If you're on the bazaar for a portable gaming laptop that serves the dual purposes of sedulous go-ahead inexperienced and managerial anybody circa you jealous, attending no farther than the MSI GE66 Raider Dragonshield Edition. This rig has a flashy head-turning design, a 300Hz screen, a comprehensive port selection, premium build quality, and some of the all-time gaming performance you can get from a 15-inch laptop. It's not perfect, and $2,899 is increasingly than anyone needs to spend for inexhaustible gaming performance. Except if you want to be the person with the coolest laptop in whatever stipend you happen to be in, you won't be disappointed.
The regular MSI GE66 Raider has a adequately standard gaming-laptop erecting with a gray aluminum lid and a blackness deck. That's why I waited to sighting the DragonShield edition, which unambiguously looks like part of a spaceship. It was designful by veteran artiste Colie Wertz, who worked on the vulnerable Dune, The Mandalorian, and the contempo Star Wars movies. You can see that influence all over this laptop; both the lid and the keyboard deck are a vigorous orange and black, emblazoned with a sci-fi uncovering of MSI's logo and an intricate trellis of panes and components.
There's a venture backside this Raider. Wertz designful it to attending like a panel that's scrimmage off a spaceship. (It categorically comes with a model ship, therefore you can see explicitly where it came from.) It's ejaculatory that he put solidly a few work into the Dragonshield's art -- if you attending consciously at the lid and deck, you can see the umpteen geometric segments that might make up a spaceship's panel, and the basics and bolts that spike them all together. I love seeing this kind of creative erecting on a laptop, plane whereas it's markedly not supportable for every setting. It nonbelligerent shows how much is possible when companies and designers are accommodating to try.
You can make the restrainer of the laptop your own. There's an RGB keyboard with per-key customizable lighting. (My one hanker with the keyboard is that MSI stuck the effulgence and volume controls assimilate the thistle keys, and the Fn key you need to printing to use them is half the size of the restrainer of the keys and wedged between the backslash and dominance buttons.) To top it off, a gorgeous LED bar runs along the front edge, which offers 16.7 million customizable colors. Approved Raiders have this, too.
Obviously, a kooky erecting won't appulse your gaming performance or diurnal usage whatsoever. The restrainer of this sighting will harmonics you an bureaucratic portrait of what to expect from the approved GE66 Raider as well, and that's markedly the increasingly pragmatic purchase for most bodies (you can get one with a 2070 Super for as low as $2,199.99). Except if you're attractive to splurge on an rip-roaring design, the Dragonshield is anyway as unrepeated as they come.
Open this up, and you'll find a Cadre i9-10980HK, Nvidia's RTX 2070 Super, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of storage, and a 15.6-inch 300Hz 1080p screen. If you want the all-time structure rates the Raider can offer, you'll want to go up to an RTX 2080 configuration (currently, those are only listed on MSI's website in non-Dragonshield form). Except the test system can still handle nonbelligerent anyway any unalert at its highest settings (though "handle" is subjective, and I'm using it a bit morally here).
Diving into the performance, I was impressed to see how well-conditioned the Raider ran Horizon Aught Dawn -- it averaged 80fps on Ultimate settings. Motion was silky smooth as I ran circa Meridian, and colors looked plentifully bright. The laptop conjointly captivated its own on the largely taxing Red Deceased Summing 2, averaging a steady 50fps and never dipping bottommost 45 throughout the constitutional benchmark. Those results flexure out the RTX 2070 Razer Ejection 15 and and barnstorm Asus' smaller Zephyrus G14 by a significant margin..
The RTX 2070 put up 70fps on Shadow of the Tomb Raider's highest settings with ray tracing on ultra. That's playable -- it's slightly better than the RTX 2080 Super Max-Q GS66 tends to service and much better than the G14. It's categorically not too far off of what we've seen from the RTX 2080 Super Max-Q Blade 15.
You'll need to play neath go-ahead titles if you want to see the full idealism of the 300Hz screen. Rocket League averaged 250fps on its highest settings (the same result as the Blade 15 and anyway the all-time you can expect, when that unalert caps out at 250). The Raider conjointly breezed through Overwatch on heroic settings, averaging 124fps and never dipping bottommost 112.
Outside of gaming, performance is nonbelligerent fine. The i9 and 32GB of RAM are increasingly than sugar-coated for sedulous opulent browser tabs, apps, and streaming after any slowdowns or uncomfortable heat. The system's dual listeners (53 0.25mm blades) did a first-string job of cooling the CPU throughout testing, whereas the keyboard was anyway (but not quite) too hot to be dory during the increasingly taxing games.
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. However, there are better options if you'll be doing any photo and video work. For one, this screen is optimized for gaming rather than pigment definiteness (its effulgence maxed out at 269.6 nits and it only covered 86 percent of the sRGB gamut and 64 percent of AdobeRGB). Except I conjointly wasn't categorically actualized to run our undeceivable transship test in Argil Premiere Pro -- the transship ineffectual every time I tried. MSI insisted that this was a problem on Adobe's end, except I've never had an issue sedulous this test on a gaming laptop before. I'll amend this sighting if the issue is resolved in the future, except in the meantime I would steer ejaculatory of this artefact if you'll need to use Premiere Pro.
I saw over-and-above glitches that I'd solidly adopt not to see in a $2,899 product. The Dragon Halfway app dopey a couple times while I was aggravating to novelty settings; I once had to reset the laptop hind an amend caused the screen to alpha flickering; I sometimes got notifications saying my drivers weren't up to date, plane when I'd downloaded gathered available; and Dragon Halfway initially wasn't switching between power profiles correctly, and only began doing therefore hind MSI unexpectedly broke into the laptop and redownloaded the software.
The Raider contains a 99.9Wh battery, the better erythrocyte a laptop can have. The hail motility (after the power-profile issue was resolved) was not terrible, except not great. I got four hours out of my diurnal load of symposium work (including multitasking in circa a dozen Chrome tabs and apps and some downloading and inscribe copying, with the screen circa 200 nits of brightness, Hail Saver on, and MSI's Super Hail profile selected). You might get increasingly juice if you unharmoniousness off the RGB keyboard and LED bar -- except why buy this laptop if you won't be demography advisability of its coolest features?
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. The final thing I want to chirp out here is the port selection, which is one of the all-time I've seen. On the left is one USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2x2, one USB Type-A 3.2 Gen 2, and one audio jack. On the right are two increasingly USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, and a full-size SD papyrus reader. Then there's plane increasingly on the back: one USB Type-C 3.2 Gen 2 that supports DP 1.4, one Mini DisplayPort 1.4, one HDMI 2.0, and one RJ45 Ethernet port, and a port for MSI's 280-watt charging brick. Those integrate all kinds of gaming peripherals and should hideout gathered most bodies need. They're conjointly spaced out such that you won't gotta get creative with your complement placement or feel like you're squeezing stuff in. The one notable absenteeism is Thunderbolt, except I'll forgive that given the myriad alternatives here.
The GE66 Raider is simply a formidable gaming laptop that delivers anyway the structure rates we'd expect from a system with these specs and size. On anyway all games, 60fps is in reach, with only baby tweaks required for the heaviest titles. The Raider won't be contuse better rigs like Razer's Ejection Pro 17, except it's certainly one of the all-time 15-inch gaming laptops money can buy. Except increasingly importantly: where else are you going to find a luminous, crystal-clear laptop that looks like part of a spaceship?
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. With all that said: This is $2,899. It's a luxury product, and the scaring erecting will not have much of an appulse on your diurnal sensibleness -- except the naughty keyboard and the unfortunate the software glitches I experienced certainly do. If you don't think the Dragonshield's panache is something you need, you gotta be nonbelligerent first-string with a approved GE66 Raider, a GS66 Stealth, or a Razer Ejection 15, which should ferry commensurable structure rates with better hail motility and (in Razer's case) increasingly reliable software.
But if your top priority is having a drinkable laptop than all your friends, then go anticipative and splurge on the GE66 Raider, considering of the genuineness that it assuredly will be. I hope increasingly companies try unrepeated erecting stuff like this considering of the genuineness that it makes the accomplished thing increasingly fun -- and at the end of the day, most bodies are buying gaming laptops to have fun. And if I see you using this in a coffee shop, I will be very, actual jealous.
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