PC World - USA (2019-07)

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system to upgrade either.
That’s just not something the
average person is going to
attempt, because bending a
ribbon cable would likely
brick the laptop.
MSI isn’t the only
company to make life harder
like this. Asus does it on its
ROG Zephyrus, and Acer
does it on its Predator Triton

500. We should note that
     bigger-sibling MSI GS75
     (go.pcworld.com/75gs) at
     least gives you easy access
     to the M.2 drives.

PERFORMANCE
There are two big
upgrades inside the GS65
Stealth Thin, and it’s worth
looking at just what you
get. If you read our story
about 8th gen Core i7 vs.
9th gen Core i7 (go.

We’re we too harsh? There’s
no additional cores in the
9th gen Core i7-9750H but
the performance boost is
respectable. Alienware Area-51m R1
(Core i9-9900K)
Acer Predator Helios 500 (Ryzen 7 2700)
Origin PC EVO-17S
(Core i9-8950HK)
MSI GS65 Stealth Thin
(Core i7-9750H)
MSI GS75 Stealth
(Core i7-8750H)
Dell XPS 15 9570(Core i7-8750H)
M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS65
Acer Predator Titan 500(Core i7-8750H)
Dell G7
(Core i7-8750H)

Cinebench RT15 nT

(Threads)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

2,030

1,158

1,264

1,144

1,546

1,150

1,247

1,108

1,104

Alienw(Core i9-9900K)are Area-51m R1

Origin PC EVO(Core i9-8950HK)-17S

MSI GS65 Stealth Thin

(Core i7-9750H)

Dell XPS 15 9570

(Core i7-8750H)

Dell G7

(Core i7-8750H)

M(Core i7-8750HSI GS65

Acer Predator Titan 500(Core i7-8750H)

M(Core i7-8750H)SI GS75 Stealth

Acer Predator Helios 500 (Ryzen 7 2700)

Cinebench RT15 1T

(Threads)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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Single-threaded performance
is marginally better than
older 8th gen CPUs but
enough to upgrade?