This is a great deal for a raw performance focused powerhouse as it has very little battery life due to Intel and a small 60wh battery, so don't buy it if you plan on running it on battery power. This laptop strangly has very poor ports, having no USB C port. The display is a standard 144hz panel
If these aren't issues for you this laptop has unparalleled horsepower at this pricepoint right now and is built well
there is usb-c, but it is not thunderbolt
My advice: don't buy MSI. They'll stop supporting their old hardware about 6 months after releasing the replacement model. DAMHIK.
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09-23-2021 at 01:10 AM.
This is a great deal for a raw performance focused powerhouse as it has very little battery life due to Intel and a small 60wh battery, so don't buy it if you plan on running it on battery power. This laptop strangly has very poor ports, having no USB C port. The display is a standard 144hz panel
If these aren't issues for you this laptop has unparalleled horsepower at this pricepoint right now and is built well
This is a great deal for a raw performance focused powerhouse as it has very little battery life due to Intel and a small 60wh battery, so don't buy it if you plan on running it on battery power. This laptop strangly has very poor ports, having no USB C port. The display is a standard 144hz panel
If these aren't issues for you this laptop has unparalleled horsepower at this pricepoint right now and is built well
I bought a recent GP66 and agree with everything you said here. Except mine does have a USB C port.... Could be a variation in the models or could be worth verifying this one actually doesn't have the port.
I bought a recent GP66 and agree with everything you said here. Except mine does have a USB C port.... Could be a variation in the models or could be worth verifying this one actually doesn't have the port.
It looks like the Intel Gen 10 versions of the GP66 had USB C while the Gen 11 version (like this one) swapped that out for a mini-DisplayPort
My understanding from looking around at talk of this model is that the Costco version is a slightly downgraded version of the GP66 with a 144Hz 1080p screen instead of either 165Hz 1440p or 240Hz 1080p on other versions.
The thing that most makes me hesitate on this deal is that I can't figure out if any of the internals are different, for example the regular GP66 has a second empty M2 slot, and I'm curious if that is different here. I'm also wondering if the TDP on the GPU could possibly be different than the regular models I've seen reviews for. I can't find any details or even a place to download documentation or drivers for the Costco model on the MSI site.
*edit* I take back that last bit, I swear when I looked last week on the MSI site it made you select a full model number to download drivers and 11UG-290 was not listed, now it seems to only want the first part "11UG"
Which is better? I bought ge76 may return rebuy, I dont need the number pad on the side, I just want for stationary gaming. its 200 dollars difference. so 200 more I lose screen size, but gain 32% cpu across all their testing.
1299 GE76 17 inch i7-11800h, 3060
or
1499 GP66 15 inch i7-11800h, 3070
It looks like the Intel Gen 10 versions of the GP66 had USB C while the Gen 11 version (like this one) swapped that out for a mini-DisplayPort
My understanding from looking around at talk of this model is that the Costco version is a slightly downgraded version of the GP66 with a 144Hz 1080p screen instead of either 165Hz 1440p or 240Hz 1080p on other versions.
The thing that most makes me hesitate on this deal is that I can't figure out if any of the internals are different, for example the regular GP66 has a second empty M2 slot, and I'm curious if that is different here. I'm also wondering if the TDP on the GPU could possibly be different than the regular models I've seen reviews for. I can't find any details or even a place to download documentation or drivers for the Costco model on the MSI site.
*edit* I take back that last bit, I swear when I looked last week on the MSI site it made you select a full model number to download drivers and 11UG-290 was not listed, now it seems to only want the first part "11UG"
2 nvme slots. 1 pcie 4 1 pcie 3
I called msi and asked, as I bought pcie 4 drive for my current laptop, I will be switching over
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If these aren't issues for you this laptop has unparalleled horsepower at this pricepoint right now and is built well
If these aren't issues for you this laptop has unparalleled horsepower at this pricepoint right now and is built well
I bought a recent GP66 and agree with everything you said here. Except mine does have a USB C port.... Could be a variation in the models or could be worth verifying this one actually doesn't have the port.
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My understanding from looking around at talk of this model is that the Costco version is a slightly downgraded version of the GP66 with a 144Hz 1080p screen instead of either 165Hz 1440p or 240Hz 1080p on other versions.
The thing that most makes me hesitate on this deal is that I can't figure out if any of the internals are different, for example the regular GP66 has a second empty M2 slot, and I'm curious if that is different here. I'm also wondering if the TDP on the GPU could possibly be different than the regular models I've seen reviews for. I can't find any details or even a place to download documentation or drivers for the Costco model on the MSI site.
*edit* I take back that last bit, I swear when I looked last week on the MSI site it made you select a full model number to download drivers and 11UG-290 was not listed, now it seems to only want the first part "11UG"
Also, how's cooling for this laptop?
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Also, how's cooling for this laptop?
It's pretty close to a 3060 in terms of fps.
1299 GE76 17 inch i7-11800h, 3060
or
1499 GP66 15 inch i7-11800h, 3070
according to notebookcheck
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU → 100% n=13
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU → 132% n=13
Average Benchmarks NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU → 140% n=13
My understanding from looking around at talk of this model is that the Costco version is a slightly downgraded version of the GP66 with a 144Hz 1080p screen instead of either 165Hz 1440p or 240Hz 1080p on other versions.
The thing that most makes me hesitate on this deal is that I can't figure out if any of the internals are different, for example the regular GP66 has a second empty M2 slot, and I'm curious if that is different here. I'm also wondering if the TDP on the GPU could possibly be different than the regular models I've seen reviews for. I can't find any details or even a place to download documentation or drivers for the Costco model on the MSI site.
*edit* I take back that last bit, I swear when I looked last week on the MSI site it made you select a full model number to download drivers and 11UG-290 was not listed, now it seems to only want the first part "11UG"
I called msi and asked, as I bought pcie 4 drive for my current laptop, I will be switching over
the costco isnt listed. but hers the stuff
https://us.msi.com/Laptop/GP66-Le...cification