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I am currently looking for a cooler, Asus branded laptop for web browsing, video and some light gaming.
There is a new laptop (450€) with the i3 4010u (1.7ghz, no turbo, Haswell) and a Nvidia 820m. The CPU is modest but capable of the sort of stuff I want to play on it, namely:
Team Fortress 2
Indie games like Among the Sleep, Minecraft, Viscera Cleanup Detail, Proteus, Outlast, etc (Unity games can be quite demanding because of poor optimization).
Old games in DOSBox and Win95.
I do have a gaming desktop and recently, a refurbished Asus with a i3 2365m (1.4ghz, no turbo, SandyBridge) and a 720m, for considerably cheaper (335€) became available. Since the 820m is practically the same as the 720m (bar boost clock reach), I'm wondering if the jump from the 2365m to the 4010u is worth it or will the cpu limit the 720m in any way (I do know what the 720/820m is capable of).
I feel when the 2365m becomes unusable, the 4010u won't fare much better either. Both laptops have 4GB of ram.
Can you help me?
PS: There is absolutely no way a ULV i3 like these can be overclocked with any utility, right?
There is a new laptop (450€) with the i3 4010u (1.7ghz, no turbo, Haswell) and a Nvidia 820m. The CPU is modest but capable of the sort of stuff I want to play on it, namely:
Team Fortress 2
Indie games like Among the Sleep, Minecraft, Viscera Cleanup Detail, Proteus, Outlast, etc (Unity games can be quite demanding because of poor optimization).
Old games in DOSBox and Win95.
I do have a gaming desktop and recently, a refurbished Asus with a i3 2365m (1.4ghz, no turbo, SandyBridge) and a 720m, for considerably cheaper (335€) became available. Since the 820m is practically the same as the 720m (bar boost clock reach), I'm wondering if the jump from the 2365m to the 4010u is worth it or will the cpu limit the 720m in any way (I do know what the 720/820m is capable of).
I feel when the 2365m becomes unusable, the 4010u won't fare much better either. Both laptops have 4GB of ram.
Can you help me?
PS: There is absolutely no way a ULV i3 like these can be overclocked with any utility, right?
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