MSI’s Stealth GS77 Overhauled With Powerful Chips, Advanced Cooling

Like each different laptop computer maker, MSI is taking CES 2022 as a possibility to overtake its gaming and creator-focused machines with {powerful} new chips.

The star of MSI’s up to date gaming pocket book lineup is the brand new 17-inch Stealth GS77 (begins at $1,799), which not solely will get assist for Nvidia’s new RTX 3070 Ti and 3080 Ti GPUs, however additionally options MSI’s new Liquid Thermal Pad cooling tech, which makes use of liquid metallic thermal paste to enhance warmth switch away from the laptop computer’s CPU. All informed, when mixed with the arrival of recent Twelfth-gen chips from Intel and assist for DDR5 RAM, MSI is claiming a 30% to 45% improve in CPU efficiency over the earlier mannequin.

However, the GS77’s upgrades aren’t all about velocity. It additionally sports activities a brand new design, with a extra sturdy hinge constructed from zinc alloy, 8% bigger keycaps, a brand new six-speaker sound system, and a 50% greater touchpad, which MSI says was particularly modified to handle complaints concerning the touchpads on earlier fashions feeling a bit cramped.

The 17-inch GS77 definitely isn’t a small laptop computer, weighing in at round 4.5 kilos and measuring simply 0.81 inches thick, however it stays comparatively transportable whereas nonetheless packing an enormous 99.9 WHr battery (which is as large of a battery as you may put in a laptop computer and nonetheless take it on a aircraft). Oh, and for individuals who don’t essentially need to draw everybody’s consideration, the GS77 Stealth has even gotten a extra subdued “Core Black” paint job to assist the system mix in at work, although its keyboard nonetheless comes with full per-key RGB lighting once you need to showcase a bit.

Then there are the brand new GE76 (beginning at $1,659) and GE66 Raider laptops ($2,249). MSI is preserving the flashy RGB lightbar from earlier fashions whereas including a brand new line of Twelfth-gen Intel CPUs, which alongside MSI’s new OverBoost mode assist the laptops pull down as much as 220 watts of efficiency.

And if you happen to desire a extra reasonably priced gaming laptop computer that may additionally function a very good day by day workhorse, the brand new Vector GP76 ($,1899) and GP66 laptops ($2,249) include Intel Twelfth-gen chips, RTX 30-series GPUs (although not the brand new 3070 Ti or 3080 Ti playing cards), as much as a 240Hz QHD show, and a easy, understated design with a stable collection of ports (2x USB 3.2 Type-A, 1 USB 3.2 gen 2 Type-C, HDMI 2.1, mini DisplayPort, and extra).

Rounding out MSI’s new laptops is a particular version collaboration with Ubisoft, the Crosshair 15 Rainbow Six Extraction version laptop computer, which includes a distinctive keyboard and lid design to match the most recent Rainbow Six title. MSI has a practice of doing exhibiting off at the least one particular version laptop computer yearly at CES, however the neat factor about Rainbox Six Crosshair 15 is that not like a few of the firm’s different tremendous costly, restricted version gaming notebooks, this one was designed to be a bit extra approachable with beginning a value of $2,000 for a 15.6-inch 165HZ QHD display screen, Core i7-12700H CPU, 16GB of RAM, and an RTX 3070.

For artists and video editors searching for {powerful} content material creation machines, MSI has beefed up its Creator collection laptops with extra {powerful} specs and a brand new design that’s unabashedly attempting to steal a few of the understated premium enchantment from Apple’s MacBook line.

For the Creator Z17 ($3,249), MSI says it has created the world’s first 17-inch laptop computer with assist for stylus enter, whereas its 16:10 show offers a bit of additional vertical display screen actual property for drawing or sketching. But the Creator laptop computer that basically stands out to me is the brand new Creator Z16 ($2,499), which is preserving tempo with MSI’s gaming laptops because of assist for as much as a Twelfth-gen Intel Core i9 CPU, Nvidia’s new RTX 3080 Ti GPU, and DDR5 RAM, which suggests non-gamers don’t should sacrifice something on the subject of efficiency. And whereas it doesn’t have one in all MSI’s new liquid metallic cooling pads, the Creator Z16 will include vapor chamber cooling to assist present elevated cooling and airflow for optimum efficiency.

MSI can also be giving its MSI Center software program some love by together with two new efficiency modes. MSI says its new Smart Auto function was designed to extra clever alter your laptop’s efficiency so that you don’t must manually alter when switching between numerous workloads. The new Ambient Silent AI mode screens your environment to match the laptop computer’s fan velocity with the extent of ambient noise, so the laptop computer can eke out a little bit bit of additional efficiency with out turning right into a distraction, no matter if you happen to’re in a library or a espresso store.

All of MSI’s new laptops will probably be obtainable for preorder on Jan. 25, earlier than transport out someday in February.