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MSI GE66 Raider 10SFS – Gaming Laptop Review

MSI GE66 Raider 10SFS – Gaming Laptop Review

The MSI GE66 Raider 10SFS is a high-end, powerful gaming laptop. The laptop has space grey color on the outside including the back lid and black color on the inside. It also has the signature MSI branding logo on the back. Refer below picture for a better understanding.

Color of the laptop
Color of the laptop

Basic Specification

The laptop comes with i7-10750H 10th Gen processor and a powerful NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics card with 8GB GDDR6 VRAM. It has 16 GB(8 GB x2) of DDR4 RAM clocked at 3200 MHz and has a maximum memory capacity of 64 GB. It has 2 TB M.2 NVME SSD as the storage.

The laptop has a customizable panoramic aurora lighting which makes it look quite fancy. The RGB is on the keyboard and a RGB strip on the front. You can also customize the RGB lighting and other features using the MSI Dragon Center application or the SteelSeries Engine 3.

The laptop has a 1080p IPS antiglare display with 240 hz display. The hinges are quite strong and make sure that the display screen stays put. The display screen is 15.6 inch and has thin bezel design allowing for a optimum screen to body ration. It makes the laptop look sleek & compact. Talking about compactness, the laptop weighs approximately 2.4 kg only, so it’s quite easy to carry. You can carry this laptop to your office/work environment as it is lightweight. As the laptop doesn’t have any aggressive gaming look, turning off the RGB will give it a non-flashy minimalistic look which is perfect for use in an office environment.

It comes with a FHD 1080p web camera which of course is good to have even if you won’t be using it for streaming and content creation. You won’t need any external webcam while attending virtual meetings. Still, if you wish to record yourself while streaming/creating content, you should use a dedicated quality webcam instead.

In-built Webcam

Ports

The laptop comes with a lot of ports, ensuring you can plug in all of your peripherals without any need of external converters or hubs. It’s good to see that MSI isn’t limiting the no of ports to keep the design thin.

Configuration of ports
All the ports for the laptop

List of Ports:

  • 2x Type A USB 3.1 Gen1 
  • 1x Type-A USB3.2 Gen2 
  • 1x Type-C USB3.2 Gen2x2
  • 1x Type-C (USB3.2 Gen2 / DP)
  • 1x 3.5 mm Audio Jack (Mic-in/Headphone-out Combo)
  • SD Card reader
  • Ethernet 
  • HDMI (4K 60hz)
  • 1x Mini-Display 
  • AC Power in

MSI has packed a 280W AC adapter to power and charge the laptop. MSI also claims that the laptop has 99.9Whr battery capacity, but the packaging states it to be 99.1Whr.

Cooling

MSI has implemented its Cooler Boost 5 technology to keep the system cool at all times.

Cooler Boost 5 Airflow
Cooler Boost 5

The bigger fans and wider heat pipes ensures great airflow keeping all the components cool, especially the CPU and GPU. They help in keeping the thermals low which improves the overall performance of the system.

Proper Air Ventilation Underneath
Airflow Ventilation underneath

The design helps better dissipate the heat as the hot air is expelled through the air vents on the sides, back and underneath the laptop.

The MSI GE66 Raider 10SFS is a great gaming laptop packed with high specification hardware which can run any current gen title such as Outriders, Cyberpunk 2077, Resident Evil Village, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, etc. with ease.

We hope this review helps you make a choice in case you are planning to buy a new gaming laptop. You should also check out the Asus ROG Zephyrus S17 gaming laptop which is a slightly more powerful gaming laptop.


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