MSI Katana GF66 12UD

Well-balanced mid-range gaming laptops with optimal hardware and a high-quality gaming display (IPS, Full HD, 144 Hz). They are part of the Katana gaming line, which Taiwanese manufacturer MSI announced in 2021. In the hierarchy of the company, they are several steps below the flagship MSI GP Leopard models and are slightly inferior in terms of capabilities to MSI Pulse GL laptops. Their smart design and pricing ties them in with other popular mid-range gaming laptops like the Acer Nitro, Asus TUF, and Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming. The brains of the MSI Katana GF66 12UD is the 10-core Intel Core i5/i7 (12th generation, Alder Lake architecture) processor, which exhibits impressive power efficiency, high IPC, and supports multi-threading and automatic overclocking. It is complemented by 16 GB of DDR4 RAM and an M.2 SSD with a capacity of 512 to 1024 GB. At the same time, the manufacturer left room for independent modernization and memory replacement. The GeForce RTX 3050/3050 Ti video card, which is the youngest solution in the Nvidia Ampere mobile video card line, is responsible for processing three-dimensional graphics in games. It is equipped with 4 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, supports hardware ray tracing and DLSS artificial scaling technologies, and its processing power is designed for games at 1080p resolution with medium or high graphics settings (depending on the specific game). All this goodness is kept in check by a cooling system with 6 heat pipes and separate thermal modules for the CPU and GPU. Other features of MSI Katana laptops include a powerful 180W power supply, Hi-Res sound card with Nahimic support, a comfortable keyboard with solid red backlighting, and a network card with a dedicated LAN port and Wi-Fi 6 wireless module.