It's been almost 20 years since the Monster Hunter action RPG series first appeared on the PlayStation 2 and to celebrate its ongoing success, Capcom and MSI have collaborated to produce a range of Monster Hunter-styled products, including a gaming laptop, PC case, monitor, and gamepad. Some of it looks really neat but others come across as a missed opportunity, though.
Game-themed PC parts aren't a new thing, of course, and every year there's at least one vendor who releases a product stylised to tie in with a particular game. It's often no more than one or two items, and in some cases, the product hasn't exactly gone through a thorough check before hitting the shelves.
But in the case of MSI and Capcom's collaboration to mark two decades of Monster Hunter, there's quite an array of items to tempt you.
First up is the MSI Crosshair 16 HX Monster Hunter Edition gaming laptop, though the details are somewhat thin. This particular model sports an RTX 4060 laptop GPU but I don't know what its power limit is, nor any other specs for that matter.
MSI's latest version of its standard Crosshair 16 HX laptops top out with a Core i7 14700 HX and RTX 4070 combination, but it's not clear what CPU, RAM, or storage the Monster Hunter edition has. It does look pretty nice, so if the full specifications are decent (e.g. minimum 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD), then it could be an awesome gift for an MH fan.
If you want to go all Monster Hunter with a full PC build, then you can load up with n MH-themed PC case, MPG Z790 Edge motherboard, RTX 4060 Ti 8GB graphics card, 360mm AIO CPU cooler, and 27-inch 1440p 180Hz IPS monitor. As far as I can tell, none of these items have anything extra over the regular versions, just a Monster Hunter
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