MSI Pulse 17 2023 Series
Processor: Intel Raptor Lake-H i7-13700HGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
Display: 17.30 inch
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 1750, 2500 euro
Average of 2 scores (from 3 reviews)
MSI Pulse 17 B13VGK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Pulse 17 B13VGKProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-H i7-13700H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 2500 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Reviews
The MSI Pulse 17 supplies a lot of power to the Intel Core i7 and RTX 4070 while still remaining fairly quiet. However, the connection equipment and screen are also important for a laptop, and the gaming laptop is unable to convince us in those regards.
Foreign Reviews
Source: HardwareLuxx DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/21/2023
Source: HardwareLuxx DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/21/2023
MSI Pulse 17 B13VFK
Specifications
Notebook: MSI Pulse 17 B13VFKProcessor: Intel Raptor Lake-H i7-13700H
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU 8192 MB
Display: 17.30 inch, 16:9, 1920 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 1750 euro
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section
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Average Score:
Foreign Reviews
Source: Multiplayer IT IT→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/27/2023
Rating: Total score: 70%
Comment
MSI: Micro-Star International (MSI) was founded in 1986 in Taiwan. MSI is especially known as a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards for PCs, but also offers computer accessories, complete systems, motherboards, graphics cards, laptops, desktop PCs, monitors and other components. However, the Microstar brand name in Germany belongs to the Medion company. MSI is known for its gaming products and has developed a wide range of gaming laptops and desktop PCs. The company is also active in workstations, servers and industrial automation. MSI has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Raptor Lake-H:
i7-13700H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 20 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks with up to 5 GHz. Compared to the i9-13900HK no easy overclocking supported, but instead full vPro management feature-set.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.7 kg:
With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.
2.7 kg:
78.15%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.