Which budget gaming laptop will perform better?

Onlyagibson

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Hi Everyone, I am (sadly) on a budget for a gaming laptop. About $850 plus tax is my limit. I was wondering which one of these two would perform better with games:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-15-6-laptop-amd-fx-series-8gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive-black/4577800.p?id=1219774252427&skuId=4577800

Or

http://www.frys.com/product/8517249?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

One note, if I got the AMD I would upgrade to 16 gigs of RAM with the extra savings. Anyway, any feedback is ver much appreciated. Thanks.
 

Onlyagibson

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Ok interesting thanks. I am assuming because of the SSD And slightly better video card? Does that outweigh the slows processor?

 


The i5 CPU is not slow, it is a quad core and even performs better then the i7 is some situations. The AMD is the slowest CPU of all 3. Asides that, yes, the GPU is better and the SSD is very nice to have. Also it has an IPS screen.