MSI - GF65 15.6" 144hz Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 - 512GB SSD - Black

This laptop maybe once a month will go on sale for 899 during a 24hr flash sale! If you can get it for the 899 instead of the 1099 usual price, it’s a fantastic deal! First things first, you MUST add 1 stick of additional 8GB of RAM which you can buy online anywhere for about $30-$40. YouTube the installation steps. Very easy! Once you do that you have a very nice mid-level gaming laptop. For those looking for game fps examples: halo infinite did 100-144 fps on Medium and 60-85 fps on High. Hitman 3 was about the exact same as halo. First person e-sports like Fortnite, apex, or split gate all will do the full 144fps at Ultra settings! This would be great upgrade if you’re coming from a 1650,1660ti, or even a 2060 or older. If you have a 2070 or a 2080 currently, this isn’t worth the purchase. You’d need to go 3070, 3080, or 6700m if you want the best of the best. I’d say this MSI laptop will be a a modern Machine for the next 5-6 years. I’d personally say this machine is about the equivalency of an Xbox Series S or a PS4 Pro. ALL laptops get a little hot weather they are $3000 or $300 so don’t be spooked by the amateur reviews you read online. I’d rate this 4/5 stars. You won’t get an RTX 3060 for under 1k otherwise.

I read many reviews about this laptop and finally bought it when it went on sale for $799. This is probably the best value laptop you find that has an RTX 3060 mobile. I play primarily Halo Infinite, so I use that as my benchmark. Out the gate, the performance of this laptop was poor for the game. You MUST make your own custom cooling profile in MSI Dragon, otherwise the CPU reach upper 80s to lower 90s C, and the game will just run so choppy due to throttling. After adjusting the fan settings in MSI Dragon to be more agressive and sooner, as well as propping up the laptop on a wire rack, Halo Infinite runs so good. Very smooth motion and looks sharp/crisp. My CPU temps run in the mid 70s C with medium settings and resolution scaling at 169%. I did not try undervolting CPU, as changing the fan settings was enough for me. CPU usage in game runs about 80-90%, while GPU usage runs 80-90% also. My only other complaint was that the 8gb RAM is not enough. My RAM usage approaches almost 100% in game, and I get a warming as such from Norton every time. I have order some 32gb DDR4 3200 SODIMM and hopefully this will eliminate that problem. Overall, for $799, great value laptop and would definitely recommend. By the way, mine did come with a camera and you have to enable it by pressing

Rtx 3060 keeps fps high, my fps were higher on external screen. Quiet compared to higher end laptops under heavy load. Relatively easy to upgrade ram and ssd. Add 150 bucks to make it 16gb ram, +512gb ssd Has all kinds of ports Gets warm on the top of keyboard under load. The bottleneck is core i5, which is noticeable when running apps on CPU. The plastic attracts fingerprints. The screen max brightness is kinda low. I had to return this after two weeks because I went with msi delta 15 best buy black Friday deal, which was 400$ more just because it had and Ryzen 7 5800h which was more suitable for my needs.

To be honest, this is my first ever gaming laptop. I gotta say for $799.99, it is well worth it. It plays AAA titles smoothly, relatively quiet under ideal conditions (lifting the laptop for it to intake air), and has a nice 144hz screen. Of course it does has its downsides, battery dies in just 2 hours of use of just watching youtube videos (which I’m pretty sure you’re going to use this with the charger most of the time), build quality is a bit on the cheaper side (edges are pretty rough), and this does get extremely hot after 30 minutes of gameplay (which people recommend of underthrottling it). All in all, you do get sacrifices in making this laptop to be priced cheap. Great choice whenever this laptop goes on sale, and for people that don’t have 1k to shell out for a gaming pc or laptop.

This is my 1st laptop that I bought myself. Very good laptop got it on sale for 850 and I dont think you can get a better laptop for the price. The downsides to the laptop like the small ram and SSD can be easily upgraded. The battery is pretty bad, lasts about 3-4 hours and might want to buy a cooling pad if your gonna do some heavy gaming. I bought a Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 2x16gb ram DDR4 ram and a 970 Evo Plus 2 tb SSD while it was on sale. I bought them both on best buy and used a philips screw driver from a phone tool kit I have but had to borrow a PH1 for one screw that my small one couldn't pull out. I watched about 3 youtube guides on opening up the laptop and was able to put the ram and ssd in. After you put it back together you'll have to connect the charger to the laptop and after turning it you'll need to format the ssd your laptop wont be able to use it right away, you can search up a guide on how to format a ssd on google and it'll be very easy and quick to do.

I bought this laptop on sale for $799 with the intent to upgrade it. It is an amazing laptop right out of the box and is super powerful with 6gb VRAM. I was able to stream at 1080p with it too. Not my intent to use as a streaming laptop but i had to test it.

I’m using this laptop exclusively for nicehash, and it gets about 34Mhash/sec. This one was a replacement for a similar machine that died under the warranty period. Mining puts a lot of stress on a laptop so I don’t recommend anyone do this with theirs. I purchased mine specifically for this purpose. But a laptop that survives mining 24x7 for a year is a keeper because it will survive anything. This was the cheapest way I could do some mining back when it was profitable and when supply shortage made getting a GPU impossible.

ETH mining Overclocks: -500 Core +675 Mem (try pushing it a bit higher until youre stable with no crashes. I managed to be stable at +695) Getting 38.48 MH/s turn on the advanced cooling from dragon center. change power settings to allow you to close lid without sleeping.