MSI Gaming GS40 6QE (15.6-Inch, 2016)

50% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

100% of the reviews on Amazon.ca give this product a positive rating.

It’s said that good things come in small packages, but I am a firm believe that good things can come in any shape or size. When it comes to gaming, you don’t need to drop 10k on the best of the best to run games at their maximum settings and remain...

The MSI GS40 6QE Phantom proves more than a match for Star Wars Battlefront, and will be able to dispatch other Frostbite 3 games as well.

Very good gaming performance for this size of notebook.

Not quite as fast as the best gaming notebooks currently available.

The MSI GS40 6QE Phantom achieves the difficult task of providing gaming performance near the top of what is currently available in a notebook whilst also being very portable, and with a very usable battery life.

Solid performance. Plentiful storage. Features USB-C with Thunderbolt 3.

Latest games will challenge high-end graphics capabilities. Unsatisfying keyboard.

Conclusion The MSI GS40 6QE Phantom is a good gaming laptop, boasting a good array of features and components, and it doesn't have any glaring weaknesses. Its GTX 970M card is capable of 30fps gaming at 1080p on the highest settings for most games...

enormous performance for the size, great display (after calibration), fast combination of SSD and HDD, good port equipment, decent battery runtime

chassis is not very sturdy, spongy keyboard, power adapter insufficient, pulsating fan behavior

The GS40 is a good compromise between performance and compact dimensions. The few drawbacks are mainly the result of the "Mini-Max" concept, but you can live with them. The (gaming) performance is beyond any doubt – the GS40 can even handle very...

MSI once again delivers an outstanding machine for the price, with an excellent mix of interior components combined with a classy display.

Crazy fast for a 14", 3.5 lb. laptop, can game with the big boys. Nice matte IPS display, very good internals and specs. MSI includes 2 year warranty in the US rather than the industry standard 1 year

Battery life not great, fans are loud, bottom gets toasty

Would I like to own the MSI GS40 Phantom? Yes, indeed! It's extremely portable at 3.5 lbs., in fact it's lighter than the Dell XPS 15 and it has a faster graphics card too, which means high to ultra settings on today's AAA titles. It's a nice looking,...

Great performance from the Skylake CPU and GTX 970M. Better than expected brushed metal build. Thunderbolt 3, Killer networking, and a SteelSeries keyboard are decent inclusions.

Another bad ELAN trackpad. More expensive than Gigabyte’s competing laptop. Not the greatest of cooling solutions.

Of the two 14-inch gaming laptops that I’ve reviewed recently, both with very similar high-end hardware, the MSI GS40 Phantom 6QE is the better option and the one I would ultimately recommend.

Great performance in a small footprint; Good cooling capability for a high end GPU; Very good screen; Price is right on

horrible speakers; keyboard could be a little better; lots of branding, stickers and an ugly glowing logo on the hood

Overall, I’ve got mixed feelings about the GS40.

Powerful specs packed in a 14" 1.7kg package. Beautiful IPS screen TB3 ready socket S/PDIF optical out PCIe system SSD

Fans operating even when not gaming Not so portable power supply (even though it is rated for 150W) Lots of preloaded MSI control softwares Very weak speakers for a gaming laptop Not exactly fingerprints proof......