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In August this year, MSI officially released a new version of the charge tank Pro GP76 HX game, which comes with a 12-generation Core i7-12800HX processor and a 175W blood-filled RTX3080Ti mobile flagship graphics card, priced at 17999 yuan. Its biggest selling point is the MSI supercharging mode with CPU+GPU double-baked 250W performance release. CTOnews.com has got the machine, so let's follow Shuishui to see how it performs.

The appearance and design of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is sturdy, with a 17.3-inch fuselage, the size of the 397x284x25.9 mm, the weight of the 2.9kg, and a 330W, 1.42kg power adapter, all of which lay the foundation for a high-performance release.

The A side of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX inherits the consistent design style of the MSI charge tank Pro GP series, the fuselage line is square and strong, the A side is composed of a whole piece of black sandblasting metal, and there is a MSI Dragon Shield Logo nameplate on the upper position, and the edges on both sides of the top are oblique cut to make the fuselage lines more angular.

A raised and irregularly shaped "spine" is designed on the left and right sides of the bottom near the shaft, which is officially named the Axis Ultra shaft design. This part is made of high-specification stainless steel, the opening and closing damping feeling is in place, and after special coating treatment, it can effectively prevent scratching.

When you open plane A, you will find that the two sides of the most common opening and closing computer have a downward narrowing oblique cutting design, and the front side of the C / D plane has an oblique cutting treatment to facilitate the force acting on the fuselage. The maximum opening and closing angle of the fuselage is 135 °. After opening, you can see that a circle of plastic silicone washers have been made around the edges of the B surface to prevent the screen from rubbing against the C plane.

The screen surface of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is designed with three narrow frames.

A 720p HD camera is stuffed into the upper frame and adapted to mainstream video conferencing and social software such as Zoom,Microsoft Teams, Nail, Wechat Video, etc.

On the screen specification, the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX uses a 17.3inch IPS fog screen with a border slightly higher than the screen, 2K resolution of 2560x1440, 240Hz refresh rate, 3ms response time, and support 100% DCI-P3 wide color range. MSI officially calls it the glazed Moon screen. From the actual look and feel of the machine we have, the display effect and visual performance are very good.

Through the AIDA64 query, it is not difficult to find that the screen panel of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is made by BOE, also known as BOE. The panel model is the same as MSI's assault GE77 HX, which is NE173QHM-NZ1. Further inquiry of the screen library network shows that the pixel density of this screen is 170ppi and 16.7 million colors, and the typical value of contrast is 1000purl.

We continue to test through professional color calibration instruments with DisplayCal software, and the screen covers 99.9% sRGB color gamut, 85% AdobeRGB color gamut and 99.2% DCI-P3 color gamut.

In terms of color accuracy, the average Delta E is 0.49 and the maximum Delta is 1.11, which belongs to the first echelon. Although it is a game book, it has excellent color and color approval, which is also very suitable for productivity and professional creation.

In the keyboard layout on the C side, thanks to the large size of 17.3in, the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is crammed directly into a full-size keyboard, but some of the keys are relatively compact, such as the direction keys are not distinguished from the surrounding areas, and you need to get used to it for the first time, but fortunately, it is a full-height direction key. The top row of buttons supports a variety of shortcut functions, and the power key is lit and placed on the far right to prevent miscontact.

In the keyboard materials, Weixing is really the next book. SinkZone sinking design, 1.9mm long key range, unique mechanical structure, single button RGB, Sailui customized light effect. Although there is no mechanical keyboard like Titan GT77, it feels very comfortable. In particular, the thicker sunburn particles on the surface of each button can not only resist fingerprints to a certain extent, but also improve the sense of touch. The brightness of the central transparent character is uniform, and the RGB effect is full. The keyboard of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is one of the most comfortable game keyboards I have ever used.

Below the keyboard is a trackpad with a left position and a smooth touch. Its area is not very large, fortunately, the strength of the global press is relatively uniform, there is no loosening and cracks, the experience is in order. In addition, the palmrest only has a Sailuibiao and some stickers.

Come to the D side, the overall feeling is still hard core. The whole bottom shell is covered with a large area of oblique cutting texture, and the position of the left and right fans in the upper part is made into a perspective hollowed-out grille. you can see the heat dissipation components inside the machine, which is still very cool. In addition, the upper half of the whole will be more prominent, can play a cushion effect, so that the bottom of the air more smoothly. Under the D shell, there is a MSI Vector GP decorative nameplate on the left, and the red striped MSI LOGO on the right is very creative. It is a laminated design so that the overall look will not be very monotonous.

In terms of interface, the Pro GP76 HX of MSI charge tank adopts trilateral circumferential design. There is a USB3.2 Gen2 Type-A port, a USB3.2 Gen2 Type-C port (supporting DP1.4 video output), a 3.5mm audio interface and a security latch on the left side of the body.

There are two USB3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports on the right side of the body.

The back of the Pro GP76 HX fuselage of the MSI charge tank has a lightning 4 protocol USB-C interface, RJ45 network cable interface, HDMI interface (supporting 8K@60Hz and 4K@120Hz output) and AC-in power interface. In terms of the number of interfaces, it is enough for a 17.3-inch laptop, and the specifications are very high, so it is OK to meet the needs of external expansion.

The MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX places a set of stereo double-raised holes on both sides of the CD face of the fuselage, supports Hi-Res and has built-in Nahimic sound software. There are also four cooling air outlets on the left, right and back of the fuselage, and the dense heat dissipation fins can be seen through the openings. Generally speaking, the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX still continues the appearance mold design of the Pro GP series of the charge tank. In my opinion, the most outstanding design is the keyboard design.

Configuration and heat dissipation

As we said earlier, the main selling point of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX this time is the MSI supercharging mode released by the double-baked 250W performance, which can achieve such a terrible level of performance, it must have taken effort in the heat dissipation design. Let me first introduce its configuration to you, as shown in the figure.

I7-12800HX this CPU is very interesting, it is not i7-12700H simply changed to a vest, because it is composed of 8 performance cores and 8 energy efficiency cores of 16-core 24 threads, the core configuration is the same as i9-12900HX, the same level as the desktop i9, but 3 slow changed to 25MB, it can be said that it is essentially an i9 processor, performance has been actually improved, and the improvement is not small.

The graphics card also uses 7424 RTX3080Ti,CUDA cores with 175W full blood power consumption, as well as 16GB GDDR6 memory, which supports the second generation ray tracing, NVIDIA DLSS 2.0, DynamicBoost dynamic power adjustment and other technologies. When these two are put together, neither of them is the main power saver. No wonder the power supply is directly given to 330W. Coupled with the release of 250W performance of the whole machine advertised by MSI, the heat dissipation mold must be very strong to hold it down.

So let's just remove the D shell and take a look at the interior design of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX. After unscrewing and removing, seven very conspicuous heat dissipation copper tubes came into view, and the double fans and heat pipes of the Pro cooling system tightly wrapped and covered the core of CPU and GPU, which was very similar to the heat dissipation specification of the strong attack GE77 HX.

The network card on the right side of the memory slot is Intel's AX211, which supports Wi-Fi 6e.

A shield is added to the outside of the memory slot.

Below the left cooling fan are two M.2 slots, one of which has a Samsung PM9A1 solid state drive with a single 1TB.

Since it is basically the same as the forced attack GE77 HX in terms of heat dissipation, how about its heat dissipation performance? We use AIDA64 to carry out the actual measurement. At this time, the indoor temperature is 26 °and there is no air conditioning on. In the initial stage of single-baked FPU, the power consumption of CPU can soar to the maximum of 165W without BIOS, when the P-core frequency of CPU is 4.2GHz and the temperature is 91 °.

When the single-baked FPU lasts for 20 minutes, the CPU power consumption is finally stable at 115W, when the P-core frequency is 3.6GHz and the temperature is 84 °. Why emphasize not moving BIOS? Because if you manually unlock the power consumption in the BIOS of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX, then the CPU single-bake power consumption can even be stable in the scary 160W Magi P core frequency directly rushed to the 4.5GHz, but at this time the CPU temperature is also as high as 100 °, so the official should not want ordinary users to try this.

Then there is a single-bake GPU test. After 20 minutes of the same roaster, the GPU power consumption falls steadily at 175.8W, when the GPU temperature is only 66.5C, and the GPU frequency is 1545MHz, which is indeed full of blood power consumption.

Then we double-bake test, 20 minutes later, CPU power consumption stable at 75.98W, while GPU power consumption directly to the horror of 175.9W, fully achieved the official release of the performance of the 175W+75W=250W machine, and the temperature of CPU and GPU are 77 °and 72.7 °respectively, the temperature control is very good, the keyboard surface is only warm, there is no sense of burning. I have to say, the MSI supercharging mode of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX does have something. It can be baked alone, but it can't be baked off by two, and the temperature is not high. Coupled with the fact that users can further unlock the power consumption through BIOS, the performance potential is much more than that.

Performance and battery life

Since the heat dissipation performance is so excellent, then the actual performance must be more expected. There are some things to explain before testing. The MSI Center software of MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is very good this time, with rich features and strong practicality. The home page of the software provides the basic performance status of the computer as well as some configuration information, which makes it easy for users to understand the status of the computer intuitively.

Feature set section provides a large number of practical functional options, users can download and install, do not need to download or uninstall, convenient and worry-free.

MSI's original system recovery is very friendly to novice users and is easy to operate. It can quickly back up the current system image and restore it if something goes wrong. This mode is implemented through the WinPE environment with high degree of freedom.

Basic settings provide some shortcut button shielding, only show direct connection and mixed output switching and other functions, the operation is more stupid.

Four performance mode switches are provided in the scene settings, of which the above intelligent automatic mode supports custom adding applications as games. Once the application and game are opened, they will immediately enter the extreme mode.

In the extreme mode, you can continue to overclock the GPU manually or adjust to a more aggressive fan speed.

Lamp synchronization this needless to say, adjust the lamp effect mode, device light synchronization, light brightness and other operations rely on it, and support retention, RGB lovers must have. You can see that basically every function, MSI Center is straightforward and simple, and the threshold for getting started is very low.

By the way, because the keyboard of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is customized by Sirui, there are various lighting adjustment and shortcut key modification functions in the Sirui GG software that comes with the machine, which is very free to use.

Next, we enter the performance test stage. In the non-air-conditioned room with a room temperature of 26 °, we turn on the direct connection in MSI Center, and the performance mode is selected by default. First of all, CineBench, in CineBench R20 i7-12800HX easily ran to multi-core score of 9048, single-core score of 705, this group of scores are already very high.

In CineBench R23, i7-12800HX once again ran to multi-core 24239 points, single-core score of 1846 points, multi-core performance is still very bright, single-core performance is in line with expectations.

In CPU-Z 's running score, the score of i7-12800HX is closer to the level of i9-12900K on the desktop.

Then there is the test of 3D Mark. In the test of Time SPY, the score of graphics card is 13941 and the score of CPU is 15526 and the comprehensive score is 14153.

In the test of Time SPY Extreme, the score of the graphics card is 6832 CPU 7608 and the comprehensive score is 6935.

In the Fire Strike test, the video card score is 34786, the physical score is 34657, and the comprehensive score is 30969.

In the Fire Strike Extreme test, the video card score is 16176, the physical score is 32751, and the comprehensive score is 16268.

On the Port royal real-time RayTracing test, RTX3080Ti scored 8779. Overall, the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX gives people the impression that it is stable to play, and there are small surprises on individual scores. So what about the performance in the actual running game? We selected 5 games for testing this time. The game is tested according to the original 2K resolution by default, and will be explained separately if there are any special cases.

Under the option of ultra-high definition after the return of Vanguard 2, the average number of frames is about 260 frames. The average number of frames under the extremely high quality option is 339 frames.

In Tomb Raider: shadow, the highest image quality is turned on, and the average number of frames is 120 frames when Light pursuit and DLSS are not turned on.

The highest picture quality, high light pursuit selection, DLSS select quality file, the average number of frames is 146frames.

Extreme Speed Horizon 5 preset extreme picture quality, high ray tracing level, with an average frame count of 84 frames.

Cyber punk 2077 highest picture quality, no light pursuit, average frame number 62 frames; turn on super light pursuit image quality, DLSS quality file, average frame number 50 frames.

Control the highest image quality, no light tracking, do not turn on DLSS, the average number of frames is 81 frames; then select high-level light tracking, open DLSS, the average number of frames is 92 frames. It can be said that the RTX3080Ti graphics card, in 2K resolution can completely open the highest picture quality to play 3A masterpiece.

After the game is tested, let's take a look at the storage performance. In terms of memory, through the AIDA64 running score test, we can see that both reading and writing have reached 60,000 points, but the delay is slightly higher and the results of the three slowdowns are within the rules.

In terms of solid state, the theoretical reading and writing speed of Samsung PM9A1's 1TB version is 7000MB/s and 5000MB/s, the running score of MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is basically in line with Samsung propaganda, and users can add a second solid state later, so the overall speed is also improved.

Finally, let's take a look at the endurance. Because the battery capacity of the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is 67Wh, it passes the modern office test of PCMark 10 at 30% brightness, and finally it is 3 hours and 02 minutes. The daily emergency is OK, and it is inevitable to bring power when you go out.

Summing up some experience, the most impressive feature of MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is the 250W terrorist performance release under MSI supercharging mode, it can be said that the current high-end games have been able to fully achieve the desktop-level computer performance experience, at this point MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX processing is very balanced, performance release radical, heat dissipation performance temperature, excellent screen quality, all aspects are very bucket.

On the other hand, even with the flagship configuration, the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX still has a good performance-to-price ratio among similar products. Except for the Titan GT77 and the appearance lighting effect, the configuration of the more comprehensive attack GE77 HX, in terms of performance, this guy can really be comparable to the two big brothers, and most players use it to play 2K games with few bottlenecks. Next, my expectation for the Pro GP series of charge tanks is to update the mold and introduce more sizes and configurations for users to choose from. If you want to buy a game book with top configuration and excellent experience now, the MSI charge tank Pro GP76 HX is definitely a good choice.

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