46 PCWorld JULY 2019REVIEWS MSI GS65 STEALTH THIN
GS65 Stealth Thin 8RE’s wow factor, either. It
was just a hair over 4 pounds, in the same
weight class as a MacBook Pro 15 or ThinkPad
X1 Extreme, yet it packed way more firepower.
The newest incarnation of the MSI GS65
Stealth Thin 9SD ups the ante with Intel’s
newest 6-core 9th gen Core i7-9750H, along
with Nvidia’s gift to those who just don’t give
a damn about ray tracing (go.pcworld.com/
brtx): A GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. Thanks to a
slight lack of coordination between Intel’s and
Nvidia’s product cycles. The GS65 Stealth
Thin will find itself battling with laptops such
as Acer’s Predator Triton 500 (go.pcworld.
com/t500) or Alienware’s m15 Thin (go.
pcworld.com/m15l), both of which feature
older 8th-gen CPUs, but Nvidia’s newer
ray-trace-enabled RTX GPUs.SPECS
As we said, the GS65 Stealth Thin is the first
laptop we’ve reviewed with Intel’s 9th-gen
mobile 6-core CPU (go.pcworld.com/6cre).
Let’s run down all the specs:
CPU: Intel 6-core 9th gen Core i7-9750H
Memory: 16GB DDR4/2667 in dual-
channel mode
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Display: 15.6-inch 144Hz “IPS-like”
screen without G-Sync
Storage: 512GB WD SN520 NVMe M.2
SSD
Networking: 802.11ac using an Intel
AC9560 controller and Rivet Networks
E2500 gigabit ethernet.
Dimensions: 14 x 9.75 x 0.75 inches
Weight: 4.4 pounds
That last bullet point is
worth pointing out. While
the original GS65 we
reviewed last year was
stupidly light at 4 pounds,
MSI has added about 6
ounces to it. Some of that
heft likely came from
welcome structural
reinforcements compared
to the original run, which
we called “flexible.” How
flexible? Well, let’s just say
it was a little scary to pick
it up by one corner. The
current version doesn’tMSI’s updated GS65 Stealth Thin features a 9th-gen Core i7-9750H and
Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1660 Ti GPU.