MSI Pulse GL66 11UEK-034
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Average of 3 scores (from 12 reviews)
Reviews for the MSI Pulse GL66 11UEK-034
Source: Laptop Media
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/04/2022
Source: Technobig
Archive.org versionMSI offers a wide range of gaming laptops – as many as four models in different price categories were presented on the market this year. Not so long ago, we already had reviews of the older Raider and the more affordable Katana. Today we have a mid-budget model in our editorial office – MSI Pulse GL66 11UEK.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 09/20/2021
Source: Techradar
Archive.org versionThe MSI Pulse GL66 is an excellent midrange gaming laptop so long as you don't take it anywhere and value doesn't mean anything to you. First, the positives. The Pulse GL66 puts out some fantastic gaming performance, even consistently getting 35 to 40 fps in Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings with ray tracing and DLSS on. It also performed very well in some of our other performance benchmarks on top of generally being a great laptop to play games on, so there aren't many games that this laptop won't be able to chew through. Even the base configuration has at least a 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD, so you'll also have room to download more than one or two at a time.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/27/2021
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Think Digit
Archive.org versionThe MSI Pulse GL66 is a great gaming laptop that can be used reliably for both gaming as well as creative workloads. The Intel Core i7-11800H and the RTX 3060 combo works very well to deliver solid performance numbers to compete with the best when it comes to 1080p gaming. I did find the display to be a little disappointing on our review unit, and the fans get overly loud to keep the temperatures in check. But besides that, the MSI Pulse GL66 hits the sweet spot for 1080p gaming.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/06/2021
Rating: Total score: 75% price: 74% performance: 83% workmanship: 68%
Source: PC Mag
Archive.org versionThe GL66 Pulse is MSI's latest midrange gaming laptop for 2021, offering Intel "Tiger Lake-H" processing and Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series graphics for as low as $949 in the base configuration. (See our one-on-one interview with MSI about this model.) Though our $1,499 test unit produced good gaming performance thanks to its eight-core CPU and GeForce RTX 3060, it's a tough sell when the Lenovo Legion 5 Pro costs about the same with a faster AMD Ryzen processor and GeForce RTX 3070. Our top 15.6-inch value pick remains the $1,349 Acer Predator Helios 300, which delivers similar frame rates, more than double the battery life, and superior features. Overall, the GL66 Pulse struggles in too many areas to warrant more than a passing look, and even that only if you can find a discount.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/30/2021
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Laptop Media
Archive.org versionSupport, online available, Very Short, Date: 06/15/2021
Source: Laptop Media
Archive.org versionAfter having our day full of tests of the MSI Pulse GL66, we can safely say, that the Core i7-11800H is one of the most exciting processors Intel has made. While it still lags behind the Ryzen 7 5800H in terms of rendering performance, the Photoshop score blew our mind. However, we have to mention one thing. MSI didn’t do a particularly good job with the cooling solution. Both the CPU and the GPU were hanging for dear life during gaming. Even though both of them were working at clocks higher than their base ones, the temperatures were too high.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/15/2021
Foreign Reviews
Source: El chapuzas Informatico
ES→EN Archive.org versionPositive: Great display; high gaming performance; powerful hardware; comfortable keyboard. Negative: High price.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/06/2021
Source: Noticias 3D
ES→EN Archive.org versionPositive: Good price / performance ratio; excellent display; good cooling system. Negative: Short battery life; no Thunderbolt port.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/18/2021
Source: Go4it.ro
→EN Archive.org versionPositive: High gaming performance; great display.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 11/22/2021
Source: Computerblog.ro
→EN Archive.org versionPositive: Premium design; compact size; light weight; powerful hardware; good price. Negative: Short battery life; noisy under loads.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 10/04/2021
Source: Arena IT
→EN Archive.org versionPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; great dedicated graphics; excellent display; big screen; decent ergonomics; good cooling and silent system; nice speakers.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/07/2021
Comment
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA106 chip with 3072 cores. Available in different versions with a TDP from 60 to 115 Watt.
With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
i7-11800H: Tiger Lake (H45 series) based high end octa-core SoC for gaming laptops and workstations. The eight CPU cores run at 2.3 GHz to 4.6 GHz. The integrated UHD Graphics GPU offers 32 EUs at up to 1.45 GHz. The chip is manufactured on the second-gen 10 nm Intel SuperFin process.» 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.
68.33%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
