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Taipei, Taiwan – May, 2019- In a short two years, MSI has grown rapidly in the curved gaming monitor market. In 2019, MSI has become the second biggest brand in the world"s gaming monitor market. Samsung, which is the top panel manufacturer that MSI has been collaborating closely with, provides unique monitor panels featuring high contrast rate, rapid response time, vibrant color range, 178 degree wide viewing angle and up to 1500R curvature rate. Numerous gamers around the world have experienced exciting gameplay through the monitor panel manufactured by Samsung. MSI, by having the Samsung monitor panel inside of its curved gaming monitors, has created a curved gaming monitor trend in the PC gaming market. Having the widest range of models in curved gaming monitors from 24” to 34”, MSI is able to satisfy all types of gamers.

This year, MSI is honored by the visit of Samsung Display, CHQ Marketing VP- KC Kang, Samsung Electronic Taiwan President - JW Uhm and his team from Samsung Display headquarters in Korea, and has demonstrated the premium curved gaming monitor -Optix MPG341CQR. Ted Hung, the General Manager of the Computing and Display Business Unit in MSI has accompanied the Samsung Team to MSI’s 2019 COMPUTEX booth, symbolizing the deep collaboration between MSI and Samsung. Based on the fact that MSI has become the fastest growing curved gaming monitor brand, both representatives from MSI and Samsung are confident that MSI and Samsung will continue collaborating, providing more curved gaming monitors for gamers to choose from.

MSI Optix MPG341CQR is equipped with Samsung VA 1800R curved panel featuring 144Hz refresh rate and 1ms fast response time. On top of MSI exclusive software Gaming OSD App, gamers are allowed to adjust MPG341CQR’s settings easily through their keyboards and mice. MPG341CQR is also the worlds first monitor with Smart AI gaming functionality, providing facial recognition technology as a method for users to switch monitor setting easily.

“We are looking forward to collaborating closely with Samsung in the future. With Samsung"s advanced panel engineering skills and MSI’s innovative ability in the gaming field, we will be able to create a brand new chapter in curved gaming monitors.”

Samsung Display as the biggest provider of curved panels, we are glad that gamers and manufacturers are now realizing the benefits of curved monitors. We look forward to keep working with MSI to create more Curved Gaming monitors in the Future.”

But what separates each manufacturer from the other? To cut their way through the fog, MSI sent out invitations to one of their mainland Chinese factories, in the hopes of showing just why they call themselves a “true gaming” company.

The factory in question is situated in Kunshan, a Jiangsu province city home to a modern industrial zone, multiple cultural sites, and a footnote for hosting the 2013 World Cyber Games. It’s one of three factories that MSI operates — the others are in Shenzhen, China and Jung He, Taiwan — and its duties include marketing, research and development, and production for the wide range of products the company carries. The 272,000-square meter facility also houses worker dormitories and recreational sites, though the focus of our visit was solely gaming notebooks.

Before plodding around the assembly lines in disposable shoe covers and hair nets, Yang walked us through a brief presentation on what made MSI’s notebooks special.

How, then, does MSI effectively translate a bespoke process to fit mass-production? The answer lies in preparation. Every new model introduced requires detailed research and data collection to find its overclocking limit. They’ll record configuration information, temperature performance, clock speeds, and work load every five seconds, in a test that’s repeated simultaneously by hundreds of other notebooks. With access to more than a million logs, MSI can then data mine to determine the best parameters to use for that model.

In a similar vein, every single display panel will have been individually calibrated by the time it leaves the factory. Advanced recognition technology and testing allows MSI to spot imperfections of less than 0.5 millimeters, and each panel that passes will be tagged with a unique binary file derived via a color parameter identification tool. Once assembled, this matching binary file will then be installed onto the system.

Yang says that the displays are all calibrated to be “dead center” according to three key areas: color temperature, color gamut, and grayscale gamma; the display tools MSI provides are only there so a user may tweak things according to their personal preferences and lighting conditions. He quotes an actual scenario where a SEA-based user complained about the screen’s color, only for the on-site tech to discover that the user’s definition of “perfect” ended up having a color temperature of over 7,000 Kelvins – higher than the 6,500K standard used for calibration.

MSI are just as thorough when it comes to their other tests, all of which are conducted over an extended period of time. This not only simulates whether the notebook can sustain its load but also serves to check display burn-in and, most crucial of all, thermal performance.

In addition to the regular performance checks and screenings are the reliability ones, to see that every notebook can stand the rigors of daily use. We didn’t get to see these first-hand although MSI did provide the video embedded below, covering everything from parts durability to withstanding extreme conditions. For instance, it needs to survive storage in temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius, or to not crumble when exposed to a g-force of 40 – for comparison, Yang says a human experiences about 9 g in a rocket launch.

It’s worth mentioning that MSI designs and builds these rigs themselves, to accommodate for the many different shapes, sizes, and functions of their products. Complementing these automated tests are the user-experience ones, encompassing a wide variety of approaches. One involves a worker physically testing the mechanical keyboards for their tactile response, while on the other end there’s the Out-of-Box simulation to mimic a user’s first experience with their brand-new system.

The latter not only includes basic tasks such as running system updates, anti-virus scans, or video streaming but also compatibility checks with various VR systems. Also of interest is how MSI monitors and reacts to Windows 10’s surprise automatic updates, which Yang says has proven to be a problem for both the company and its customers. Now, they’re able to identify problems early, broadcasting the notice and solution through their various user support and outreach channels.

Primed from our briefing at the R&D Center, we made the short trek over to building A for an actual peek into production. While MSIK was, in Yang’s words, smaller than most factories, having design, manufacturing, sales, and the supply chain all operating from within the same compound, under the same management, allowed the team to be both lean and quick to react. That combination is also a strength of MSI’s, granting them the leeway to do “unusual” things such as the individual display panel calibration for their True Color branding. Vendors that rely on OEM factories, on the other hand, would no doubt have to fork out extra for implementing such a service. The other plus for MSI here is that they’ll need less time to get a new product designed and ready for the market.

Our first order of business was the printed circuit board line, which Yang explains is quite different from others. As PCBAs for notebooks aren’t conventional due to their small form factor, MSI has had to develop their own set of processes to suit what they were trying to do with advanced components.

Immediately after placement, the boards begin the reflow stage starting with this reversed insertion machine, which replaces manual soldering for improved quality and efficiency. Yang highlights this as one of the special processes MSI employs in their PCBA production, with the other called Print-In-Place. Both work together to help accommodate any special components they might use.

Our next scheduled stop was building C, where the main assembly line featuring the GE63 and GE73 notebooks were. Interestingly, we came across a separate building where MSI produces touch displays for cars. The company also produces touchscreens for mobile devices, which is why they have a Class 1000 clean room for their assembly.

MSI are now designing their internals with easy accessibility in mind, so that future upgrades or a thorough cleaning wouldn’t be excessively complicated.

While the rest of the notebook is carefully put together with WiFi antennas, memory sticks, and other components, workers further down the line begin assembling the lid and display panel.

To combat the tedium of repeating the same task for weeks, Yang reminds us about the license incentive program they run at MSI. The more licenses a worker owns, the higher their pay, and thus the more varied their duties become. And since other factories do not have a similar program, the workers aren’t interested in leaving either.

At the end of the day, Yang says that what makes MSI truly special is how they’re all gamers themselves. It may sound cliché but the ultimate test of a product lies in the hands of their users, and what better way to understand their target market than to be a part of it themselves?

We aren’t talking about corporate-enforced directives, either. Engineers, operators, line leaders, and various other employees all hold a passion for games in one form or the other, so much so that in 2014 the factory formed the MSIK Gaming Club, an official title for what had already been in existence for some time.

We left the tour with a newfound appreciation for the philosophy and methodology behind MSI’s approach to gaming notebooks. They’ve certainly invested heavily in all aspects of production, from attaining the best tools and technology money can buy to developing the best workers they have under their employ. And that’s not to speak of the clear talent and passion of the one man driving it all.

So the next time you run into a MSI notebook at a roadshow, think of the gaming enthusiasts that excitedly huddled around a computer to design it, the massive testing gauntlet it had to endure to get there, or that one worker who made sure the backspace key works and feels just right. It may sound trivial but this obsessiveness over quality definitely grants some degree of comfort when spending all that hard-earned money.

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The most widely used panels are those with 6, 8, and 10 bits for each of the RGB components of the pixel. They provide 18-, 24-, and 30-bit color, respectively.8 bits (6 bits + FRC)

Frame Rate Control (FRC) is a method, which allows the pixels to show more color tones. With quick cyclic switching between different color tones, an illusion for a new intermediate color tone is created. For example, by using FRC, a 6-bit display panel is able to show 16.7 millioin colors, which are typical for 8-bit display panels, and not the standard 262200 colors, instead. There are different FRC algorithms.Yes

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This guide demonstrates how to replace the LCD screen in the MSI GP62MVR 6RF Leopard Pro laptop. It is a moderately difficult process with no special skills required. Avoid touching the circuitry when the screen is off to avoid short-circuiting components or shocking yourself. If the screen has odd pixels, discolored or incorrect textures, or fails to display anything at all, then the LCD screen will need to be replaced. Follow this guide to change the LCD screen in a MSI GP62MVR 6RF Leopard Pro.

Over the past several years, we"ve seen tens if not hundreds of "creator" laptops crop up on the market. If you want to appeal to digital artists and creatives of all stripes, just slap an NVIDIA GPU inside, use a panel that covers at least 100% sRGB, make sure there"s an SD card slot, and you can call it a "creator" laptop.

Fortunately, the MSI Creator 17 that we"re looking at today is one of those laptops. It combines some of the most powerful hardware on the market with tons of connectivity and a gorgeous 4K HDR miniLED display – a first for anylaptop when it was originally announced.

Beyond that, each of these computers can sport up to an Intel Core i9-11900H CPU, up to 64GB of 3200MHz DDR4 RAM, and two M.2 NVMe SSDs (one PCIe 3.0, one PCIe 4.0). Finally, all three models can be configured with one of two displays: a photo- and gaming-friendly 120Hz 4K IPS panel that claims 100% coverage of Adobe RGB, or an HDR- and video-editor friendly 60Hz 4K miniLED display that claims 100% coverage of DCI-P3.

The MSI Creator 17 is a bit of a tank. Partly because of its size, but also because of its build quality and miniLED display, this is neither a light nor portable device. The bezels around the 17.3-inch display are tiny, measuring just 1/4 of an inch, but the overall weight and dimensions are still quite large: the laptop is 15.6 inches x 10.2 inches (39.6cm x 25.9cm) and it weighs in at just over 5.4 lbs (2.4kg).

In addition to the large high-quality display, the Creator 17"s large chassis allowed MSI to include a bunch of ports that have all-but disappeared from many of this laptop"s competitors. This is the kind of port selection we expectwhen we review a 17-inch laptop, but that"s not always what we get.

Excellent port selection aside, the rest of MSI"s design choices were a bit more "hit-or-miss" for me. The keyboard is solid, but the keycaps are a bit smaller than I"m used to and they take a more travel than most of the low-profile keyboards that I"ve used. This makes for a slightly "mushy" feeling that translates into a slower typing experience for me personally.

Speaking of the trackpad, I could have done with something a bit larger. For the sake of cooling, MSI put a big grill at the top of the device, but this forces the keyboard deck downwards and crushes the trackpad into a long and skinny orientation. The result is a touch surface that"s about twice as wide as it is tall, so while you can comfortably move from one side of the screen to the other without lifting your finger, you can only get about 2/3 of the way up the screen before you run out of trackpad.

After removing the back panel and the battery, one of the ribbon cables coming off the motherboard simply wouldn"t budge – the little metal bracket holding it in place refused to flip up and release the cable. Any more pressure might have snapped the bracket, torn the cable, or otherwise left me holding the bill for a $3,800 loaner PC.

One of the main reasons we wanted to review the MSI Creator 17 is that it was the first laptop with a miniLED display. Long before Apple announced the new MacBook Pros, MSI unveiled this bad boy with a factory calibrated display that claims a maximum sustained brightness of 1000 nits, 100% coverage of DCI-P3, an average Delta E of less than 2, and full-array local dimming for enhanced contrast.

At a glance, the colors coming from our MSI Creator 17 were already quite good out of the box thanks to the factory calibration, but we did end up re-calibrating the display to get the best possible results. When I first powered on the computer, MSI"s "True Color" app automatically set the display to the AdobeRGB color mode. I"m not sure how it decides this – especially since this panel is better suited for DCI- or Display-P3 – but that was the default setting for me.

To get the widest possible gamut out of the display, you need to open up MSI True Color, select the Customize tab, and choose the "Native" color space:

We tried both, and were pleasantly surprised by the built-in calibration system. According to MSI, this does not constitute proper hardware calibration – there"s no hardware LUT sitting on a chip between your display and the graphics card, it"s all being handled in software – but the MSI True Color app will automatically set your white point to D65, generate a new Native profile, and create a bunch of color space presets without you ever having to touch a slider.

As it happens, the system works well. In fact, the results from the self-calibration using MSI"s built-in tool were actually better than what we achieved manually.

After adjusting the red, green, and blue gains manually in MSI True Color, things get much better. The display"s white point is now almost right on D65: with a color temperature of ~6500K and balanced RGB primaries. For our panel, this required adjusting the RGB primaries by -5, -6, and -3, respectively:

It"s nice to have this kind of control over your RGB gains, even in software. But the real surprise came when we reset all of the color settings and used the MSI True Color calibration tool instead of doing it manually.

These are some of the best results we"ve seen from any laptop display, and the fact that MSI"s built-in app can do all the work for you is a nice bonus.

In our tests, the MSI Creator 17 has slightly worse gamut coverage but superior color accuracy. Allowing for a bit of variation from measurement to measurement and panel to panel, I"d say these these two displays are basically identical, putting the MSI Creator 17 on par with one of the best laptop displays on the market.

Most high-end laptops with "HDR capable" displays have no business putting HDR on the box. With no full-array local dimming, most of the LCD displays in modern laptops can"t generate the contrast required for true HDR. On the other end of the spectrum, OLED displays have perfect contrast, but they simply can"t get bright enough. They may be able to hit 500 nits or higher on a 10% patch, but that number drops to 200 nits or less for full screen white.

The MSI Creator 17 is one of the very few laptop displays on the market that is truly HDR capable. With an advertised full screen brightness of 1000 nits and a measured peak brightness of ~1150 nits in our tests, it can definitely get bright enough. And thanks to the excellent native color gamut and 240 local dimming zones, it can produce the saturated colors and contrast you need to view or edit HDR content.

We loaded up the same HDR blooming test on the MSI Creator 17 (left) and the M1 Max MacBook Pro (right) and photographed the results in a darkened room.

MSI deserves praise for being the first manufacturer to put a proper miniLED display inside a laptop. Their attempt pre-dates Apple, and the Creator 17 is still one of the few HDR laptops you can actually use for HDR editing. We just know that better is possible.

The specs I just mentioned are some of the best you can get inside a PC laptop, and having such a large and well-cooled chassis means that MSI is trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out the CPU, GPU, and RAM inside this machine. Whether you"re editing in Lightroom Classic, Capture One Pro, Photoshop, or Premiere Pro, you can expect this laptop to chew through your workflow as fast or faster than any of its immediate competitors in the PC space.

Lightroom import is pretty much a CPU-bound task, so we expected the MSI Creator 17"s Core i9 to best the Dell XPS 17"s Core i7 and either match or outperform the M1 Max MacBook Pro. That is more or less what happened:

In both tests, the MSI Creator 17 is extremely quick, hampered only by the fact that Adobe doesn"t use GPU acceleration to speed up either imports or exports. If it did, the XPS 17 would have a much harder time keeping up.

Because Capture One uses the GPU to accelerate both imports and exports, the MSI Creator 17 makes up some serious ground on the MacBook Pro and outperforms the Dell XPS 17 in every test. This is where the NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU can flex its combination of additional CUDA cores and VRAM.

The MSI Creator 17 is one of the first PCs we"ve tested that breaks the 1000 mark overall, and the GPU score of 116.5 is the highest we"ve seen from any computer that we"ve tested thus far. There are a few laptops out there with 140-150W RTX 3080 GPUs that could probably outpace the Creator 17 on this benchmark, but those are even thicker, heavier, and usually targeted at gamers.

This is another application that takes full advantage of the RTX 3080 GPU inside the MSI Creator 17, giving it a leg up over the XPS 17 in every single test.

Performance isn"t everything, and there are definitely faster PC laptops out there, but as of this writing the MSI Creator 17 is undoubtedly one of the fastest "creator" PCs you can buy.

The MSI Creator 17 is a 17-inch creator laptop that"s not afraid to lean in to that identity. It"s big, bulky, and heavy, but it"s also packed with ports, powerful hardware, and one of the best and brightest displays in any laptop currently on the market. It"s a laptop that"s meant to be used plugged in – maybe even docked to an external HDR monitor and wired up to your home network – about 90% of the time. The other 10% is just another one of those trade-offs I mentioned.

The MSI Creator 17 is one of the most powerful creator laptops on the market, and one of the very few that isn"t abusing the term "HDR" for marketing purposes

It"s not a perfect laptop (is there such a thing?) and MSI will no doubt improve on the design in future iterations. The keyboard, trackpad, and especially the RAM accessibility could and should all be improved, and the miniLED display could do with a few more local dimming zone to decrease blooming.

But in the meantime, I can confidently say that the MSI Creator 17 is one of the most powerful creator laptops on the market, and one of the very few that isn"t abusing the term "HDR" for marketing purposes. It"s a proper desktop replacement that"s worthy of that "Creator" title.