First time poster so please go easy.
Been looking for a cheap gaming laptop with an RTX4060 and came across this on ebay.
MSI Thin A15 B7VF-041AU
Basic Specs:
15.6" FHD 144Hz Display
Ryzen 5 7535H
16GB DDR5 Ram
Nvidia RTX 4060 Mobile
512GB SSD
Great price but I'd recommend that you read some reviews before buying
Which reviews?
Thats why its called 'Thin', particular in quality … not too far away from this year coming up Black Friday sale, I will HODL to see if other better brand 4060 laptops coming down prices closer to $1k too
I have an MSI Stealth laptop and the screen died on me outside of warranty period. In my years of owning many laptops of various brands, I never had one that had a faulty screen except for the MSI laptop.
I saw this deal and came here to say this exact thing. My screen first starting crapping out by having dark horizontal lines appear on the bottom of the screen where the taskbar was. Then, eventually, the screen blacked out completely. Like you, I have had many many laptops of different brands over the years and never had a screen go. I would not buy an MSI again.
The worst thing is that, i got a quote from MSI to change the screen and it cost almost 50% of the price i paid for the laptop. Yup, never again.
HP Laptops (mid - late 2000's) were notorious for this…. everything hunky-dory while in warranty period. 1-3 months after warranty,,,, the screen would die. Glad to see that (MOST) companies have improved in reliability over the years.
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/116316640934, This would likely be cheaper and perform better even though it's a 4050 as it has a higher tdp (45w 4060 vs 95w 4050)
RTX 4060 (45w) vs RTX 4050 (75w) Gaming Test | Acer Nitro V vs MSI GF63 Thin Gaming Benchmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIfu-60hmDQ
Terrible title. The MSI has the 4060.
Personally I'd take skip it as it as it's Intel
For efficiency amd is decently ahead…but for a gaming laptop that's a bit less important. The Intel chip is plenty good.
Probably cautious from all the issues with the 13th/14th gen chips I'd imagine.
@Aildaris: Correct. They say it doesn't affect laptop but I don't trust them after their previous behaviour
@kingmoron: Im fairly sure they recently did admit that it affects some mobile chips too (after denying it initially of course), though I cant remember which ones.
When the lenovo will be cheaper?
I would avoid considering MSI's terrible hinges, likely to break
same with the 4 year old Lenovo ideapad 5 15" :-( mine's borked
(the 2 year old models also seem the same)
so maybe only their Yoga series hinges are ok?
The Good guys laptop sale was better, wonder if they are getting any more stock?
Yep i have msi thin and will never buy another msi they put junk on it
Specs look good, but it's gaudy AF
Roll the dice, I bought one and the graphic card would blank the screen every so often. Spent 8-10 hours with support, rebuilding machine upgrading and downgrading software and drivers. Was a hardware issue but then took ages for them to fix. Wont buy MSI again. Terrible experience.
yep got some issue, contacting support they told me to reintall nvidia driver with the one from 2018 whatt ?? they said because they tested that version only on my machine.
Honestly avoid your getting a very underpowered Rtx 4060 with a low tdp of 45w vs a full powered mobile version. Even an Rtx 3060 laptop with a higher tsp would beat this. This is more like an XPS with its underpowered gpu
45W is awfully low. Any way to mod it?
I don’t think you can as it will be heavily limited with power delivery and motherboard May not even support the load.
What a piece of junk! The other parts of the GPU would chew up 45W alone.
FYI to all buyers with tech knowledge. I read that this laptop's 4060's VBIOS can be flashed to a 75W TGP. Combine that with an undervolt and you're golden.
any link with proof?
$1,155.44 with eBay Plus (code SEPAUTO12)
Edit: Ninja'd by mod