Hey, how's it going guys? This is Dave 2D, and this is a video on the MSI gs63
So this is their thin and light gaming laptop that's equipped with the GTX
1060 but before I begin I have to mention the fact that this video was made possible by
NVIDIA they partnered with me and sent me the laptop for review so first a quick unboxing here when you open it up you get
The laptop itself, the Ac adapter and some paperwork. Aesthetically it's not too different from the gs60 from last year
It's thinner and lighter, but the top surface is still aluminum
The bottom panel is also aluminum
But it has this micro suede type material the idea is that allows you to use the device on your lap
Without a metal panel getting super hot. You can access the internals by removing some screws
But the only thing you can easily swap out is the two and a half inch hard drive
The Ram Slots and the M2
drive bay are upgradable
But they're on the other side of the motherboard you'll need to disassemble it a bit more to get access
The Chassis is a magnesium lithium alloy the exterior paneling though is aluminum
There's a bit of flex on these panels and the same thing goes with the keyboard area but for a laptop this thin at
17.7 millimeters, it's pretty solid the hinge also feels pretty well made with proper tension
The gs63 is packed with ports on the left we have ethernet and sd slot 3 usb 3s and separate audio jacks on the right
we have a uSb 2
Thunderbolt 3 and some display outputs the power button is up near the front and I was actually worried
I would accidentally turn it on or off all the time
But it's never happened not even once so I don't think it's an issue the keyboard has steelseries lighting
They aren't individually lit keys you adjust the lighting in Zones. It's very configurable
There's tons of colors to choose from the keyboard itself feels really nice
It has a 10 key number pad, so it has that leftward shift, but it has good key travel
And it's very nice to type on despite being such a thin chassis the touchpad is less awesome. It's a textured plastic surface
I don't find the tracking to be as smooth as I'd like it to be and the button clicks feel pretty shallow it is a
Gaming laptop though, so you'll probably have a mouse connected
There's a 4k panel option, but the display on this unit is a 1080p IPS panel
It's a matte finish with good viewing Angles contrast and brightness color accuracy out of the box is good
And it can be tuned with the included software there's also no noticeable light bleed on the panel
They did a really good job this year the 1080p webcam up top looks like this
The speakers are not located above the keyboard despite the grill being there. They're actually underneath the laptop
They sound pretty standard for a laptop this thin they get loud
But they have pretty weak bass the drive speeds are also pretty standard
It has a sata stick in the empty slot and a Sata hard drive
But you can upgrade both of them the M2 slot can take a much faster a pcie stick. Okay
let's talk about gaming performance
It uses a skylake 6700 HQ chip and the new pascal based Geforce GTX 1060 chip in
Moderately demanding games like overwatch. I'm comfortably hitting 95 frames per second on epic settings at 1080p
Something a little heavier like doom we're looking at 75 frames per second on Ultra settings at 1080p
I never saw it dip below 60 frames per second once something even more demanding like fallout 4 on Ultra settings
I'm hovering around 60 frames per second something like Gta 5 on ultra settings. We're looking at mid to high 40s
You'll need to lower the graphics to medium high to hit the 50-60 frames per second the bottom line is this if you want
to play games at 1080p
the GTX 1060 is going to give you amazing performance it's going to run at High Frame rates with beautiful visuals
virtual reality also Runs nicely on this laptop pascal runs, VR at three times the speed of the previous generation
so the GTX 1060 handles VR Comfortably I played around with VR fun house and subnautica both of them had a very smooth experience
It's crazy that I'm getting this kind of performance on a laptop this thin and this light
Video edits are all so fast this entire 4K video was edited and rendered on this laptop, and it's actually the fastest laptop
I've used to edit a video
It's faster than 960 M 970 m faster than 980 m this thing pushes a crazy performance
The gs63 has three fans and five heat pipes fan noise on Idle is quiet and even under load
it's not crazy loud
but thermally
It's surprisingly well cooled and comfortable
to use because the micro suede material and the location of the three fans keep the contact areas cool if you want you can use
The MSI software to Crank the fans to Max and the temperatures will be lower
it uses a 180 watt adapter to charge a
65 watt hour battery takes around two hours to charge up from empty and with regular use I'm getting around three and a half-four
Hours of battery life playing games, it's closer to an hour. Ok, recap of the MSI gs63 stealth pro
It starts at around $1600 USD
It's an aluminum build with pretty good build quality it has a bright 1080p screen with good color accuracy it has a great keyboard
but a not-So-great trackpad
Inside the Skylake i7] and the GTX 1060 deliver amazing performance with comfortable temperatures and fan noise
The 16 GB of Ram and the two drives are upgradable
but only the two and a half inch drive is easy to access and then there's a
65 watt hour battery that gets you around three and a half hours of regular use so the MSI GS63
has a lot of good stuff going for it
its a surprisingly powerful laptop for its size mostly because of the GTX 1060, pascal delivers such a big jump in performance from the previous generation
It's kind of crazy
You're getting desktop gaming performance in a laptop never been done before but it's finally here if you want more information about
Pascal or about the GTX lineup check the link in the description below
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