MSI GS65 Stealth THIN-068 144Hz 7ms Ultra Thin 4.9mm Gaming Laptop i7-8750H (6 cores), GTX 1070 8G, 32GB DRAM, 1TB NVMe SSD, 15.6", Black w/ Gold Diamond Cut, RGB KB, Win 10 Pro 64 Bit

I REALLY LOVE the aesthetics of this machine. It's just so classy and great to look at. Pros: -Great Keyboard, easily my favorite that I've ever used. I also love the lighting on it. -SO MUCH CUSTOMISATION, Love that you can customise the key colors, screen colors, and so on -Very nice display, looks sharper than my old Acer V Nitro though both have the 1080P screen -Best trackpad I've ever used, rarely have I felt necessary to hunt down my mouse like I've always had to in the past. Cons: -SPEAKERS, jesus, they should be embarrassed. They're terrible. Out of the box they were very quiet at full blast, and then I putzed around in the settings and somehow got them to get louder, but they're terrible. They're tinny and hollow sounding. -Ports, they're good, but no SD card slot, only one USB type C but that's it. Internally they make up for it; 2 M.2 slots and 2 Ram slots. -Personally not a RAID fan. It's too volatile. -A LOT OF PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE. I get some are necessary like the STEEL SERIES and gaming centric MSI apps. The MS Store apps aren't, nor the Norton Antivirus trial. There are a couple of dozens of that stuff. Conclusion: Super happy with it, going to start using it to do 3d printing and drawing. Glad I went with the 32GB RAM option with the dual NVME 512GB drives installed in RAID. This seems like the sort of laptop that would be a pain to upgrade yourself given how compact and loaded it is.

just last week i made the switch from a 2017 macbook pro. this beast of a machine is unbeatable: through-the-roof power in a sexy, slim, modern frame, and it won't drain your wallet any more than a comparable tower pc. granted, i had some issues with activating windows in order to personalize my computer– windows 10 pro was installed, but that didn't match up with the windows 10 home product key i had. tegra tech store and microsoft tech support were instantly there and willing to help me with the problem. now my laptop's running like a dream and i have no complaints. skyrim, destiny 2, gta v at ultra high graphics, with incredible fps. my macbook couldn't even run minecraft shaders. this thing handles anything you throw at it like a piece of cake. get this computer. you will be happy. :) happy good

I've been using my new laptop for about a month now and have had no issues. It is a very powerful machine and it's very impressive what they've been able to pack in for the size. The fan is definitely super loud which doesn't really bother me, and it also seems like it doesn't always come on at the right times - it will come on sometimes when the laptop is pretty cold and sometimes when it's super hot the fan won't be on. Probably a software setting that I just haven't found yet. Overall, if you can afford it this is a great machine and no real cause for complaint.

This machine is quite unbelievable for a laptop. The build quality if fantastic. The RGG keyboard is beautiful and feels fantastic. The trackpad is responsive and accurate, maybe the best I've ever used. The 1070+144hz display just kills every game I've thrown at it on Ultra settings. Desktop and work application performance is also fantastic. Everything is done NOW. My only cons are the power port location, right in the middle on the right bezzle, and the speakers leave a little to be desired for a laptop of this quality and cost. Overall, I'd still give it 10/10 though and recommend to anyone who wants a serious piece of hardware in their laptop bag.

I'm writing a review comparing this to the equivalent Razer Blade with the 2080MQ. I purchased both with the intention of keeping one of them. Both were $3000 and included the latest I7 9750H, NVidia 2080MQ graphics, and a 240Hz screen. For the same price though, the MSI includes 32GB of ram while the Razer includes 16GB, and the MSI includes 1TB of storage while the Razer has 500GB. While I agree with others in that the Razer has a better build quality with a Macbook Pro like aluminum chassis, the MSI still has a very nice build quality. Externally, the MSI has a plastic or composite case, but still feels very solid. It's not creaky, and the material that MSI uses shows finger prints much less than the aluminum case of the Razer. Also, the plastic case of the MSI is MUCH less hot to the touch than the Razer and more comfortable to actually use in your lap since it transmits less heat to your lap. In addition, the MSI has more cooling vents in the case so it seems to cool better than the Razer. Lastly, the MSI is about 1/2 pound lighter than the Razer. The screen on both are comparable, and are probably made at the same factory, although I think the Razer's screen is factory color calibrated, and not sure the MSI is. Both are bright and with 240hz refresh, have very little blur during fast movement. I DO WISH that they implemented G-Sync like Asus laptops do, but unfortunately, neither MSI or Razer do. The ONLY ding I have about the MSI screen is that it has one single stuck white pixel when viewing a black screen. It's very small and hard to spot, but is slightly annoying. I thought about returning it and trying for another, but who knows if I would get something worse (it's tiny and almost looks like a piece of dust, but isn't). I don't like the keyboards of either laptop. It's not the typing pressure or the feel, but the layout. On both keyboards I end up hitting the wrong keys when trying to use the arrows or other keys on the right hand side of the keyboard. Why can't they just use the Lenovo layout????? The touch-pad on both work great and are glass smooth and accurate. Both are Windows precision, and use Windows settings to configure. The MSI touch-pad is larger horizontally, but both work fine. I did performance testing on the processor, memory, graphics, and storage. I used Crystal Diskmark for SSD testing and both came out very close to each other. I hesitate to publish the performance numbers because both companies use different models of SSDs depending on the pricing they get when they are building them - meaning if you buy today, you might not get the same SSD that I got in either the Razer or the MSI. I do though like that the MSI includes TWO spaces for NVME drives while the Razer has only one, so you can get twice the storage on the MSI (or performance if you do RAID 0) - a big plus for the MSI. Performance of the CPU and graphics was testing using the Unigine benchmarks (heaven, valley, and superposition). I also used 3DMark PortRoyal to test ray-tracing performance. I ran two runs of each benchmark, and both came out very similar, although the MSI came out about 1-2% ahead of the Razer, probably because it cools slightly better and throttles less (the MSI has more cooling vents in the case). I did not under-volt either. I'm a software developer and upgraded the Windows version to PRO on the MSI - and boy was that a mistake. It's a dual purpose laptop, to be used for coding and gaming. The reason I upgrade to Win10 Pro was so that I could run hyper-V. Unfortunately, that kills gaming performance by approximately 50% frame-rate wise, so when I game, I have to disable hyper-v using BCDEDIT from the command prompt (then reboot). I ended up keeping the MSI and returning the Razer for the following reasons: - The MSI is lighter and carrying it around in a backpack you can feel the difference - The MSI includes more memory and storage for the same price - MSI has an option for a second NVME SSD (RAID 0 performance) My only hesitation on choosing the MSI was that MSI support is pretty poorly rated, but I have called them twice to ask questions (one about chargers), and they did fine. I just worry if I have a real problem. If you have any questions on something I didn't cover, please don't hesitate to ask.

With throttlestop (-150mV and turbo to 3.9) the cpu doesn't hit prochot. Still didn't tune the gpu. All in all as expected for such a thin thing. Sleek, very sleek...

I have now ran into a fan issue thrice with this machine. The keyboard backlighting is also not working as expected for some keys! The support takes weeks in the best case. I thought MSI had a good reputation for hardware, but this machine has proven me wrong. I don't think I'll buy MSI ever again. :(