MSI showcased several innovative laptop models at Computex 2025, including a special edition Prestige 13 AI Plus Ukiyo-e Edition laptop with hand-crafted details and a collaboration with Okadaya, and also highlights updated features like the latest 50 series GPUs, revamped designs, and the introduction of Thunderbolt Share, a technology for fast file transfer between laptops.

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The MSI Titan Series Laptops have always been renowned in the industry as the absolute top of the line and completely speced out device on the computing market each year. This model I currently have with me today made me go through a whole heap of exciting emotions after finding out what specs it comes with for this year’s edition. we’ll be taking a quick look at everything from benchmarking, temperature readouts, and other aspects of the laptops to see how it performs overall.

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find out more at:
https://au.msi.com/Laptop/Titan-18-HX-AI-A2XWX

MSIs Raider lineup of laptops have been killing it in the laptop game ever since they debut in 2018, starting with their GE63 and GE73 along with several updates throughout the years – but recently MSI has released their brand new Raider 18 HX AI edition laptops that carry the latest and greatest of gaming related computer components. So today we’ll be running through what this laptop offers for specs and test how capable it is for our creators and gamer heads out there

Take a seat, grab some popcorn – lets dive in!

find out more at:
https://au.msi.com/Laptop/Raider-18-HX-AI-A2XWX

Product Specification

MSI GS76 STEALTH 11UE Tech Specs from Official Website
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Product Unboxing

Package Appearance
The insider package is the general GS series black box with thick form protection

The AC adapter is 20V 11.5A, a total of 230W and manufactured by Delta

The weight of the AC adapter and power cable is around 755g

The pure black internal box

The main body is warped by a double-layered suit which has an anti-static layer and a black fabric layer

Product Analysis

The main look of GS76 STEALTH

The thin-bezel design

The Steelseries Keyboard with per-key backlight

The Dynaudio audio system

The laptop front side – Smooth design without any indicator

The laptop rear side – Semi-symmetrical design with MSI logo and a large opening area

The laptop right side – 1 x battery charging indicator, 1 x Type-C(USB3.2 Gen.2 w/DP), 1 x SDXC Card Reader, 1 x Thunderbolt™ 4, 1 x (8K @60Hz / 4K @ 120Hz) HDMI 2.1

The laptop left side – Power jack, 1 x 2.5Gb LAN, 2 x Type-A(USB3.2 Gen2), 1 x Mic/Headphone combo jack

The laptop weight: 2.33KG, around 3.1KG total with AC adapter and power cable

Screen Calibration
MSI GS76 STEALTH 11UE is using a 17″ FHD Sharp LQ173M1JW05(SHP14EC) IPS-level panel

Calibration result: Average △E≈0.10, Maximum △E≈1.57
After calibration, we have a 108.0% of sRGB, 74.4% of Adobe RGB and 76.5% of DCI P3 coverage

Calibration Curves

Gamut

Tone Response Curves

Software & Hardware Introduction

The new looking MSI Center laptop management software
Monitor section

Features section – User Scneario selection

Features section – General Settings

Support section – Live Update

Support section – System Info

Support section – Backup

Feature sets page

Settings page

My Device page

HWINFO System detail – Intel 11th gen i7-11800H 8-cores 16 threads with Nvidia RTX3060 Mobile Graphics card

HWINFO WIFI & LAN detail
WIFI Card – Killer Wifi6E AX1675x(Intel AX210NGW) with Bluetooth v5.2
LAN Card – Killer E3100G 2.5Gb(Intel i225-V)

HWINFO SSD detail – Kingston OM8PCP3512F-AI1 512G PCIe Gen3

HWINFO Smart battery detail

CPU-Z snapshots

GPU-Z

GPU-Z PWR (70W around)

Run-time Benchmark Test

Unfortunately, we cannot change the power plan to the ‘Ultimate Power Performance’ in Win10. All test are based on the ‘performance mode’ in the settings of MSI Center.

Cinebench R15 Single core & Multi core

Cinebench R20 Single core & Multi core

Cinebench R23 Single core & Multi core

PCMark10 – | 6,065

3DMARK – Time Spy | 6,938

3DMARK – Time Spy Extreme | 3,273

3DMARK – Port Royal | 3,644

3DMARK – Fire Strike | 14,481

3DMARK – Fire Strike Extreme | 8,359

3DMARK – Fire Strike Ultra | 4,500

3DMARK – DirectX Raytracing feature test | 18.35 Average FPS

3DMARK – Mesh Shader feature test | OFF: 62.26 FPS, ON: 242.3 FPS

3DMARK – VRS: Tier 1 | OFF: 414.47 FPS, ON: 602.59 FPS

3DMARK – DLSS 2 v1.3 | OFF: 27.28 FPS, ON: 44.54 FPS

FURMARK FHD ｜ 78 Average FPS

CPU-Z Benchmark | Single-Thread: 566.6, Multi-Threads: 4514.7

BLENDER Benchmarks

7ZIP 128MB Dictionary Size

VRAY Benchmark

X264 Benchmark

TxBENCH

Thermal Tests

We are pressure testing this laptop by using AIDA64 and FURMARK.

With Auto FAN profile and non-OC settings:
Test room temperature: 18℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 43℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 42℃±2℃

Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 2.51GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 90℃±6℃

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 3.70GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 88℃±7℃

Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & FURMARK GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 2.58GHz
The GPU clock is average @ 947.9Mhz
The CPU package temperature is around 94℃±4℃
The GPU temperature is around 74.6℃

Overclock test
Test room temperature: 21℃±2℃
CPU Idle temperature: 37℃±2℃
GPU idle temperature: 36℃±2℃

With Cooler Boost FAN profile and Full OC settings:

Under AIDA64 Single FPU pressure test, this Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 2.83GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 79℃±17℃

Under AIDA64 Single CPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 4.06GHz
The CPU package temperature is around 88℃±7℃

Under AIDA64 CPU + Memory & FURMARK GPU pressure test, the Intel i7-11800H is partial throttling down @ 3.45GHz
The GPU clock is average @ 1038.4Mhz
The CPU package temperature is around 90℃±7℃
The GPU temperature is around 60.6℃

3DMARK Time Spy OC | 8,176 +15.1%

3DMARK Time Spy Extreme OC | 3,928 +16.7%

3DMARK Fire Strike OC | DID NOT PASS THE TEST

3DMARK Fire Strike Extreme OC | 9,600 +12.9%

3DMARK Fire Strike Ultra OC | 5,179 +13.1%

3DMARK Port Royal OC | DID NOT PASS THE TEST

3DMARK DirectX Raytracing OC | 21.14 Average FPS +13.2%

3DMARK Mesh Shader OC | 265.94 +8.9%

3DMARK VRS Tier 1 OC | 682.61 FPS +11.7%

3DMARK DLSS 2 v1.3 | DID NOT PASS THE TEST

The thermal snapshots under the MAX pressure test(AIDA64 + FURMARK)
Front – A panel | Left vent temperature is around 70.4℃ | Right vent temperature is around 58.3℃

Front – Top of the C panel | It’s around 56.8℃ in the middle of the vents and 40℃ on the average of the keyboard

Bottom – D panel | It’s around 64℃ crossing the CPU and GPU between the two exhausting fans

Sides – Left vent temperature | It’s around 50.9℃ at the Left vent and the hottest spot is 70℃

Sides – Right vent temperature | It’s around 45.6℃ at the Left vent and the hottest spot is 63.1℃

AC adapter – It’s around 45.4℃ average on the surface and the hottest spot is 49℃

Under Idle mode, the noise level is around 37.7dBA

Under normal fan mode under pressure, the noise level is around 51.4dBA

Under Cooler Boost mode, the noise level is around 61.7dBA

We only got the Engineering Sample this time, so the cooling solution may not be the final solution, but it still holds up well to the latest 11th gen i7-11800H, especially when the fan is running at full speed, and the overclock can actually reach an average of 12% performance increase. After all, this 45W TDP, 8-core, 16-thread CPU is far more powerful than the i7-1185G7. Unfortunately, a few of the 3DMARK tests did not pass because the card was overclocked and needed to be turned off to run properly, so we did not test the gaming performance in detail. Also, the fan is as noisy as ever with Cooler Boost on.

SUMMARY

The design is the same as before but with a few modifications, the sturdiness is guaranteed and at the same time it is as thin and light as possible. And for a 17″ laptop, the weight is close to that of the Razer Blade 15, proving that MSI has compressed the weight to the extreme. And the A-panel with the Dragon Shield design remains and has not been replaced with The MSI text logo is also a testament to the pedigree of its gaming series.

Instead of a 2K resolution screen, the GS76 STEALTH 11UE uses a 240Hz high refresh rate gaming screen with over 100% of the sRGB colour gamut (the official description is ‘close to 100%’) seems modest), with a much-higher 300Hz upgraded version available. The full-size per-key RGB Steelseries keyboard will satisfy most people’s pain points, while the full-size SD card reader is a favourite among office users. 16G of 3200Hz DDR4 and a 1TB NVMe SSD are enough for everyday applications and entertainment, and MSI hasn’t forgotten about those gamers and corporate users who need high-speed and stable Internet. The 2.5Gb LAN port is perfectly suited for these activities. Meanwhile, the Thunderbolt 4 interface, Type-C connector with DP protocol and the deployment of HDMI 2.1 allow the machine to be connected to three monitors with up to 8K resolution for Matrix Display.

Performance-wise, the new standard voltage laptop CPU does bring more performance, even MSI’s proprietary cooling is not able to fully suppress this CPU, but the reduced voltage overclocking through MSI’s own control does have a good effect. As we didn’t take any screenshots of the game scores, the overall frame rate is much better than the previous model STEALTH 15M, especially for very CPU-intensive games, such as GTAV, Total War series, etc.

Thermal dissipation is, as expected, MSI’s best item. But without being able to take it apart, according to MSI’s official figures, the cooling system used on the GS76 is a triple-fan, 6 heat pipes ‘Cooler Boost Trinity+’.

Price-wise, the pre-order price is roughly AU$3,499 and the GE76 Raider 10UE, also powered by the RTX3060 Mobile, is priced at AU$3,099, so users can take a little reference. Of course, we can’t rule out some price adjustments, but everything will be based on the retail version once it is listed.

MSI GS76 STEALTH 11UE OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE

We’ve already tested Intel’s latest generation i7-11700K, and the results are as predictable as you can expect. Without further ado, let’s check out the video below! Please ‘like’ and subscribe to my channel, and don’t forget to click the ‘bell’ icon to get the latest video updates.

Compared with the previous generation GL65, this GL65 10SEK has only one slight change on its appearance which is the two strips on the top cover. This mold might have used GP series as it can be clearly seen on the resemblance regarding the I/O interface (ports) and the heat dissipation design.

So let’s dig into the details.

Product Specification

GL65 Leopard 10SEK Tech Specs from Official Website
https://au.msi.com/Laptop/GL65-Leopard-10SX/Specification

Product Unboxing

Package Appearance
MSI’s Typical blackbox packaging

The notebook is protected by the thick and shock-proof foam. The main body is warped by a double-layered suit which has an anti-static layer and a black fabric layer

The power cable and AC adapter

The AC adapter is from DELTA, model: ADP-230EB T, 19.5V 11.8A which is total of 230W

Product Analysis

The GL65 Leopard from the top

The GL65 Leopard from the bottom

The chamfered corners are slightly rounded and without sharp edges

The heat-dissipating part at the back of the laptop mimics the design of supercars, and all the sharp corners act to prevent scratches

The design of the Dragon Shield will glow up when turning on the machine

The full-sized keyboard comes from Steelseries

The per-key RGB brightness of the keyboard is pretty well distributed

The new 10th gen Intel logo and RTX logo from Nvidia

The GL65 Leopard nameplate sticker

The touchpad is separated by the touch area and buttons, which avoids accidental touch and improves the feel

The 720p camera on the top of the B cover is next to the built-in directional noise reduction microphone

The C panel buttons from left to right are the Cooler Boost button, Dragon Center button and power button

The laptop front side – The 3 indicators from left to right are WIFI, battery and HDD status

The laptop rear side – The back vents of the GL series molds are not symmetrical in design, but the appearance is avant-garded fashionable

The laptop right side – I/O are the 2 x USB3.2 Type-A Gen1, SD(XC/HC) card readers, power jack

The laptop left side – I/O are the Kensington lock port, RJ45 Ethernet port, 1 x HDMI(4K @ 30Hz) ), 1 x Mini-DisplayPort, 1 x Type-C (USB3.2 Gen2), 1 x USB3.2 Type-A Gen1, headphone and microphone port

The laptop overall weight: 2.3KG
The laptop opening angle is around 120 degree

The latest 10th Gen CPU brings more powerful performance.
The RTX graphics card with Ray-Tracing technology will experience a better light and shadow effects when playing AAA games.
The 144Hz gaming screen can make your game smoother and smoother.
The two-sided speakers support Hi-Res, please enjoy the lossless music with a premium sound quality.
The new version of the Dragon Center controlling program allows you to monitor every performance on your laptop.
The revolutionary cooling system –‘Cooler Boost 5’ is the best dedicated thermal solution from MSI and will establish a high-performances system running environment to provide a stable and immersed user experience.

More detailed tests and benchmarks will be presented after our comprehensive tests, Stay tuned!

GL65 Leopard 10SEK OFFICIAL WEBSITE: HERE

The innovative Socket design of the 10th generation Core sees the introduction of the new Socket 1200, Intel is making sure it’s incompatible with the old CPU family and releasing the related ranges of the Pentium Gold, and Celeron processors, with a total of 32 models.

THE INTEL i7 10700K

The i7-10700K has 8 cores 16 threads, the L3 cache has 12MB, the frequency range is from 3.8GHz to 5.1GHz, the price of 749 AUD which is quite expensive.

Package appearance

Package Front & Back

The CPU chip & manual with newly designed 10th gen i7 sticker

The new LGA 1200 socket (FROM ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII HERO WIFI)

Run-time Benchmark Test
CPU-Z

AIDA64 GPGPU

Comparison
We also prepared two bench platforms to compare the new 10th gen i7 10700K and 9th gen i9 9900K

CINEBENCH R15/R20 Single core & multi-cores comparison

wPRIME Single Thread & Multi Threads

V-RAY is using to demonstrate computer processing and rendering capabilities

AIDA64 PhotoWorxx is to test the performance of processing digital photos
FPU SinJulia is used to measure extended precision floating point performance
FP32 RRay-Trace uses SIMD enhanced ray-tracing engine to calculate the scene to measure single precision
FP64 Ray-Trace uses SIMD enhanced ray-tracing engine to calculate the scene to measure double precision

Gaming Performance Comparison
Intel claims that the new generation of CPU will bring a significant improvement in-game performance

However, after our testing, we found that the average FPS of these test games did not reach Intel’s advertised price. Given that most games have a higher avg FPS based on a high-frequency single-core speed, the 10th gen i7 with the new Turbo Boost V3 technology does have some advantages, but it is not obvious, some games do not even perform as well as i9 9900K.

Overclocking? The way we achieved the best performance is to push the core voltage to 1.47V to achieve all core 5.1Ghz, the temperature was stable at around 82°C, the HwINFO shows that CPU is eating 250W, as we are using a 240mm AIO liquid cooling kit, the 10th gen CPU is quite hot.

In summary, after testing, we found that this 10th gen i7 is not very cost-effective compared to the previous generation, buyers also need to upgrade the motherboard to fit the new socket 1200. However, the new SOCKET does not bring many new features such as USB4.0 support, although Intel has confirmed that they disabled PCIe gen4 support on 10th gen CPU until the next generation is released, so the motherboard manufacturers coincidently choose to not integrate it in their Z490 motherboards, which means we still cannot use the ultra-fast speed PCIe Gen 4 SSD or graphic card etc on the new platform at the moment. Users can decide whether to replace the new generation CPU according to their needs.

EPIC PC RATE SCORE: 91/100

EPIC REWARD: EDITOR’S CHOICE

The Z390 chipset has only been slightly tweaked, now including native support for USB 3.1 Gen.2, increasing the bandwidth up to 10Gbps max, and support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi. With the Intel Wireless-AC 9560 NIC and the corresponding front-end design of the motherboard, a Gigabit wireless network can be achieved, although, it might not be possible on the NBN.

The chipset interface is still the LGA1151, the 9th generation Core is still compatible with the existing 300 series chipset, which including the Z370, B360, H310, etc., while the Z390 motherboard can also support the 8th generation Core series.

Intel 9th Generation Core Family CPU Official Specifications:

THE INTEL i7 9700K

The i7-9700K has 8 cores 8 threads, the L3 cache has 12MB (cut from 2MB to 1.5MB per core), the frequency range has been taken from 3.6GHz to 4.9GHz, with the price coming in at roughly 659 AUD, its 60 dollars more expensive than the i7-8700K.

Package appearance

Package Front

Package Back

Package Bottom Side

Opening the box

The CPU chip

The CPU front

The CPU back

Run-time Benchmark Test
CPU-Z

HWiNFO64

Intel XTU

Cinebench

Unfortunately, we found it difficult to get a stable reading with all cores running at 5.1Ghz during the overclocking test, but a single core can be pushed out to 5.5Ghz.

THE INTEL i9 9900K

The flagship model for the 9th generation is the i9-9900K, with 8 cores and 16 threads (the only hyperthreading available in the 9th generation), 16MB for the L3 cache (sharing for all cores), the reference frequency is 3.6GHz, the turbo frequency acceleration is up to 5.0GHz, and the integrated graphic is the UHD 630, memory supports dual-channel DDR4-2666 and TDP consumption is 95W.

Its price has reached 859 AUD, which is also the new price record for mainstream CPUs. Compared with the i7-8700K, that costs 599 AUD, its 30% more.

It is worth noting that the 9th generation Core has fixed some of the Meltdown and Spectre bugs on the consumer processors for the first time, including the Rogue Cache Data Load and the L1 Terminal Fault/L1TF, other bugs still need to be resolved by updating the BIOS.

Interestingly, the i9-9900K also offers a specially designed box, a dodecahedron shape with transparent glass material.

Package appearance

ES Package

Open the package

The CPU chip

The CPU front

The CPU back

Run-time Benchmark Test
CPU-Z

HWiNFO64

PC MARK 10

Cinebench

According to Intel’s official statement, the performance of the 9th generation Core is up to 15% faster compared to the overall performance of the 8th generation, the gaming performance is improved by about 10%, and the video editing performance is improved by up to 34%, compared to older chipsets (such as i7-6700K) you could see increases of up to 40%, 45%, and 97% respectively.

We tried to boost all cores to 5.1Ghz, and fortunately, it’s stable and passed the cinebench test

I9 9900K@4.8GHz, 3D MARK FSE, physics score is 24129 points, the graphics card is 18789 (ASUS ROG STRIX 2080TI O11G)

I9 9900K@4.8GHz, 3D MARK FSU, physics score is 24098 points, the graphics card is 9223 (ASUS ROG STRIX 2080TI O11G)

Overall
After a bunch of tests, the i7 9700K, i9 9900K and i7 8700K have the same single-core frequency performance, the theoretical multi-threading gap of the i9 9900K which has an extra 2 cores 4 threads over the i7 8700K, offers a performance bump of about 33%. In gaming performance, there is basically no difference between the three CPUs. Unfortunately, the potential of overclocking performance is not as good as the i7 8700K and i7 8086K.

If the CPU is being utilised for a small workstation, the reasonable price of the i9 9900K is definitely an excellent choice to replace the i9 7900X. Even with the i7 8700K, the extra 33% of theoretical performance is a big improvement for rendering. However, pure game users do not have to choose the i9 9900K, the i7 9700K is definitely a better choice.

INTEL ARK FOR I7 9700K:
https://ark.intel.com/products/186604/Intel-Core-i7-9700K-Processor-12M-Cache-up-to-4-90-GHz-

INTEL ARK FOR I9 9900K:
https://ark.intel.com/products/186605/Intel-Core-i9-9900K-Processor-16M-Cache-up-to-5-00-GHz-

The test bench is under Intel Z370 platform, ASUS motherboard, a dual-channel 32GB Corsair DDR4

The software we are using is INTEL EXTREME TUNING UTILITY.
Here is the snapshot for the details for this 8086K:

The Cinebench result for this CPU is:

The idle CPU temperature under WC is around 30°C

Under 4.3GHz default frequency, we are trying to stress the FPU via AIDA64 and monitoring the temperature. It’s around 73°C

After the CPU has totally cool down, we are start to adjust the Core Ratio and Cache to 50x, then applied and run a benchmark. After a quick OC by simple ‘drag-and-approve’, the bench score has rises from 2367 to 2733, which is around 14% better improvement. Plus, it’s passed the stress test.

So, as we are so exciting in the further testing, the target frequency has been rises to 5.1GHz without a voltage adjustments. 5.1GHz is Passed!

Then, we directly drag the ratio to 52, the voltage is boosted to 1.424V, but the average temperature has been keep around 70°C, which is a positive-ranged feedback, it may go further.

There is no doubt that this CPU has passed the 5.2GHz

Then we re-run the Cinebench again, the result is totally different. It’s around 15% more on OpenGL test, 16% more on CPU Multi core, and 25.3% boost on CPU single Core, which is a huge improvement for gaming actually.

As a result, the Intel 8086K has impressed us! according to the OC result, it could be easy to boost to 5GHz without any trouble when Turbo boost has been enabled, and if you put this CPU under a LC cooler, it could go further then you expected. Unfortunately, we don’t want to void the warranty, so we haven’t try to delid it or doing any further OC work, but we still believe the 8086K has a huge potential for the extreme OC as well.

In addition, we are switched the CPU from 8700K to 8086K for Helios T1K and Helios T1KT. No Price Change! As this CPU is the limited edition, please hurry up to make the purchase!