A look Inside

Removing the bottom plate of the MSI GP76 Leopard is relatively easy... just remove the screws! There are a lot of them all over, but once they are all removed, the backplate tilts out of the way to reveal the goodies inside.


We immediately see the large heatpipes of the cooler. Four of these heatpipes come together over the GPU, while two sit over the CPU. Cooling pads have been put over the Wi-Fi card, memory, and M.2 SSD, but the Intel HM470 chipset gets nothing at all.


The motherboard has the CPU and GPU built right in, so there is no upgrading those. The cooler works really well in keeping both cool, so we left that alone and didn't remove it. You can see a large number of fins, and it appears that both fans on either side are similar, making me wonder why one produces more noise than the other?


My particular model of the MSI GP76 Leopard comes fitted with 2933 MHz memory from Kingston. There are two 8 GB modules.