MSI Crosshair 15 R6E B12UGZ-050
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Reviews for the MSI Crosshair 15 R6E B12UGZ-050
The MSI Crosshair 15 Rainbow Six: Extraction Edition sports a vibrant design that caters to fans of Ubisoft's popular co-op shooter. Under the hood, we get an Intel Alder Lake-H Core i7-12700H and Nvidia RTX 3070 Laptop GPU that together take on some of the more expensive competition on the market. The inclusion of a QHD 165 Hz makes this a great all-rounder, but there are a few caveats to be aware of.
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That brings us nicely to the port selection and capability which is a complete joke from MSI. Slow USB ports, only one display output, and just the single Type-C connection; what is this? 2019?! MSI really has cheaped-out here, and whether or not you’ll utilise advanced connectivity, I feel that this is needless cost-cutting. Stiff competition for the Crosshair 15 R6E comes from ASUS’ TUF Gaming F15 and A15 in particular. I think ASUS’ AMD Ryzen-based model at £1700 could be a really challenging obstacle for this MSI laptop, particularly as it is so much cheaper and we saw the 16 thread, 45W Ryzen chips offering significantly higher compute performance at sensible power levels. With that said, the Crosshair 15 R6E definitely has enough going its way to make it a strong option at the £1739 deal price for May. But with the price now back up to £2000 – close to the £2199 MSRP – that completely ruins this model's competitiveness. MSI increasing the MSRP by £500 for 16GB extra DDR4 RAM is an utter joke! We found the Crosshair 15 R6E available for £1999 at Scan in the UK.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/14/2022
Rating: Total score: 60%
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MSI remains one of the best choices for getting the best performance on a budget. The Crosshair 15 with its i7-12700H and RTX 3070 can play most modern AAA games on max settings at 1080p and achieve 120fps. If you don't mind lowering those settings a bit, you can hit 165 frames per second to fully take advantage of its fast display. The new black and yellow color scheme do breathe some fresh life into a dated chassis design, and even if you're not a fan of the new Rainbow Six Extraction game, it's far more exciting than all black. A few sacrifices have been made to keep the price low, however. Keyboard flex is noticeable, and you won't get the fancy RGB lighting effects that more expensive gaming laptops usually offer. This is also by no means the slimmest, lightest, or sleekest looking gaming laptop, but for the performance it offers, it's one of the best choices at this sub-$1800 price point.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/07/2022
Source: Laptop Media
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/28/2022
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Support, online available, Short, Date: 05/20/2022
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This is weird. We rarely fail to express our impressions of a machine, but today, the Crosshair 15 might have bested us. It is definitely not a bad device. It offers a good amount of performance, and its visual appeal is refreshing, if not else. However, we were baffled by the cooling policy. In fact, this might be the biggest feature of the device. Because, to be frank, neither the keyboard nor the touchpad is something to write home about. Also, the single USB Type-C port can only be used for data transfer (and charging external devices like your smartphone). The bottom line here is that we can’t really recommend buying this laptop at the moment, but we would do so if MSI fixes the fan curves on their performance presets.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/20/2022
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 02/28/2022
Foreign Reviews
Source: Noticias 3D
ES→ENPositive: Beautiful design; nice display; high performance; powerful processor; high performance; elegant design; great built quality. Negative: Small touchpad; no backlit keys.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/02/2022
Source: XGN
NL→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 03/03/2022
Rating: Total score: 75%
Source: ITHardware.pl
PL→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 02/28/2022
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 100%
Source: Tech World
HU→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 04/07/2022
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 80% performance: 90% display: 90% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90%
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA104 chip. Available in different versions with a TDP from 80 to 125 Watt.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i7-12700H: 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 from 1.7 to 4.7 GHz and supports vPro.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.60":
15-inch display variants are the standard and are used for more than half of all laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, often allows high resolutions and thus offers rich details on the screen, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact - simply the standard compromise.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.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.
76.56%: 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.
