Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

So overall, this is a very solid laptop for the price, it offers a lot of bang for it's buck. If you're looking for a good mid-level laptop for on the go gaming, this is most definitely the choice for you. The laptop doesn't come with a lot of bloatware (actually there is virtually none, which was very refreshing to see), and you get a lot of power from easy overclocking of the CPU. The MSI Dragon Center is great for clocking your CPU speed to exactly what you need it at, so you can go from gaming to relaxing with a quick click of a button. What surprised me the most was how light it is, this laptop is not beefy at all and doesn't feel bulky when sitting on my lap. Having a gaming laptop that I can rest on the couch or even my lap is wonderful. There's only two cons that I have with this, the fact that the out of box partitioning is weird and that this laptop will act very differently when being run off of the battery and not plugged in. Let's start with the partitioning. This laptop splits it's massive HDD into two partitions that are roughly the same size, which means that you'll end up having to split your installed programs across two drives. Really, that's a pain. So you go to change the partition, right? However, what you find is that there is a little "recovery" partition (that's only 20mb, it's not recovering anything) that is sitting right in between the two big partitions, meaning you won't be able to decrease the partition of one and add it to the other. You're going to need to go into the command line and enter in some commands to get rid of that little partition before you can get the massive block of drive space that you really should have. Not a huge issue, just a pain. Okay second thing, when this laptop isn't plugged in, you're going to notice that the CPU is going to decrease it's speed drastically and everything is going to slow down. Not a huge thing, most gaming laptops become different beasts when they are plugged in, it's just something to note that the level of change is drastic here. Overall, great laptop once you get past the two small cons!