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compact lightweight subdued inexpensive dongle if any of those words are part of your vocabulary go ahead and delete them right now because when msi called us and asked if we wanted to check out their latest and greatest iteration of the GT eight series we actually had to go check and see if we had enough space in the warehouse and after careful consideration and a game of tetris in real life we realized that this photo on MSI's website was not to scale so as big as it was we could make it happen so fast forward two weeks and here we are with the msi gt80 3 vr 7 RF titan sli by msi or as i'll be calling it ryan but is its performance as big as its name let's find out shall we because that's what we do the phoenix auteur is a full-sized minimalistic li designed keyboard complete with Cherry MX switches and a new white backlit variant check it out at the link below the first thing you'll notice about Ryan aside from his aggressive shape is that he's freakin huge if you know what I mean the second thing you'll notice is that he is freaking heavy the laptop itself weighs over 13 pounds and when you add on the twin power bricks at 3 pounds each that a evoke a certain you know failed 90s game console you end up with a total carry weight of 19 pounds I hope you've been working out but what all will you get to bring with you no dongles new things with the diagonal screen size of 18 point 4 inches and a maximum thickness at the back of 69 millimeters Ryan has plenty of room in the trunk for hardware he's packin dual GTX 1080s in SLI a ball and cooling system with 15 heat pipes 229 blade fans and a smaller 25 blade fan and he's got room for io2 you get support for up to three external 4k 60 Hertz displays if you use the Thunderbolt 3 port as a display port port he's got a blu-ray burner and a plethora of audio outputs including Toslink and an extra headphone jack for the excellent included ESS sabre deck for your portable headphones not that you'll be using Ryan on the go much balancing the GT 83 on my boney frail lap is an exercise in frustration a lap top this is not especially when you consider the placement of the SteelSeries designed keyboard on the subject of which linear RGB Cherry MX speed switches may appeal to some but I actually personally miss the tactile bump of the previous models Brown key switches to be clear this is still a full mechanical keyboard on a laptop which is dope a s as the kids say but that doesn't make it immune to criticism not only did they again replicate this key for some reason the significant lip around the edge of the keyboard returns with no wrist rest included to make it more comfortable it is something you'll get used to but there's definitely a learning curve and the same goes for the trackpad I tell you guys the number of times that I type something and reach down to yeah right to its credit it's got a smooth consistent feel with satisfyingly tactile buttons and touching this corner turns it into a lackluster numpad for emergencies but it's clearly sidelined by the keyboard and the internals meaning that's just another usability disadvantage though in fairness to NSI if you're carrying this monstrosity around they probably expect you to have a mouse in your wagon as well and you can even throw in a USB numpad if you were into that sort of thing but will you also need some speakers MSI doesn't think so and in this case we actually agree the Titans for speaker 1 subwoofer setup got plenty loud in our testing with a surprising fullness to the sound even if it's a little light on the subject allowed us to drive even high-end headphones with MSI's majimak to providing excellent virtual surround for gaming before we move on to performance testing though we really need to talk about the display you don't often see an 18 point 4 inch laptop monitor but it's strange size doesn't make it factory calibrated 100% srgb IPS panel any that's beautiful where it does lose points is its resolution refresh rate and lack of standout features like g-sync a balls-to-the-wall gaming laptop powering a 1080p 60 Hertz gaming experience with screen tearing feels a little like watching Emma Watson get married to a gopher it's just a total mismatch so then with all of that out of the way let's move on to testing our Ryan is spec to the max with a one terabyte twin nvme raid zero storage array but MSI calls super raid load games works in seconds all right then let's load games we'll be comparing against our Sega NP 98-73 and the Acer predator 21 X on the laptop side as well as two comparable desktop setups with the answer to the most important question coming first is ryan worth his weight in frames per second actually yes the Sager tops the charts but the Titan GT 83 crushes the rest of the competition with our predator 21 X actually coming in below our desktops to the surprise of nobody who has ever picked it up weighted averages aside though the Titan found itself near the bottom of our performance laptop pack with the DirectX 11 modes of both Deus Ex mankind divided and rise of the Tomb Raider but gained significant traction with the DirectX 12 modes for honor saw the Titan in turbo mode pick back up to become the highest of our minimum frame rate performers and only the GTX 1080 Ti desktop surpassed the Titans turbo minimum in GTA 5 with that said though it's average frame rates we're again at the back of the line up with Ghost Recon wildlands echoing that average result under full I 264 load our CPU got up to a cozy 88 degrees while fur mark worked our heat pipes overtime with toasty GPUs at 85 and 90 degrees with cooler boost enabled temperatures dropped to 85 on the CPU with the GPUs at 85 and 81 but of course it gets a shall we say a fair bit louder so who is the Titan GT 83 Ryan Edition for exactly with its MSRP of 54 hundred US Dollars and minimum effort one-year warranty it's not going to be winning any top value Awards I mean seriously MSI you could have at least given us the full version of winzip to go along with our Norton trial but I can't fault the performance and while our desktops obviously come ahead in terms of performance per dollar they aren't as portable as Ryan and compared to similarly SPECT offerings from Acer and Sager the GT 83 Titan is right in the ballpark or should I say baller park yeah I went there so you heard from your nephew or niece or whatever that a VPN is a good idea and you go and you look into it you're like what DNS configuration port forwarding are you kidding me tunneled there takes all that crap out of setting up a VPN for personal use you download tunnel there it's available for PC Mac Android iOS they even have a Chrome extension you press like one button and boom your internet connection gets encrypted with AES 256-bit encryption and you appear to the websites and services that you want to use online as though you are some anonymous person from some other random country allowing you to access services 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