MSI GE76 Raider review: the most powerful gaming laptop

Why would you even want to game on bat­tery? and do long gam­ing on a lap­top for that matter?

haha no use if intel chip based com­put­er is not afford­able, bye bye Intel

Not the bright­est dis­play tho.

Bat­tery life, did you see 4.5 hours with the screen at 60Hz or a much high­er refresh rate?

No tests? No runs, No num­bers. Noth­ing at all-like a joke? Make video just to make a video and have on youtube? No. Neg­a­tive. You could learn from the best — Jarrod‘s Tech chan­nel. Sim­ple as that.

Good review!

Sor­ry for the long essay below but it is a nec­es­sary evil 😬 –>

- Gam­ing lap­tops of such a high-end con­fig­u­ra­tion are most­ly per­for­mance-focused than bat­tery-life-focused. They will gen­er­al­ly have an aver­age gam­ing bat­tery life but can­not be com­pared with oth­er lap­tops (because their per­for­mance is nev­er going to be as good as this one).

- The games may deliv­er low­er fram­er­ates on the bat­tery as the per­for­mance capa­bil­i­ty and hard­ware in these gam­ing lap­tops require more pow­er for best per­for­mance. So the clock speeds of CPU and GPU are low­ered to pro­long bat­tery life.

But they deliv­er excep­tion­al per­for­mance while play­ing games on AC pow­er (and we get accus­tomed to that fram­er­ate quickly).

It will not be the same expe­ri­ence as on AC pow­er (so it’s best to plug in your gam­ing lap­top while play­ing games if you want the best pos­si­ble expe­ri­ence). This has been quite a well-known fact by now in the lap­top gam­ing industry.

Make sure the Win­dows pow­er plan is set to ‘High Per­for­mance’ and you set ‘Pow­er man­age­ment mode’ in Nvidia Con­trol Pan­el to ‘Pre­fer Max­i­mum Performance’.

- Gam­ing on mid-range, aver­age per­for­mance lap­tops do not show sig­nif­i­cant changes in the fram­er­ate while gam­ing because they can reach their max­i­mum per­for­mance poten­tial (high­er clock speeds) even while on bat­tery power.

But note that this per­for­mance is going to be far infe­ri­or when com­pared to that of a prop­er gam­ing lap­top (which requires more pow­er = best pos­si­ble performance).

- Gam­ing on a high-per­for­mance lap­top with­out AC pow­er and expect­ing it to deliv­er the same per­for­mance as when it’s plugged in is like launch­ing a rock­et in your back­yard and expect­ing it to go beyond Earth­’s atmos­phere. For that, you need the extra pow­er and an actu­al launchpad.

It’s bet­ter to buy oth­er mod­er­ate-per­for­mance lap­tops if bat­tery life is only your main focus while gaming.

- Bat­tery life also depends on the installed apps/background process­es while you are play­ing games. Once the default unwant­ed apps are removed, bat­tery life can improve. And also check for any pend­ing updates from Win­dows and dri­ver updates from MSI and BIOS updates.

- Thick­er lap­tops are bet­ter in heat dis­si­pa­tion, which mat­ters espe­cial­ly for long hours of gam­ing. Thin lap­tops are good for porta­bil­i­ty but usu­al­ly gen­er­ate high­er tem­per­a­tures when com­pared to thick­er lap­tops. So imho it’s bet­ter to have a cool­er thick lap­top than a hot­ter thin laptop.

- I’ve noticed that under­volt­ing (CPU and GPU) helps a lot to these gam­ing lap­tops for man­ag­ing heat. Most peo­ple are unaware of this trick. The drop in tem­per­a­tures is around 12–15 °C with­out affect­ing per­for­mance! That extra volt­age is real­ly not need­ed when it reach­es a cer­tain thresh­old while gam­ing. Under­volt­ing also keeps the fram­er­ates more sta­ble. Also, hav­ing man­u­al con­trol over the same helps in bat­tery life as well while doing oth­er tasks (which improves bat­tery life.)

- To con­clude, the only rea­son you would buy such a heavy-duty lap­top is for a desk­top replace­ment.
Play­ing graph­ics-inten­sive games, doing video edit­ing, visu­al effects, 3D work, etc. is going to be an amaz­ing expe­ri­ence on this lap­top, espe­cial­ly when on AC pow­er. You may not get the same expe­ri­ence while on bat­tery pow­er for the rea­sons men­tioned above.

And it’s still quite portable when you put it in the orig­i­nal MSI lap­top bag while traveling.

- The cost of this lap­top is high­er most­ly due to DDR5 RAM (in addi­tion to CPU and GPU) which is a fair­ly new tech­nol­o­gy and there is an increase in demand. It will be cheap­er in a few years.

But the invest­ment in DDR5 RAM would be worth it now as it will future-proof your lap­top and of course, offer great performance.

So in a way, con­sid­er you are buy­ing a ‘portable gam­ing desk­top’ when buy­ing this beast!

Thank you for read­ing the entire essay 😁😎

it’s not your i9 that needs the cool­ing, it’s the 3080Ti that needs it… next time try run­ning bat­tery­time tests on the igpu of the cpu, with the 3080Ti dis­abled.
the mac M1 is also run­ning on its own builtin igpu so why com­pare a 45Wcpu + 150W ded­i­cat­ed gpu with a 45W cpu+igpu ?

Why cant I find any being sold with 2tb

This is one of the worst reviews I’ve seen in my life.

i just bought the raider ge76 for myself im lov­ing it