MSI GT72VR Dominator Pro-257 17.3" 120Hz 5ms Display Hard Core Gaming Laptop GTX 1070 i7-6700HQ 16GB 128GB M.2 SATA + 1TB Windows 10 VR Ready

This laptop quite possibly has one of the best price to performance ratios of all gaming notebooks available to purchase from trusted manufacturers. New games like BF1 can run at Ultra and still make use of the in high refresh rate display the laptop is equipped with. Slightly older games like Skyrim run without issue even with 4K textures and other mods enabled. Basically, this computer should be able to run at least 95% of the games you can throw at it, and thanks to its high spec hardware, should be able to continue doing this for the foreseeable future. MSI succeeded in designing a gaming laptop that, for a reasonable cost, allows a gamer to play their favorites with great performance.What they failed to do was make sure all the laptops were 100% functional. The first laptop I received worked roughly half of the time and as such was exchanged for a new laptop that also had some issues (more on the second laptop later). The major issue with the first computer turned out to be a defective display; the computer would boot up to a white screen half of the time which made it unusable without an external display. I imagine that many people, myself included will are interested in the 120 Hz refresh rate that this model offers. Having one of the primary features be nonfunctional out of the box was certainly a frustrating experience. However amazon took care of this issue by allowing me to exchange it for a new one.The second one arrived and worked out of the box with some annoyances of its own. Whenever the graphics card was put under load, such as during gameplay, the system would crash. After hours of research I identified the culprit was faulty VBIOS that were shipped with the product. Removing the original VBIOS in favor of a new version fixed this issue but still left me frustrated as it really was a waste of my time. MSI really needs to take a closer look at the products it ships out to make sure they aren't defective in even the slightest way so that customers aren't given a crippled or broken machine.All in all I recommend this laptop but only if you understand that there is a possiblity of problems out of the box because of MSI's incompetent QC section. If you get it working, there truly is no better deal at this current moment but the risks, however slight they may be are there.

Great laptop for the price, but it will be a gamble on getting a decent/ working GPU. I noticed that the laptop would instantly freeze/ crash on certain games. Overtime, this actually became all games. I tried factory resets, reinstalling the video cards drivers, but nothing works. I contact the seller about the issue and never received a response. After reading online, there appears to be issues with a notebooks GTX 1070's. I'm finally going to RMA this in hope that it will be fixed.

A great value, but there is too much garbage that comes with it. Do a fresh install of windows and you are golden.

Well this is a powerful system for it's price but sadly i had broke the warranty seal to upgrade to a 2.5" SSD, and now gpu is always crashing when it hits 1600+ mhz and i have no way of returning for warranty because they have couldn't even add a easy access panal for ssd without breaking the warranty.

The laptop is just awesome but giving it a 4 start cause it has only one m2 ssd slot. I didn't knew before purchasing it that it didn't have the raid configuration. Otherwise the laptop and it's performance is awesome. Also the laptop doesn't feel cheap anyways. Thanks to msi for the nice designing and premium feel.

Was very worried after reading many negative reviews regarding the broken GPU. However, mine works fine for now. Boosted GPU clock up to 1900mhz and it ran smoothly with no crushes in Witcher 3 on ultra. Will test on more games in order to make sure that my GPU is 100% working.

I LOVE THIS LAPTOP

Pretty good.