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Hi folks, hope everyone had a good xmas, just spotted this deal, not exactly ideal given how soon CES2023 is, but given the lack of any good 3070/ti lappy deals in recent times, this is a good deal if you want a capable machine that can also do colour accurate work with the beautiful 100% DCI-P3 (macbook level) OLED screen while also a killer in games with best in class response times (timestamped).
Compared to earlier GP66 12th gen skus, this also gets updated with DDR5 for a small gain. Only caveat with the GP66 is that for an intel rig it doesnt come with thunderbolt, there is Type C w/ DP, mini DP, HDMI 2.1, RJ45 and 3 USB A ports so apart from TB its well rounded at least. Oh and a combination of Intel cpu & 65wh battery means the battery is a UPS more than anything in real practice, but again its a gaming laptop so hopefully not a big deal to the most of you guys.
The GP66 have 150w 3070ti and as far as performance goes, it edges out the Legion 5 Pro with MSI's gpu overboost tech, which is simply a way to bypass the dynamic boost wattage (25w for both machines) so it can attain near 150w at all times ignoring cpu load, something the Legion 5 Pro can't. Albeit there is now a hack that can bypass dynamic boost 2.0 for most machines, I will just take the liberty of posting it here in case any one want to try it:
Make sure your Game Ready driver is updated to 527.56
Open up device manager and under 'Software Devices' disable 'NVIDIA Platform Controllers and Framework
Open up MSI Afterburner, the power limit slider should be unlocked, just drag it as far as you can, ignore whatever value it is and you are done, if your machine can handle it you should get your peak (so base + dynamic boost wattage) gpu wattage at all times no matter what power draw the cpu is at
Last note, same price for this machine avalible at Mwave, MSY, Umart if you are avalible for free C&C, otherwise Computer Alliance is (as far as I can see) the only store offering free delivery. If you have eBay Plus and can use the PLUSDEC1 for 5% off (potentially more with gift cards), you can get it for $2,526.05 delivered off Wireless1 eBay.
Full specs for those that dont want to click into another link:
OS:
- Windows 11 Home
Colour:
- Core Black
CPU:
- Intel® Core™ i7-12700H Processor
Chipset:
- Integrated SoC
Memory (Sales SKU):
- DDR5-4800, 16GB (8GB*2)
Memory (Max):
- DDR5-4800, 2 Slots, up to 64GB
Display:
- 15.6" OLED QHD 240Hz 100% DCI-P3
GPU:
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti Laptop GPU
VRAM GDDR6 6GB
[VRAM is actually 8gb but MSI dont have anyone putting in half an effort in these descriptions]
SSD Capacity (Sales SKU):
- 1TB*1 NVMe SSD
SSD Capacity (Max):
- 2 x NVMe M.2 SSD by PCIe Gen4 x4
Webcam:
- HD type (30fps@720p)
Communication:
Gigabit Ethernet (up to 2.5GbE)
Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX211, Bluetooth v5.2
Audio:
The Duo Wave speakers design by Dynaudio system (2x 2W speakers)
1 x Audio combo jack
Nahimic 3 Audio Enhancer
Hi-Res Audio ready
[I feel the need to remind folks that despite what manufacturers claim all speakers on gaming laptops suck regardless of these gimmicks and even the best gaming laptop speakers (on the rog zephyrus lineups) fell so short of a mac/xps its not even funny, so yeah get a headset because built in audio is crap.]
Keyboard:
- Per-Key RGB gaming keyboard by SteelSeries
I/O ports:
1 x Type-C USB 3.2 gen 2 w/ DP
3 x Type-A USB 3.2 gen1
1x RJ45
1* HDMI 2.1(8K @60Hz / 4K @ 120Hz)
1 x Mini-DisplayPort
[Fun thing notice the the '*' instead of 'x' on the HDMI part and how there is no space in front of the 'x' on the RJ45 line as well? Thats not a typo by me its a typo MSI made, kinda funny just wanted to point it out.]
Battery:
- 4 Cell, Li-Polymer, 65Whr
AC adapter:
- 280W
Dimension:
- 358 x 267 x 23.4 mm
Weight:
- 2.38 kg
Waiting for CES2023.