MSI - GE66 10SFS 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 32GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER - 1TB SSD - Aluminum Black

I am a cybersecurity engineer student and I was looking for a powerful laptop for my last semester of school. I needed a laptop with a strong CPU since I need to run multiple Virtual Machines for software testing and System Penetration. I also needed plenty of Ram to share with my virtual machine and still have my Host OS running smoothly. Thermals on the laptop are surprisingly very good, Before underbolting the CPU 100Mv the CPU was reaching temps of around 70-80c under stress. Which is not bad given you have 2070 Super 115w. After underbolting the CPU Temps hover around 40c-84c pushing the cpu to its max running 2 virtual machines along with the host OS with some tools in the background. While gaming the temperatures managed to stay pretty cool after underbolting. The fans do kick on and they can be kinda loud but, its to be expected with such powerful components. Screen- I am not a big fan of the screen. Coming from a Macbook Pro the screen does not look as sharp or bright. Also, the colors are not as accurate as the macbook. I would rate the screen 6-7 out of 10. But again this is not a creators laptop its a gamers laptop. In the department the screen is responsive and feels buttery smooth! Keyboard and Trackpad- Coming from the Macbook Trackpad. I would say the trackpad on this laptop is 7 or 8. It's not as big as the macbook but, it feels smooth and responsive. It's not a glass trackpad but, its feels very smooth while using it. The keyboard I absolutely love! The keys feel nice to type on. Wish there was a little bit more travel but overall I like it better than the Macbook Pro Magic keyboard on the Macbook Pro! Speakers- They are garbage to be honest. They sound terrible but, since i always have my noise cancelling earphone on, this is not a deal breaker for me. If you're looking for a laptop with great speakers.. Do not buy this rig,, I repeat DO NOT buy this rig, Battery i would say its a solid 5-6 Hours. Which it doesnt sound like its a lot but, considering the components this laptop packs it's actually pretty impressive. ] Wifi6- Superfast! I can get 700Mps download speed on wifi. It also offers a good range since its wifi 6. The new more expensive MacBook doesn't even offer wifi 6. My thoughts- The Build quality of the laptop is not Macbook Like BUT, it feels very solid. No flex while pressing on the keyboard. Very little or no flex at the screen. The laptop is a little bit on the heavy side but, I like it because it feels rogged. If you're looking for a Great Gaming PC that is also a very capable machine to run virtualization software, coding or video edeting(Using a nicer monitor i recommend). This is the laptop. Its a very powerful laptop even though the i7 is not the most powerful out out there but, that is ok because it also doesnt run super hot. I recommend underbolting the machine and disabling turbo mode when no extra performance is needed. You will gain more battery life and the machine will run quieter and cooler. If you can't decide to go with this or a Macbook... Ditch the Macbook overpriced and not very good thermals. This rig is way better!

As a casual gamer that looks for the most amazing video game experiences that I can get on games that I really enjoy playing on my spare time, I've to say, what an amazing machine this MSI laptop is! I decided to upgrade to this laptop from an Acer Nitro 5, Intel i5 8th Gen. Processor, with an NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti graphics card, that comes with an 256GB Kingston SSD, (had to buy a Samsung 1TB SSD to upgrade the Storage Capacity on it, since it's upgradable, and it met my needs for gaming), and it's a very amazing Mid-Tier laptop overall. But, after using it mainly for gaming for sometime, I decided that I wanted to get a better fps (frames-per-second) experience, since my Acer can only reach 60fps max. I wanted to buy a gaming laptop that could handle some heavy Triple-A games, with high-ultra settings, and that had more than 144+fps for the smoothest gameplay that I could experience, so I started browsing and researching from multiple tech reviewers, videos, and online stores. And after a while of doing this, there it was, the MSI GE66 10SFS! YES, it's very pricey, and I was still debating if I'd rather build my own Gaming Rig little-by-little instead, but at the end this dragon of a machine convinced me! I bought it, mainly because of its 240fps, which are MIND-BLOWINGLY AMAZING for smooth gameplay, and I'm really enjoying the experience gaming on it so far! I'm recently playing MSFS2020 (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020) on high settings in my spare time, and WOW is this laptop handling it wonderfully, since that game is VERY demanding, some critics even saying that "currently there's no proper, powerful enough hardware available in the Market that can handle the highest settings, (Ultra Settings, 4K resolutions), for this game!". I completely believe them, since this laptop does get very, VERY noisy with the fans while I'm playing it, which means that's under very heavy use. Overall, superb high-end laptop with amazing features for a reasonable price, (if you were to compare it with other brands with the same, or close to the same specs as this one), in my opinion. I superbly recommend it to those gamers looking for the greatest, smoothest gameplay, with the highest HD resolutions, (not 4K), in a gaming laptop!

This MSI GE66 is a BEAST! I just bought the Alienware M15 R3 wrote a review as it was the only open box laptop I can find with a 2070 Super and not a dumb down 2080 MAX-Q or 2070 max-q. Soo the Dell M15 R3 - Boy does the it get extremely HOT to 100c solid. I used ThrottleStop and it helped but yesterday accidently I looked up a MSI GE66 and found an open box for a much better price lower price at Best Buy. So I brought it home and yes the MSI is Superior to the M15 R3 or any Alienware laptop running 20 degrees cooler without running ThrottleStop every time I boot up and want to play games. Both laptops have the same GPU AND CPU but MSI cools much better comes with 32gbs of ram upgradable not solder onto the board like the Alienware laptop and the MSI comes with 1TB SSD nvme. holy crap!! They're roughly identical in size and weight. MSI isn't perfet but the performance is amazing tripple AAA games running on highest to ultra settings solid FPS between 86fps to 200fps SICK!!! Love it. So far today I spent 10 hours testing both laptops right next to each other and MSI wins BIG. Tomorrow I will return the Alienware M15 R3 for a full refund. Boy did I get a heck of a deal on this MSI crisp, clean and in perfect condition for under $1250. Oculus Quest 2 via link cable on ultra settings Boneworks at 120hz AMAZING. Half-Life Alyx and Saints and Sinners on Ultra settings breath taking experience unbelievable graphics performance. I would go into more details but I rather just get back into the gaming........PEACE! MSI IS THE BETTER PRODUCT with crazy flawless performance. if you don't like the front LED bar turn it off. laptop looks good and clean. Yes Desktop is a MSI 3080 x Trio 10900k, 32 Corsair Dominator ram at 3600 lol....gaming pandemic.

Since last year I have debated on the correct laptop to purchase for Architecture School and I narrowed it down to Apple, Microsoft and MSI. It made my decision easier by getting some advice from my advisor, online reviews and the programs I would be using. Skeptical at first I strayed away from the gaming pc because I figured it’s only meant to game but I was wrong. I just opened my laptop and started downloading needed programs such as Auto Cad, Revit, Adobe Photoshop and sketch up with ease. I start school in a month and I am super impressed with the speed, durability and compatibility of this gaming laptop. MSI has done a great job for multiple uses with this set up.

Purchased this laptop because I am going back to school to finish my degree in Photography, but also needed a laptop powerful enough to run a DAW on for my music projects. I am also an avid amateur astronomer, so the computer will be used for imaging and guiding software for that as well using programs like PHD2 and Backyard Nikon. So far, the computer is good overall. Setup was easy and straight forward. The keyboard is excellent and the build feels really solid. It is a bit on the heavier side, but it’s a work horse, so you have to expect it to not be a light weight portable machine. The only thing I would add to this machine is some biometrics for Windows Hello. Other than that, it hits the mark all the way around.

This laptop has been UNREAL. Firstly the way it appears is stunning, but it can't all be about the looks right? How does it perform? Well, I play a lot of Warzone, Fortnite, League of Legends and other games within those genres. I haven't had a single issue with any of those games. The time it takes for the games to load is astounding. The 244 Hz screen refresh rate also makes the games look astounding! I highly recommend this game to anyone looking to get into the gaming laptop scene or looking to upgrade their current gaming laptop.

I work in audio and wanted a powerful enough laptop to handle editing away from my desk. This laptop has not disappointed yet on that end. My only problem that affects me is that the internal sound options are 44.1khz, 48khz, and 96khz. I do my editing in 88.2, so this was rather inconvenient and I had to get a cheap interface just for playback. This also leads into a rather large issue for most people as well. The speakers on this are downright unusable. They shouldn't have even bothered putting them in. At full volume, you can barely hear them. That doesn't affect me since I'm using external speakers. But if you need the laptop speakers, this isn't for you. TB3 would have more than made up for my disappointment in the speakers for the option of using a better interface. I also really wish the screen was 4k. But the pixel density is good enough that everything looks sharp. Everything else I love about it. Oh yeah. It runs pretty hot even just idle. So you'll want a cooling pad. This may sound negative, but I really love this thing. It does what I wanted most out of it flawlessly. Everything else is just nitpicking wishfulness

I bought this on sale but would still recommend it, at least until the 3080’s start being sold in laptops. Runs a little louder then I would like but stays fairly cool if I don’t use it for more then 4 hours on hard tasks. (newest games on their higher settings, rendering large photos or editing 3D art and for heavy workloads.) Other then that it operates as fast as one would expect for its stats. The keyboard is nice and responsive the track pad is... well a trackpad... the metal case is really neat and no pixels were burnt out or functions missing so I’m rather pleased over all with the laptop.