Thinnest SIX CORE Gaming Laptop! – MSI GS65
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,322 words · ~6 min read
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this is the MSI gs65
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g for discrete gaming graphics
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s for thin light and stealthy
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six for 15.6 inches the screen size and 5
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because this is the brand new fifth generation chassis design which
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wait hold on a second the last model i saw was a gs 63 so did they just skip
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gen four solely because four is considered unlucky in some parts of asia
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or is it just that much better honestly
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this could go either way because in my hands right now is the most important
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letter thank you
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h this is the first laptop we've seen with
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a six core Intel core i7 h-series mobile
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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
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looks than its predecessor the industrial design has been simplified
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the grain finish has been replaced with a cleaner blasted finish and the red
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pinstriping has been swapped out for a more mature gold
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but the chassis redesign is more than cosmetic even though its screen is
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larger than high performance compact competitors like the razer blade and
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macbook pro it has a surprisingly
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similar footprint so how did they pull this off
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well first they dramatically shrunk the bezels the sides are a mere four
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millimeters now with the top bezel only about half the size and the webcam
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while it's the same very unexceptional 720p affair from over
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a year ago to its credit it's still positioned above the screen in its
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optimal location so it doesn't look up your nose and it's also got this nifty
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diffty little hardware button down here that if you press actually disables it
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outright on a hardware level so all of
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this adds up to a screen to body ratio of 82
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a stat made only a little bit less impressive by the obvious way that they
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padded it by enlarging this gap back here that you won't be able to unsee
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the next thing they did was to remove the number pad which is sure to enrage
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some while simultaneously bringing jubilation to those who hate having
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their hands off center while they're trying to type none pattern no though
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the new steel series keyboard is definitely an improvement the switches
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are less mushy the keycaps are a lot wider and the legend is now transparent
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to let the now individually controllable RGB backlights shine through and another
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shining point for the gs is its io the
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ports themselves haven't actually changed that much from last gen but
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every usb port runs at 10 gigabit spec now and with HDMI 2.0 Thunderbolt 3 and
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mini displayport you can plug in up to three
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4k 60hz external displays at once and i
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mean pretty much whatever else you could want even the carryability is better
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than last time the notebook itself does
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weigh about the same but the power brick which you do have to take with you so it
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matters is definitely smaller and lighter the display itself is a 15.6
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inch 1080p ips panel that's calibrated on the box with 95 coverage of the srgb
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color gamut so nothing really stands out here but it managed surprisingly decent
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delta e values meaning that colors are true to life and you could definitely
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use this machine for some casual photo editing or graphic design which is great
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but what really matters for the uh
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capital g gamers out there is it's
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144 hertz refresh rate the gaming
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experience on the gs65 is simply put
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awesome it's compact but this thing is armed to the teeth for the latest titles
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thanks to its gtx 1070 max q and 8th gen
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core i7 8750h processor the first one of
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Intel's shiny new premium mobile cpus that we've seen in the wild clocked
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between 2.2 and 4.1 gigahertz boost and
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it's only set to get better a little bird told me that unofficial g-sync
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support might turn up later the hardware's in there it's just a matter
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of whether or not it gets the certification and even in professional
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workstation tasks like rendering the gs65 performed as well as much bigger
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not to mention pricier laptops from last gen but
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many a high performance notebook around here has been brought to its knees by
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our usability tests the gs65's battery life well that's
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pretty okay for a gaming notebook though considering it's hybrid graphics i might
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have asked for more here and while its three fan four heat pipe cooling design
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does look set to handle gaming loads pretty much effortlessly under extreme
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CPU loads like what you might see rendering out a video we saw significant
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thermal throttling with our CPU cores reaching as high as 90 degrees after 30
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minutes so other than that though sounds pretty good time to buy right
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well maybe but with competing coffee lake h-series machines like the dell xps
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9570 and Gigabyte arrow 15x do for
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launch any moment now you might want to hold off at least a couple weeks to see
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if those ones are a little bit less fingerprint prone and flexible like
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i do get that MSI needed to keep the weight down but
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a little more reinforcement like maybe behind the power button here probably
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wouldn't have been a backbreaker with all of that said there's no denying that
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the gs65 is an all-around
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solid performer that hits the sweet spot between performance and sides i mean
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it really wasn't that long ago that normal
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non-g laptops used to be this size
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plus it's got insane i o and all of that
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at a price point that is barely above what last gen is selling for so you know
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what high four MSI i mean i mean five
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five five
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