Shipping Information
- Available for shipping
- Usually leaves our warehouse in 1-2 business days
Store Availability
- 2-3 business days at Bankstown Store
- 2-3 business days at Castle Hill Store
- Low Stock at Northmead Store
Shipping Estimate
CPU Series
Intel Core i7
Total RAM Installed
16 GB
Storage Size (SSD)
1TB
GPU Series
GeForce RTX 4050
Screen Size
15.600000PLEASE NOTE THIS IS OPENED BOX item. However, it does not affect the functionality of the product and it does come with a FULL NEW product warranty
MSI Katana 15 B13VEK-1873AU, Intel® Core™ i7, 39.6 cm (15.6"), 1920 x 1080 pixels, 16 GB, 1 TB, Windows 11 Home
Protect your honor and defeat the enemies. Awaken your inner power and inherit the will of the Dragon. In your hands is the Dragon's Blade, flowing with ancient power, and engraved with runes of wind. Strike down any foe that stands in your way with the legendary blade Katana 15 B13V.
EVOLVED INTO THE NEXT GENERATION
UP TO INTEL® CORE™ i7-13620H PROCESSOR
The 13th Gen. Intel® Core™ i7 processor is here. With improved hybrid core architecture, 6 Performance-cores and 4 Efficient-cores, for better multitasking works and running demanding games.
GEFORCE RTX™ 40 SERIES LAPTOPS
BEYOND FAST
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 40 Series GPUs are beyond fast for gamers and creators. They're powered by the ultra-efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture which delivers a quantum leap in both performance and AI-powered graphics. Experience lifelike virtual worlds with ray tracing and ultra-high FPS gaming with the lowest latency. Discover revolutionary new ways to create and unprecedented workflow acceleration.
AI-POWERED PERFORMANCE
AND LIFELIKE GRAPHICS*
Get a quantum leap in performance in games and creative apps with AI-powered DLSS 3 and enable lifelike virtual worlds with full ray tracing.
RAY TRACING
HYPERREALISTIC. HYPERFAST.
The Ada architecture unleashes the full glory of ray tracing, which simulates how light behaves in the real world. With the power of RTX 40 Series and third-gen RT Cores, you can experience incredibly detailed virtual worlds like never before.
OPTIMIZED POWER AND
PERFORMANCE
NVIDIA Max-Q is an advanced suite of AI-powered technologies that optimize your system for peak efficiency. This enables blazing-fast laptops that are thin, quiet, and have amazing battery life.
LIGHTNING FAST AND SMOOTH DISPLAY
Never miss a shot with the striking visuals and smooth refresh rate of the 144Hz IPS-level display.
LIGHT UP WITH GAMING STYLE
The Katana Series is equipped with a 4-Zone RGB Keyboard with the lightened WASD and specially-designed keycaps. Enjoy the colorful light that shines like pulse energy giving you an immersive gaming experience with style
REFORGED COOLING SOLUTION
WITH CPU&GPU SHARED-PIPE DESIGN
Introduction the new Shared-Pipe design, the heat pipe which attached on both CPU and GPU. Shared-Pipe can improve the thermal capability, especially releasing the CPU performance With MSI Cooler Boost 5, gamers can explore the increasingly complex game world freely.
STRIKE FASTER
Accelerate performance on all levels with faster memory read/write speed on DDR5 memory.
LIKE MAGIC LOADING SPEED
With extremely high performance and up to 7.88 GB/s bandwidth, the PCIe Gen 4 allows users to load up any game and task with lighting fast speeds.
THE WAY MUSIC SHOULD BE
Immerse yourself in lossless music and enjoy the premium sound quality with Hi-Resolution Audio.
ELEVATE YOUR AUDIO
Experience audio the way it was intended and share it with Nahimic in-game 3D surround & Sound Sharing via Bluetooth.
GET ALL THE BUFFS
The exclusive MSI Center helps you control and customize your MSI laptop the way you want.
MSI APP Player
Developed under an exclusive partnership with BlueStacks, the MSI APP Player provides a seamless gaming experience between mobile gaming and the PC.
EVOLVED INTO THE NEXT GENERATION
UP TO INTEL® CORE™ i7-13620H PROCESSOR
The 13th Gen. Intel® Core™ i7 processor is here. With improved hybrid core architecture, 6 Performance-cores and 4 Efficient-cores, for better multitasking works and running demanding games.
GEFORCE RTX™ 40 SERIES LAPTOPS
BEYOND FAST
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 40 Series GPUs are beyond fast for gamers and creators. They're powered by the ultra-efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture which delivers a quantum leap in both performance and AI-powered graphics. Experience lifelike virtual worlds with ray tracing and ultra-high FPS gaming with the lowest latency. Discover revolutionary new ways to create and unprecedented workflow acceleration.
AI-POWERED PERFORMANCE
AND LIFELIKE GRAPHICS*
Get a quantum leap in performance in games and creative apps with AI-powered DLSS 3 and enable lifelike virtual worlds with full ray tracing.
RAY TRACING
HYPERREALISTIC. HYPERFAST.
The Ada architecture unleashes the full glory of ray tracing, which simulates how light behaves in the real world. With the power of RTX 40 Series and third-gen RT Cores, you can experience incredibly detailed virtual worlds like never before.
OPTIMIZED POWER AND
PERFORMANCE
NVIDIA Max-Q is an advanced suite of AI-powered technologies that optimize your system for peak efficiency. This enables blazing-fast laptops that are thin, quiet, and have amazing battery life.
LIGHTNING FAST AND SMOOTH DISPLAY
Never miss a shot with the striking visuals and smooth refresh rate of the 144Hz IPS-level display.
LIGHT UP WITH GAMING STYLE
The Katana Series is equipped with a 4-Zone RGB Keyboard with the lightened WASD and specially-designed keycaps. Enjoy the colorful light that shines like pulse energy giving you an immersive gaming experience with style
REFORGED COOLING SOLUTION
WITH CPU&GPU SHARED-PIPE DESIGN
Introduction the new Shared-Pipe design, the heat pipe which attached on both CPU and GPU. Shared-Pipe can improve the thermal capability, especially releasing the CPU performance With MSI Cooler Boost 5, gamers can explore the increasingly complex game world freely.
STRIKE FASTER
Accelerate performance on all levels with faster memory read/write speed on DDR5 memory.
LIKE MAGIC LOADING SPEED
With extremely high performance and up to 7.88 GB/s bandwidth, the PCIe Gen 4 allows users to load up any game and task with lighting fast speeds.
THE WAY MUSIC SHOULD BE
Immerse yourself in lossless music and enjoy the premium sound quality with Hi-Resolution Audio.
ELEVATE YOUR AUDIO
Experience audio the way it was intended and share it with Nahimic in-game 3D surround & Sound Sharing via Bluetooth.
GET ALL THE BUFFS
The exclusive MSI Center helps you control and customize your MSI laptop the way you want.
MSI APP Player
Developed under an exclusive partnership with BlueStacks, the MSI APP Player provides a seamless gaming experience between mobile gaming and the PC.
| Design | |
| Product type The sub-category of the product. | Laptop |
| Product colour The colour e.g. red, blue, green, black, white. | Black |
| Form factor The shape or design of the product. | Clamshell |
| Original brand name | MSI |
| Display | |
| Display diagonal Size of the display for this product, measured diagonally, usually in inches. | 39.6 cm (15.6") |
| Display resolution The number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It is usually quoted as width × height, with the units in pixels: for example, "1024 × 768" means the width is 1024 pixels and the height is 768 pixels. The higher the number of pixels, the sharper the image. | 1920 x 1080 pixels |
| Touchscreen A screen of a laptop, smartphone, etc., that responds to touch so you can control the interface using your fingers. |
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| HD type Type of supported High Definition (e.g. Full HD, 4K Ultra HD). | Full HD |
| Panel type | IPS-Level |
| Native aspect ratio The aspect ratio is the ratio of the width of an image to its height. The native aspect ratio is the one which the projector/display is particularly designed for. Images shown in native aspect ratio will utilize the entire resolution of the display and achieve maximum brightness. Images shown in other than native aspect ratio will always have less resolution and less brightness than images shown in native aspect ratio. | 16:9 |
| RGB colour space | NTSC |
| Colour gamut | 45% |
| Maximum refresh rate | 144 Hz |
| Processor | |
| Processor manufacturer The manufacturer that produced the processor. | Intel |
| Processor family A family of processors is a group of processors produced by one company over a short period of time e.g. Intel Pentium processors. | Intel® Core™ i7 |
| Processor generation | 13th gen Intel® Core™ i7 |
| Processor model The model number for the processor in a computer. | i7-13620H |
| Processor cores The number of central processing units ('cores') in a processor. Some processors have 1 core, others have 2 (e.g. Intel Core Duo) or more (e.g. the Intel Xeon E7-2850 has 10 cores). | 10 |
| Processor threads | 16 |
| Processor boost frequency The turbo boost is an automatic, managed accelleration of the processor when one of the cores is overloaded. | 4.9 GHz |
| Performance cores | 6 |
| Efficient cores | 4 |
| Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency | 4.9 GHz |
| Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency | 3.6 GHz |
| Processor cache | 24 MB |
| Processor cache type | Smart Cache |
| Processor base power | 45 W |
| Maximum turbo power | 115 W |
| Memory | |
| Internal memory A computer's memory which is directly accessible to the CPU. | 16 GB |
| Internal memory type The type of internal memory such as RAM, GDDR5. | DDR5-SDRAM |
| Memory clock speed The frequency at which the memory (e.g. RAM) runs. | 5600 MHz |
| Memory layout (slots x size) The slots and size of the memory for the CPU. | 2 x 8 GB |
| Memory slots Number and type of memory expansion slots, including connector and memory module descriptions. | 2x SO-DIMM |
| Maximum internal memory The maximum internal memory which is available in the product. | 64 GB |
| Storage | |
| Total storage capacity The total amount of data that can be stored on the device. | 1 TB |
| Storage media Used for the storage of data e.g. HDD (hard disk drive), SSD (solid-state drive). | SSD |
| Total SSDs capacity | 1 TB |
| Number of SSDs installed | 1 |
| SSD capacity The Solid State Drive's data storage capacity. | 1 TB |
| SSD interface The type of interface(s) with which the Solid State Drive is connected to other hardware. | PCI Express 4.0 |
| NVMe NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open logical device interface specification for accessing non-volatile storage media attached via a PCI Express (PCIe) bus. NVM Express, as a logical device interface, has been designed to capitalize on the low latency and internal parallelism of solid-state storage devices. |
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| SSD form factor The size of the solid-state drive, given in inches | M.2 |
| Optical drive type An optical drive uses laser to read optical discs such as CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray. Some types of optical drive are: CD ROM drive, CR-RW (CD writer) drive, DVD-ROM. |
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| Graphics | |
| Discrete GPU manufacturer | NVIDIA |
| Discrete graphics card model A graphics adapter (often known as a video card) generates images for a display. A discrete graphics adapter plugs into the motherboard, and usually produces much better graphics than an integrated graphics adapter. There are various models of discrete graphics adapters. | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 |
| Discrete graphics card memory | 6 GB |
| Discrete graphics memory type | GDDR6 |
| On-board graphics card Graphics hardware which is built into the motherboard or CPU, as opposed to a separate graphics adapter (video card). On-board graphics uses CPU and RAM for graphics processing. |
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| On-board GPU manufacturer | Intel |
| Discrete graphics card |
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| On-board graphics card family | Intel® UHD Graphics |
| On-board graphics card model "Graphic adapter" is the hardware that produces images on a display. "On-board" means that the graphics adapter is intergrated inside the motherboard. | Intel® UHD Graphics |
| Audio | |
| Audio system System used to play music or speech. | Nahimic 3 |
| Number of built-in speakers | 2 |
| Speaker power | 2 W |
| Camera | |
| Front camera Camera at the front of the product. |
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| Front camera resolution | 1280 x 720 pixels |
| Front camera HD type | HD |
| Video capturing speed | 30 fps |
| Network | |
| Top Wi-Fi standard Connection of this device is done via Wi-Fi in a high standard. | Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) |
| Wi-Fi standards The type of wireless local area network (LAN). It can be ad-hoc, where units in a network communicate peer-to-peer, or Infrastructure, where units communicate with each other via an access point A LAN interconnects computers in a small area e.g. home, school or office. | Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) |
| Mobile network connection |
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| WLAN controller model | Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX211 |
| WLAN controller manufacturer | Intel |
| Ethernet LAN An Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) interface is present, for a wired conection via a cable. |
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| Ethernet LAN data rates The different speed levels of the Ethernet LAN connection. | 10,1000,100 Mbit/s |
| Bluetooth Bluetooth is a low-power radio technology developed to replace the cables and wires currently used to link or connect electronic devices such as personal computers, printers, and a wide variety of handheld devices including mobile phones. Because it uses radio-wave connectivity, a Bluetooth-enabled device has a constant, established connection to whatever browser it uses. This saves the user the trouble of logging on to check for emails or news updates, for example. |
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| Bluetooth version The type of bluetooth technology in the product e.g. Bluetooth Smart (v4.0). | 5.3 |
| Ports & interfaces | |
| USB 2.0 ports quantity Number of USB 2.0 ports (connecting interfaces) in the device. USB 2.0 was released in April 2000 (now called "Hi-Speed"), adding higher maximum signaling rate of 480 Mbit/s (effective throughput up to 35 MB/s or 280 Mbit/s), USB 2.0 ports are usually black. | 1 |
| USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity | 2 |
| USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-C ports quantity Number of USB 3.0 (3.1 Gen 1) ports with Type-C connector. USB 3.0 (3.1 Gen 1) is USB interface version which supports transfer rate up to 5 Gbit/s (SuperSpeed). USB Type-C connector has symmetrical design architecture and compatible with Thunderbolt 3 interface. | 1 |
| Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports Number of Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports (connecting interfaces) in the device. Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports allow a computer to connect to the ethernet. | 1 |
| HDMI ports quantity The number of sockets (ports) for HDMI connections. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transferring uncompressed video data and compressed/uncompressed digital audio data from a HDMI-compliant device ("the source device") to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device. HDMI is a digital replacement for existing analog video standards. | 1 |
| HDMI version | 2.1 |
| Combo headphone/mic port |
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| USB Type-C DisplayPort Alternate Mode |
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| Keyboard | |
| Pointing device | Touchpad |
| Numeric keypad Small, palm-sized, seventeen key section of a computer keyboard, usually on the very far right. The numeric keypad features digits 0 to 9, addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*) and division (/) symbols, a decimal point (.) and Num Lock and Enter keys. Laptop keyboards often do not have a numpad, but may provide numpad input by holding a modifier key (typically labelled "Fn") and operating keys on the standard keyboard. |
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| Keyboard backlit |
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| Keyboard backlit colour | RGB |
| Keyboard backlit zone | 4-zone RGB |
| Software | |
| Operating system installed Type of operating system on a device e.g. IOS on Apple devices, Android for mobile devices. | Windows 11 Home |
| Battery | |
| Number of battery cells | 3 |
| Battery capacity | 53.5 Wh |
| Power | |
| AC adapter power | 200 W |
| USB Type-C charging port |
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| USB Power Delivery (USB PD) |
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| Weight & dimensions | |
| Width The measurement or extent of something from side to side. | 359 mm |
| Depth The distance from the front to the back of something. | 259 mm |
| Height The measurement of the product from head to foot or from base to top. | 24.9 mm |
| Weight Weight of the product without packaging (net weight). If possible, the net weight is given including standard accessories and supplies. Please note that sometimes the manufacturer leaves out the weight of accessories and/or supplies. | 2.25 kg |
| Packaging content | |
| AC adapter included |
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| Other features | |
| Warranty period | 1 year(s) |
| SKU | 834681 |
| MPN | Katana 15 B13VEK-1873AU-OB |
| Brand | MSI |
| Product Condition | Open Box |
| Screen Size (Inches) | 15.60 Inch |
| CPU Series | Intel Core i7 |
| GPU Series | GeForce RTX 4050 |
| Total RAM Installed | 16 GB |
| Storage Size (HDD) | N/A |
| Storage Size (SSD) | 1TB |
| Stock Availability | Available for Shipping, In Stock at Warehouse |
| Product Use | Gaming |
| Warranty Period | 1 Year Warranty |
| Warranty Contact | https://au.msi.com/ |