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MSI’s new laptops among the first to feature PCIe 5 SSDs
Among the new laptops that several manufacturers unveiled at CES 2023 this week are a few from MSI that introduce PCIe 5.0 SSDs to notebooks. The company has several models, but only the top-end variants support the cutting-edge storage standard. These include the new flagship Titan GT77 HX and two…
MSI’s going all in this Black Friday—up to 35% off their gaming laptops and more
Cometh the month, cometh the deals. It’s Black Friday season, and whereas that used to conjure images of long lines and aggressive trolley-loading, thanks to the ecommerce gods Cyber Week is now a rather more sedate, convenient affair.
MSI’s seizing the day—in fact, the whole week, running November 21st-30th—and slashing prices of several of its laptop lines by up to 35%.
These are the biggest discounts on MSI’s official store all year, which means the best time to buy that new gaming laptop you’ve been umming and ahhing over for the past few months—hang on, let me just check my calculations here… carry the 1, square root of Pi… right now.
Prices have been creeping up everywhere in life for the last few months, it feels like. Well now’s our chance to fight back against that. To rage against the machine. By, er, buying one. Gaming laptops start at a pretty affordable £599, and that gets you a spec including 11th/12th gen Intel CPUs and RTX30 series GPUs. Ray traced gorgeousness is back on the menu, boys.
MSI’s gaming laptop ranges are broken down into Katana GF, Crosshair, Vector GP and Stealth GS series. Here’s what those lines of delineation mean when you’re shopping for a new portable gaming command centre.
Katana GF series models offer an accessible entry point for gaming. They’re quick enough to make use of the 144Hz panels onboard though, so high frame rates aren’t a problem.
Going up a notch in price and performance, Crosshair series laptops retain the core gaming features from pricier models higher up the ladder without sending prices into the upper echelons. The Cooler Boost 5 thermal solutions on Crosshair models are designed to keep performance levels super high even when your GPU’s working hard. Check out the limited Crosshair 15 Rainbow Six Extraction edition, if you’re into saving the world from alien goo with your mates.
Next up, the Vector GP series laptops are high-performance gaming beasts with a secret weapon. Not only can they absolutely shred any graphically demanding game you throw their way, they can also handle complex engineering tasks. These models allow the option of switching between discrete and MSHybrid/Nvidia Optimus graphics modes, and the cooling’s so substantial you can push their overclocking pretty far too. i9 CPUs and RTX 3080s are available in this range.
And then there’s the Stealth GS models. This is where top-end gaming performance is met by super sleek, slimline design. These laptops feature the world’s thinnest fan blades (smaller than 0.1mm to keep the componentry chilled) so even though you might be running Cyberpunk maxed out, your laptop won’t give the game away by wheezing away like a commercial aircraft just to handle the job.
If you’ve got productivity in mind more than sick reflections and ludicrously high frame rates, it’s worth digging into the daily use ranges. Starting at £449, you’ll get 12th gen Intel CPUs in this range.
Check out the Summit Evo, Prestige Evo, and Modern series if you’re looking for a work machine that can also sling a few frames at the latest PC games.
Check out MSI’s official store for all the latest deals on gaming laptops during the Black Friday discount period.
MSI’s RX 6650 XT graphics card is down to £300 with two free games
MSI’s RX 6650 XT is a capable graphics card for 1440p gaming, and it’s down from £380 to £299.99 at Overclockers after a healthy discount.
It also comes with AMD’s Raise the Game Bundle, which includes copies of two upcoming games: Dead Island 2 and The Callisto Protocol (confusingly titled ‘The Callisto Project’ by a potentially short-sighted Overclockers staffer). This is a pretty solid deal for three hundred of your Great British Pounds, especially as GTX 16-series cards were selling for this much recently and offer far worse performance.
Get MSI’s 360mm AiO CPU cooler for £70
Right now a combination of a Box discount and an Ebay voucher code are making two MSI AiO liquid CPU coolers extremely cheap. The 360mm CoreLiquid 360R is down to £60 when you use code AUG15, while the CoreLiquid 280R is down to £52 using the same one. This is a massive reduction from their original prices and a frankly unbeatable deal for a liquid cooler with decent fans, RGB lighting and good thermal performance.