 Playing alone sucks. I had so much fun at Whaleland that I'm ready to pack up and go to another LAN party, but no compromises this time. I want all the performance and I want all my games. This is not gonna work. If only there was some portable device that you could use to replace your desktop, but without compromising on performance. Maybe it could be battery powered with a keyboard. It's a laptop. When MSI heard that we wanted to go all out on a mobile battle station, they stepped up to sponsor this video with the Titan GT77, the most powerful laptop they offer. And we're gonna be upgrading it and extending it to the limit to make it a true desktop replacement. Let's start with what it comes with. Every GT77 includes a 128 gigabyte flash drive, an M99 RGB gaming mouse, and a little lucky the dragon key chain, all of which I'm going to, oh my God, find at some point here. Because this machine is designed for people who want the most overkill possible performance, there's actually not a ton of choice when it comes to configurations. Our model, the 12UHS has a 3080 Ti, more on that in a bit, but there's also a 3070 Ti available if that's too fast for you. And in either case, you can choose between an i9-12900HX, that's what we've got, or an i7-12800HX, each with the same 8P core, 8E core configuration. We've got all of this linked down below. Now, being in North America, our laptop is equipped with a 120 Hertz 4K IPS display. That's what they claimed DCI-P3 coverage of 100%. Like 100? Like, wow. All right. And if you're in other markets, there's also a 1080P 360 Hertz option in case you're looking for every possible competitive advantage for gaming. Good gravy. And the best part is that if anyone tries to steal it, not only will they get tired trying to carry it down the street, but you can throw this power brick at them, likely stopping in their tracks. I think I trust it farther than I could throw it. 330 watts, nice reversible power connector, but before we plug it in, why don't we crack it open and see what it needs that 330 watts for. 11 screws later, it's time to reveal a feature that is exclusive to laptops of this caliber, assuming I can actually get the bloody thing open. Come on, baby. Come on, you can do it. Okay, this is sick. Check this out. Not one, not two, but four memory slots, so you can load up a whopping 128 gigs of DDR5 memory in this thing, and four, count them, one, two, three, four SSD slots. That wild or what? A quick word, by the way, about these N.2 slots. The two up here are wired directly to the CPU, while these two go through the chipset. MSI helpfully silkscreens this info onto the motherboard, or you can just follow the traces if you're a big nerd. For now though, three of them are painfully empty, and that just won't do for our overkill laptop build here. Is this thing on? Hmm. Well, maybe we should power it off before I poke around too much more with the screwdriver. The fastest way to fix this problem is to unplug the battery, which I mean, we should be doing when we're working on it anyway. Step one is to double our included memory, from 64 gigs to 128 gigs with these two 64 gig kits from Crucial. It should be noted that having four sticks like this does put additional strain on our integrated memory controller, so we're gonna be limited to 3,600 megatransfer per second speeds. Holy crap. Are we putting 32 terabytes of storage in this thing? 32 terabytes of storage in a laptop. The number's gotten so big, it sounds small again. Cause like it can't possibly be that. You know what I mean? Like if I say, yeah, there's 32 terabytes of storage in this laptop, you go, oh wow, it's a Chromebook probably then. You're thinking gigabytes. No, no, no, no. Order of magnitude higher. We actually missed something. The keen item among you might've noticed that this M.2 slot is a little bit special. It actually supports PCIe Gen 5. Unfortunately, Gen 5 SSDs haven't quite hit the market yet, but this laptop will be ready when they do. Probably this fall when all the next gen CPUs arrive. Until then, we're gonna make do with our Gen 4 eight terabyte drive. And each one of these is four times our original storage, which means we're at 16x our original storage. That's actually more in storage than the cost of the laptop to start with. And before you ask, yes, we're gonna be raiding them. We did raid zero, right? Oh yeah. That's really stupid. Like really stupid. One drive fails, whole thing gone. But realistically, we're just loading it up with games anyway, right? We're almost ready to do that, but first there's a few things that we wanna take a look at inside. This is a 99.99 watt hour battery. That is literally as large as the law will permit if you wanna take your laptop on a plane with you. Not that I would necessarily. Yeah, you could travel with it. Portable workstation, sure. We've got a pair of two watt speakers as well as a WiFi 6E capable killer WiFi card, which is that, right there. To be clear, killer no longer means bad. It's actually, it's an Intel chip set, so cool. Of course, the pièce de la résistance is the 3080 Ti. This is a full fledged non-max-Q design with 16 gigs of GDDR6 that will suck back up to 175 watts to hit a maximum boost speed of 1640 megahertz. And with an integrated MUX switch, you can be sure that you're connected to the 3080 Ti directly rather than routed through the iGPU, which means you're gonna be getting the most frames possible out of your laptop. That 175 watts is part of the 250 watts total that MSI's OverBoost provides to distribute between the CPU and the GPU via Nvidia Dynamic Boost 2.0. What it essentially means is that in GPU limited games where you need every single one of those 175 watts to feed the 3080 Ti, you'll still have 75 watts left over for the 12900HX to hit a maximum turbo of five gigahertz. On the flip side, in CPU limited games or other applications, either of the 16 core CPUs available for this laptop can draw up to 150 watts, leaving just 80 remaining for the GPU. Unfortunately, no, you can't have 175 and 150 because it's just not possible to do in this form factor. And like you'd be overwhelming your brick. Remember, you gotta have all kinds of other power available for connected peripherals and all that good stuff too, right? Now keeping this mess cool are four fans. That's right, one, two, three, four fans in a laptop, which are all fed through the ventilation holes in the bottom panel. There are also a total of six exhaust vents. Although in fairness, this back one kind of counts as one gigantic exhaust. More impressive than the number of fans though is the number of heat pipes. Let's count them, shall we? One, this one goes from GPU to just this heat sink. Two, this one goes almost in a complete square and is also dedicated to the GPU, feeding both this radiator and this one with heat. Now, because we can share our power, that means we also need to share our cooling. So this one runs over to this and this heat sink in case our GPU is getting extra power and needs extra cooling. There's a little heat pipe right here that seems to be just for memory. It looks like memory. Then we have number five. This one goes from our CPU all the way over to these radiators right here, one, two. Six, this one is almost a full circle again and goes one, two, covers three radiators and goes over the CPU. Seven, these two rads and the CPU. Took a little while to power on thanks to our bizarro RAID zero boot configuration. Like over a minute. Okay, this is an interesting strategy to accommodate the powerful internal components. MSI has a bit of a caboose on the back of the machine and I guess rather than try and stealthify it, they're like business in the front, party in the back. Let's go full RGB, RGB butt. Wear it loud and proud, right? Just own it, just own it. Yeah, I'm a big laptop. Yeah. Anyone else noticing a problem right now? I'm sure it's gonna ramp up to be very clear, but yeah, there it goes. At idle, it is damn near silent. Okay, this is hilarious. We have a grand total of 372 Steam games installed on this machine. And the best part, we're not even close to filling it up. This is kinda nutty. We're not getting the full benefit of our 120 Hertz display on ultra nightmare at 4K, but that's unreasonable. But what we are seeing is anywhere from 80 to 110 frames per second. I would not have thought this level of performance possible for a laptop even just a few years ago. This is a cool little feature. If the FPS indicator isn't enough for you to know, you can check if the integrated GPU or the dedicated GPU is running simply by looking at the color of the little LED on the power button. So it's red right now, which means our dedicated graphics card is running. Nice. But actually, tabbing out of the game won't be enough to change that. If I exit the game, does it take a little while to decide to switch over to the IGPU? So, oh, there we go. Yep, it's white now. Oh, and it's red again. Oh, cause when you're plugged in, obviously you might as well just use the 3080 Ti. Cool. For a game at the other end of the spectrum, I fired up CSGO. And the idea here is that I wanna see what kind of power our CPU is drawing now compared to our GPU. So we're running at some of the neighborhood of 250, 300 frames per second. Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. And yeah, our GPU is only in the neighborhood of 120, 130 Watts. And our CPU actually is only sitting at about 60, 65. Again, it's surprisingly quiet in game, but we're barely stressing the cooling system. To be clear, I can hear it just fine. But compared to the way that some gaming laptops, especially like the high powered reasonably thin ones will just sound like they're gonna take off from the table, it's downright reasonable. You know, for little tiny speakers, honestly, not bad. That makes one. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 97 damage, gosh darn it. Yes, I wish to exit. Something we haven't talked about yet is the IO on this thing put some desktops to shame. Each of these USB type A's runs at 20 gigabit per second. We've got one, two, three of those, a UHS-1 SD card slot, headset jack, and then back around to the other side, that is not one, but two Thunderbolt 4 ports, as well as a mini display port and an HDMI out. Oh yeah, two and a half gig land too. And more cool stuff, MSI has gone with a low profile Cherry MX keyboard powered by SteelSeries, so you can use SteelSeries software in order to configure everything from per key macros to per key RGB lighting. We also have a large glass touch pad, fingerprint sensor, and 720P IR webcam, and the infrared is really important because that means you can use Windows Hello and you never have to type a password or a PIN again. Though, if you do prefer a PIN, it's actually got a number pad for you gaming accountants out there. At 23 millimeters thick and 1.8 pounds lighter, the GT77 looks like an obvious win compared to the GT76 that it replaces. You guys can check it out at the link in the video description. Man, you can pack a lot of performance in a gaming laptop these days. Assuming that it's got a large butt. I mean, if you look at it, it's all basically cooling, right? Like they've taken the normal laptop form factor here, 16 by nine, they've gone, yep, all cooling. Well, that would have been extra thickness, but it's actually probably quite a bit more efficient to do it this way, which would explain why it's so quiet.