MSI GF65 Thin Gaming Laptop

[WRAITH]

Any good for sims?

 

 

Its under $2000 for a buddy of mine, Specs are - https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GF65-Thin-10SX/Specification

 

 

 

Edited September 13, 2020 by WRAITH

[BitMaster]

Without going into the details, LIGHT&SLIM does not go together with hour long gaming at the peak of it's performance.

 

 

If you look for a gaming laptop, make sure it's 4+kg so it's got some mass to absorb heat and feature adequate cooling.

 

 

If you can, avoid a laptop for gaming, if you must get one, buy a HEAVY one. You will be carrying other stuff as well, so 1-2 kilos wont really matter imho.

[Mars Exulte]

Lots of gaming laptops are good for light to moderate gaming, as far as demand of games and what you can expect to achieve. For heavy gaming, of long duration or particularly intensive games, think less ''laptop'' and more ''portable desktop''.

 

I had a heavy duty Sager once that was probably pushing 15lbs or so, probably inch and half to two inches thick. Was a real beast, but capable of longterm at capacity running. Either way, you'll want to get a good, well designed laptop cooler so you can force feed cool air into the intakes for extra measure.

 

Biggest advantage of a gaming laptop over a small form factor PC is the integrated keyboard and monitor, but that's pretty much it. You'll generally pay 50-100% more for comparable performance.

[defygravity]

I have the MSI Stealth GS63VR that I am currently selling. I bought it originally for gaming on the road. I used to travel a ton for work and I chose it because it was fairly light and had amazing specs for a laptop. I quit traveling out of state for work and thus don't really need it anymore. When I was using it, it was great. It would power my (at the time) Rift and Rift S well, and I could pop on a hub for peripherals. Of course you couldn't go with it maxed out but it did the trick. It has an i& 7700HQ and a 1060 so it works just fine. Anyway long story short, it is a good laptop, but for the money you are spending on the GS65, why wouldn't you just build a desktop? Unless of course, you are traveling a ton. Hope that helps man.

 

Cheers

 

Hippo

 

Edit: Oh and I could play for hours without overheating or anything like that. Yes it would get hot, but you just prop up the back and it was fine.

Edited September 18, 2020 by defygravity
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[WRAITH]

Thanks for the feed back fellas :thumbup:

[72westy]

Bought the GL75 w/1660ti Leopard. I upped the RAM to 32GB and swapped out the 1TB HDD for a 1TB SSD. It will play DCS and MSFS 2020 beautifully.