Need advice on gaming laptop

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barneystinson69 said:

My recent laptop is starting to show its age, most especially with the adapters that keep breaking apart. Since I've bought my first replacement, they've all had problems within a few months and I'm thinking I'm just better off getting a new one at this point. The GTX 1650 is also outdated as hell at this point.

Anyways, I'm looking at an MSI model (GF66)

CPU: i5 11400H

GPU: RTX 3060 (6 GB)

Storage: 512 GB SSD

Costs 1099 CAD, so better than what I can find out there for the most part, though the CPU is a bit weak. Strong GPU however. What y'all think? One thing I'm concerned about is that I've heard that MSI laptops have issues with cooling. I could go for an Asus model that is similar but costs 200 dollars more. 

For the price (1099 CAD is roughly $800 US), it looks quite good. The CPU ain't too bad either, being a 6c/12t Tiger Lake CPU. Obviously a bit outdated by now, but still somewhat capable.

As a result, unless it's on sale right now, I fear that MSI cut costs somewhere else, like a bad screen, low, slow memory or cheaping out on the cooling, battery and/or ports.

For the record, I'm still on a 1050Ti in my laptop and I'm also slowly looking for a replacement (I'm more into Indies so a 1050Ti ain't as limiting to me), but for me it'll probably be a Lenovo or an XMG. Good quality from everything I heard, and you can configure your laptop on their website if the config you want ain't there out of the box.