Here’s 5 ways the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V laptop is a budget gaming beast

PC gaming has certainly become interesting in the past few months with the release of a slew of top tier games like Starfield and the long awaited Phantom Liberty expansion for Cyberpunk 2077. While they’re certainly desirable, getting a sufficiently powerful rig to play them that doesn’t cost an arm, a leg and a kidney is the challenge. 

The MSI Cyborg 15 A12V is a budget gaming laptop aimed to resolve that conundrum with a price point from just RM4,499 and up while offering powerful gaming performance built around the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 laptop GPU.  There’s more than meets the eye to MSI’s budget gaming beast – here’s how the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V lets you game like a boss

MSI Cyborg 15 A12V – Sleek Cyberpunk Design

The MSI Cyborg 15 A12V gaming laptop features a striking design that is unlike anything else yet seen. Designed by renowned Romanian concept artist Paul Cheptea and further inspired by epic sci-fi works such as Dune and Blade Runner, the laptop itself has a visually bold and distinctive silhouette while balancing style and ergonomics.

Thanks to the use of light polycarbonate, aluminium and efficient design, the laptop weighs just 1.98kg while being 21.95mm thin which makes it wonderfully portable compared to many other gaming laptops. 

Translucent parts are spread across its chassis and especially its underside that is etched with geometric lines and embellished with stylised vents that enable users to admire the intricate circuitry thrumming within its heart while paying homage to its cyberpunk-inspired design.

To further enhance its cyberpunk inspired look, the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V has a keyboard that features a cyberpunk-inspired neon blue hue with distinctively marked W,S,A and D keys and uniquely marked direction keys. 

For easier one-handed opening, the design has a translucent lip on the top lid to make it easier to grasp and a smooth hinge mechanism that enables the display to fold all the way down to 180-degrees. If you’re looking to get your game on in style, the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V is ready to rumble!

MSI Cyborg 15 A12V – Performance Evolved with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 graphics and more

To tackle the latest games, the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V is packed with the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 laptop graphics card with 6GB GDDR6 VRAM paired with the 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12450H processor, fast 16GB DDR5 RAM, a 512GB NVMe PCIe Gen 4 SSD for storing your games as well as WiFi 6 802.11ax for blazing fast downloads.

Built on the efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, the NVIDIA RTX 4050 graphics card offers exceptional performance that’s 30% faster than its predecessors with the ability to offer lifelike ray tracing in games to depict gaming worlds with superb realism.

It also features next generation DLSS 3 that leverages the power of AI to add additional frames and boost in-game frames per second for smoother gameplay. With the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V gaming laptop, you’re ready to tackle the latest games on PC straight out of the box.

MSI Cyborg 15 A12V – Powerful Cooler Boost Technology for Extreme Gaming

Having a beefy graphics card and a processor doesn’t mean much unless you have sufficiently powerful enough cooling performance to allow them to perform at their fullest potential. The MSI Cyborg 15 A12V comes with their powerful Cooler Boost technology and innovative CPU-GPU Share-Pipe design for balanced heat dissipation between the CPU and GPU. 

To achieve this, the Intel Core i7-12450H processor and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 graphics card each have a dedicated heat pipe and also share an additional heat pipe between both for a grand total of three heat pipes as well as a large, high-powered cooling fan to ensure sustained maximum performance even under extreme gaming conditions like a marathon Starfield session.

MSI Cyborg 15 A12V – Superior Gaming With A 15.6-inch 1080P 144Hz display

You can’t shoot what you can’t see and the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V aims to give you the decisive edge with a large 15.6-inch IPS LCD display that hosts a smooth 144Hz refresh rate to ensure ultra smooth gaming onscreen when you’re no-scoping and tackling the competition. To enhance immersion, the display hosts slim side and top bezels while retaining a classic 16:9 aspect ratio that’s ideal for gaming.

The display also features a matte finish to minimise irritating glare from interior lighting so that you can keep your attention focused on the game. If the main display is insufficient, the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V hosts a USB-C with DisplayPort support and a HDMI port so that you can output to two additional displays to create a powerful battle station with a view to thrill and immense multitasking potential.

MSI Cyborg 15 A12V – MSI Center app for Worry-Free Ownership

Like a finely-tuned high-performance race car, a gaming laptop requires regular tune-ups, updates and check-ups to ensure that it remains in top condition.

To handle that critical chores for you, every MSI gaming laptop such as the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V features the MSI Center management app that acts as a one-stop shop to perform critical software updates, conduct hardware diagnostics if something goes awry and also check the performance of critical components to ensure that there are no bottlenecks. 

Gamers can also select from one of five gaming profiles depending on current needs ranging from Extreme Performance where you can kick it into overdrive for the most demanding gaming scenarios, a Balanced option for general purpose duties, a Silent mode where minimal fan noise is paramount and a Super Battery priority mode where endurance is the main criteria.

If it’s too complicated, there’s even a Smart Auto AI mode where you leave it to the MSI Center app to intelligently tweak settings based on what you’re doing for optimum performance whether you’re gaming or working. 

When you want to enjoy games with the best possible audio and video settings, the MSI Center app also has a Gaming mode where it can intelligently select the best settings to ensure an audiovisual extravaganza and an optimised gaming experience.

MSI Cyborg 15 A12V availability in Malaysia

The MSI Cyborg 15 A12V gaming laptop with a 15.6-inch 144Hz LCD display, a 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12450H processor, 16GB DDR5 RAM, a 512GB SSD, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 laptop GPU and a free copy of MS Office Home and Student 2021 for RM4,499.

A slightly more powerful variant is also available with a similar 15.6-inch 144Hz LCD display, a 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12650H processor, 16GB DDR5 RAM, a 512GB SSD and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 laptop GPU is available in Malaysia priced at RM5,999. 

Both variants of the MSI Cyborg 15 A12V are available nationwide at the MSI Official E-Store for Malaysia which offers fast and effortless shopping as well as door-to-door delivery too. You can check out the new MSI Cyborg A15 A12V at the MSI Official E-Store here. The MSI Cyborg A15 A12V can also be acquired at authorised dealers nationwide.