MSI’s 17-inch laptop costs up to $6,000 and comes with Intel HX series processors.

On Thursday, MSI updated its Titan notebook lineup. The 17.3-inch Titan GT77 costs $6,000 for the top configuration and is one of the most expensive and energy-hungry consumer laptops out there.

MSI Titan laptops have enough power to replace your desktop computer. In the case of the GT77, the first new Titan since 2019, that means offering Intel Core HX-series processors, which share the same dies as Intel’s 12th generation desktop processors.

The MSI GT77 comes with the i7-12800HX and starts at $3,200. The top model has the i9-12900HX with eight performance cores (2.3-5GHz) and eight efficiency cores (up to 3.6GHz). The chip supports a maximum turbo output of up to 150W and is paired with an Nvidia RTX 3080 Ti (16GB GDDR6) laptop graphics card. Thanks to MSI’s Overboost function, the clamshell supports up to 250W of power for the CPU and GPU. The GPU gets 175W, according to MSI.

By comparison, the most expensive laptop from Alienware, which also sells desktop-class laptops, has the i9-12900HK (six P cores at 2.5-5GHz and eight E cores at 1.8-3.8GHz) and an RTX 3080 Ti (16 GB.), with a maximum graphics power of 175 watts. Alienware costs up to $4,800 for the highest-end components, including the keyboard.

Heat management is critical for such a machine; MSI says the Titan GT77 has four fans, seven heatpipes, and a phase change thermal pad.

The laptop comes with a 330W power adapter and a 99.9Wh battery, but we don’t expect this monster to run without plugging in for long periods of time.

The highest-end MSI Titan GT77 also comes with 4TB of PCIe 5.0 SSD storage on two drives and a whopping 126GB of DDR5-4800 RAM on four sticks. Lower configurations can be upgraded.

Even the lower-end GT77 models get some luxuries you won’t find in cheaper laptops, like a 120Hz 4K display that MSI says covers 100% DCI-P3. You can also get a low profile mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Ultra Low switches and per-key programmable RGB lighting through SteelSeries software.

If the RGB-enabled specs and keyboard don’t tell you that MSI designed this laptop for gamers, a customizable RGB light bar running along the machine’s spine should help.

The Titan GT77 is expected to be released this month.