New Year, New Tech: MSI’s GT83VR leads a huge gaming laptop refresh with Intel’s Kaby Lake CPUs

Over at CES, MSI has unleashed a replacement generation of rested “true gambling” notebooks that boast Intel’s newest Kaby Lake processors and Nvidia’s GTX 1050 (and 1050 Ti) graphics to higher drive VR gaming (and in fact ancient titles, too).

There’s a full vary of rested models, as well as the top-end GT83VR – that gets associate degree RGB keyboard – and the GT73VR, GT72VR, GT62VR, at the side of the GS73VR, GS63VR, GS43VR, and therefore the GE72VR, GE62VR, and the GP62VR, GP72VR, GP62MVR, GP72/GP62, and at last the GL72/GL62.

All of those notebooks can return packing up to Core i7 Kaby Lake (seventh-generation) HQ-series CPUs that MSI estimates can give a 15% (non-overclocked) to 25% (overclocked) performance boost over the previous Skylake CPUs.

On the graphics front, MSI is introducing Nvidia’s GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti with its new line-up. Compared to the last-gen GTX 960M, you'll be able to expect 15% higher performance with the 1050 Ti, in line with the corporate.

As well as Kaby Lake and Pascal hardware serving  to allow power tool performance levels in VR games, MSI has conjointly improved matters on the sonic front with the world’s  1st computer game sound sweetening courtesy of Nahimic VR with 7.1 surround – though this may solely come back on elite models.

A further audio boon is that the inclusion of ESS Sabre HiFi audio DAC to confirm you get the simplest quality output to your gambling headphones. The GT83VR series boasts a 32bit/384KHz rate, with the GT73VR, GS73VR, GS63VR and GS43VR series giving a 24bit/192KHz rate. It’s not all regarding the graphics, after all.

MSI additional boasts that it's enforced extremely economical cooling for these machines to confirm they won’t overheat whereas being driven exhausting by rigorous games.