With the technology we have now, it’s easy for high-end laptop PCs to outperform many standard desktops. This is especially true for gaming PCs. The 15.6-inch MSI Raider GE67 HX isn’t as big as the 17.3-inch MSI GT77 Titan, but our test unit, which costs $2,109.99, costs less than half as much. Even though the Raider is much cheaper, it still has a beautiful OLED screen, great sound, and great productivity and gaming performance.
The MSI Raider GE77 is a great buy for gamers who miss the days when gaming hardware was big and bold. The front of the case is dominated by a wide strip of RGB LEDs that use 30 zones to change colours smoothly. The lid has big letters that say “MSI” and a glowing MSI logo.
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- Processor: Intel Core i7-12800HX
- RAM: (as Tested) 16 GB
- Boot Drive Type: SSD
- Boot Drive Capacity: 1 TB
- Screen Size: 15.6 inches
- Native Display Resolution: 2,560 by 1,440
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If you turn the Raider around, you’ll see that it has sharp angles and big air vents. The bottom has an MSI Raider logo and a stylized MSI rubber pad.
The GE77 is braver than both of its competitors. But while some people will like it, not everyone will like how it looks. The Alienware x17 R2 is striking, but its white-and-black design is more grown-up. The MSI is also more understated than the Razer Blade, which is all black and made of aluminium.
The GE77 is pretty easy to get inside of because the base is held together with a lot of screws, but they are big, standard Philips screws, so you don’t need any special tools. Once you’re inside, there’s a lot of space to work: both SO-DIMM slots are open, and there’s an extra NVMe socket next to the SSD. For connectivity upgrades, it’s easy to get to the wireless chip, and the cooling hardware and battery are also easy to get to.
The base panel of the Alienware is just as easy to take off as that of the Razer. A T5 screwdriver will be needed. And while it’s easy to get to the memory and SSD slots, it’s not as easy to get to the cooling hardware. Most top games have enough power to output to a 4K display, and Rainbow Six Siege’s average of 348fps means it’ll blow away any esports game, whether it’s on the laptop’s 240Hz screen or an external 360Hz screen.
This laptop can do more than just play games. In Geekbench, the i9-12900HX got single-core scores of 1,833 and multi-core scores of 15,872. Those numbers beat the Medion, and neither the Alienware nor the Razer can keep up. That’s an amazing speed, and it means that this laptop can handle any content creation task and any situation where it needs to do more than one thing at once. It gets the job done.