> I have a much cheaper MSI gaming laptop ... that never throttles, I can run games without it slowing down. But clearly the cooling system in it is massively overbuilt

Maybe they learned their lesson. I had an MSI gaming laptop a while back, and it ran horribly, I never realised until long after it was possible for me to return it, that it was just poorly designed, and could never run beyond ~50% of its gaming performance. Within minutes of starting a game it would be thermally throttled and that was that; it also sounded like it was about to take off, to the point you could barely drown it out with headphones.

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gambiting 6 days ago | parent [-]

I think they did - I used to have an MSI gaming laptop years ago with a GTX560M if I remember correctly, and that used to throttle every several seconds, so every game you played stuttered. This one - not a single slowdown, but if you open it it has like 10 heat pipes and two fans that sound like jet engines - but it clearly works.

	▲	alias_neo 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm glad to hear at least one manufacturer is trying. I can't imagine myself buying a gaming laptop again, perhaps for my kids when they're old enough, but I stick to desktop now. My main drive in choosing the MSI I did back then was the thinness and lightness, which was counter-productive to good cooling performance, mine had a GTX970M but was about 1cm thick; the bottom of the case got so hot it would burn you if you touched it after a while of gaming.