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December 20, 2013 9:00:28 PM

Trying to choose between these 2 Lenovo Laptops for gaming. I'm not that tech savy. What benefit do you get from dual sli graphics cards? Any recommendations on which laptop would be very appreciated.

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Y510p-Laptop-Compu...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=34-313-...

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December 22, 2013 4:19:34 AM

Newegg option would be better if you can afford it.
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December 26, 2013 8:20:59 AM

For some reason I cannot access that Amazon link. The one on Newegg should be more than fine. Dual graphics cards means double the graphics performance...at least sort of. There is a bit of a scaling issue when using dual GPUs (you are most likely not going to get exactly double the performance). You should see roughly a 75%-90% boost in graphics performance when going with a 2-way SLI setup. Take this for instance: http://www.geforce.com/hardware/notebook-gpus/geforce-g...

You could be looking at roughly a 12x, or slightly lower, relative performance score versus the HD 4000, which is Intel's onboard graphics present in their CPU. A single card, as illustrated in the link above would net you a 6.3X score vs. the HD 4000.

All in all, you should be able to play games fine with that laptop. Although, you will not be able to max out settings on most new games.
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