MSI Cyborg 17 Series

MSI Cyborg 17 B13WFKG

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How to open MSI Cyborg 17 B13W - disassembly and upgrade options
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MSI Cyborg 17 B13WEKG

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MSI Cyborg 17 B13W review – Big Screen, Low RTX Power
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The MSI Cyborg 17 (B13W) is a 17-inch gaming laptop with a very clear identity. It doesn’t try to look like every other budget gaming machine on the market — the translucent elements, cyberpunk-inspired design, and 4-zone RGB keyboard give it a distinctive personality. If you want a large-screen gaming laptop that looks different and doesn’t cost as much as higher-end RTX machines, the Cyborg 17 immediately makes sense on paper. In practice, however, this is also a laptop with very clear priorities. MSI has focused on controlled thermals, a slimmer-looking chassis, and affordability, but this comes at the cost of GPU performance. The Cyborg 17 B13W can play modern games at 1080p, but it is not designed to push its RTX 50-series GPU to the highest possible power limits.
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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.

With these GPUs you are able to play modern and demanding games fluently at medium detail settings and HD resolution.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop: Mobile mid-range graphics card from the Blackwell family based on the GB206 chip with 3328 shaders and 8 GB GDDR7 graphics memory (128 bit).

Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

Intel UHD Graphics Xe G4 48EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G4 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 48 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Raptor Lake-H:

i7-13620H: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 6 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 16 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.8 to 4.9 GHz and supports vPro.

i5-13420H: On Alder-Lake based mobile CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks up to 4.6 GHz.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

2.5 kg:

2.58 kg:

With this weight, a laptop is rather heavier than average. Devices in this range shine more with screen size and performance than with mobility.

76.3%: 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.

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