The MOST Tricked Out Laptop - MSI Titan GT77

each of those 8TB ssds were almost 2 grand, one day i hope to be able to just nonchalantly buy stuff like that

It never fails to amuse me when people don't realize just how valuable numpads are for gamers... that's where the hotkeys I need rarely but still _need_ go.

Imagine MSI putting a 4080 in their laptops, insane performance also can we appreciate Linus getting substantially better at cs go.

MSI: Steps up to give famous youtuber a baller laptop. Also MSI: Couldn't be fucked to replace a paying customers defective part.

I still wish to maybe someday see a remake of the acer predator 21x, just to see how crazy can a laptop become with full mechanical switches and a curved screen (maybe an oled flat screen that can curve?) And just an absurdly thick case to top it all off

I think the biggest problem you kind of avoided testing is thermals. At a lan playing for hours at a time, this thing will burn your fingers. For the ultimate laptop I would have liked to see a cooling pad underneath it.

After TWO different MSI laptops i've owned randomly broke their hinges within 2 years (after LIGHT use, never leaving my desk) i can not recommend anyone spend money an an MSI laptop.

If you're keeping that, make sure you loosen the hinges a half turn. They over tighten them and they eventually crack while opening up the clamshell.

I've bought 2 msi laptops in the past 3 years and not only were they loud as hell with shit thermals, they both stoped working after about a year. The were both 2k usd

MSI laptop? Yeah, no. They have the most heinous customer support of all manufacturers. Only one coming close is ASUS.

I have had terrible experiences with MSI laptops, I gifted one to a family member and the keyboard randomly stopped working after a few months

12-13 years ago my cousin bought an msi or Alienware just like this. (Minus the storage and outrageous ram). It weighed like 30 lbs with the double power supplies. Personally seeing that and seeing this I’m impressed.

I've been using the Raider GE67 HX with the 240hz OLED and it's been pretty much the sweet spot for performance and value. So if anyone was looking for a middle tier of the Titan, I would definitely recommend the GE67 HX.

It’s always different and more amusing to watch when Linus is hosting. Not saying others are bad but there’s a difference with Linus

Loved my 2017 apache pro, everything from raw performance, to the weirdly good battery to the amazing keyboard that am sure is the same on this, the only downside was the build quality, hinges failed twice on me in 4 years and the casing started to randomly crack, as much as I took care of it. Internals are still great though, still beating my Asus Zenbook duo 2021 by miles, except the Msi was cheaper.

This could be great for having a portable fighting game set-up, especially as fighting games take up more storage & require more power (see the SF6 closed beta). Price notwithstanding, of course.

I guess there is a reason why we did not see any shotage from thermal camera? :D I bet the keyboard turns into finger fryer, as it does any other MSI laptop.

Not in the market to buy one, but that is an impressive laptop. It being IPS rather than OLED is an issue for that price.

Hey Linus I'm wondering how well those fans and thermal heat pipes actually function?

almost every high end gaming laptop has one common problem other than thermals is how long will it last I've gone through 3 laptops with in the last 7 years a msi gt70, asus rog, and a eurocom sky x7c all had the same problem is mainboard failure and i think its due to the cpu out putting alot of heat in the result of the mosfets and caps getting cooked over time from high cpu temps

amazing video! im currently playing on a Lenovo thinkpad l570... not the most powerful machine but it can run some ancient titles on an acceptable framerate. Ive always wanted to have some sort of a gaming PC or rather laptop. i started saving a couple months ago for a new laptop and i already got 130$ in my saving can. i cant work due to some problems but your videos keep me inspired into learning about Pc´s and tech stuff and to keep saving so i can buy myself a nice laptop! thanks for brightening up my rough days and keeping me inspired

It's crazy, the laptop has so much boom inside it games like CS just don't stress it enough to ramp up the cooling. Love how the tech is coming along. Shame the IO gets in the way on the right hand side but I suppose that's something to sacrifice for that sexy ass cooling 🤣

GT73 user here. I love these large laptops. Mine is still fast as heck, all these years later and I still have a free M.2 slot for an SSD when I need more space. It's still really quiet under load. I'm really happy they're still making these.

It's a beast, I wish we see more mid-range thin and slim 17" laptops though.

I cannot stress how much I love a numpad. I might like my games, but doing stuff in engineering, and having worked with num pads for years, it's bloody great.

I work for a Watchfire Signs and out big 'Sports Signs' actually use these laptops as controllers. Whatever engineer decided to go that route makes me happy since itll be the only time I get to use one of these beast machines myself. Its hooked up to a unit that translates the display/ output from the laptop into high speed fiber that ends up feeding the sign. So much fun, I love my job when I can play around with it.

It’s a bummer they wanted to go thinner for this line of laptop; titan series was supposed to not be physically limited and somewhat ergonomic with it being a good tilt angle but now its so flat that wrists will just hang on the edge and hurt from a few hours; had gs laptops and even that being thin was a problem with desk situations without wristrests

I’ve owned this laptop for 2 months now and it’s insane. The cooling is amazing. I’ve never seen temps over mid 70s. I upgraded from a ge66 Raider. I could noticeably feel the heat coming from the keyboard but it never gave me any issues. It was a great laptop which is why I decided to go with MSI again. Don’t regret my purchase one bit.

The red/white gpu/igpu light is actually a common feature for MSi gaming laptops. My GS65 Stealth Thin that I bought 4 years ago has one. Now that I think about it, MSi might have some patent for it.

It's interesting how 4 M.2 slots seems like an amazing feature nowadays lol. My Alienware 15R3 from 2017 came with 3 M.2 slots as well as an HDD slot

Each of the 8 tb SSD drives was $1,499.99 and the laptop was $3,999.99 so they just built a $10,000 laptop before sales tax. I think I will have to stick to building desktops, my wallet said so.

I am impressed. That’s a cool laptop 💻. I hope more laptops get such good cooling systems.

Wow, they were able to do this on a 17inch, that awesome and this is next on my Wishlist because of that. Loveee 17 inch gaming laptops!!

Weird to think in just a few years this thing might be on ebay for like 200 bucks

I have the MSI GT75 and is a beast. You can upgrade everything, add HDDs, SDDs, NVMs and RAM. Totally recommend it (if you can stand the fan noise).

You know what I want to see in a gaming laptop? One that can fold over sorta like a 2 in 1 so you can have the screen closer to you while you game on your 60% keyboard and mouse. Better cooling, the screen is closer for a better experience, and since they usually put the speakers on the bottom better sound too.

If the colors of the numbers when you put out the screws are which screws are the same, I love it, it's very easy to read and incredibly helpful, would love to see more of that

Damn, that's a workstation. Reminds me of the Dell Precision line (RAID and replaceable MXM GPU), but turned up even more (my old Precision had three drives, current one has two).

I love my Titan gt77 so far. I bought the i9 model and it's an absolute monster.

With all that power I would be curious to see the temp of the deck and keyboard after gaming for a bit. It’s probably like typing on lava.

I never thought I would see a laptop that impressed the hell out of me until just now.

Wish u did more teardown ide love to see the heatsinks and cooling more in-depth

This might be a beast. Too bad the hinges are gonna break and render it useless in 4 months time tho 🥴

It still amazes me how some manufacturers won't let you upgrade these two components (RAM & storage) on some entry level laptops. They're soldered onto the motherboard... I still ask why, because that only alienates customers, and when they go to buy a better laptop... Are they going to buy that brand? The odds of that are much less depending on what they couldn't do with their older pc that they couldn't upgrade (or upgrade as much). I lucked out last year. Got a laptop with 128GB SSD storage and 8GB of RAM. Went from that to 1TB SSD storage and 32GB of RAM. Turned a $400 laptop into a $1000 laptop with $150-$200 in upgrades (the 32GB RAM was unnecessary, but I had already bought 1 16GB RAM stick right after getting the laptop anyways).

MSI big fan here using their components since my first build in 2009 and always recommend then to my friends and use them in every computer I build. Their costumer service has always been good and I wish I could get enough money to get this laptop haha maybe someday I'll build a PC worth over 2k...

Hey Linus, why haven't you guys reviewed the Eurocom based laptops they supposedly use Desktop component for their laptop and a Canadian based company. Great job reviewing the MSI laptop :)

Holy smokes this laptop is an absolute beast. Thank you for the video! Great rainbow caboose.

Well darn it, first game and the only one I couldn't run on my GE66 Raider with rtx 3070 ti, and I just wanted to test run it how much frames could it reach on QHD panel.. Great and overkill machine there Linus!!

That thing is a beast! I’d love to own just one 8TB SSD though my 2TB is perfectly fine 😂

It's funny seeing the gigantic specs of the laptop, then seeing the measly 2W speakers.

I have an MSI GL-75. After a year of progressively high temps, I repaste and the CPU temp idle is 66-80c and the GPU is 54c. Not sure if this is normal but just telling you my experience

ah linus, one of the only people ive ever seen whos opened up a device that was powered on multiple times

Actually it can be good as a mobile workstation for AI researchers. 128gb of ram for VMs, good GPU and you can put TPU modules in m.2 slots

10:38 Integrated vs Discreet GPU - Windows 10 and Nvidia drivers do some weird things with power management and GPU selection. I have a laptop with a Quadro A3000 and NVIDIA will sometimes show processes like the windows search process using the nvidia GPU even when trying to force it using the Windows 10 graphics settings. The difference is about 12 watts idle power usage. Not a huge deal, but it means the fans kick on sooner and more often, in addition to shorter battery life.

Recently got a 2nd hand MSI GL65 Leopard as my 2nd gaming laptop (1st one was also second hand and sold it and added some earned cash for the laptop I have now; 3rd hand?) Big fan of MSI lately and seeing that is like seeing a long road ahead to one of my dream laptops. One day...

Those desktop replacement Laptops are crazy overpowered for the cooling. I have a Clevo P375SM that had 2 AMD 290X GPUs in crossfire. Even though I always used it with a riser with fans, both of the GPUs fried themselves.

I look at this laptop in awe, then I look at the price and grieve. I am trying to find a computer that can stream and play WoW at top settings simultaneously, but affording a wedding right now makes buying a gaming setup nearly impossible. This is a good video Linus, even if I can’t afford it.

Linus: "opens the laptop to show what's inside, while it's powered on" Also Linus: "step one is to..."

I own an MSI GS75 Stealth 9SF & love it. This mega build here is really cool but I’ll be staying with mine for now 👍🏻

I had a friend with a laptop like that, with the massive but, and rgb lights it was amazing

that's a desktop in a laptop form factor (not to undersell the engineering feets for power and cooling (kudos team), but it's also still going to be stupid expensive as configured, has a downright silly-heavy-big power brick, and is just plain heavy... it's a mobile workstation, nothing less. yeah, there's a market for it (gamers who need portability and have trust funds, creative professionals who can't get away with high end notebook gpus, someone who wants a portable rig for demoing high end vr maybe?), but I don't see this as being a high volume product at all.

Many years ago I dropped almost £2k on a Toshiba Qosmio G30 "luggable", desktop-replacement, laptop - which had a massive, high-definition screen, space inside for two hard drives, and a 1gig NIC. In the decade and a half since, as the laptop specs keep improving, I have been wondering if there'd ever be a similar style machine. Good to know the absurd builds are still being made!

after my experence with an msi mobo, an msi laptop is honestly the last thing i would every buy. meanwhile my 2013 HP is still going strong the once every couple months i actually need to use it, it comes in handy, espesually when your trying to figure out mobo issues and your pc is down for weeks at a time while you wait for the parts cannon to load

Killer WiFi cards weren’t bad. Not at all. It has always been their in house drivers. They had the unique capability of connecting with WiFi and Ethernet simultaneously if using Killer Ethernet and WiFi. Since Ethernet in most computers is now integrated, if you didn’t have a killer Ethernet already built in to the motherboard, then it basically was identical with Intel’s WiFi cards with no additional functionality and can just use the standard Intel drivers. Now killer is an Intel brand and has no difference that I’m aware of from the Intel equivalent. Also, since Intel is now providing the Killer drivers, it has made it possible to use the Killer drivers and take advantage of the “Doubleshot” functionality without the issues the old drivers are so famous for. I was able to get the second to last pre-Intel buyout Killer WiFi card installed in my laptop and am hunting for the elusive last model they produced. While fully aware that the chip is manufactured by Intel, I just can’t bring myself to buy something that is a 100% intel product. As long as it’s dated even one DAY prior to the buyout, I would prefer that over a product that is owned, made, and sold by Intel. The company’s history has demonstrated time and time again the lengths they will go to screw over others and that they are in the upper echelon of companies with such horrible business ethics that to state that the company is evil is more a statement of fact than as an opinion. As such, I try my best not to support them if it’s at all possible. While having nearly no impact on Intel, it is at least what little I can do to express my disapproval and disappointment in them with their actions. (For example: they have hired local underground crime groups to beat and threaten businesses in foreign countries to “persuade” them not to carry competing products. Deaths have occurred. Domestically, they’ve gone straight to OEM’s and paid them not to create products with components from competing companies. So much so that their “donations” have amounted to being the largest source of revenue for many of these OEM’s!! They prefer these methods than to actually creating a clearly superior product that is offered at a competitive price that consumers would naturally chose instead. Intel’s CEO was quoted years ago saying that he believes consumers don’t care at all about quality. Hence the source of Intel’s business philosophy…)

The Dell Ultra ruggeds have 2 batteries, and I think they can total ~120 amp hours. Its a loophole I wish more manufacturers utilized, especially with something this ridiculous

Although I'm using a GE72 from 2019 , but to my surprise , it hasn't been broken after all those years.

Can yall do a video on all the discounted laptops, maybe on the subsidiary channels, to compare them?

Here I thought upgrading my Gigabyte Aorus 5 to 32 GB of ram and adding a 1 TB NVME drive was pretty stellar... now it feels minimal...

Seems like it's actually well engineered. Shocking!

10:45 I have an old MSI Laptop (CX61 0NF) with a GT645M and it has exact the same feature. However, Windows 8 sucks and that's why it wasn't working (exactly like my WiFi card hehe) until I downgraded to Windows 7. I think it's a Win8 specific issue since after upgrading from Win7 to Win10, the "Intel/Nvidia GPU usage" LED light on the power button was still working. Later on I put a separate SSD which I used for testing devices and updated Win8 to the latest update and it still wasn't working XD Well, at least they fixed the wifi issue.

would be nice to have a system like a laptop but thicker and able to use standard ATX parts.

At that point just make a desktop. I get some wanna game on the go... but in most cases I feel most don't move their laptop that much to where leaving it in one spot would be terribly inconvenient. I've had gaming laptops, cheaper laptops, desktops, game consoles, handheld games like the Gameboy. They all have their advantages. When it comes to laptops though, you pay quite the premium for the performance.

I can’t wait to see laptops with 4080ti man it’s gonna be so nice

Last MSI product I bought was a motherboard and it was DOA. So I sent it back and bought a Gigabyte. Been happy ever since. 😎

I remember that my killer wifi software literally killed my wifi and made it unusable for my Alienware 17 R5 laptop and I had an actual panic for about 6 hours

Dang I'd do anything for a laptop like that!

This guy isn’t careful at all dealing with such masterpieces

The big butt reminds me of laptops from the 80s during the transition from the flat design to a fold up monitor before they put it all the way to the back. Is 32TB actually the maximum it supports or is that based on what's currently available? My Dell Latitude from 1998 came out during a time 2.5" hard drives barley exceeded 10GB but it happily accepts drives up to 2TB so it wouldn't surprise me if you could double it to 64TB in the future.

Yeah, LAN parties and that laptop sounds like a great combination! 💻👍

Great as this is, I've always felt that the hardware nor games will ever use this much. It's awesome to see the limits, but unnecessary, especially when you realise that this hardware will be too outdated eventually to use this amount of storage/ram.

When I read the thumbnail I thought it was 32 gb of ram. I said to myself that couldn't possibly be the most powerful laptop lol!

I'm currently trying to start my career and i absolutely can't wait to buy the next one, i look at videos like this quite often heh. The next one apparently comes with a 4090 and i9 13th gen for the same price of this one. I can't wait bros. I gamed with a Radeon 530 with a (really good) i5 8th gen for too long

Makes me miss my Dell XPS M1730 - maxed specs for AUD$5000 yet only lasted 5 years before the GPU died and became a fancy paper weight :(

I can't be the only one that got VERY nervous when Linus was wobbling the laptop on one hand serving tray style to show off the I/O😂😂😂

Can't believe it's only been 5 months and this laptop is already obsolete. The 4090 laptop GPUs have entered the market. They are 40% better at gaming performance. Although at ridiculous prices nonetheless. But 128GB ram, is something unseen on a laptop (foldable desktop really).😅

would love to see a custom build for pcie5 builds based on 7950x, ddr5, and a 4090. especially pci5 psu info!!!

that's absolutely amazing I sure wish it was affordable now though LOL

Damn, that's a laptop we mere mortals can only dream off. Will probable have to take a second mortgage if I want to buy that in our country 😅 Luckily I'm fortunate enough to still have my 7th gen MSI to play on. The old dog is showing its age but it's not dead yet. :p Holy crap, smiling through the tears... I'm still using the default 128gb ssd and 1tb hdd and 8gb ram that came with the laptop. Yeah super old school. You love big butts and you can not lie :p

and as time goes on it should become cheaper due to laptops in the future packing even more performance than this sice technology is improving so fast

I feel like for shoots where the host is in one place a pedal for prompter scroll could be convenient. Just a thought I had when I saw the little blue controller thingy :P.

the lenovo ideapad 3 (15.6") with the 16 gb package and i7 really good at a reasonable 800 dollars. The I/O is unfortunately lacking

we need the exact same ecosystem with pc but on laptops, like a standardized case, standardized mobo etc. LCDs are already standardized

I hope MSI have a wireless version of that mouse.

I really wish MSI made a 1440P and 1080P version, it's so stupid that they didn't. The 1080P version I believe is actually the engineering sample.

as someone who also uses a gaming laptop as my work pc at a school the number pad is vital when it comes to grade entry.

It's absolute insane how much power is in that small space. You could fold that over into a small cube the size of a gamecube, yet it's as powerful as 25 PS5's! INSANE

You can bring higher Wh batteries on a plane. You’re just limited on how many. I had 2 a7iv batteries, 4 a6300, a 150Wh v mount, 1 lp-e6, my phone, 4 AA in my film camera and I think that was is. No one even batted an eye. I think you’re limited to like 2 for anything over 100Wh and anything else has no limit. Just tape up the contacts on them.

Finally! A laptop with a GPU multiplexer chip (Mux chip as you say). The price is blatantly gonna be out of my range.... Though do they do this in 4K (or even 1440p would suffice) OLED form too?

Glad to see that even the popular people are using Sabrent drives.

At 3:12, what's the difference in performance between wiring to the CPU and the chipset?