This is the MSI GL62M REX it is a budget notebook now I picked this one up
here from China for 899 USD considering the spec I feel it's a
really good price so it has a core i7 KB like 7700 HQ now that's a quad-core CPU
the GPU on board here is an Nvidia 1050 Ti with 4 gigabytes of double data rate
5 RAM now the stock base configuration that you get straight out of the box is
8 gigabytes of RAM so only one sodam is used there's another spare one in there
in this review here I've upgraded my unit and I'll show you in just a second
and we have a 1 terabyte hard drive so gaining access to the internals isn't
that difficult but you do have a lot of screws here that you need to remove all
around the outside and then just pry off the lid and that gives you access to
everything so for my review i've added an additional 8 gigabytes of ram you can
see slotted in here and my own SSD so this slot here will support m vm e or
PCIe x for running a 960 Evo in here and the one terabyte drive would be located
right here the spindle drive which has 7200 rpm but I have removed that because
I wasn't happy with the noise it was making so upgradability is quite good we
can replace the RAM replace the hard drive add an SSD set of three or nvme
and we can replace the wireless card here if you're not happy with the one
I've included so the cooling solution that they have on here 6 copper transfer
heat pipes and a very large you can see thick copper base here that's connecting
to straight on to the GPU die here the CPU is right here looks like it's going
to be really good and efficient but as I found out later in my testing process
that really these two fans here or at least the CPU fan is just a little too
small and it's not just blowing out a sufficient amount of air at least when
you leave it on the default cooling mode without using that cooler booster for
will run into thermal throttling but more on that later on in the video so
you see that the battery cell here 41 watt-hours isn't particularly large
for a laptop that's 15.6 inches but battery life hasn't really ever been a
priority when it comes to gaming laptops and nothing has changed here now if
there is one thing that is missing on here it is a subwoofer we great if it
had a 2.1 system because these four speakers that we do have downwards
firing as you hit from my sample later on they sound particularly flat and they
could really be aided by the fact of having a sub located about here the GL
62 my is 2.3 keido's and the weight distribution isn't too bad
slightly heavier at the rear here but overall it doesn't enhance feel as if
it's 2.3 but perhaps a little bit lighter now the build is completely
plastic but it is a quality plastic they have used and it has like a matte kind
of coating to it so it's quite grippy it's not slippery but it does have on
the lid you can see here quite a bit of flex I don't believe this is going to be
an issue however but the materials used here on this budget laptop and the same
kind of quality you get on the more premium options so on the left of the
left top we have microphone and headphone outs type-c port now
unfortunately it's not funderbolt and it's only USB 3 spec a USB 3 port mini
display out HDMI out another USB 3 port Ethernet that's one gigabit as well so
nice and fast and then a Kensington lock slot there then on the right DC end for
charging of course with 150 watt power supply we have an SD card slot which is
great to see and it's one of those clickin style ones so you shouldn't be
breaking these cards off by accident with those ones that sometimes stick out
like that which personally I really hate those ones however this port is only
wired up via a USB 2 hub so it is slow you cannot take advantage of high speed
cards and then lastly a USB 2 port on the rear the two exhaust fans for the
CPU and GPU which I feel it is a bit of a design error that these vents should
be a little bit bigger so the fans and sigh could also be larger so it has a
steelseries keyboard now if I press down really hard here you will see there's a
bit of flex and the design there but under normal
typing pressure using this it doesn't bother me at all and in fact I find
typing on this keyboard is really good it's a nice keyboard I do like it it
comes with the us layout even though this is a Chinese version that's think
they aren't they use they're in China now the touchpad is a synaptics one and
it's the same exact material as the rest of the palm rest now palm rest if I
press down here you see a bit of flex but again when using this it's not
really a problem I'm only just pushing quite hard here just to show you the
design how rigid it is it's not exactly super rigid like the premium models like
the go series that are actually slimmer too they seem to be a lot more rigid and
don't suffer from so much flex there we've got two individual large clicky
style mouse buttons and overall the touchpad to me feels alright however I
have had to increased the speed of it increase the speed and a sensitivity to
get really the most out of it it's certainly not the best touchpad I have
used and also one thing to note that the material this plastic is a complete
smudge magnet already the touch pads thing to get a little bit shiny I can
see marks from my fingers and things so you'll be wiping this down all the time
to try and keep it looking clean and new I've only had it now for about seven or
eight days I've been using it the whole time and already it's lost that kind of
new look to it and already looks used which is a shame so up the top here we
have the power button where the status LED there and we have this G now this is
for the gaming center so dragon gaming center will bring up all your options
and stuff there and this button which works via the BIOS as the cooler booster
this then puts both of the fans to maximum rpm to try and push out as much
air as possible one thing to point out too that I don't think a lot of reviews
are mentioning is that if you do get this particular model even though it is
cheaper one other con is that the bias is going to be all in Chinese and as far
as I can tell you can't change it I've flashed a new BIOS update and it was
still remained in Chinese I've pulled the battery that's on the motherboard
I've unplugged the battery yet again still defaults and is always in Chinese
so as you can see here that the IPS panel that's in here no
it's not a TN it's only the earlier models that had crappy TN panels in here
is quite decent you can see the blacks are dark here and my unit I think of
lucked out here with the IPS lottery don't seem to have any screen bleed
whatsoever so the panel does have an anti-glare coating on here so it's not
susceptible to reflections I've got my powerful studio lights on and they are
not reflecting on the upper right hand side there which they probably would do
if this was a glossy panel so the maximum brightness comes out to 247 Lux
which is not bad for an anti glare panel and overall I really do like the screen
but bear in mind though that this is a 60 Hertz panel it does not go up to 120
Hertz like other msi recent laptops that they have released now looking at the
device manager here just wanted to point out what we have for the wireless
chipset so its intel's dual band wireless AC 30 168 here so it's not one
of the fastest ones there intel does have that 8200 series which do offer
better performance now I did a quick benchmark here now the speeds should be
a little bit higher than this but at the time I was actually I think was
uploading something else but I have seen this get up to almost my full fiber
optic line speed here which is 300 megabits per second both upload and
download symmetric and also notice that the range of the wireless perfectly fine
I think it's because the whole housing on this laptop is plastic it's not
inhibited the signal of course if it was a metal build to it so perfectly fine
there with that now if we have a look at the SSD I have installed my own one here
so it came with a one terabyte 7200 rpm Drive that is rather slow but it's
actually for the type of driver it is it's not really that bad because it gets
around 100 to the 30 reads and writes megabits per second but with my drive
here of course that is running and PCIe times 4 and I've just finished up
benchmarking it here so very good performance out of that that is blazing
fast I really do love those Drive so no
bottlenecks at all when it comes to storage here now that slot is a PCI x 4
slot but also set a 3 so if you do happen to have a 22 by 80 set of three
SSD you could put that in there but of course your speeds will cap out around
550 megabytes per second reason writes they're sequential if you have seen my
unboxing one thing to note here that is gonna be able to van issue for some
people is that this particular model is the Chinese version so it did ship with
Windows 10 in Chinese however what I did is I created a Windows 10 media USB
pendrive flash drive and then I installed the Windows 10 but make sure
you install the Windows 10 home version in English you can let add your own
language packs later on and it did activate using the existing key that's
incorporated part of the bias so activation was not an issue you do not
have to buy a new license for this which is one positive now I have a look at a
couple of benchmarks here so this is the heaven benchmark number for average
frames per second of 81 and the score is 2044 I thought that actually wasn't too
bad considering it's a 1050 T I quite pleased with that score now you will
notice that my clocks here it is overclocked so for most of these schools
here I will be overclocking the GPU here and the reason why I feel that a lot of
people will probably be doing this to squeeze the absolute maximum out of this
chipset I'll show you those overclocks here just with MSI Afterburner I just
kill that here in mint my benchmark off there in the background so there we've
got the clocks that I've applied so 110 to the core clock and then one gigabyte
to the RAM so though looks like they're under clock the RAM to start with anyway
it could probably go even higher than that
now I've experienced absolutely no issues with this overclock so no
artifacts no driver crashing issues nothing like that I could even probably
push the core clock even higher but I'm gonna leave it at that I feel which is
fine and you see here that the drive that I'm using is the 385 point 4 1
which at the time of this review is the latest driver here so Cinebench r15 84
frames per second by OpenGL and in the CPU got 724 now if you do keep the stock
configuration which is only the 8 gigabytes of RAM and
single channel then this score will be something in the upper six hundreds so a
little bit slower there because I've got dual bandwidth and more RAM is this
going to help a little bit there to speed things up so it also ran Geekbench
for here decent score it's now faster again because I'm running dual channel
RAM as the stock configuration only has that one slot in there allowing you to
put an extra additional eight gigabytes in here is the OpenCL score which is
using the GPU again that is with the overclock when it's stock it's around
eighty thousand so this overclock here is basically
giving us a boost of around ten to eleven percent on the GPU which is
really good considering that as a a free boost they're not as high as some GPUs
but overall not too bad at all so the stocks cool here of fire strike and you
can see now with the overclock we get 10% more or less there so not bad now
just a touch on the battery life here right now I have forced the GPU to be
the Nvidia one the 1050 Ti and that is just through the control panel here and
you can set that you can also force it to just the Intel now why I've done this
is just to demonstrate the kind of battery life you can expect so you get
around one hour in 30 minutes if you're not gaming on the dedicated GPU but if
you do something more demanding like gaming or you're doing some 3d editing
or video editing or something like that then you're only gonna get around one
hour of battery life from the 40 watt 41 watt hour battery there now if you turn
over or leave it on auto select over to the integrated graphics then you're
looking around double the time then it consumes a lot less power around three
hours which is not ideal this is not a laptop designed really as a gaming
laptop it's not really designed for battery life for me the better life is
really what I expect for a gaming laptop so nothing amazing at all in fact it's
very poor as expected really so how is gaming performance well it can play all
the latest games 1080p it's not a problem you do not have to lower the
resolution to something like 70 TP but I have noticed that it will
thermal throttle so if you don't use the cooler booster which is currently on at
the moment you'll be fine with the cooler booster on I just find that the
cooling at the moment isn't really doing an adequate job if you don't use that
extra loud fan cooler booster which increases the RPMs on both of the GPU
and CPU fan and really cool things right down so games like this yep perfectly
playable
so you can see that this is what happens when you don't use the caller booster
mode that the temperatures will get up there quite hot and it will run into
thermal throttling which was triggered right here you can see with that peak
this isn't our extreme tuning utility so it's telling me there that yes it did to
my throttle and that was right when the framerate literally hard it went from
about 50 frames per second down to 26 30 which is not good to see but if you do
use the caller booster then thermal throttling will not take place and you
will not see this now editing 4k video here which was really the main reason
why I bought this particular laptop here with the 16 gigabytes of RAM in here now
the timeline is very fast I mean this is pretty much just real-time so no
problems with that no slowdown or lag like trying to do this on a core m3 so
I'll be using just like I did with the me notebook f13 the youtube 4k preset is
what's going to be and exactly well more or less one-minute their export it now
we'll see how long it takes however if you have a look at this we did run into
some thermal throttling again just like when I was gaming on it it didn't affect
the CPU speeds much though in fact it looks like they hardly dropped really
only about a hundred or even less than that megahertz but it did get up to 96
degrees you can see right there which is just far too hot I feel so really the
cooling solution on this isn't that great I don't think it's doing a very
good job here if it's getting up to 96 degrees so there are the 4 downwards
firing speakers and unfortunately no sup so these speakers they sound flat they
do lack bass but they certainly do not lack in volume so let's have a listen to
them
now the laptop does come with the MSI's dragons seem to like all of their gaming
laptops and what it allows you to do is just get a quick overview here of the
RPMs on the fans your power mode your GPU call clocks and things like that
temperatures are also listed in here and the system tune you're able just to
tweak a few things so USB boost helps increase the speed there of your USB
external drives and flash drives storage boosters as well and you can control the
different modes here with the turbo now this turbo who is actually overclocking
only the GPU because the CPU that's in here is not overclockable
lockable it's not a k-series one so it's not the HK and we also have the control
of the fans you can customize the fan speeds to your own liking here in the
advanced setting to control that and then also music you can control through
there the no hemic music settings and then the RGB so you've got different
modes there for anti blue to remove the blue light movie office standard things
like that okay so after a week of using this where do I stand I'm kind of a
little bit mixed here because I do like the build of it I love typing on this
keyboard it's actually a lot better than I thought it was gonna be budget gaming
laptop you have to remember that that this is really at the bottom end not
quite the bottom bottom but hey I paid 899 us for this which I feel is a really
decent price considering I've got the the core i5 kb lake 7700 in here and
then a 1050 Ti with not 2 gigabytes of RAM but the 4 gigabytes there so the
screen is really good overall the build the touch pad here I end up using a
mouse most of the time I find it's just sometimes just not quite as responsive
as I would like and the material I really wish it was made out of glass or
something but then again they've got a tone down on the materials they've used
here so it's all plastic you're going to build there's no premium materials at
all so there is basically some cons that start out whether as soon as you get
this as soon as you turn it on its Windows 10 Chinese you can fix that the
license will pull through not a problem the drivers are all on MSI's website the
biases in Chinese but not too much of an issue really because it's locked down
anyway so you can't tweak advanced settings
like power limits or something like that the biggest con for me I feel as a
design flaw here is the fans the cooling fan on the CPU is just not large enough
it should be a larger size to push out a higher volume of air to keep it from
thermal throttling so we should never see thermal throttling on a gaming
laptop it doesn't matter if this is a 899 that I paid for it or a $2,000
laptop it should not have thermal throttling efforts designed properly
because it's got six copper cooling pipes in there that is that's awesome it
looks good it looks the part doesn't it but because of that smaller fan it's
just not pushing pushing out the air that it should be resulting in higher
temperatures reaching 96 degrees Celsius encoding 4k video now if they improve
the calling on this i would say straight away yeah this is an absolute steal go
out there and buy it now it could be my unit I don't believe it is because I've
had a look now at the thermal pad while the pace the pad that's on there and
things look normal to me I don't see any problem with it's not like they left a
layer of plastic under there or something no it's all perfect to me so
really I feel it's those vans and really MSI needs to get onto this improve the
design and then this will be a really good gaming budget laptop here that can
handle everything with that i7 700 that's in there so I do have to catch
you back with more up-and-coming reviews on laptops maybe not gaming ones but
more the budget orientated but I will be planning and I hope to review the Xiaomi
aameen notebook pro soon once that is finally released so I hope to catch you
back then thank you so much for watching this rather long review here and I do
hope to see you back in the channel soon
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