Intel Core i9 14900HX | RTX 4070 (140W) | 32GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD | $2,299 | £2,399
It's one of the fastest RTX 4070 laptops we've tested but all that performance comes at the cost of excessively loud fans, that not even ANC headphones can block out. The hardware inside deserves far better.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.At face value there's not an awful lot of difference between this Vector 17 HX laptop and its predecessor, the Vector GP68 HX.
This limit is 20 W greater than in the previous Vector GP68 HX model, which is certainly great news for gaming, but given that MSI hasn't changed any other aspect of the laptop, especially in terms of cooling, the extra power just means extra heat. The result for the 3DMark Storage test might look a little disappointing but in actual use, games load very quickly and the laptop itself goes from off to Windows in a handle of seconds. To say it boots quickly is a bit of an understatement.says that one of these is a PCIe Gen 5 socket. However, there's no obvious label on the motherboard to indicate which one it is. I'm a little surprised that both M.
What we're seeing here is how well each model prevents the CPU from bouncing off its thermal limit and in the case of the MSI Vector 17 HX, it's not doing a good enough job compared to the, mind, and this is backed up by the CPU temperature recorded during the Metro Exodus benchmarks. All of the Intel-powered laptops clatter off their thermal limits, but that poor Acer just barges right through it.
At least the Vector 17 HX comes blessedly free of the usual amount of bloatware you typically get in a laptop and the only proprietary app is the MSI Center. Here you can keep an eye on various parameters, as well as tweak some of them. The most important of which is the User Scenarios tab. Silent and Super Battery modes were 47 and 45 dB respectively and blessed relief on the ears, but they both seriously cap the power limits of the CPU and GPU. Not surprisingly, it has a significant effect on game performance. Silent mode was just about okay, but Super Battery is nearly useless for gaming.
And then there's the keyboard. It may well be designed by SteelSeries and have nice RGB effects, but I found the key feedback to be dull and rather unpleasant to do lots of typing on. Keyboard feel is very subjective, though, and it may well be your cup of tea. After spending several weeks of gaming and working on the MSI Vector 17 HX, I've been left with several impressions. The first of which concerns the 14900HX which is the last hurrah for Intel's monolithic chip design. Its new Core Ultra range of processors, based on the Meteor Lake architecture, are tiled in nature and Intel's next series of gaming processors will follow suit.
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