this is the MSI gs65
g for discrete gaming graphics
s for thin light and stealthy
six for 15.6 inches the screen size and 5
because this is the brand new fifth generation chassis design which
wait hold on a second the last model i saw was a gs 63 so did they just skip
gen four solely because four is considered unlucky in some parts of asia
or is it just that much better honestly
this could go either way because in my hands right now is the most important
letter thank you
h this is the first laptop we've seen with
a six core Intel core i7 h-series mobile
gaming CPU oh crap i meant to take the letter off
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the first thing that stands out about the gs65 is how much more premium it
looks than its predecessor the industrial design has been simplified
the grain finish has been replaced with a cleaner blasted finish and the red
pinstriping has been swapped out for a more mature gold
but the chassis redesign is more than cosmetic even though its screen is
larger than high performance compact competitors like the razer blade and
macbook pro it has a surprisingly
similar footprint so how did they pull this off
well first they dramatically shrunk the bezels the sides are a mere four
millimeters now with the top bezel only about half the size and the webcam
while it's the same very unexceptional 720p affair from over
a year ago to its credit it's still positioned above the screen in its
optimal location so it doesn't look up your nose and it's also got this nifty
diffty little hardware button down here that if you press actually disables it
outright on a hardware level so all of
this adds up to a screen to body ratio of 82
a stat made only a little bit less impressive by the obvious way that they
padded it by enlarging this gap back here that you won't be able to unsee
the next thing they did was to remove the number pad which is sure to enrage
some while simultaneously bringing jubilation to those who hate having
their hands off center while they're trying to type none pattern no though
the new steel series keyboard is definitely an improvement the switches
are less mushy the keycaps are a lot wider and the legend is now transparent
to let the now individually controllable RGB backlights shine through and another
shining point for the gs is its io the
ports themselves haven't actually changed that much from last gen but
every usb port runs at 10 gigabit spec now and with HDMI 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 and
mini displayport you can plug in up to three
4k 60hz external displays at once and i
mean pretty much whatever else you could want even the carryability is better
than last time the notebook itself does
weigh about the same but the power brick which you do have to take with you so it
matters is definitely smaller and lighter the display itself is a 15.6
inch 1080p ips panel that's calibrated on the box with 95 coverage of the srgb
color gamut so nothing really stands out here but it managed surprisingly decent
delta e values meaning that colors are true to life and you could definitely
use this machine for some casual photo editing or graphic design which is great
but what really matters for the uh
capital g gamers out there is it's
144 hertz refresh rate the gaming
experience on the gs65 is simply put
awesome it's compact but this thing is armed to the teeth for the latest titles
thanks to its gtx 1070 max q and 8th gen
core i7 8750h processor the first one of
Intel's shiny new premium mobile cpus that we've seen in the wild clocked
between 2.2 and 4.1 gigahertz boost and
it's only set to get better a little bird told me that unofficial g-sync
support might turn up later the hardware's in there it's just a matter
of whether or not it gets the certification and even in professional
workstation tasks like rendering the gs65 performed as well as much bigger
not to mention pricier laptops from last gen but
many a high performance notebook around here has been brought to its knees by
our usability tests the gs65's battery life well that's
pretty okay for a gaming notebook though considering it's hybrid graphics i might
have asked for more here and while its three fan four heat pipe cooling design
does look set to handle gaming loads pretty much effortlessly under extreme
CPU loads like what you might see rendering out a video we saw significant
thermal throttling with our CPU cores reaching as high as 90 degrees after 30
minutes so other than that though sounds pretty good time to buy right
well maybe but with competing coffee lake h-series machines like the dell xps
9570 and Gigabyte arrow 15x do for
launch any moment now you might want to hold off at least a couple weeks to see
if those ones are a little bit less fingerprint prone and flexible like
i do get that MSI needed to keep the weight down but
a little more reinforcement like maybe behind the power button here probably
wouldn't have been a backbreaker with all of that said there's no denying that
the gs65 is an all-around
solid performer that hits the sweet spot between performance and sides i mean
it really wasn't that long ago that normal
non-g laptops used to be this size
plus it's got insane i o and all of that
at a price point that is barely above what last gen is selling for so you know
what high four MSI i mean i mean five
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