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I'm an independent mortgage broker as well as a gamer. I have been shopping for the past few months for the perfect laptop that will give me the best combination of productivity at my business as well as a great gaming experience. I have been so dumbfounded by the lack of quality in the gaming laptop area. BUT! I believe that I have finally found my knight in shining armor in a laptop. The MSI GE63 Raider RGB is a BEAUTIFUL laptop with LED keyboard and even an illuminated back. The build quality is superb and the SteelSeries engine (runs all the lighting) is intuitive and completely revolutionary when dealing with light customization. I can run so many games on ultra and not even have one ounce of lag. The screen is gorgeous and doesn't glare, it is also the fastest screen I have ever used on a laptop and thus games look phenomenal. If you have the money, shell out for this laptop, it's completely worth every penny. I went over my budget by a few hundred dollars, but WOW is it ever worth it. LOVE THIS LAPTOP. One tiny issue I have been having is the touchpad mouse, and it seems a few people have this issue with MSI. The touchpad is great and reacts well, but sometimes when I double click on the mouse, it will jump around. I don't think it's a hardware issue, I think it's more of a driver issue and I have been trying to resolve that. I hope I get it to work, I really don't want to send it in for a warranty issue this quickly. Thanks MSI and SteelSeries!!

The MSI GE63 Raider RGB-012 is the best laptop I have ever owned. This PC has run anything I have throws at it while never dropping below 60 FPS. Forza Horizon 3, Fortnite, CSGO, Rainbow 6 siege. This PC also has yet to even break a sweat doing so, and all without ever having to use the cooler-boost. The PC also supports over-clocking, but you won't need to ever use it because the PC can run almost every game with ease.The RBG is amazing, full control of basically anything I wanna do to it. Great sound quality, and one of the best design yet. I'd say the only downfall is the battery life which is about 2 hours with all the lights on, brightness at 100%, and gaming on 'Turbo' mode. When all that is off and say just doing school work, the battery lasts anywhere from 6-8 hours. I reccomend this PC (well laptop, but I call it a PC because its a laptop with PC performance) to anyone who is looking to have a great time gaming. 5/5 stars.

This laptop is a beast but the hinges on the laptop are absolutely trash. To the point that when they break and they USUALLY DO outside of your warranty your out of luck. You will hand over 69.00 for diagnostics and another 200+ dollars to repair something that will also very likely possibly happen again and MSI will not care or answer your questions because their support is non-existent unless they are processing your payment for the repair of a quality issues they are 100% aware but keep producing. SAVE YOURSELF the tears and money, and just skip MSI products altogether.

The summary is this is one awesome gaming laptop! If you want a no holds barred laptop for gaming that just works at the best possible detail, get this now! Now for the detail: The specs on this laptop are no joke. This laptop plays all of my Blizzard games and STWOR at crazy high detail. I have noticed some very cool details in Overwatch that I have never seen on my Dell Gaming PC before. To say I am impressed with the gaming performance is an understatement. I especially love the automatic switching of the keyboard for each game that is played. It makes it nice when opening Overwatch and the lighting changes to highlight keys used in the game. When you exit, it automatically switches back to the standard keyboard lighting. Coupled with the fact you can also change the lights on the outside lid based on game, this is truly very freakin' cool! The other thing that I really can't over emphasize is that the graphics are amazing. Part of that is because of the GeForce Experience app. This software will find all of your games and setup the best possible detail, resolution, viewing for each game based on your PC specs. It takes all of the guess work out of drivers and game settings and setup all of my games to look absolutely amazing. This is one of the main reasons I stay with GeForce products. Just great gaming without the hassle of figuring out what the best settings are. Now for the bad. While I love the keyboard lighting from SteelSeries, I absolutely hate the layout changes from standard keyboards. I understand why (for example) they moved the Windows key, because you don't want to hit it while playing games, but it makes for some weird using of the computer when not gaming. Again, not a big deal at all, but an annoyance. *Update: In the Dragon Center Software, you can swap the location of the FN and Windows key to make them the same as a standard keyboard with the wrong logo on the key of course. This is very nice, but it doesn't fix the number pad and such, but still makes this much more usable as a standard Windows PC. Also, the headphone/mic jacks are split instead of a single jack like you use on your phone. So headphones are problematic unless you buy a splitter. Again, this makes sense on a gaming PC in which you may stream or do things where a good microphone is important. So it makes sense, but is just a bit annoying for casual gaming or just the need to use a headset when your roommate is sleeping. This laptop does run hot when gaming. I purchased a laptop stand with fans and it is a huge lifesaver when it comes to how cool and loud this laptop gets. When using the fans on the stand on high, they are quiet and so is the laptop because it is getting enough air to stay cool without cranking up the fan speed. Only slightly annoying because honestly, this laptop is putting out a huge amount of heat when everything is cranked up. Again, overall, buy this laptop if you just want a great gaming experience!

I've had this laptop for 2 years and it served me very well. I put thousands of hours of gaming and running demanding engineering software into this machine and it took it like a champ. around the 18th month, the frame snapped in the keyboard near the left hinge. I put a small metal clamp on it to hold it in place and kept chugging. about 21st month the frame in the screen snapped near the right hinge, again I put a small clamp on it to keep things in place and kept chugging. Now in month 24 the left hinge has completely broken. I am a college student so this laptop has been in and out of a backpack several times a day ever since I got it and probably has seen more abuse than it's meant for. TLDR: computer is great, no software issues, plenty of specs for running games and other demanding software. Got weak hinges.

MSI GE63 is a great Laptop, with superb configuration. It has no lag in games, its cooling system is very efficient, especially when it allow you to use the full capacity by pressing a single key. The Rainbow keyboard lighting is great, and the there is also another lighting on the lid which makes it spectacular. Steel-series 3 keyboard is very good, it feels really comfortable to use it. The new MSI Dragon Center makes everything really easy, you can adjust the speed of fans, the mode of operation and so on, in a very user friendly and beautiful platform. I am really happy with this laptop.

Overall the laptop is performing slightly better than expected! I was skeptical of the temperature and noise potentials and am pleased that I can assure you the laptop is quiet and cool! The screen is very clear and crisp. Huge improvement over most stand-alone monitors. (To be clear it's not quite a 144 hz, and if you're used to that like me you may notice a tiny difference.) MSI customer service is very good and is part of the bonuses on this beast. This is a purchase for anyone looking to bust out of desktops and into a higher-end gaming laptop. Only potential con: Won't be a con for most people but I imagine some lesser experienced users might have difficulty changing the standard lighting display. Later at night or in darker rooms the constant rainbows from the default lighting is a bit too much. It's easy enough to dim a bit or switch the settings if you know what you're doing but I don't expect a computer noob to do this without help.

This is a great laptop with a lot of power. I've purchased this product to run a lot of editing software and it is capable of performing well. It is also a lot lighter than I expected compared to a lot of other gaming laptops that I have looked at. Cools down immediately after I turn on the fan. There are a lot of cool features. I would recommend this to one of my friends.