When it comes to laptops, in recent years, there are actually very polarized ones. It is not about extremely thin and ineffective writing laptops, or extremely heavy and powerful gaming laptops. Due to the limitations of innate hardware, it is necessary to integrate these two points. Very difficult, the only thing that can be done is to strike a delicate balance between lightness and efficiency. However, all of this is no longer a dream after seeing MSI's upcoming gaming laptop MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF. MSI really helps you to perfectly integrate the two.

17.7mm thin and light body design weighing only 1.8KG

When you first see the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF, you will be attracted by its light and detailed appearance. As a gaming laptop, the overall weight is only 1.8KG. Compared with the heavy brick-like computers in the past, when the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF is held in the hand, the weight will not make people think "you are holding it. A gaming laptop".

Stylish and elegant, low-key luxury design

In addition to the light and neat appearance of the B3SN-3112, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF is not as flashy as the general gaming laptop, but has a low-key and luxurious design. Like the back cover is a matte metal design, the overall appearance looks restrained, but it also shows its noble texture, with the shiny gold LOGO, revealing a touch of luxury style.

A wisp of golden silk thread helps the entire laptop to outline the overall neat appearance, and at the same time, it will not make the laptop look tacky, but bring out a fashionable and elegant element, which makes people admire from the heart.” handsome!"

Gold and black design, in fact, except for the top cover of the screen, you can also see it in other places, such as the power button located in the center above the keyboard. The horn may seem unobtrusive.

The hinges and heat dissipation holes of the screen are also designed in black and gold. A sense of restrained luxury, which occasionally appeared through the golden hook, could not be concealed in the slightest.

14-inch ultra-narrow bezel and 15.6-inch large field of view to enjoy

Just looking at the appearance of the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF, the neat and restrained design will make people suspect that it is actually a thin and light business laptop, but after opening the back cover, the core of the gaming laptop is the perfect backpack. Like the screen part, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF does not sacrifice hardware because of its lightness. In the most important part of the gaming notebook, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF is equipped with a 1080P, 144HZ ultra-narrow bezel screen. The screen-to-body ratio is as high as 82%, and the screen frame is only 4.9mm, so that it is only equipped with a 15.6-inch ultra-large screen in the case of only a 14-inch notebook size.

The part of the keyboard that everyone pays attention to, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF adopts the STEELSERIES single-key RGB full-color backlit gaming keyboard, which is a big visual bonus!

Through the built-in DRAGON CENTER 2.0 and the corresponding game, you can know the ammunition, HP, and weapon strength in the game in real time, allowing you to quickly and comprehensively control the game situation. To some extent, it has reached the "practical" value. .

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF also has a very high level in terms of sound performance. It is equipped with a Dynaudio sound system, which can provide Hi-Res high-resolution sound for professional headphones, and supports output/input sampling frequency up to 24bit/192kHz, allowing you to master the sound Details are not lost.

After all, it is a gaming laptop, and the excellent performance can be imagined, but how to solve the problem of "heat dissipation" under high performance operation?

On the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF, in addition to the cooling holes on the left and right sides and the back, the notebook has built-in cooling technology COOLER BOOST TRINITY specially designed for ultra-thin notebooks, three sets of fans, and ultra-thin 0.2mm cooling blades. Can effectively increase the airflow by 30%. At the same time, there are independent cooling modules designed for GPU and CPU, with 4 copper cooling pipes, so that the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF can quickly dissipate heat and maintain the best performance of the notebook when the game power is running.

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On the right side of the laptop, there are a set of USB 3.0, USB Type-C sockets, a set of Mini-DisplayPort and an HDMI socket that supports 4K60Hz output.

At the same time, it should be mentioned that the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF integrates a USB 3.1 transmission interface and is equipped with Thunderbolt 3 high-speed transmission technology. In addition to supporting 4K@60Hz screen signal output, it can connect up to 6+1 Thunderbolt external devices at the same time, and provide 5V/3A current.

Introducing MSI Dragon Center

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF has built-in MSI's exclusive Dragon Center, which can be said to be the central control center of the notebook. Through this software, you can quickly grasp various information and detailed adjustments of computer hardware, such as system monitoring. In the page, you can easily view the load of CPU, GPU, memory, and the usage of hard disk.

On the page of system environment settings, you can set the DPI of the touchpad, choose to switch the window button to the FN button, whether to activate the window button, and adjust the fan speed, etc. You can even directly store the mode you set. into a quick customization option for quick switching.

Remember the STEELSERIES single-key RGB full-color backlit gaming keyboard we mentioned earlier on the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF, and through Dragon Center 2.0, you can adjust the keyboard's backlight for games? Now, as long as there are supported games, such as the most popular PUBG, Overwatch, and League of Legends, as long as you own these games, you can create different backlight modes for each game through Dragon Center.

Would you like to see the information and status of your hardware at all times? But is it troublesome to keep opening Dragon Center? It doesn't matter, through Dragon Center, you can open the desktop floating widget for hardware monitoring. Usually, you can shrink it and place it in a corner of the desktop. When you want to observe the information, you can click it to see simple related information. .

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF is built with the 8th generation Intel® Core™ i7-8750H processor, which is a quad-core and eight-thread architecture with 9MB L3 cache memory. The OpenGL performance of CINEBENCH R15 is 104.10 FPS, and the CPU multi-threading performance It is 1096 points. As for the X264 FHD BenchMark video conversion performance, it has a performance of 34.2FPS.

Built-in 32GB DDR4-2400MHz memory specification, using dual-channel architecture. In the AIDA 64 memory and cache performance test, the read speed of the main memory is 34257 MB/s, and the latency is 65.6ns. The read/write and copy performance of L3 cache memory are 268.55 / 191.07 / 239.65 GB/s respectively.

The MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF system disk uses a 512GB PCIe 3.0 X4 SSD solid state drive. The sequential read and write performance in CrystalDiskMark is 2482 / 1949 MB/s, respectively, and in the TxBench sequential Max QD32 performance test, there are 2022.350 / 1983.074 MB/s Read and write performance.

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF is equipped with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 discrete graphics card. In the three test modes of 3DMark Fire Strike, Fire Strike Extreme and Fire Strike Ultra, this laptop achieved performance of 12772 / 6513 / 3367 points respectively. Only the hardware specification architecture of 4K gaming desktops is ranked in the ranking.

As for the Time Spy of 3DMark DirectX 12 and the Time Spy Extreme test mode of 4K resolution, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF scored 4780 points and 2182 points respectively, ranking in the high-end models. In the VRMark Orange Room performance test mode, this laptop achieved a performance score of 7775 points, and it is absolutely no problem to run VR games.

"Unigine Heaven Benchmark" graphics performance test, set the screen resolution to Full HD mode, set the picture quality to Ultra, and turn on 8xAA anti-aliasing mode, the measured performance score is 2508 points, the performance performance is 99.6 FPS. In the "Unigine Superposition Benchmark" performance test, using the built-in 1080P EXTREME mode, the performance score was 2796 points, and the average performance was 20.92 FPS.

In the computer comprehensive performance test section, through the three test modes of PCMark 8, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF achieved performance scores of 4446 / 5224 / 5524 respectively, which are all in the position of high-end models in the performance rating.

Summary and experience

As mentioned at the beginning, the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF is a thin and light laptop that combines performance and portability. It packs a 15.6-inch screen into a 14-inch body space and weighs only 1.8kg. A thin and light laptop is not an exaggeration at all. However, in addition to the 8th generation Intel® Core processor and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070 graphics card, it also has DDR4 32GB memory. In fact, looking at such specifications, mainstream games on the market can not only work, but also It can almost perform at full performance at 1080P resolution. With such a design and hardware matching, it really gives a most beautiful answer.