 Oh my god, what are you doing? The worst sponsored video I've ever done. Yeah, it's. I've never been quite sure if I'm a true gamer. Thankfully by the end of this video sponsored by MSI, I'll know for sure. They sent over not one, not two, but three sick gaming laptops. And I will apparently be completing a series of challenges to determine whether I am in fact a true gamer. I have literally no idea what's coming and I didn't even know we were doing challenges. I thought this was a simple laptop showcase for MSI. Do you wanna pick the first one out of the hat? I would like to pick my first challenge out of the hat. Yes, there's only one in here. Challenge number one, nice setup. Thumbs up, but I'm bad at art. To make this laptop usable, you must uninstall Norton and install Chrome. You have 69 seconds. Note there has been no balancing done, so good luck. Timer starts when you log into Windows. Okay. Hold on a second. What? Our first machine is the GE76 Dragon Tiamat. And this thing is flipping insane. It's got a Core i9-11980HK, so that is an overclockable skew, 64 gigs of DDR4, 3200 megahertz memory, an RTX 3080 mobile at 165 watts, a 99.9 watt hour battery, and naturally a 360 hertz IPS type display. And it costs a whopping $4,100. Okay, I'm in Windows. Man, I love high refresh rate displays. It's freaking sick. Wait, what? Hold on. You're in Windows? Are you recording? I mean, yeah. Okay, install Chrome. Go. Okay, 98.com. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. Got that two and a half gig ethernet plugged in. I have no programs. What was it, Norton? It won't actually uninstall if you just do it from uninstall. You need to use the Norton remove tool. What? You need to download a tool to remove Norton? All right, 30 seconds left. You got this, you got this. Norton removal tool. Download the, wait, what? The remove and reinstall tool. You have to, remove and re, wait, remove and reinstall? No, remove. Wait, there's no Norton on here. That's why it wasn't coming up. You win. Wait, you didn't sell Chrome. Yeah. Good job, MSI. Yeah, exactly. This thing has freaking everything. Challenge number two, sweaty gamer. Using the GE76, basically the fastest laptop money can buy, play CS GO and blame your deaths on the hardware every single time. Also, you must use low settings and four by three aspect ratio. Ew. Do I play on the touch pad or do I get a mouse? There's mice right there. Oh, which one should I, you know what, I'll use the wireless one. Oh my God, it's a modular mouse. See you later, buddy. GM 30, also a solid mouse. I feel very panicked. It's hard for me, okay? The Norton tool managed to restart the computer even though Norton wasn't a thing. Are you playing online with like free for all? Oh, you want me to play online? Yeah, play online. You're a true gamer. All right. What do true gamers play? Mirage. Mirage? Oh, why is it CS GO? I'm so bad at this game. No, Linus, the hardware is bad at this game. I don't even know where it's coming from. I'm flashed. Leg kill, leg kill. Oh, I got one. Oh, damn it. I don't know if I can complete this challenge, Alex. This is a great gaming experience. Like objectively. Damn it. Way to go, monitor. Oh boy, I picked up a gun while I was trying to fight. Just walk around the corner, please. Oh, there he is. Who goes around the corner when someone's just taking pot shots at it like that? Oh, whoops, I'm chuffed. Bad, terrible, terrible bad computer. Bang, bang, bang. Oh, come on. Come on. Way to go. Leg killed. It's a bad GPU, not enough watts. I can't believe that guy walked around the corner for me like that. What's challenge number three? The Todd Howard experience. You have 64 gigs of RAM, but it still shouldn't be too hard to crash Skyrim. Mods and dev console are allowed. Okay. I have never played Skyrim. What? All I know is- Narrow in the knee. In Foo's Roda, I'm sorry, that's it. That was an era of gaming during which I was founding a business and having children. How do I install a mod? Okay, it's set to ultra high quality and it is installing 47 mods. Did you preset up mods? No, why is it installing 47 mods? This is going to be your first Skyrim crash. Hello? Hello? Skyrim crash. Hello? Oh, all right. Oh, that didn't take long. It's a lot quieter in the not helicopter takeoff mode. Challenge 3.69, video pickups so we get paid. What the is this video? Cool. MSI wasn't super happy that two of the challenges with the GE76 showed it failing in old games. So we're going to play Doom Eternal with ray tracing to show just how well this laptop runs and make sure that we get paid for our sponsored video. But can it run Doom Eternal with ray tracing? I think we all know the answer is yes. Cause we are at a whopping 180, 190 frames per second. It's redonkulous. That's what the ray tracing? Yeah. Wow. I mean, it's at 1080, right? Like this thing's a beast. Also it's only $3,400. We got the price wrong. It's only 3,400 bucks. All right. Yeah. That's pretty expensive. Yeah, it's a lot. Boom. See you later, demon. Oh no. I'm gonna... I'm gonna... Blah, blah, blah. Hi. So to answer your question, yes, it runs Doom Eternal with ray tracing anywhere from about 130 to 180 FPS. It's butter smooth. Not even with the LSS. Okay. What's next? Just open it. Challenge number four, an actual tech tip. The MSI sword is a good budget laptop, but with a couple of simple mods, it could be better. You must upgrade to 16 gigs of RAM and add liquid metal. Is there RAM in here by any chance? Okay. All right. Whoa. That is a lot of wide open ventilation on the bottom, hey? Yeah. That's pretty sweet. That's MSI. They're into their mesh bottoms. I can just... Maybe I can get this one. I love it. Okay. Inside here, we find a Core i7-11800H, a 3050 Ti, eight gigs of RAM, hence the upgrade to 16 gigs, AX WiFi, as well as 512 gigs of Nmini storage, and a 53 watt hour battery. It comes in at $1,100. So let's go ahead, get our memory upgrade going. That memory is $89. So it puts us at 1200 after we have completed our upgrade. And you want liquid metal on it, huh? Really? I honestly don't know if it'll make a difference. It might be power limited, but we'll see. Oh God. How much do I have to... Do I have to pull the whole heat pipe assembly out of here? Yeah, probably. Oh shoot. Which ones did these go on? Okay. There you go. Okay. You want liquid metal? I'll give you liquid metal. Was this designed to make me stressed out, this video? Did MSI like, okay this concept at all? No, they just told us to showcase three laptops. Oh, okay. Cool. It's liquid metal time. Some of us have the steady hand of the snake. Oh, flip some over there. Dang it. Oh no. Oh, I ruined this mouse pad. No, we don't have many of the LTT mouse pads. Oh crap. Oh, I'm getting liquid metal on everything. Never rush a liquid metal application. Oh my God. What are you doing? I'm getting it all out. Now we're going to suck the liquid metal back up. That was not my finest work. We made sure this worked before I started, eh? It's pre-tested and everything. Okay. All right. Here we go. There's liquid metal all over my hands and I touched the white laptop. The number one thing to mention is the refined white chassis. I don't think MSI is ever going to work with us again. I got to wash my hands. What's my next challenge? Well, I just need to see if it worked. What do you mean if it worked? It did work. Cinebench score. You need to beat 4668. Okay. Yeah, it's it's thermals rottling. Yeah. It was going faster than that before. We made it way worse with our shoddy. Well, I guess I failed that challenge. Challenge 4.20. From the factory, it was good. Can't believe you broke it. Colton, who had to send this to MSI. Yeah, that is probably a little awkward. Oh no, you broke the sword 15. Fortunately, Alex benchmarked it before. So we can show the rainbow six siege and shadow the Tomb Raider benchmarks so people know how fast it should have been. Yes. Those are the numbers from before. We can't rerun those numbers because it is yes, in fact broken now. Yeah, but play the game. Okay. Here it goes. Yep. It's supposed to be like this, but like, wow, 20% faster or so. That's Tray's unfortunate. 175 FPS. Not bad. The fact that it's still over like around 150 FPS when it's broken and it's a lot worse. It was good though. It was. It was solid. Next up, we've got the MSI Pulse GL66. It's got a very similar bottom that you can see we've actually got an extra heat pipe. And that's because we've also got some extra hardware. This has a Core i7 11800H, 16 gigs of RAM, an RTX 3070 this time around, 512 gigs of storage, a 15.6 inch 144 Hertz display and a 53 watt hour battery for 1499. And challenge number five is apparently to hop on the hype train. Battlefield 2042 looks sick. So you want to get good for launch. Using the MSI Pulse GL66, you must not do that. Battlefield five is installed. You cannot play it. Instead you will play Battlefield four. The challenge is to find a good Battlefield four server. Seriously, good luck. I'm going to turn down the fan again. But cooler boost. But I'm trying to make a video here. You can unleash the complete cooling power. Okay. You know what you want cooler boost on? That's pretty cool. Apparently this design is laser etched on the metal backing of the display. Feels good. Yeah. Great server browser. I mean, there are servers with some pretty full looking games going. They're all either completely full or completely empty. Player count spoofing is a thing in this game. I'm apparently 13th in queue for the server though, Alex. Oh damn. Yeah. Wow. Did you actually just get in? Yeah. I did this like a couple of weeks ago and it was terrible. I don't know how to play this game because it also took place during the era of gaming I did not participate in, but I'm just going to find someone and kill whoever kills them. Yeah. Just go assault or whatever it is. No, we're playing gun game. And you don't even have to worry about your loadout. That's perfect. Oh, wow. I just killed someone. That was kind of cool. Oh, and I'm dead. Oh wow. Enough of this then. Let's play something a little more chill. Where's the gold Xbox controller? Oh, thank you. What a tremendous choice of controller, Alex. Man, this game looks good. And the auto optimization is just like, yep. You know, you will like that smooth 70 or so FPS game like this. That's, that's a lot. Yeah, that's fine. And like you want it cranked? Sure. Yeah, no problem. I mean, I can't drive with a damn, but that's a whole separate thing. See you later sheep. Ah, I'm good. This is definitely how the physics would work in the real world. Now it's time for our final challenge with the pulse GL66. MSI wants you to play battlefield five instead. Play battlefield five to prove the GL66 pulse will be fine when battlefield 2042 comes out. Thanks. We now can get paid. All right, battlefield five time. Here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Did I get one? I'm pretty sure I hit him a couple of times though. It's running great. Wow. Good driving dog. Oh Lordy. Wee. Okay. This guy's really bad. What is he doing? What is happening? We're sitting ducks here. So what I'm in charge of the horn. I'm out of here. He's run faster idiot. And I think we're done here. So that's it. MSI has got you covered pretty much whatever your price point is for a gaming laptop these days. Whether you want something that's more on the value side, more on the extreme side, or more on the bang for the buck side, like our last one, the pulse GL66. Thank you MSI for sponsoring this video. Thank you guys for watching. And if you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out the lucky unboxing. Check out my unboxing of the giant dragon that I got from MSI. They didn't really sponsor it, but they did send me a dragon.