 Alright I've got a beast of machine in front of me guys and you'll be excited to check it out so let's start gaming. So there are a ton of gaming laptops out there and the MSI G76 R8 which you see right in front of you is one that packs a lot of punch and I think MSI has done a fantastic job with this device. You've got something that is 17.3 inches in terms of the display it's not just a regular display it is a 360 Hertz display with 3 millisecond response time which means some ultra fast gaming with this bad boy. I mean it is really really nice but there's so much more underneath the hood right here with this device. Now in terms of weight you're looking at something that roughly is around six pounds but it feels really light and comfortable in comparison by the way I would say but it packs in so many more features so let's run down a few of the things here. Sorry you've got the Core i9 processor here you've got the 11980k this thing comes with 32 gigabytes of RAM we have a terabyte of storage and it of course runs an RTX 3080 I want to give a big shout out to Intel for sending this over so I could definitely review and spend some time on this laptop. Now that configuration is about $3,299 so it's expensive you still can upgrade this and it's a really easy laptop to upgrade or you have to take out all the screws at the bottom thankfully all the screws are the same so you don't have to put them in order but in terms of replacing parts you can add an extra NVMe and you can go up to 64 gigabytes of RAM I have 32 so you can spend more money separately to go ahead and do that but the way the laptop looks and feels is something that adds to it as well you've got a steel series keyboard here with RGB lighting which makes a huge difference it feels so much better it feels like a keyboard that I know as a gamer this is something I would use as opposed to some other gaming laptops that just have really clunky keyboards all together. Now the keys have some functionality on the very top which you can access with quick function you've got your steel series button there to open up the steel series menu you've also got your fan button so you can actually change the fan speeds manually while you're gaming so you're of course extremely high and to silent mode then you've got your quick access to some just quick menus as well as also your Abe Assist if you need it so I definitely need that. Now it's got speakers on the side and then you've got the trackpad that's sent it towards the left now it's a very good trackpad if you're using it to browse the web and all that kind of stuff for gaming of course you're going to be using your gaming mouse which is of course just standard. Now ports it's got a slew of ports around the device so we take a look at the right hand side we've got two USB 3.1 ports full SD card slot here on the left hand side there is a USB C port USB 3.1 headphone jack and at the back we also have a few more we've got mini display port thunderbolts ethernet HDMI and the proprietary power plug so that being said this is still a big boy it's a gaming laptop which means performance is what we care about the first thing I want to talk about is heat and temperature I did do some extensive gaming on here played I try to play Cyberpunk 2077 at its max and temperature wise I only got up to about 110 degrees now this actually wasn't at the max fan speed but I'll say it was the second to the highest level now you've got a lot of vents around the device at the bottom on the sides at the back so it blows air out it's going to be loud that's just standard affair but it's actually not too bad and you've got a lot of different settings we can you can change here you've got extreme performance balance silent and super battery so while you're gaming I would say you probably can go between balance and extreme to get the kind of best kind of performance here speaking of gaming right that's the main thing we care about 360 Hertz now normally I would play something like Counter Strike just to show you how that we can hit that and you can definitely do it but I set off with Doom Eternal which is a game that of course looks gorgeous on this here and I played a game and it's max settings which is ultra nightmare and also it was to get up to about 176 frames per second which is great and one of the best things is that the keyboard didn't feel like it was going to overheat so one thing I've noticed with other slimmer gaming laptops that either run a koai 9 or koai 7 is that the keyboard felt super hot this didn't feel that way and performance was really good doing 176 frames per second and max playing Doom Eternal on this device max settings 360 Hertz display which is a 1080 display is really good that's a really really good performance I'm going to be showing you just max performance across the board then you take a game like Shadow of the Tomb Raider now Shadow of the Tomb Raider ran the benchmark test we did about 110 frames per second and it's highest setting on this device again that is really really good so some really solid performance all the way through you could see that and to me that's that's amazing the fact that you can play a game like that and push it to its limits and it just runs really comfortable on this device now of course Call of Duty Mobile which can be you know a misnomer in terms of just performance left and right I was still able to do about 90 sometimes even went up to about 100 depending on the setting but again just showing you what Call of Duty looks like and feels like 360 Hertz on a shooter is great some really great backdrop there for me to work with looks really good felt really good playing the shooter on a 360 Hertz display so I do like that about it now the last game that we went ahead and played of course was Cyberpunk Cyberpunk is a tough one and it's max settings on this device 65 frames per second that's what I got if I dropped it down to middle settings I could get about 95 frames per second it's just a really hard game to push and it definitely pushed the limits of this device and that's why I tested the temperatures and I said I got about 110 max it wasn't super hard it didn't feel like it was burning I like that now you've got this you know RGB stripe here which you can change I kind of just leave it on just you know cycling here so you can go through the different colors which is nice the speakers are good they're not too loud at which they were much louder they use the Dyna audio system which is good but nothing too crazy for me here now the one thing I will say that I do like is the super battery mode which is when you're using this for browsing the web and things like that you can get about four hours of battery life maybe even five depending on how much you're using so when it comes to things that I would say are negatives on the device number one I wish there was more than one Thunderbolt port I wish there were at least two the other USB type she should be tough Thunderbolt instead of just one the display is not as bright as I would like maybe because of course it's 360 Hertz performance of the display is great for gaming but it's still not as bright as I would like it to be on that side I didn't mention the audio it's not as loud not as sharp still good but not as effective as I would like I think overall this thing is is awesome though I mean if you're looking for a gaming laptop willing to shell out the cash roughly around $3,500 this would do the job here the price is just stick a shock but I can't complain with the kind of performance this has given me that core i9 processor does the job it feels like a desktop I mean in terms of just performance the way it plays it feels like I'm playing on a desktop PC with a 3080 with a core i9 like I mean performance wise fantastic temperatures are great so I mean I can definitely recommend it anyway guys if you have any questions or any comments about the msi g76 radar with a 360 Hertz display let me know otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your installment