 Another day, another gaming notebook. Or if MSI is to be believed, another weapon to save mankind. I mean, really MSI, really wow. For you the viewer, I'm not recommending that you go watch that video, although it is kind of hard to look away from, because if you're that into cringe, you guys should probably be dropping a like on this video to let us know if you're excited for the conclusion of Scrapyard Wars 2, which is coming this weekend, with probably more cringe than the MSI promotional video. Kingston KC 310 series business grade SSDs feature firmware-based power loss protection, massive capacities and performance to spare. In fact, we're using them for our new production server. Click right here to learn more about them. Let's start, as always, with specs, because a gaming laptop could have as many RGB keyboards as it wants, but if it can't back it up with raw horsepower, I'm not going to recommend you buy it. At its heart, the GT72 2QE features an Intel Core i7-5700HQ, yes! That is a Broadwell quad-core mobile CPU, which means about a 10% improvement over the last generation equivalent 4720HQ, 16 gigs of DDR3L memory, and a GTX 980M graphics card, the best mobile GPU available, and only a stone's throw from a desktop GTX 970 in terms of performance. So lots of raw horsepower. Under the hood looks good too, with two massive cooling fans, a metric butt-ton of heat pipes, and expendability galore with four M.2 SSD slots, a 2.5-inch drive slot, and four DIMM slots, available for upgrade to throw in up to 4 8-gig sticks for a total of 32 gigs. I actually did try my 16-gig DDR3 modules in the bottom slots, and while the BIOS and Windows picked up 48 gigs of RAM, which was sick, unfortunately Windows only reported 32 as usable, so who knows if that support will come in the future. Can you imagine 64 gigs of RAM? Anyway, withdrawing to the outside, the industrial design screams MSI with a gamery black and red color scheme. The screen backing is an aggressively sculpted brushed aluminum with an illuminated MSI G Gaming Series logo. The bottom has tall rubber feet to allow ample airflow through the red grills to the bottom components. Oh, and there's a subwoofered port down there as well, a feature I usually ignore, but this laptop, perhaps actually more thanks to its large internal volume and that massive speaker on the inside, actually has a surprisingly potent sound system. On the back for I.O., we find Power-in for the large included power brick, Gigabit Ethernet powered by a Killer E2200 chipset to go along with the Killer 1525 AC wireless inside, two mini DisplayPort 1.2 ports and an HDMI 1.4A port for easy display expansion. On the right side, a Blu-ray burner, something I was surprised was missing from the last 17-inch gaming notebook I checked out and yet something I didn't touch throughout my entire time with this one, as well as two USB 3 ports. Then on the left, we've got an SD card reader, audio ports, and four more USB 3 ports, but you might have noticed. Linus, why didn't you specifically say USB 3.0? You always do that. Well, they're not. Two of them are USB 3.1 suckas. That means 10 Gigabit max rated speeds on supported devices and you can check out this video by clicking the little I in the top right corner to learn the full dates of USB 3.1. Cracking open the device will start with that huge speaker with the Dynaudio branding. Sounds surprisingly good. And then we'll follow up with one of MSI's characteristically solid SteelSeries co-branded keyboards. The layout is standard in all the good ways, including a full number pad and properly laid out arrow keys. Take notes, Razer! And in spite of its size, MSI has done a good job of keeping overall flex to a minimum. But if I was to complain about something and I'm pretty sure that's my job, the keys have nice long travels, but are a little stiff at the top. Oh, and the function arrows. Function up and down are page up and down. Function left and right are home and end. Everyone needs to quit screwing this up, especially when it's the one damn thing about an otherwise fully programmable macro compatible keyboard that can't be changed. The touch pad is above average. It tracks well, it's responsive, it's a nice size, and it has the usual gesture support, but this is gonna be a love it or hate it thing. It's seamlessly integrated into the plastic wrist rest surface that's separate from the rest of the metal bottom under the keyboard. Personally, I like it, cause it'll keep crumbs out of the edges of my track pad, but it does make it harder to find the edge without looking down and you can accidentally run out of track pad unexpectedly. But that's not even my biggest complaint about the track pad, and there's always one, isn't there? It's again a stiffness related one. The clicky buttons, which I like normally, are quite difficult to press down, and I'd like to see that dialed back a bit. Now, let's move on to the screen. Like the Sager NP-9773 that we checked out recently, the 1080 IPS display in the GT72 features Nvidia G-Sync. So unlike on the desktop, Notebook G-Sync works by having the GPU communicate directly with the panel. And instead of Nvidia creating a scalar, they're just selecting G-Sync certified panels according to good behavior with variable refresh, solid color reproduction, and pixel responsiveness. And there's a couple of new features, although they're not limited to Notebooks. G-Sync now allows the behavior beyond the max panel refresh rate to be modified to either V-Sync or no V-Sync, just like AMD's FreeSync, and it allows games to be run in windowed full screen mode now, very cool. But while variable refresh is undeniably a better gaming experience than the alternative, it's not all rosy. G-Sync doesn't work with Optimus right now. So if you want to use the onboard graphics to save battery, you'll actually need to press this button, which will prompt you to reboot to switch, bummer. The good news is that Maxwell's idle power consumption is much better than previous mobile graphics cards, so it's not as much of a kick in the teeth as it would be. So let's talk temps and performance now then. I put it up against the NP-9773 and the Razer Blade 14 2015 to see how it fared. In Ida64 CPU test, the GT-72 walked away with it. This is going to be due to the fact that it's literally over twice the thickness of the only other one of these Notebooks also using a mobile CPU, and the last generation one at that. GPU is a bit of a tighter race. Here we have to look not only at temperatures of our GTX 980 or 970M graphics cores, but also at GPU boost turbo speeds. Again, MSI is looking really good here with solid boost clock speeds in Crysis 3. So then what about the gaming experience? Here MSI delivers almost the whole package. The GTX 980M rocks, and the new generation Broadwell CPU bridges the gap nicely between last gen mobile flagships and a full board desktop CPU. But for some reason, while I really appreciate the astonishing viewing angles of this particular IPS panel and the non oversaturated default color profile, MSI opted for a 60 Hertz panel while competitors like Sega and Asus are coming to the table with 75 Hertz panels that from my experience can sometimes even overclock to a hundred Hertz, making for a great mobile gaming experience. My GT72 managed a mere 70 Hertz once overclocked, which isn't to say that if we look past the hilariously stupid promotional video, this isn't a butt kicker of a laptop. I just have some reservations. At this kind of price, I expect no compromises. And while I accept that I'm trading thin and light for cool and quiet in this case, I mean, it's gaming right now. 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