First thing is to figure out your budget. Go for the highest end GPU you can get. Im not a fan of MSI, they are built cheaply and are bulky. They do have the upside that most everything can be upgraded, including the GPU.
Performance wise they are all pretty much apples for apples. Its not the name on the outside as much as the name on the inside. In the end its Intel, AMD, and Nvidia and which solution of those you choose that will dictate performance.
I procrastinated over my latest purchase for months between ASUS, MSI and Dell Alienware. Comparing machines of similar specs. Dell was disqualified for heat issues. Not isolated, pretty much a 100% thing. If you dont want 110F plus on your keyboard pass these over. I looked at an MSI hands on and just couldn't get past the ugliness and cheap casing. Should say Generic on it instead. My mind was made up when I got an email from Costco with the G752VY DH72 for $2K ($1999.99) with a two year factory warranty and free 1 year accidental damage warranty. I had also been looking at the G751JY WX versions as they are the cheapest out of any of them for what you get. I passed this over for a couple of reason, I already have a better G751JY and mostly I wanted to venture into the next generation. The Skylake processors arent really any overall performance improvement, just a few percent BUT when you look at it in performance per watt they are clearly better. The addition of DDR4 which lifts the 32GB limitation (not that its an issue), boosts speeds even more and again lower power consumption. Then there is NVMe support with blazingly fast M2 SSD speeds. Some will argue that its not fully compatible because Samsung software wont work correctly. I get the same performance without it. The 128GB that comes with them though has been shown to be terminally disappointing in speeds. Get at least the 256 or count on buying one afterwards.
There are better deals than whats on amazon, nearly always.
Performance wise they are all pretty much apples for apples. Its not the name on the outside as much as the name on the inside. In the end its Intel, AMD, and Nvidia and which solution of those you choose that will dictate performance.
I procrastinated over my latest purchase for months between ASUS, MSI and Dell Alienware. Comparing machines of similar specs. Dell was disqualified for heat issues. Not isolated, pretty much a 100% thing. If you dont want 110F plus on your keyboard pass these over. I looked at an MSI hands on and just couldn't get past the ugliness and cheap casing. Should say Generic on it instead. My mind was made up when I got an email from Costco with the G752VY DH72 for $2K ($1999.99) with a two year factory warranty and free 1 year accidental damage warranty. I had also been looking at the G751JY WX versions as they are the cheapest out of any of them for what you get. I passed this over for a couple of reason, I already have a better G751JY and mostly I wanted to venture into the next generation. The Skylake processors arent really any overall performance improvement, just a few percent BUT when you look at it in performance per watt they are clearly better. The addition of DDR4 which lifts the 32GB limitation (not that its an issue), boosts speeds even more and again lower power consumption. Then there is NVMe support with blazingly fast M2 SSD speeds. Some will argue that its not fully compatible because Samsung software wont work correctly. I get the same performance without it. The 128GB that comes with them though has been shown to be terminally disappointing in speeds. Get at least the 256 or count on buying one afterwards.
There are better deals than whats on amazon, nearly always.
