REVIEW: MSI GF75 Thin powered with GTX1650 and 9th Gen Intel CPU


Introduction
The Intel 9th Gen CPU laptops lineup have just released not long ago across all the laptop / gaming laptops brand, and i got the chance to do a little review for the MSI GF75 with GTX1650 and 9th gen cpu which peek my interest with it's design and the price which is RM5,199 when i bought it. And the overall outlook look much different comparing to other current or old MSI laptops



specs:
- 17.3″ FHD (1920*1080), 60Hz IPS, Thin Bezel
- GeForce® GTX 1650 , 4GB GDDR5
- Coffeelake i7-9750H+HM370
- DDR IV 8GB (2666MHz)
- 512GB NVMe PCIe SSD

The MSI GF75 body is a mixture of aluminium and plastic which is surprisingly sturdy as a thin laptop, and i would expect it to be using GTX Max-Q version for it's graphic, but it is using the standard GTX1650 which surprised me. Furthermore, it have a thin bezel monitor which come with IPS level of color gamut display, a level-up ventilation design to let air to flow at the bottom of the laptop and overall it is light.

Build quality
As for the build quality, the laptop is build with a mixture of aluminium and plastic where the aluminium part are mostly covered the housing and the plastic part is around the keyboard which they did this to compensate on the costing without compromising performance. Though the hinge part is build much more sturdier comparing to MSI older models.

Keyboard
The MSI GF75 keyboard build with Steelseries technology which have quite the sensation in typing and there is no mushy feeling towards typing. Regretfully, this model only come with a Red backlight only for it's keyboard,




- Top view with laptop closed, The MSI logo in this GF75 were printed red and have no 3d visualization look like the GS75 .



From the left side it have the
- Charging port
- 1 HDMI port
- 2 USB port
- Fan Exhaust



Right side it have
- LAN port
- USB type-C port
- 1 USB port
- Headphone Jack
- Laptop lock
- Fan Exhaust



The GF75 have 2 fans, 4 exhaust and 4 heatpipe. A bit lackluster comparing to other MSI model like the GS75 or GE75, but the GF75 are cater to more entry level gamer and which is more cheaper . Tested on gaming, the temperature were fine (For this part, I will provide more photo of the temperature and FPS etc in near future)



- Red only keyboard backlight



- Mousepad slightly larger than the usual gaming laptop and increased smoother sensation



- bottom part of the laptop with ventilation holes and factory seal's sticker


As from the overall outlook, it is sturdy and light for such a 17 inch thin laptop which come with great display. But for the down side, the GF75 does not come with full aluminium where they compensate with plastic for the price. As for the performance i will do it in the near future.

This post has been edited by RocketShooter: May 10 2019, 03:53 PM

Nice casing, looks great, but hows the touch pad??

can you also review some games on this laptop and show its fps etc? what about the hinge quality? is it easy to break or smth?

The touchpad is bigger than usual, the sensation is not as smooth as I tested on the MSI GS65, but for a Mid-range gaming laptop wise it is consider good.

Definitely bro, give me some time and i will upload them, some of the benchmark i am still downloading

how much it is ?

I bought it at RM4,999

nice hows the cooling 4 the laptop ?
u have no HDD ?

To be honest, this GF75 is way better than the GF63, at least it have 2 fans. though the cooling is not as good as the GP or the GE, but it is consider above average cooling for this laptop range

o i see

u used a lot of MSI be4 huh big fan ?
which model u like best ?

I don't say im a fan, I did use their laptop the most which i trusted the most. If can, i like to have the GE series, but it's out of my budget

lol like that still not fan
so u using which 1 now ?

Well, you could say that lol ahaha, but im those type who choose for better model instead of brand, but since the model i bought are quite satisfying, i might really became a fan of them

lol im like that too

so wats the size of the HDD in the laptop ?

Actually this have no HDD lol, only SSD. Though it have a slot for you to upgrade HDD

o i see thats interesting, didnt know got just SSD config

Isn't it a bit expensive for 1650? Can get Dell G5 2060 or new Helios 300 with 2060 at 5200rm on Lazada

Technically RTX2060 laptop can get around Rm5.1k++depending on promotion on sales even for MSI cheapest RTX laptop. But prices mostly vary due to various reason like CPU generation etc. As i recall those RM5k + RTX laptop is using 8th Gen Cpu too.

As for what I know, this laptop is slightly expensive for few reason, CPU generation, size of the laptop and GPU which are the major factor. Furthermore the GF75 is a Thin laptop which will be more expensive for the 2.1k+ above laptop which around the same spec.

Got 17inch laptop with this spec at this price point?