Ports Jacob Roach / Digital TrendsĪ big laptop means a lot of space for ports, and MSI takes advantage. The lid is a bit of a fingerprint magnet, though, as evidenced by the photo above.
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The back vents spill out customizable RGB lighting to match the MSI shield on the top lid, and you have full control over the lighting on the SteelSeries mechanical keyboard when you open the machine up. But the machine looks excellent set up on a desk. You won’t be taking the GT77 Titan out and about with you, especially with the massive power brick in tow. MSI and Intel want to bill this as a workstation replacement, but the design makes it clear: This is a gamer’s laptop with bright RGB, aggressive angles, and enough cooling potential to put the Razer Blade 17 to shame. It’s not as thick as I anticipated, though, clocking in at 0.9 inches thick.Ī big part of the size comes down to the vents in the back, which aggressively jut out of the back to keep the 55W Intel processor and RTX 3080 Ti cool. It’s over 7 pounds, making it a pound heavier than the MSI GE76 Raider, and it’s big, measuring 15.6 inches wide and 13 inches long. The MSI GT77 Titan is a massive laptop - but the whole “Titan” bit kind of gives that away, doesn’t it? It’s big even by the standards of 17-inch workstation replacements, though. The RTX 3080 Ti is a slight boost, but it’s certainly not worth an $1,800 upcharge. The Core i9-12900HX rarely reaches its max boost clock, and the i7 comes with just as many cores. The Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 comes with identical specs for $1,500 less than the top model, and MSI’s own Raider GE76 is $1,000 less if you don’t mind the 45W HK version of the Core i9-12900.įor configurations, the RTX 3070 Ti/Core i7-12800HX model is where you want to be. The GT77 Titan is in the range of ridiculously expensive - if you’re buying a laptop around this price, there’s no sense mincing words on $100 or $200. You likely won’t be able to take advantage of 120Hz at 4K in the vast majority of games, but 360Hz is only useful for highly competitive esports titles. If any laptop justifies 4K, it’s the GT77 Titan. I’m not sure if MSI is actually offering this screen, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
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It’s the $5,000 model, but mine came with a 360Hz 1080p screen. I wasn’t able to track down my exact configuration being sold online. For $1,800 less, you can get a Core i7-12800HX, RTX 3070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5, and the same 4K screen. A top-end model will run you around $5,000 for an RTX 3080 Ti, one of Intel’s new Core i9-12900HX processors, 64GB of RAM, and a 4K screen at 120Hz. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the GT77 Titan is an expensive laptop. Price and configurations Jacob Roach / Digital Trends The MSI GT77 Titan can go toe-to-toe with the best gaming laptops due to its 16-core CPU in performance, but it’s too expensive for that advantage to matter. The GT77 Titan takes advantage of the new chip with an extra high price tag, as well, making it a bad value even compared to MSI’s other high-end offerings. Multi-core performance is off the charts, but most applications are just fine with Intel’s non-HX offerings, especially considering that this is a gaming laptop, first and foremost.