MSI gs65 review

   

            

                        MSI gs65

Operating System	Win11 Home
CPU Manufacturer	Intel
Card Description	Dedicated
Color	Titanium Blue
Connectivity Technology	Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, Ethernet, HDMI

hey what's up guys mark here today we'll be talking about the msi gs65 it's a thin and light 15 inch gaming laptop and I don't think it needs much of an introduction it's a fairly popular laptop so I guess I'll just hop right in starting with the build of this and the build isn't particularly amazing it's constructed mostly out of aluminum with plastic pieces here and there and like the hinge for example the keyboard deck has been reinforced so flex is pretty minimal but there's these like creaking noises when you press down on the grill up top the hinge is tuned quite well it's a one-hand open without feeling loose or weak but the screen isn't very stiff so it twists and it bends fairly easily overall it's good for a gaming laptop there are ones that are much worse but definitely not as tanky as say the Razer Blade 15 and given the price it's a little bit underwhelming the design is pretty clean - like it's all black with some gold accents I like it ok one of the things that I personally disliked about the GS 75 which is the 17-inch version of this laptop was the keyboard particularly the position of the Windows key and the backlighting like when you shine the LEDs through the sides of the key caps it just looks really messy and makes it difficult to find a certain key so I'm glad they kept it simple this time around its a steelseries keyboard with individually lit RGB backlighting it's got a good layout the key travel is quite short so it's not really something I enjoy typing on but I wouldn't say it's terrible it really just needs more key travel because the rest of the keyboard is quite good the trackpad is really good though I think they did an excellent job here it uses a glass surface it's smooth the clicks feel great and it's a Windows precision trackpad so it's about as good as it gets for a Windows laptop the speakers are pretty much the same as the GS 75 so really bad sound quality they're on the bottom they're tinny the bass response just isn't there they're not really detailed it's just bad if you're listening to any sort of audio at all you're gonna want headphones with this thing they're using a 1080p 144 Hertz screen with seven milliseconds of response time it's bright you got thin bezels viewing angles are good but the color accuracy and the color gamut are quite or out of the box if you're doing color sensitive work you'll want to either calibrate it or just look elsewhere entirely the webcam is positioned at the top it's a 720p webcam but it doesn't support Windows hello login unfortunately the only thing is that I think it'd be cool to have a 4k option like the razor blade for content creators but this one's really good for gaming on the left is an Ethernet port two USBs a separate headphone and microphone jack and on the right is the power plug hdmi 2.0 a mini DisplayPort Thunderbolt 3 and a third USB port really good ports on this thing actually with the only notable missing port being an SD slot now if you look on MSI's spec sheet for the HS 65 you'll notice it says hi-fi in brackets after the headphone jack there's actually nothing special about it as far as volume or detail through my son Heiser HD 6 xx's it sounds like every single other laptop that have evaded the bottom panel is a pain to remove and I'm pretty sure this white sticker will void your warranty if you poke through it to unscrew the screw beneath it could be wrong so don't quote me there but if you do get it off there are two MDOT two slots and two RAM slots one of which is populated so it's only running in single channel out of the box which is not a good thing because it drops your frame rates in games by as much as 30% which is what I personally measured and given that the RAM and SSDs are on the back side of the motherboard like no right if you're gonna make it this hard to upgrade msi should have just installed dual channel memory right out of the box so this model is rocking the eye 78758 it's got 16 gigs of ram a 256 gig SSD and NR TX 2060 the ram is single channel like I said and the SSD they're using here is the samsung PM nine six one so a bit slower than the PM nine eight one but so a fast drive even at 256 gigs performance in games is excellent it handles everything at 1080p which isn't really a surprise given that the 2060 is around 15 to 20 percent faster than the 1070 max q as far as which GPU to get for gaming I'd recommend the 2060 just because literally every single game runs at the FS or higher and if you lower the settings a bit even the latest Triple A games will hit 144 FPS there's actually three fans in here the intake air from the top and bottom of the laptop so I didn't see any thermal throttling but this is the base model so I'd expected to run cool if they're gonna shove a twenty eighty in here as well if you open the Dragon Center software you get access to some performance and fan profiles for more control over the thermals and fan noise with light use like web browsing the fans were pretty much silent and under a heavy load like gaming the fans were reasonably loud so you'll hear them but they don't scream like jet engines and lastly surface temps are also really good it was only really warm at most with a peak of around 50 degrees Celsius but overall thermals and fan noise with the r-tx 2060 are really good there's an 82 watt hour battery inside the lasts about 6 hours with light use and a 2060 model comes with a smaller 180 watt charger that ends in a barrel plug okay so the GS 65 starts at 2100 US dollars definitely not cheap but is it worth it my biggest complaints with this thing are the build quality it's pretty underwhelming given the price the speakers are oh so terrible the keyboard I'm personally fine with but you might not like a rather low-key travel and lastly the lack of upgrade ability but the overall experience of using this device is actually quite good for me personally you plug in a pair of headphones and I'll spend half the day playing games but there are some issues that you should be aware of if we're planning to purchase this laptop but if we're cool with what I just mentioned then yeah it's a good laptop so that's the end of this review hit the like button if you enjoyed it also consider following for more posts I'll see you guys next time.

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