Amazon.com: Customer reviews: MSI GS65 Stealth-006 15.6" 144Hz Ultra Thin and Light Gaming Laptop, Intel Core i7-8750H, NVIDIA RTX 2060, 16GB DDR4, 512GB Nvme SSD, Win10

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018

Style: GTX 1070| 32GB| 1TB| Win 10 ProVerified Purchase

I REALLY LOVE the aesthetics of this machine. It's just so classy and great to look at.

Pros:
-Great Keyboard, easily my favorite that I've ever used. I also love the lighting on it.
-SO MUCH CUSTOMISATION, Love that you can customise the key colors, screen colors, and so on
-Very nice display, looks sharper than my old Acer V Nitro though both have the 1080P screen
-Best trackpad I've ever used, rarely have I felt necessary to hunt down my mouse like I've always had to in the past.

Cons:
-SPEAKERS, jesus, they should be embarrassed. They're terrible. Out of the box they were very quiet at full blast, and then I putzed around in the settings and somehow got them to get louder, but they're terrible. They're tinny and hollow sounding.
-Ports, they're good, but no SD card slot, only one USB type C but that's it. Internally they make up for it; 2 M.2 slots and 2 Ram slots.
-Personally not a RAID fan. It's too volatile.
-A LOT OF PRE-INSTALLED SOFTWARE. I get some are necessary like the STEEL SERIES and gaming centric MSI apps. The MS Store apps aren't, nor the Norton Antivirus trial. There are a couple of dozens of that stuff.

Conclusion:

Super happy with it, going to start using it to do 3d printing and drawing. Glad I went with the 32GB RAM option with the dual NVME 512GB drives installed in RAID. This seems like the sort of laptop that would be a pain to upgrade yourself given how compact and loaded it is.

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jkAddison

Best value gaming laptop

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2019

Style: RTX 2080 |240hz|i7-9750H|32GB|1TB NVMe SSDVerified Purchase

I'm writing a review comparing this to the equivalent Razer Blade with the 2080MQ. I purchased both with the intention of keeping one of them.

Both were $3000 and included the latest I7 9750H, NVidia 2080MQ graphics, and a 240Hz screen. For the same price though, the MSI includes 32GB of ram while the Razer includes 16GB, and the MSI includes 1TB of storage while the Razer has 500GB.

While I agree with others in that the Razer has a better build quality with a Macbook Pro like aluminum chassis, the MSI still has a very nice build quality. Externally, the MSI has a plastic or composite case, but still feels very solid. It's not creaky, and the material that MSI uses shows finger prints much less than the aluminum case of the Razer. Also, the plastic case of the MSI is MUCH less hot to the touch than the Razer and more comfortable to actually use in your lap since it transmits less heat to your lap. In addition, the MSI has more cooling vents in the case so it seems to cool better than the Razer. Lastly, the MSI is about 1/2 pound lighter than the Razer.

The screen on both are comparable, and are probably made at the same factory, although I think the Razer's screen is factory color calibrated, and not sure the MSI is. Both are bright and with 240hz refresh, have very little blur during fast movement. I DO WISH that they implemented G-Sync like Asus laptops do, but unfortunately, neither MSI or Razer do. The ONLY ding I have about the MSI screen is that it has one single stuck white pixel when viewing a black screen. It's very small and hard to spot, but is slightly annoying. I thought about returning it and trying for another, but who knows if I would get something worse (it's tiny and almost looks like a piece of dust, but isn't).

I don't like the keyboards of either laptop. It's not the typing pressure or the feel, but the layout. On both keyboards I end up hitting the wrong keys when trying to use the arrows or other keys on the right hand side of the keyboard. Why can't they just use the Lenovo layout?????

The touch-pad on both work great and are glass smooth and accurate. Both are Windows precision, and use Windows settings to configure. The MSI touch-pad is larger horizontally, but both work fine.

I did performance testing on the processor, memory, graphics, and storage. I used Crystal Diskmark for SSD testing and both came out very close to each other. I hesitate to publish the performance numbers because both companies use different models of SSDs depending on the pricing they get when they are building them - meaning if you buy today, you might not get the same SSD that I got in either the Razer or the MSI. I do though like that the MSI includes TWO spaces for NVME drives while the Razer has only one, so you can get twice the storage on the MSI (or performance if you do RAID 0) - a big plus for the MSI.

Performance of the CPU and graphics was testing using the Unigine benchmarks (heaven, valley, and superposition). I also used 3DMark PortRoyal to test ray-tracing performance. I ran two runs of each benchmark, and both came out very similar, although the MSI came out about 1-2% ahead of the Razer, probably because it cools slightly better and throttles less (the MSI has more cooling vents in the case). I did not under-volt either.

I'm a software developer and upgraded the Windows version to PRO on the MSI - and boy was that a mistake. It's a dual purpose laptop, to be used for coding and gaming. The reason I upgrade to Win10 Pro was so that I could run hyper-V. Unfortunately, that kills gaming performance by approximately 50% frame-rate wise, so when I game, I have to disable hyper-v using BCDEDIT from the command prompt (then reboot).

I ended up keeping the MSI and returning the Razer for the following reasons:

- The MSI is lighter and carrying it around in a backpack you can feel the difference
- The MSI includes more memory and storage for the same price
- MSI has an option for a second NVME SSD (RAID 0 performance)

My only hesitation on choosing the MSI was that MSI support is pretty poorly rated, but I have called them twice to ask questions (one about chargers), and they did fine. I just worry if I have a real problem.

If you have any questions on something I didn't cover, please don't hesitate to ask.

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Ahmed Rauf

Good laptop overall

Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019

Style: RTX 2070 |240hz|i7-9750H|32GB|1TB NVMe SSDVerified Purchase

Honestly a pretty good laptop. The fan can get a little hot sometimes and so can the surface of the laptop but other than that so major complaints. Thermals have been pretty decent and I can play any AAA game at medium to high settings too.

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Nathan powell

Sleek and Powerful!

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2019

Style: GTX 1070| 32GB| 1TB| Win 10 ProVerified Purchase

This machine is quite unbelievable for a laptop. The build quality if fantastic. The RGG keyboard is beautiful and feels fantastic. The trackpad is responsive and accurate, maybe the best I've ever used. The 1070+144hz display just kills every game I've thrown at it on Ultra settings. Desktop and work application performance is also fantastic. Everything is done NOW. My only cons are the power port location, right in the middle on the right bezzle, and the speakers leave a little to be desired for a laptop of this quality and cost. Overall, I'd still give it 10/10 though and recommend to anyone who wants a serious piece of hardware in their laptop bag.

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Still works great after 1 year!!!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2020

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1 year Update:

Still working great!! I haven't noticed any changes in performance!!
The only things I don't like are how big the track pad is (I tend to hit it with my palm), and that there's no number pad, but those aren't deal-breakers for me.

Overall I love this laptop and I get complimented on it at school all the time (I go to an IT-focused college). It is lightweight and powerful!!

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I am loving this computer! I bought it 2 months ago and have been using it mainly for online schooling and browsing. I am able to run multiple VMs on this computer without too much problem. The fan can be a bit loud at times (even when I'm just browsing the web) but it isn't too bad. The battery life is definitely not as good as expected. I get around 3 hours of schoolwork before I have to charge; but I am usually near my charger anyway so I leave it plugged in while I'm using it. Make sure to reinstall windows when you first get it, there is a lot of bloatware on it. Overall I love the usability and lightweightness.

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Cole

Sleek and Thin

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2019

Style: RTX 2070 |240hz|i7-9750H|32GB|1TB NVMe SSDVerified Purchase

After receiving and using this laptop for several days, I can say that I have absolutely no complaints. I got it and it has no dead pixels. It looks absolutely sexy, not the typical, obnoxious red and black that screams "GAMING!" but instead looks thin and discrete as the name "stealth" would imply. Performance-wise, this laptop absolutely destroys any game that comes at it, but you have to ensure that you are plugged in so that you can get the best performance possible. I have used several other laptops that are competitors to this one, and this one still takes the cake over the Razerblade, with very similar results performance wise, but asthetically much better. I am happy I bought this laptop over similar ones to it and am looking forward to continuing to use it.

EDIT: I redact everything good I said about this computer, because the networking card is completely trash. This problem is extremely common and there isn’t a single thing to do about it unless you return the computer and buy something else. It just simply decides to work less and less and then eventually, the device decides that it is forever malfunctioned, no matter how many times you reinstall drivers, update bios, or full restore the computer. Killer networking is going to be what kills MSi. I failed three classes my first semester thanks in part to this pos because I couldn’t study on it nor consistently have it work to do online projects. If you need something that is reliable or could even be argued as reliable, DO NOT BUY THIS COMPUTER!

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Anthony J Kroh

Great laptop for gaming.

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2019

Style: RTX 2070 |240hz|i7-9750H|32GB|1TB NVMe SSDVerified Purchase

I play one computer game, and up until this purchase, I was playing it on a Mac with the lowest possible graphics settings because the hardware couldn't run it with anything better (2018 MBP, 6-core i7 processor, 4 GB dedicated graphics card, 32GB DDR4 memory). Everyone has always said that gaming is generally better on PCs, so I decided to do some research for a PC laptop that is capable of running my game at higher settings. I decided on the MSI GS65 Stealth-432, and I can confidently say that I'm very happy with my decision.

I'm able to play my game at high settings on a 38" ultra-wide display, and it's like playing a completely different game - I'm honestly blown away. It has made me consider looking into other game titles to get a taste of everything I've been missing.

I'm still not a fan of Windows, but I'm really only running Steam and Discord, so it's tolerable, and I can enable and use the Linux sub-system if I'd like to do anything more with it.

All-in-all, this was a solid buying choice out of the box, and it has some expandability if I need to make some upgrades down the road.

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reji john

Internal speakers stopped working after only 2 weeks

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2020

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It's honestly such a shame. This laptop seems really nice. It's a good size, relatively light, has a nice design. It runs games extremely well, even with very high graphics settings. The specs are really good. Keyboard has a nice clicky sound (personally I like it, I know some don't) and is responsive and fast. Battery life without a charger is normal for a gaming laptop, nothing surprising. When it's plugged in, it never goes under 95%. The trackpad has a click that's a bit too loud for me, but it's honestly fine. The fans were very loud, but that is also normal for gaming laptops like this one.

However I'm still going to have to return this laptop. The internal speakers are not working properly. It plays any audio extremely loud with terrible static, crackling, and popping. Even at the lowest possible volumes, the loudness is unbearable. I didn't do anything out of the ordinary, especially nothing related to the audio system or drivers, but it just broke. I'm not sure if it's a software or hardware problem, but it's still a problem. A quick google search shows that I am far from the first to encounter this problem. I've tried to follow the user-made instructions on how to roll back the drivers, but nothing seemed to work. Plugging in headphones would work just fine, but the speakers were still terrible. Such a shame, I really wanted to like this laptop. But this sort of problem, especially at this price, is unacceptable.

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RUN FROM THIS LAPTOP! $2500.00 DOWN THE DRAIN!

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2019

Style: RTX 2070 |240hz|i7-9750H|32GB|1TB NVMe SSDVerified Purchase

First off so you all no I don't like writing reviews do to my grammar has a lot to be desired so this will be short and to the point.

I would have gone ASUS or Gigabyte for my new laptop but I waited a 15" with no 10key on the keyboard MSI had the specs I wanted and fit my needs the best.

#1 love the power handles video editing/rendering well rolls out 4/8k videos like butter... and thats why I bought it. now for the ugly!

2 days before by final return date was up I thought I would call MSI support and try to get dual display working and at at 144hz found out that I need to use a high quality displyport cable, not HDMI or DVI they do not support 144hz & up. ok that went well.(should note I do have dual displays only when 1 is plunged into the laptop display port and 1 plugged into the usb-c/thunderbolt port) 3 days later the cables came in im pumped. hooked them up to my docking station nope not working only 1 display works. hummm.

Lets do some testing grab my wifes Dell plugged the Thunderbolt 3 docking station into her laptop and everything works fine ok call MSI again this time I got the run around hung upon 4 times in one day... Now the laptop is overheating and nothing is being done by MSI spent 4 hrs again today with them now all I want is my dang money back, no one should have to waste this much time trying to get there laptops working properly or replaced I have thunderbolt 3 issues overheating issues let alone not able to run dual monitors at all or it crashes

Thank God I have my wife's Dell to use if this doesn't get customer service moving then the next stop will be my Attorney's office.

MODEL # GS65 Stealth 9SF-432US

Update: Amazon steps up to the plate and accept the laptop back in return after 10 days past it's final return date

Amazon rocks

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Velexia

A fabulous investment when seeking portable power

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2018

Style: GTX 1070| 32GB| 1TB| Win 10 ProVerified PurchaseEarly Reviewer Rewards(What's this?)

Very happy with this purchase! I took 6 months researching for my needs both gaming and as a graphic designer that travels. This has the power to handle any task or game I throw at it without a hitch. The only problem I've had is when it is hooked to my workstation monitor/keyboard/mouse, sometimes when I open games, the game uses a generic graphics card instead of the nvidia which causes all kinds of lag issues. The solution is to open the laptop and use the laptop keyboard/touch pad to open the game. Then it uses the correct video card and I can again close the laptop.

This laptop can get hot in a hurry if you keep it plugged in and running, so definitely invest in a cooling accessory that you can set it on top of to protect your lap and the vital hardware. With my cooling accessory plugged into the laptop and running games I can get roughly 4 hours of battery life. It would probably be longer with the cooler.

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