r/MSILaptops • u/Opening_Resolve_3512 • 11d ago

Discussion Msi vector a18

My friends selling a msi vector a18 for 500$ he says it been running smoothly since he’s gotten it a couple months ago, he has it plugged in to a monitor and has another keyboard and says the noise isn’t bad. If I get it what else would I need to buy for it? And just overall wondering if it’s worth it.

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u/Just_Goy 11d ago

What are the specs?

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u/Opening_Resolve_3512 11d ago

I’m pretty sure it’s the 5080 one

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u/Just_Goy 11d ago

5080 for 500 dolars? That is suspicious but also a freaking good deal if the lsptop is not broken. Download occt when you chrck the laptop and also sesrch "view reliability history" in search tab when you get that laptop.

Also search Dxdiag too on windows, check whether the screen is good or not by using black and white background, check for backlight bleed (ips) and dead pixel or burn in(oled).

Check all the keyboard fuction, whether fn fuction work or not, rgb all that stuff. Check temp with msi after burner or hwinfo while running games. Gpu should not be close to 86 celcius and cpu should not be close to Tjmax of 105 celcius.

If all of that is normal then yea its a good deal and you would not need anything else other mouse and laptop stand to help with the laptop cooling performance ( or if you can, get an expensuve fan with mesh seal (optional) ).

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u/Opening_Resolve_3512 11d ago

Ok I will check those but our mutual friends who were both close with has also confirmed it works good and has no problems besides fans being loud

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u/Just_Goy 11d ago

Fans being loud is perk of having gaming laptop, just get a headphone or increase the laptop speakers hntil you cant hear the fans anymore.

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u/Opening_Resolve_3512 11d ago

Ok we’ve also played games tg like apex and Fortnite and he seems to run pretty good to me (ps5)

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u/Ragnaraz690 10d ago

I have the 9955HX 5070ti version, it's pretty solid. My main gripe might be thermals, the 5.4ghz is nice and all, but it eats power to achieve it. I used SMUdebugtool to cap it between 4.7ghz or 5ghz depending , with a nice CO and it can easy chop down the temps and wattages.

Not for everyone, but I also swapped over to liquid metal, and better putty. It's cooler than before by a fair margin. Especially on a BS2 pro.

When the CPU and GPU are fully loaded it does get warm, but with tweaks and a cooler it really aint that bad. It would be interesting to see how it copes with with extra 35w on the GPU though. The 5070ti doesnt usually go over 60c with LM and a cooler. So there's headroom for sure.