MSI GS63VR Stealth Pro 4K-228 15.6" 4K Display Thin and Light Gaming Laptop Core i7-7700HQ GTX 1060 16GB 512GB + 2TB VR Ready

I've been in the market for a portable workstation that could also be used for school and for some gaming. A couple of my requirements were:15.6 or less screen sizeWeigh no more than 4lbs1080P Screen (Non-Touch)Quad Core CPUDecent GPU (Preferred NVidia for CUDA)8GB RAMUnder $2000.It was a race between this laptop, Razer Blade 14’’, Auros X3, GS63VR 7RE,Gigabyte 14’, and Asus GL502. All of them had at LEAST a 6700HQ/7700HQ and GTX 1060.Obviously, this laptop won. The big things that swayed me in this direction were weight (3.75lbs), price ($1500 with the 7th gen i7), Thunderbolt 3.0, and form factor (including cooling and noise level). The GS43VR is slightly larger than the Blade, but is lighter and has better cooling which leads to being quieter. The Auros has about the same specs but costs WAYYY more. The GS63VR 7RE is has the same specs as the GS43 but is larger, weighs more but has better cooling. The Gigabyte was larger, heavier, costs more. The Asus costs the same, has a 120HZ GSync screen, better cooling, BUT NO THUNDERBOLT!This machine has it all, and then some. Here’s the system specs along with my own tweaks:System Settings:7700HQ - Stock clocks. undervolted to -114mV (Using Throttlestop)16GB DDR4 RAM1TB Samsung 960 Evo NVME (Upgraded from 128GB Stock drive)2TB Samsung 850 Evo (Upgraded from 1TB 7200RPM HDD)GTX 1060 - Overclocked +125 Core / +400 Mem.I removed practically ALL bloatware (All MSI software, Antivirus, etc.) and also updated all drivers before I started testing and using the machine/Mini Review:Build – Looks and feels premium but can be a bit flimsy in some spots. It’s nothing bad though, I'm coming from a Dell XPS 13 (2015) so I'm a bit spoiled.Screen - Nice and bright, even at 10-20% (which is what I use indoors). I used a Color Munki calibration tool vs the MSI settings. Color is incredible and feels very natural with no noticeable saturation or bleed anywhere on the screen.Keyboard - The best keyboard I've used on a laptop. I'm used to mechanical keyboards (Cherry MX Browns) so I'm very happy with the key travel and tactile feel. It only lights up red, but I don’t care honestly. As long as there light, I’m good.Storage Space - With dual drives in M.2 NVME and Sata 3, you have the opportunity for MASSIVE storage space in a laptop. The stock drives are good. The 128GB NVME is fast, booting up Windows 10 in under 12 seconds AFTER typing in my password and booting up Adobe premiere in under 7 seconds. The 2.5 7200RPM is what you'd expect from a mechanical hard drive. I have upgraded the drives to a Samsung 960 Evo 1TB and the 2.5 inch to a Samsung 850 Evo 2TB.Thunderbolt 3.0 – This laptop comes with 4 PCI-E 3.0 lanes and has the ability to use an eGPU via Thunderbolt for gaming. Imagine playing with your friends at a LAN party and then coming home, plugging this into a GTX 1080 and getting a massive graphical improvement for a higher resolution screen! Other laptops that have Thunderbolt may only use 2x PCI-E lanes while this one has 4 PCI-E lanes. Check out this link for more detail info on the performance impact between x2, x4 and x16 lanes.https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080_PCI_Express_Scaling/Performance:Video rendering- My desktop has a 4790k overclocked to 4.6GHz and 295X2/290x in Trifire along with 16GB ram. It took 3 minutes to upscale export a 30 second 1080p video to 4k. This laptop upscaled a 3 minute 1080p video to 4k in under 10 minutes. You do the math. Hint: The laptop wins by a landslide!Gaming and temps:Games Tested - GTAV, Crysis 3, Rise of the Tomb Raider, OverwatchAll games use GeForce Experience optimized settingsFrame limit of 61FPS was used via MSI Afterburner/Riva Tuner. I personally feel no need to go above the monitors refresh rate. It just adds unnecessary heat to the system.All games played at an average of 60FPS (due to the frame cap). I only tested 2 games without the frame cap...Rise of the Tomb Raider - AVG 80FPSOverwatch - Average 150FPSOn Crysis 3, my CPU hit 90c while my GPU hit 83c. Ambient Temp was ~22c. The game just heats up my components like crazy.I think GTAV is a better indicator of actual temps for most games though,Ambient tem was ~22c, CPU hit 81c, GPU at 79c.These temps are a bit biased though because of the frame limiter I put on gaming. If I turned it off, I'm sure temps would be a bit higher.Battery:The battery isn't that bad either. You can't get this laptop with the expectation you're going to be able to keep up with other notebooks of the same size. It's a gaming notebook. That said, battery life IS a big deal to me because I will use machine primarily for media creation (Adobe Premiere) and for general use while on the go, other than gaming.I got ~3 hours with the following30% screen brightness6 open windows in Chrome (1 of those a full 1080P Youtube video playing at full screen)Steam open (downloading a game)Speakers at 20%Bluetooth mouse usedKeyboard at stage 1 brightnessWifi power saver on "Medium Power Savings"ThrottleStop Undervolt settings.General surfing, Youtube (no game downloading, but with the above settings)~5 hoursGaming on battery depends on the title. Crysis 3 was under 1.5 hours LOL.Overall, this is an amazing laptop. There's no way you'll find a 14 inch notebook with this much power, that weighs less than 4lbs and gets decent battery life (after tweaks). It really is a great buy and No other manufacturer is even on par! Great job MSI!

This review is after 2 months running it. I use it as a graphic workstation... no games. And ill keep it simple.Good:- I researched a lot (PC and Mac) and for what your getting in this machine, its hard to get exactly this for this amount of money. Sure you can spend less, but it'll probably be 16GB of ram or only a 256 SSD, etc.- For a workstation, I had a checklist, this checked off most boxes. The screen is solid (maybe I got lucky with mine), good colors, great GFX card. It has decreased my render times, I can work in 3D programs. This can't compare to a desktop, but it shouldn't... its a laptop...I need to travel with it.Bad but not deal breakers:- The stickers, I already bought it, why advertise with difficult to remove stickers?- The lack of play/pause (thankfully set up a macro though steelseries app so it was an easy fix)- Power supply, I might be wrong but it feels like it weighs as much as the laptop (more of a compliment to the light laptop)- The function key on the left. It was easy to swap with the windows key in the bios but when I went to swap the physical key I broke the part and had to get a new one... very annoying and probably the worst part of this laptop.- The fan is pretty loud, but its an extremely thin laptop and its a powerful gfx card... of course it's a loud fan, its working hard. I also use laptop coolers underneath (more noise), id rather it be loud and cool than overheated and a pile of garbage.

For filmmakers is amazing. Resolve 14 works without problem editing and rendering 4k files even from Sony XAVC S 100mb files, because of the 6GB of video ram. The size is amazing. I do doc films in other countries and am a one man show. I used to have my main computer at home and a second computer to bring with me on trips. It had to be very small and light because some small airplanes have limited luggage and big computers just don't do it. I could only review footage, nothing else, until I got home since the small laptop had no Nvidia card. This laptop is only a few pounds and is streamlined and small so fits easily in bag, and has Core i7 and Nvidia card. So now I only need one computer, instead of two.First thing I did was do a fresh windows install from a USB disk and let windows find all the drivers. I tried using the Nahamic audio thing but this interfered with the sound card preventing Resolve from loading. So deleted that. I tried the color calibration tool also but found no matter what the setting the color was not as good as without the program so deleted it. However, I did get one blue screen as another reviewer noted. So I wondered why since I had all fresh drivers. But I noticed that windows did not get the newest driver for the Nvidia card. So I downloaded the new Nvidia program and driver. So far so good.I bought this Used-Like New from Amazon Warehouse for less that $1200. I was going to buy a refurb for a little less but I did so research on warranty. Refurbs get 6 months. But mine, I get 2 years. At first I could not register for warranty so had to call MSI. They said someone had already registered it (former Amazon buyer), but they can delete that record if I show my purchase receipt. I did so and registered for the 2 years. Great way to save a few hundred dollars from new price.Couple things I wish were different:White light on keyboard (I am not a gamer so red is silly)USB-C port not coming out where a right handed mouse would be (see picture). I use USB C monitor and the cord sticks into my mouse.A little more protection for screen when closing the unit. I already see the oil from the keys on the monitor so know that they are touching in your bag.Update 9/17/17: This is a great computer but I want to share a few things after a few months of use. First I now use Premiere Pro cc 2017 with a Panasonic GH5 camera and I shot a documentary in 4k 10 bit. These files use a lot of power to process. Scrubbing through footage and editing it uses 90-100% of CPU; whereas Mavic Pro 4k and Sony XAVC codecs uses only 20-40%. But even so, I can edit the GH5 without problem. However, I have discovered a small glitch or perhaps is normal. I am currently in Brazil using 220V of power. The transformer is supposed to convert to 120V. It does so. However, make sure you have full ground. At first I was plugged in using a 2 prong outlet and adapter for 3 prong US. But the computer has a shaking to the entire cover, like micro jolts. Its hard to explain. But what I discovered is this computer needs to be grounded all the time. Do not use a 2 prong outlet with this! So then I found a plug in Brazil with a standard US size 3 prong, yet it is 220. I plugged in to that. The micro jolts disappeared. So I thought would be fine. But when rendering a video the strangest thing happens. Mid way through the computer completely freezes. But it is easy to fix. Simply unplug it and the render continues. However, this is not a good solution obviously. So finally I got a 220-120 power converter with a full US plug 3 prong both in the wall and for the computer to plug in. Finally, now is working 100% with no freezing and no micro shakes. So anyone who wants to use in 220 countries take care. This only happened when using full CPU during render so you might not have problem. But if I were you I would buy a converter with full US plugs. I suppose if your country does not have that style outlet you will have to use some 3 prong insert with ground but make sure it is grounded!

El pedido me llego antes del tiempo indicado lo cual es súper genial y además el producto estaba en perfectas condiciones.