Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this to be a gaming/productivity machine. The screen was DOA so i had to send it back to MSI immediately after purchase. The new screen has pretty bad light bleed. On the positive side, as a productivity machine, it works great unless your doing video tasks. Very zippy, the keyboard and touchpad are good. The problem is the cooling. This thing thermal throttles horribly on any cpu intensive tasks. The only way to halfway maintain performance is to crank the fans up all the way, but the fans are SOOO loud that you can't use the machine in public spaces. The processor in this CAN'T be undervolted either. The only work around that Ive found is to completely disable cpu turbo in Windows power management. This approach works pretty well while gaming, but the really hurts performance in the cpu intense productivity space. I realize that this is a thin and light laptop, but there are other machines in this segment that manage they're heat dissipation much better and this is reflected in benchmark scores. The benchmarks for this are just not very good for the hardware inside and compared to the compitition. For this kind of money, it should be better. The bottom line is this, if i had it to do again, i definitely wouldn't buy this again. There are better options out there.