raiding
them we did raid zero right that's really stupid like really stupid
OneDrive fails whole thing gone but
realistically we're just loading it up with games anyway right so we're almost
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
that is literally as large as the law will permit if you want to take your
laptop on a plane with you not that I would necessarily ah yeah you could
travel with it portable workstation sure we've got a pair of two watt speakers as
well as a Wi-Fi 60 capable killer Wi-Fi
card which is right there to be clear uh killer no
longer means bad it's actually um got it's an Intel chipset so cool of
course the PS De La Resistance is the 3080 TI this is a full-fledged non-max Q
design with 16 gigs of gddr6 that will
suck back up to 175 watts to hit a
maximum boost speed of 1640 megahertz and with an integrated mux switch you
can be sure that you're connected to the 3080 TI directly rather than routed
through the igpu which means you're going to be getting the most frames possible out of your laptop that 175
watts is part of the 250 Watts total that MSI's overboost provides to
distribute between the CPU and the GPU
via into Lydia Dynamic Boost 2.0 what it
essentially means is that in GPU limited games where you need every single one of
those 175 watts to feed the 3080 TI you'll still have 75 Watts left over for
the 12900 HX to hit a maximum turbo of 5
gigahertz on the flip side in CPU limited games or other applications
either of the 16 core CPUs available for
this laptop can draw up to 150 watts leaving just 80 remaining for the GPU
unfortunately no you can't have 175 and
150 because it's just not possible to do
in this form factor and like you'd be overwhelming your brick remember you've
got to have all kinds of other power available for connected peripherals and
all that good stuff too right now keeping this mess cool are four fans
that's right one two three four fans and
a laptop which are all fed through the ventilation holes in the bottom panel
there are also a total of six exhaust
vents although In fairness this back one
kind of counts as one gigantic exhaust
more impressive than the number of fans though is the number of heat pipes let's
count them shall we one this one goes
from GPU to just this heatsink two this
one goes almost in a complete square and is also dedicated to the GPU feeding
both this radiator and this one with heat now because we can share our power
that means we also need to share our cooling so this one runs over to this
and this heatsink in case our GPU is
getting extra power and needs extra cooling there's a little heat pipe right
here that seems to be just for memory it
looks like memory then number five this
one goes from our CPU all the way over to these radiators right here one two
six this one is almost a full circle
again and goes one two covers three radiators and goes over the CPU seven
these two RADS and the CPU took a little
while to power on thanks to our Bizarro raid zero boot configuration
um like over a minute okay this is an
interesting strategy to accommodate the powerful internal components NSI has a
bit of a caboose on the back of the machine and I guess rather than try and
stealthify it they're like business in the front party in the back
let's go full RGB
RGB butt where where it loud and proud
right just just own it just own it yeah I'm a big laptop
yeah anyone else noticing a problem right now
sure it's going to ramp up to be very clear but yeah there it goes at idle it is
damn near silent okay this is hilarious
we have a grand total of 372 Steam games installed on this
machine and the best part we're not even close to filling it up
this is kind of nutty we're not getting the full benefit of our 120 hertz
display on Ultra nightmare at 4K but
that's unreasonable but what we are seeing is anywhere from 80 to 110 frames
per second I would not have thought this level of
performance possible for a laptop even just a few years ago
this is a cool little feature if the FPS indicator isn't enough for you to know
you can check if the integrated GPU or
the dedicated GPU is running simply by looking at the color of the little LED
on the power button so it's red right now which means our dedicated graphics
card is running but
actually tabbing out of the game won't be enough to change that if I exit the
game does it take a little while to
to decide to switch over to the igp
so there we go yep it's white now oh and
it's red again oh because when you're plugged in obviously you might as well
just use the 3080 TI cool
for a game at the other end of the spectrum I fired up CS go and the idea
here is that I want to see what kind of power our CPU is drawing now compared to
our GPU so we're running at some of the neighborhood of 250 300 frames per
second and yeah our GPU is only in the
neighborhood of 120 130 watts and our
CPU actually is only sitting at about 60 65. again it's surprisingly quiet in
game but we're barely stressing the cooling
system to be clear I can hear it just fine but
compared to the way that some gaming laptops especially like the high-powered
reasonably thin ones will just sound like they're going to take off from the
table it's downright reasonable
you know for little tiny speakers
honestly not bad
97 damage gosh darn it
yes I wish to exit something we haven't talked about yet is the i o on this
thing put some desktops to shame each of these USB type A's runs at 20 gigabit
per second we've got one two three of those a uhs1 SD card slot headset Jack
and then back around to the other side that is not one but two Thunderbolt four
ports as well as a mini DisplayPort and an HDMI out oh yeah two and a half gig
Lan too and more cool stuff MSI has gone with a low profile Cherry MX keyboard
powered by Steel Series so you can use steel series software in order to
configure everything from per key macros to perky RGB lighting we also have a
large glass touch pad fingerprint sensor and 720p IR webcam and the infrared is
really important because that means you can use Windows hello and you never have to type a password or a pin again though
if you do prefer a pin it's actually got a number pad
for you gaming accountants out there millimeters thick and 1.8 pounds lighter
the gt77 looks like an obvious win compared to the gt76 that it replaces
you guys can check it out at the link in the video description man you can pack a
lot of performance in a gaming laptop these days assuming that it's got a large butt
um I mean if you look at it it's all basically cooling right like they've
taken the normal laptop form factor here 16x9 they've gone yep
all cooling well that would have been extra thickness but it's actually
probably quite a bit more efficient to do it this way which would explain why
it's so quiet