Picked up the MSI Titan 18 HX Dragon Edition 4 days ago… yeah, I’m loving this thing
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MSI Vector 16 HX AI Gaming Laptop

I’m thinking of getting the MSI Vector 16 HX AI Gaming Laptop with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (16 GB) and 32 GB of RAM.

Is it good for 3d design? I mainly work with fusion 360 and I’m getting into rhino & blender with some light rendering work, I also use 3d scanners and I do medical segmentation with 3D Slicer.

I will be upgrading from a MacBook Pro 2019 intel core i9 with 16 gb of RAM, and I’m between a laptop (mainly this) or building a PC which I’m hesitant about because of portability.

Also, I found it for around 2700$, is that a good deal?

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MSI vector 16 hx problem
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Does anyone have any good experiences with MSI repair in the uk?

Im thinking of getting my msi katana repaired because it has some performance issues when gaming. Im worried about past reviews saying not to give Msi the laptop for repair since it will take nearly a month. Is this true?

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Msi Katana 15 B13VGK PCB
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Costco Raider 18 woes

I am sad and people suck.

I ordered a Raider 18 AI HX with an ultra 9 285hx and a 5090 from Costco online. They had a good deal and I was pumped. Good deal means it was only 1 kidney instead of 2.

It was to be delivered today and I’ve been watching the door like a hawk.

Finally arrived. I busted it open and immediately something was off. The outer box was taped with what appears to be genuine MSI tape. But the inner box didn’t have any sort of seal on it. I opened that and pulled the laptop out. Now I know these aren’t the sleekest lookers, but this one looked nothing like the pictures.

I turned it on and started setting it up and noticed the intel sticker was the core i9 sticker. I got it to the system info page and it is a 14900 with a 4070.

The box however, including the outer box, state the correct laptops information. The serial number on the computer in the box doesn’t match the box it came in.

I called costco immediately and they assured me they’d send a replacement and I could send this back. I asked him to triple note it that the return is not going to match the box because that’s how it came. I really hope this goes smoothly.

I was so excited to try out this new computer that I blew some major cash on. Now I have some theifs paper weight that I get to send back and wait for hopefully the right one to come again.

Every time I have seen one of these stories on Reddit I always assume the persons full of it, but apparently this stuff does somehow happen.

🫩

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Msi Modern 15 i3

Ho appena comprato il mio secondo pc, un MSI Modern 15 a un buon prezzo. Senza scendere nel dettaglio dell’intel I3 vorrei sapere se questo processore unito a 16gb di RAM e 512gb di ssd assicuri un’utilizzo fluido; intendo una buona navigazione e utilizzo di programmi base tipo Office. Vorrei soprattutto evitare i piccoli rallentamenti o bug che può avere un processore di fascia bassa. Non mi aspetto prestazioni esagerate, semplicemente una velocità senza intoppi. Fa al caso mio?

Grazie a tutti

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MSI 16 hx ai Fan problem

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Has anyone repasted a Katana 15 B13VGK?

Warranty on my laptop is expired so I am looking to repaste it with Arctic MX-6. Has anyone had any issues with repasting this laptop? While I have repasted my previous GL65 laptop, I want to ask if there are any quirks of the K15 I need to be aware of when taking the heatsink off as I don't want to accidentally break things because there was something on this laptop that I didn't think of.

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Laptop has loud coil whine

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Advice on setup

Hi all,

I've got an MSI GF63 thin and I've just plugged in some upgrades, just not sure how to configure it.

I've doubled the RAM, which is fine and has sped it up a chunk.


The thing I don't know what to do with is the 1tb 2.5" SSD. I saw people suggesting it could increase performance, but I'm not sure how to use it to do that.

It has the stock 512gb nvme drive booting it and running windows, so what do I use the 2.5 for? Just storage?

If it helps I mainly use it for 3d modelling

Thanks for your help

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Laptop has loud coil whine

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Glitch on New laptop

I just purchased a new MSI prestige Ryzen 9 laptop, and ever since I have installed Google Anti Gravity and comet , my whole laptop is glitching like anything, is this an MSI issue or what ??

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Can’t log into my msi Bravo 15 c7vfk after the new firmware update

Yesterday I installed the new msi firmware update and tried logging in but it said that for some reason I cant use my pin and every time i enter my password for my Microsoft account it says the password is incorrect But I am entering the correct password so idk what the issue is

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Is this trend in maximum capacity normal?
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Freezing image and sound repeating

Hey guys,

I got myself a new MSI Laptop in december (Katana 17 B13V to be exact) and I've noticed some really annoying freezing once in a while. So I've started playing Fallout New Vegas again after not being able to do so for a long time and I first encountered that issue there. Basically I was in a loading screen and the whole picture just froze and the last sound got repeated endlessly (you probably know what I mean). At first I thought it was the game itself because it's known to be very buggy but later I also encountered that same issue when simply watching a Youtube Video so it has to be the Laptop itself, right? Most of the time when it happened in-game I had to completely close the game as it was stuck indefinitely but with Youtube videos it usually just freezes for a second or two but the sound is driving me insane, especially because I can't imagine a brand new Laptop is supposed to do that. Does anyone know what could be the issue here? I'm not tech savvy at all and don't really know the ins and outs of a PC so I'm pretty desperate to be honest.

Hope you guys can help me in any way.

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Laptop in sleep mode

I have an MSI laptop with a Chicoy brand charger, and everything works fine, except for one small problem. I have a simple microphone and an RGB keyboard connected through an Anker USB hub. Everything works perfectly until I put the laptop to sleep, or it goes to sleep on its own after a while. Right then, I don't know if it's a problem with the port or the hub, but the keyboard and microphone keep their RGB lighting on, and I noticed that the charger starts making a noise at that moment. It's the typical "chittering" sound, but intermittent, and the volume is low. Is this normal? Could it damage the charger if I keep leaving it like this?

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Higher GPU and CPU temperature after BIOS update - MSI Laptop Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG-476 - E15M3IMS.116

Title basically. Before the update my GPU barely went above 76°C but now in the most current games (Spiderman 2, Starfield, AC Shadows, Titan Quest 2, Cyberpunk etc.) it reaches temps around 84°C. It looks similar for the CPU: before it got max to 85ish, and now its between 95 and 100. Anyone else experiences the same? Nothing besides the BIOS update changed on my computer, neither did the room temperature change or how I have my laptop positioned.

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Crosshair 18 HX AI

I found this on Costco’s website and I am considering it. I am not familiar with the MSI brand, so all thoughts and opinions on spec, price and quality are welcome.

https://www.costco.com/p/-/msi-crosshair-18-hx-ai-18-gaming-laptop-intel-core-ultra-9-275hx-nvidia-rtx-5070-2560x1600-32gb-ram-1tb-ssd-windows-11-home/4000374413

Thank you!

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Q: does anyone know/own the MSI KATANA 15 B13VFK?

It's my current laptop with the msi katana 15 b13vfk-1850id (i7 13620h w rtx 4060(105w), 16gb ddr5 5200 and 1tb gen5 nvme for ~900$ by the time i bought it before it went off sale

Any experience with it or smh? Because after owning it for 7 months i noticed the temps were quite getting higher than 80°C starting mid december, before it was chill at around 50°C at idle to the 60-78°C under load on a room temp of 25-28°C

And the performance quite getting worse as well (i think it has something more to do with nvidia drivers and windows 11 updates even after debloating the ai shenanigans and stuff)

For reference i casually play war thunder tank battles at 1440p movie settings (with some tweaks to the settings) using dx12:

Before november the avg fps was 160-250

But after november when i updated nvidia drivers and updating to windows 25h2 (26200.7462), the fps dropped to the 60 or lower with very frequent stutters and all, and i switched to dx11 its 80-100fps at best, more smoother but has stutters time to time, and then i use vulkan (quite a hidden render engine that war thunder use, but usable at any time if you know how to do it) and i got 105-150fps at best with no stutters

And for note when using dx11 or dx12 if i alt.+tab it could just freeze the game for a significant amount of time or just crashed it

So on my conclusion, over time your laptop gets hotter (prob from poor thermal paste quality over time, the fans are fine and vents are clean because i cleaned them frequently every end of the month), and you get less performance from driver updates and windows updates.

Even bios update doesn't help with performance so its software limited, and you gotta change the thermal paste to a better one or use ptm7950 if you have the same laptop i have or a variant of it at least

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Changing Thermal paste msi pulse 17 b13vfk

So i was noticing my laptop is running really high temps while gaming (100 degrees celsius) even with the fanboost on so i think i have to put new thermal paste on the cpu and gpu and clean out the fans. I havent done that by myself ever so i wanted to know if anyone knows a video how to correctly open everything i cant seem to find anything thats my model. Also any tips on how to do that by myself are also welcome :D

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