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Those of you who are familiar with MSI notebook products all know that their products focus on the high end, but recently MSI has launched a small steel cannon with a performance of only 8499 yuan for its debut, which is our protagonist today-Thunder 17, the processor and graphics card choose the flagship positioning of Ruilong 9 7945HX and dessert positioning mobile version RTX4060, this combination sounds a little fragrant, ah, the actual performance of how we know.

Appearance and design

In the package, in addition to the computer body, is the 240W power adapter and instructions, warranty card, the adapter is not large and heavy, which is OK.

The overall design style of MSI Leiying 17 continues its rugged fuselage lines and deep pure black painting treatment. The surface of shell An is still metal sandblasting technology, which feels comfortable but stained with fingerprints. Due to the use of a 17-inch fuselage, MSI Thunder 17 has no advantage in weight and thickness. The thinnest and thickest parts of the fuselage are 23.12mm and 27.83mm, respectively, and the weight is about 2.8KG.

In the middle of face An is a small Thunder Shadow Logo, which is more low-key than other series of iconic Dragon Shield Logo. The rotating shaft part near both sides of the back has an irregular raised shape of "keel", and the official claims that its rotating shaft part uses the new Axis Pro stainless steel shaft, and the damping feeling of one-hand opening and closing is more moderate and silky.

When you lift up the A side, the B side is a 17.3-inch screen with a narrow edge design on 3 sides, a MSI Logo with a wide chin and a bright side in the middle, the entire screen frame is slightly higher than the screen, and the C-side keyboard is also designed with a sunken design, so no cushion tape is added.

The frame of the screen is a 720p camera in the middle of the forehead, which supports autofocus and adapts to mainstream software such as nails, Tencent conferences, Wechat video, etc., which is helpful for online meetings, video lessons and other scenes.

In terms of hardware, this glazed moon screen uses MSI second-generation comprehensive screen technology, with a 2.5K resolution of 2560 to 1440, a 240Hz refresh rate and a 100% DCI-P3 gamut.

After measurement, the color gamut of this screen performs well, the color gamut volume is basically close to or more than 100%, and the color gamut covers sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamut are close to 100%. Adobe RGB is a little less, but it also reaches 86.6%.

However, the color accuracy under the default settings is average, with an average Delta E ≈ of 3.21 and a maximum Delta E of 7.52. It's not a big problem to play games, but it's a little less good for office work.

However, MSI's official website provides an on-screen color management software, MSI True Color, which is currently version 4.0. after downloading this software, it will boot by default, and users can switch between sRGB, Adobe RGB and Display P3 color gamut with one click on the main page of the software, and each color gamut also supports a wide range of custom adjustments. In addition, there are a variety of display modes for subdivided use scenes, in short, the use of this software can be used to manage the color of the screen of MSI Thunder 17.

Through gamut switching, the corresponding gamut volume and gamut coverage will also change, so then we test the color accuracy performance under different gamut.

SRGB color accuracy

Display P3 color level

It is gratifying to note that in sRGB and Display P3 color gamut, the color accuracy performance has improved significantly, fully able to cope with office and basic design, editing and other productivity scenarios.

Then look at the C side, the keyboard area enjoys the advantage of large-size fuselage, SinkZone sinking design plus its own small keyboard area, the direction key is also full-height, the keyboard layout is very complete. In terms of details, MSI abandoned a Fn button and lengthened the left Ctrl button in order to better serve e-sports 's game.

The surface of the key cap is treated with fine frosted coating, which makes it more non-skid and reduces fingerprint contamination to a certain extent.

In terms of lighting, MSI chose to cooperate with Sailui to customize the backlight effect of single-button RGB, and the lighting effect and lighting synchronization can be customized through Mystic Light, and even each button can be set separately.

The area of the trackpad is not very large, the position is to the left, and the surface coating is very smooth but more fingerprinted. The touch pad adopts global pressing design, and the left and right sides correspond to the left and right mouse buttons respectively, and the press feedback is crisp and moderate.

The design of the D side of the fuselage is regular, the air intake holes of a large area are arranged symmetrically and neatly around, and the upper and lower two through-type cushion strips are very skid-proof. However, there are many screw holes in the bottom shell, and there are also a lot of clasps, so you should be careful if you want to disassemble and install accessories.

In terms of interface, MSI Thunder Shadow 17 uses a three-sided surround layout, followed by an anti-theft lock hole on the left, a USB3.2 Gen Type-A port, a USB3.2 Gen2 Type-C port (which supports PD charging and DP input), a 3.5mm audio port and a left speaker opening.

On the right are the right heat sink, two USB3.2 Gen1 Type-A ports and a right speaker opening.

There are two groups of heat dissipation openings on the back of the fuselage, a MiniDP interface, a RJ45 interface, a HDMI2.1 interface and a power interface. The overall number and types of interfaces are relatively rich, so there is no need to worry about the expansibility of the equipment.

Hardware and grill Weixing Leiying 17 is equipped with Ruilong 97945HXMagi Zen4 architecture, which is one of the most powerful flagship processors on AMD's mobile end. TSMC 5nm FinFET technology, with 16 cores and 32 threads, has a core frequency of up to 5.4GHz. The design TDP of 55-75W Jing L2 processors L3 cache has reached 80MB, which can be said to match Intel's i9-13980HX from the positioning.

The graphics card uses the NVIDIA GeForce RTX4060 dessert card, which is equipped with 3072 CUDA cores, equipped with 128bit 8GB GDDR6 memory, and can achieve 140W power release through Dynamic Boost technology. Processor and graphics card these two major hardware specifications are still relatively strong, so what about the heat dissipation stack of MSI Thunder 17? for this reason, we also dismantled the machine.

By dismantling the machine, we can see that MSI Thunder 17 is equipped with double fans and 6 heat pipes, and the parts of CPU and GPU are fully covered by heat pipes.

In the fan part, the two non-double fans adopt high airflow fan blades with a large number of blades, and the interior is also designed to enhance the noise reduction of wind pressure bearings to ensure stability and durability.

In the bottom of the heat dissipation module, the left and right black areas are added a shield of double memory slots and double M.2 solid state slots, the standard memory is a single 16GB DDR5 5600MHz memory, but this one in our hands has been expanded to a dual channel 32GB, in order to better show its performance, but also convenient for users with expansion needs for reference, hard disk is a single 1TB capacity of Samsung PM9A1 solid state.

After measurement, the read and write speed of memory reaches 62003MB/s and 61927MB/s respectively.

In solid state, the read and write speeds are 6679MB/s and 4940MB/s respectively.

There is also a Qualcomm Fast Connect 7800 wireless network card under the right fan, which is also the only network card with Wi-Fi7 specification at present, which supports the highest peak speed of 5.8Gbps, which is definitely a good thing for users who require higher network speed.

Next, let's test the actual grill. At room temperature 24 degrees, the power consumption of the first single-baked FPU,CPU is finally stable at 86W, the average temperature is 86.5C, and the core frequency of CPU is 3.7GHz. The single baking performance of CPU is relatively conservative in terms of performance scheduling compared with the products with extreme performance adjustment before MSI. However, MSI officials claim that the goal is to ensure lower temperature performance under high loads, as well as lower operating temperatures and more stable and lasting performance of the 7945HX.

Then there is a single-baked FurMark, with an average power consumption of 140W, a graphics card temperature of 81.9C, and a graphics card core frequency of about 2370MHz, which is undoubtedly a bloody RTX4060. As for the actual performance, it will bring you the game measurement later.

After watching the disassembly and baking machine for running points and games, we will pass the actual running points and game tests to see what the experience of this microstar Thunder 17 is in practice.

The test environment is in the 24 °air-conditioned office, and the fury mode is selected in the MSI Center, and the video card chooses the unique direct connection mode.

First of all, there is the CineBench link. In the R23 test, the Ruilong 9 7945HX on the R23 test scored 1941 points on a single core and 31796 points on a multi-core score.

In the R20 test, Ruilong 9 7945HX scored 742 points in a single core and 12382 points in a multi-core test.

Look at the video card performance, in the 3DMark Time Spy test project, the video card score is 10666 points, while in the Fire Strike Extreme graphics card score 13275 points, put in the same 140W RTX4060 notebook products, this group of scores are also relatively high.

After the theoretical test, it is finally our turn to test the actual game. This time, we selected six mainstream games for testing, including an online competitive game CS:GO and five 3A stand-alone games, some of which support the AMD platform well and some that are not so good. Considering the 2.5K screen and hardware configuration of MSI Thunder 17, we conducted two rounds of tests at 1080p and 2K resolution in order to fully reflect the performance level of this product.

In the competitive game "CS:GO", with the lowest special effects and multicore rendering, the average frame number of MSI Thunder 17 can reach 713 frames at 1080p resolution and 561 frames at 2K resolution, which is more than enough to run all over the 240Hz screen with high refresh rate.

And the other five 3A stand-alone games, 2K resolution of MSI Thunder 17 can basically reach more than 60 frames, optimized better "Ultimate Speed: horizon 5" can even come to 124 frames; and in 1080p resolution, MSI Thunder 17 RTX4060 in the DLSS technology, eat performance of the game close to 100 frames, optimized game will be more than 100 frames, play is also very smooth and refreshing.

In terms of productivity, we first tested V-Ray BenchMark, which represents rendering performance. The CPU score of MSI Thunder 17 is as high as 23917, compared with i9-13980HX's CTOnews.com history score of 22402, and the performance of Ruilong 9 7945HX is not inferior to Intel platform.

In terms of graphics cards, in the two tests representing CUDA rendering and light-chasing rendering performance, MSI Thunder 17 scored 1206 and 1854 respectively, which also had a slight advantage over i9-13980HX.

The overall performance pressure of Adobe creative production suite on hardware should not be underestimated. We tested it through PugetBenchMark. In the tests of Premiere Pro and PhotoShop, MSI Thunder 17 scored 1397 points and 1200 points, which is also a good level.

Finally, let's take a look at the battery performance. MSI Thunder 17, as a game book, naturally has a full battery capacity and has passed the modern office life test of PC Mark 10. In MSI Center's energy-saving mode, the final battery life has reached 5 hours and 41 minutes. This result is indeed ideal for a machine with a 17.3-inch 2K resolution screen, combined with flagship hardware such as 7945HX.

To sum up, the deepest impression of this product is undoubtedly the initial price of 8499 yuan, and the pre-sale price of the second wave is only 8799 yuan. With its sincere hardware configuration, the attraction is instantly magnified. In our test, the actual performance and experience of Weixing Thunder 17 is not disappointing. The combination of Ruilong 9 7945HX+RTX4060, full storage expansion, game performance and heat dissipation performance are also impressive. On the whole, it is a bucket game book, which can be played at the same price.

At present, the initial performance of MSI Leiying 17 is good, we can look forward to its follow-up market feedback, after all, a good product will take time to test. For MSI, Thunder Shadow 17 is a new attempt. In the future, MSI will not only have high-end games worth more than 10,000 yuan, but also more attractive cost-effective products within 10,000 yuan. I hope that MSI will keep up its efforts and continue to launch more "popular styles" that are good for consumers.

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