I bought this one today as the webshop miss priced the item. I paid 629 EUR for it and a couple minutes later they changed it back to 1435 EUR. Steal of a lifetime and a nice upgrade from my i5 2060 desktop
I'm getting this for my college, almost exact same specs too! It was 1.1k for me, including tax so that's honestly a good deal imo. Thank you for making this
Just got this laptop recently for 1700$ , I could of gotten something cheaper like the asus tuf f15 rtx 4060 but the katana had a better cooling system and hits 76°C on max load , I. 3D mark timespy I hit a score 10500, the laptop itself is very slim and portable, love it
I bought this laptop just now to upgrade from my 2018 Dell Inspiron 7567 (Intel Core i5 7th Gen + Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti), and I'd have to say, after watching this review, I feel even more confident and great about my purchase!
I bought one for my wife it’s a MSI Katana A15 AI 15.6” 144Hz FHD Gaming Laptop: Ryzen 7-8845HS, NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4060, 32GB DDR5 , it’s coming tomorrow I hope it does the job, she’s a teacher that plays super causal games but it was on sale for 980 instead of 1.2k did I do good gang ? 😢
Idk if this applies to the katana 15, but the katana 17 I have with the same specs has a lot of fan noise. Even when I don't have anything running. It comes and goes intermittently. The battery life is also abysmal even for a gaming laptop. Moreover, the laptop only comes with a 1080p screen and has okay speakers at best. Other than that, just purely in terms of performance, the machine is a beast.
I've honestly only used it for gaming so my fan was consistently running (but I used headphones). Also I agree, this laptop needs a power source to get the best use out of it since it has such power hungry internals! But with all that being said, it was able to handle everything I threw at it!
Fantastic review! The MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop with its 144Hz FHD display looks like a powerful gaming machine. Your detailed insights and performance tests have given me a clear picture of what this laptop is capable of. As someone in the market for a gaming laptop, this one has definitely caught my attention. Thanks for sharing your expertise and showcasing this gaming powerhouse!
I just bought one with the exact specs, my old gaming laptop died on me this weekend. This one should arrive in 2-3 days and after watching this, I feel even more confident about my purchase, so thank you.
Bought at Walmart fpr 999. I cant believe how nice it is. I got 10300 on 3d mark. Score was Comparable to way more expensive laptops. Im definitely a happy camper
I got this for 1200 at Walmart yesterday I was wanting a different laptop but they didn’t have any in stock. I thought about going with a 900 dollar desktop but I wanted to change it up and it’s nice being able to move where I game as sometiems a gaming chair will kill my back. Older mmos I play work super smooth and I even played destiny 2 with the graphics up really high and it worked good the only time I get small lag is if I try running something in the background when there is a lot of things going on in destiny 2. But for gaming or browsing it’s really good and this is really all you need. I would only go with better specs if your a content creator or a streamer. Average joe you will be happy with this
i need a decent gaming laptop since i am gonna be moving between two places very often, thank you for this video it helps (still have lots of research to do to pinpoint the best budget laptop tbh).
I have the Katana with the i5 chip instead of the i7. Around the same price buying it from Newegg. Oddly, this one lacked the mouse, though not really complaining as since I travel a lot, a traditional mouse doesn't function very well and a wireless trackball mouse is not very expensive at all (plus I bought both at the same time). The trackpad on mine actually is decently built and handles the pressure better than your model. It's handled a few small bumps along the way and one or two "I hope the screen survived" moments. No damage and performs awesome. I've ran a PS3 emulator on it for like 3 days straight (Gran Turismo 5 B-Spec endurance racing) and it never gave a fuss pulling that kind of load against the GPU and CPU. The only thing I have issue with is Sim City 4 absolutely refuses to boot on this laptop but will boot on my desktop (which uses an 11th gen chip and I think the 12th gen chip bricks the game). Overall, I absolutely love this laptop and it has definitely proved it's worth to me and definitely recommend it if it fits in the budget. It also isn't overly noisy, even when gaming, at least to me, though I do have some loud speakers hooked to it so it easily drowns out the noise.
Just got one with a 4070 and 32gigs of ram and otherwise I think we have the same thing. So far.... It's fine. I paid 1500 on a tax free week in my state so it's fine. My desktop has a 1070Ti and i7-7700k so its quite the upgrade on that front. Plus I've had some problems with the desktop completely shutting down under heavy loads so I'm not sure what's going on with that but hopefully I'll be using this mostly for rendering/editing 4k video without having shut-downs ruin my entire workflow. Ran hogwarts legacy on ultra settings for about 4 hours and didn't have a single frame drop. Hard to complain when the desktop can't run it on the lowest settings without crashing the whole thing. So far it's been nice to use... even though it's been just a few hours. All in all- no ragrats (so far)
Would like to see you run it on your external monitor as well.. I have a two-year-old MSI with a RTX 3060 32 gigs Ram. When playing Resident Evil 2 Remake It barely holds 60 FPS throughout the whole game.. Your MSI 4060 seems the average 99 FPS, so itdefinitely a good upgrade for the price.. Also I think you'll find the RTX 4070. Is just a couple of $100 more in a laptop with about a 15% to 25% higher in frames Rate's. Not to go off topic, But it might be a good review in the future... Either way, great video, good job, thank you😅
Had mine up and running for no more than a few hours now, so far nothing but good to say about it. I suppose I'm lucky to have held out until the black Friday deals. Got mine with 16GB RAM, i9-13900H CPU and RTX 4070. Absolute beast compared to my desktop which is 5 years out of date almost. Best part is this was goin for £1900-£2000 on a normal month but with the sales was reduced by £800. Bloody great steal.
I play Modern warfare 2 and 3 on i7 with just 2gb video graphic so long ago .And did not get hot .But now we buy laptops with 8 Gb graphic card not for modern warfare 2 or 3 , but for Cyber Punk and not only
Just bought the same laptop but with the intel core i9- 13900h and most of the same for the rest. Can’t find any reviews with my specific specs. I got it on Amazon today for £999.99 from £1700 for my degree and other fun things lol.
are the fans rlly loud or not, i currently have an msi cyborg which sacrifices voltage for silence and temperature, but im looking to swap for an msi katana which has a way higher voltage, im assuming this means the temperature and noise will also be way higher but does anyone know exactly how much higher?
Was planning on getting this laptop for college, but I've seen a lot of people really give the screen bad reviews. The brightness seems especially bad, with people saying in a bright scenarios it could be hard to see things on screen. Was just wondering if anyone who has this laptop has had problems with that. Thanks.
If you plan on using this outdoors a lot then I can understand. I’m not the biggest fan of the screen and I think If you’re primarily gaming on it, it’s decent since you’ll be inside. For college…. I’d just say it depends on where you see yourself using it the most.
Yeah you got a hell of a price for that one same spec, same laptop on Fingerhut for $1,729.99 maybe I should give you the money I don’t have a Costco near me lol or membership I live in Garden Grove California
I have been thinking about buying the ASUS TUF Gaming F15 (2023) with Intel Core i7-12700H and 8GB RTX 4060(140W). The pricing is 1,410 $. Do you think it's worth it?
I think the tuf is potentially a better choice due to the 140W option it has. You’ll get great performance from both so it comes down to what you’ll be playing. Being able to use more power is always good. That being said. The katana was $1200 and if you find it for that price or cheaper, you can always over clock it
hello, would you recommend this laptop for architecture students? im looking at the MSI KATANA 15 B13VFK with a 15.6'' Full HD screen 144Hz Refresh Rate and Intel Core i9-13900H 14core up to 5.4GHz Max Speed. 8GB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. 16GB RAM AND 1TB SSD Both upgradeable. what do you think?
I think they’re both pretty decent and similar. The CPU are essentially the same in terms of performance. The only think you should consider is that the ASUS only comes with 8GB of RAM and 512 SSD where as the MSI comes with double that. Not the biggest deal because you can always upgrade but it would be an additional step.
Good video, after years I will buy my first MSI laptop from Peru, because it is cheaper, I plan to import it through a courier company, I investigated in several stores and in Walmart .An offer for $1000 for the same model as yours, is the MSI laptop they sell in that store new? I plan to buy it in a month. Greetings
I need this for game developer on Microsoft Visual studio. This katana 15 b13vek-277us at 999 . Wondering how well or bad it is for you guys that got this system. Deciding if this or Asus FX507VI-F15.I74070. Can you name another?
I chose the GE76 Raider 11th gen 3070 but it was stolen. Now I'm looking to replace it, with this & from what I've seen of your Battlefield gameplay, it looks like it's a certainty now. Thank you! MSI Control Panel, has different power modes. When playing, I would crank that as it changes to fan and voltage, basically overclocking it for "Performance Mode", the Turbo was too noisy on the GE76 and can only imagine, MSI's fan curves won't have changed much. Another point, at release of the z390 for i9-9900k all MSI boards, were by default overclocked. I've got an MSI MEG Z390 Tomahawk and it screams... because it's overclocked by default.
Sorry to hear about your laptop! And appreciate the tips and advice on MSI products, I didn’t know that before. This laptop will handle BF with NO issues. I’ve played multiple hour sessions this past week and it’s a beast. Getting above 100fps easily.
Hi, I just bought this laptop and it says it will be about a month before it comes. I'm thinking of buying a new monitor to use as my main monitor, mainly for playing Overwatch, Rocket League and Fortnite. I want to get either a 240hz 1080p monitor or a 144-165hz 1440p monitor. I don't know is this laptop Will be able to support those specs, and I also wouldn't know which type of cable to get. If someone could help It would be much appreciated.
I just need to know which one would be better among these two for my architecture design works and renderings,msi katana 15,i7 13th generation, rtx4060/8gb,16gb ram and asus tuf f-series,i7 13th generation,Rtx 4060/6gb,16gb ram
@@hartomethod Lenovo Loq claims to peak 350 nits brightness (katana-250nits). FHD. same resolution as Katana. But has 512 GB SSD. Every other aspect is same/similar. Price in my country is a little over 1000usd for both (electronics are expensive here). So my question is: did the display ever bother you?
Hi theree i was wondering which laptop is better MSI katana 15 B12V I5-12450H 16GO (RTX 4060 8GO) or Lenovo LOQ 15IRH8 I7- 13620H 16GO (RTX 4050 6GO) What about battery life ? Performance? Brightness? And which one is better for gaming and work ?
Buen video, estaba pensando en conseguir una gigabyte g5 kf (i5 12500h rtx 4060 75w) solo para testearla unos días pero probablemente la cambie por esta en un mes. Tiene mux switch? No se si lo mencionó el video. Gracias.
i'm planning on getting the Katana 15 with same chip but with the 4070. I have a msi monitor also with 1440p and plan to connect that up when i'm at home. have you already tried doing that, if so? could you share your experience? btw great review!
That sounds like it’s gonna be a dope setup! Yes, I’ve hooked up mine to my 1440p monitor and have been able to play on it no problems. My monitor is also called at 144hertz and I can hit that on some titles as well.
@@Kenny0215 well, I won't be getting it until mid month of October but i9 has more cores, threads and higher maximum operating frequencies which will allow your PC to run faster than i7. I'm gonna be mainly using it for song production which is CPU demanding and better CPU would cut sound latency issues. GPU wise, 4070 obviously is better than 4060 by what I would think is 25-30% in gaming performance. I only play Dota 2 so I probably won't be needing a higher GPU.
G14 zephyrus with I5 12th and rtx 4050 or Katana 15 12th rtx 4060 (same price ) what i choose bro , i think zephyrus is solid and elegante with metal body advice me bro
G14 is smaller but it’ll get hotter due to its size. It’s also a weaker gpu and is not as upgradable as the MSI. You’re stuck with one ssd slot and one of the rams are soldered
Thanks for the review, really helpful. I'm a beginner game developer going to grad school who mainly uses Unity and Blender. I'm confused between getting 4060 and 4070. Please help me out
Just looked at the g15 on dells website. The pricing is really close. For the $1,349 model you’re getting essentially the same system but a display that supports more features (like 360Hz). I’d say the decision for me would come to pricing. If the katana is cheaper at the time of buying, I might go with that. Both look like “gaming” laptops so it’s an equal playing field.
I have an MSI device and I want to update the device to this model. With my current MSI, even with basic Google Chrome things, it usually turns on the fans at full speed to avoid overheating. Does something similar happen to this model?
I never really noticed the fans kicking on unless I played a heavy game. Even with smaller titles you can set the fan to silent and it’ll run pretty well
I think the performance will be similar. If I’m correct the asus tuf has a higher wattage which helps performance. I don’t think the cpu difference will show that much in most of the games you run
Do u think this laptop is good enough too play fortnite and minecraft? Only 2 games I play lol n I’m looking for a gaming laptop that can just at least handle those two 🙂
hey man im about to get this laptop but instead of the intel cpu its a amd cpu version, im kinda a noob when it comes to pc overclocking how risky is it do to and does it affect battery life? I saw u post a link to a reddit thread about it but was curious if i should bother doing it or not, im a college student so ill be using it for gaming and homework, should i try overclocking or just not bother?
You can choose your overclock settings so if you’re using it while gaming, you can just run it on normal then if you want to have a little extra boost, run the overclock
I got the Msi cyborg 15 45watt RTX4060 i712650H. also have a 3070 desktop and xbox one x and xbox series s. But The cyborg is even more budget. but it does have 45watt gpu but if you disable igpu you still get great gaming performance. i payed 1250,- I get 100ish til 115 fps in MW2 with IGPU disabled in the Hidden bios. To reveal hidden bios press schift cntrl alt f2 in bios. Ultra settings dlss on ultra quality
@@hartomethod Yeah i switch igpu on and off even the i712650h is pretty capable of gaming on its own. Honestly m good with the fact that it's 45watt laptop stays pretty cool even tho one fan design mid summer. So on the performance side it's oke for me but only thing I hope they made better than the GF series is the Hinge design. Didn't had any issues yet. But finding out that buying a laptop in 2023 would be so hard cuz manny have bad Hinge designs was rediculous
For the price I don’t mind the build quality but I personally would like something sturdier like you mentioned. Again, my main driver is a MacBook and that just feels like a solid prover of tech
Bro, 😢I just purchased this msi katana 15 laptop rtx 4060( 105 W) over Lenovo LOQ 15IRH8 144Hz intel 13620h rtx4060 (140W) because I don't know Msi katana has 105 W and I don't knew some channels give bad review about MSI katana 15. how much can performance be different between these laptops?and MSI Katana laptop is a really bad performance compared to this Lenovo LOQ laptop?
I’d suggest you use it any see if it fits your needs. There will always be better spec’ed laptops. The Katana is cheaper in price so there are some drawbacks but I still experienced no issues when gaming. You can also downloading after burner and over clock it.
I got mine from Costco but here is a 4070 version from Amazon: Limited-time deal: MSI Katana 15 15.6" 144Hz FHD Gaming Laptop: 13th Gen Intel Core i7, RTX 4070, 16GB DDR5, 1TB NVMe SSD, USB-Type C, Cooler Boost 5, Win11 Home: Black B13VGK-484US a.co/d/7GbnFen
I'm glad you're broke out the HP omen I have a high-end gaming PC at home but when I travel I wanted something better than HP Omen I have I don't know if it's the same model or not but mine is the one that has the 7700hq and the 1050 t.i. Mobile in it but I upgraded it to 16 gigs of RAM. I was looking into getting the katana so maybe you can help shed some light on this for me assuming you have the same HP Omen I do. How much better or worse is the display on the katana compared to the HP omen and what are your thoughts on the upgrade was it a big difference the one I'm looking at has the 4070 in it with the 13620h cpu. Thanks for your time and thank you for uploading this video
My Hp omen has a 960 in it but I think the rest of the spec are similar to your model. There is 100% a difference between your model and the 4070 katana. If you find a good deal on it I think it’s very very worth it. You’ll find it faster and more optimized in every way. With that being said, the screen won’t be that much of an upgrade unless you get a 1440 screen panel. I hope this helped!
@hartomethod thank you and yes that helped. I won't be getting it right now but around the Christmas time so hopefully by then I'll be able to find a good deal of 100 or $200 off. The reason why I wanted your opinion on the screens is because even though the HP Omen we both have isn't really all that great of a screen I can honestly live with it. So as long as the screen is at least a little bit better I'm okay with it. the hardware performance as far as CPU and GPU are going to be hands down better. Like I said my main gaming is going to be on my home PC which is awesome but when I'm out of town for work I want something that I can still play Warzone and a few other games on. Also if I'm going to be at a specific hotel for a week or so I can just bring one of my secondary gaming monitors with me since obviously I won't be using it at home anyways I have a nice 1080p 144 Hertz Monitor and a 1440p 144hz LG ultragear to choose from LOL. After hearing that if there's anything you feel I should know please let me know and thank you again for the response
I haven’t tried running warzone on my hp omen but I can assume it’ll chug pretty hard with my 960. I’d recommend trying to run it on your laptop and if it works then dope. Having an external monitor will make the experience better. I used the Katana while hooked up to an external 1440 monitor and it was awesome. Again, if it’s a secondary device, I wouldn’t make it a priority (unless you’re traveling a lot). If you do end up running warzone, let me know how it does!
@hartomethod keep in mind that mine is the 1050 t.i. mobile model which oddly enough I believe it is the only mobile variant of a GPU to ever perform better than the desktop variant for some reason but it is in fact a little bit faster than the desktop version. And I ran the original Warzone on it a few times and it will technically run it however it is so sluggish and the response time is awful. It will get around 30 maybe even 40 FPS if I remember correctly however the response time is absolutely awful you can move the mouse and it takes about a quarter second maybe longer for it to actually show that movement on the screen. That's not the displays fault it's just how poorly the hardware itself handles that game LOL. So even though it technically plays the game it's something you don't want in a shooter that requires fast reaction time. And because of that the game was completely unemployable. Also considering the price I had a similar thought as you did ( since it's not my main gaming rig and only for when I occasionally travel it might be worth picking up as a good budget mid-range gaming PC)
@@hartomethod forgot to mention thank you as of right now I believe this is the laptop I'm going to get unless by time Christmas rolls around something better pops up for around the same price
Hello, I have the same laptop and I am interested in increasing the space. Do you know where I can get the adapter you mention? Comment that I am from Latin America
Take a look at this thread. Essentially you contact msi support to get it. forum-en.msi.com/index.php?threads/msi-katana-15-design-quality-issue.384568/
Hey, which one do you think its better, MSI cyborg 15 rtx 4060 (8h i7) or Katana 4050 (16g i7)? I heard the difference in performance between 4050 and 4060 is big but the cyborg its just more expensive. Im also new to all of this so im kinda lost and in a budget
I think the difference between a 50 series card and a 60 series card is a bigger jump than 60 and 70. I’d recommend getting a 4060 if you can. I’ll handle more of what you throw at it
I downloaded MSI afterburner but half of the options are greyed out and I can't use them. My fps is lower in games than I expected and I can't figure out how to overclock it. Even if I did, I don't know the values you overclocked it to. Can you help with this please?
Hey, I references this diagram on reddit and it worked for my laptop. Hope this helps! www.reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/1197s95/4060_and_4070_overclocked/
i don't have long school days and i'm bringing the charger with me. i want the laptop mainly for gaming and less for school. how long does the battery last when not gaming just browsing and in documents? i'm buying the MSI Katana 15 B12VFK-1231NL. it has a rtx 4060, i7 12650h, 16gb memory and 1 tb storage. do you know the srgb % on it?
I honestly haven’t tested the laptop off battery and I primarily used it for gaming. I’d think if you’re using it for moderate tasks it should last more than a few hours. I don’t know the srgb but in person the screen looks fine. Colors are present but definitely don’t pop as much as a 1440 screen would.
