carl hall

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Hello
Want to buy a gaming laptop for extreme gaming. All things being equal like the price, the ram, the size etc, confussed on which to get:
1) i5 Dual core vs Quad core (e.g i5 Acer Aspire 5750G vs AMD Quad core Acer Aspire 5560G)
2) NIVIDIA GT 520 (1 gb) vs Intel HG 3000 (up to 1.2)
 
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The CPU is definately less important that the integrated graphics card when it comes to gaming. As other have indicated neither of those are gaming machines, though the GT520 would fare a bit better I think.

Even The A8 series notebooks wouldn't be considered "Extreme" gaming setups, but would do farly well compared to the models in the original post. An example of a AMD APU laptops would something like the Acer Aspire AS5560-7402, has a Radeon 6520 graphics. What I think would fare even better is the Aspire AS7750G-6662, which has a Radon Mobile 6650 graphics chip which shoul do even better.

For a gaming setup, in my opinion is better to shop the GPU first, then look at the CPU.
neither of those two graphics options are for gaming, and certainly not for extreme gaming.
Read toms recent article on 580 Vs 580M and you might start to understand what gaming cards are like. You'll need at least $1500 for a gaming laptop, more for extreme gaming.
Unless you mean gaming whilst upside down on a cliff.
 

carl hall

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Yes they are not the very best for gaming, but they are all I can afford right now. The two computers are in the same price bracket, so which one of the two would be better. The price we talking about is about $800 - 830. Could you recommend somthing better for gaming then at those prices
 
Llano, but be aware once you have committed to a laptop thats it, there is no upgrading only buying new, so its dead money.

For your expressed purpose of extreme gaming, buy or upgrade a desktop. If that is not really what you only want then you'll have to make sacrfices, gaming performance is the thing to sacrifec because it costs a lot.
 

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The CPU is definately less important that the integrated graphics card when it comes to gaming. As other have indicated neither of those are gaming machines, though the GT520 would fare a bit better I think.

Even The A8 series notebooks wouldn't be considered "Extreme" gaming setups, but would do farly well compared to the models in the original post. An example of a AMD APU laptops would something like the Acer Aspire AS5560-7402, has a Radeon 6520 graphics. What I think would fare even better is the Aspire AS7750G-6662, which has a Radon Mobile 6650 graphics chip which shoul do even better.

For a gaming setup, in my opinion is better to shop the GPU first, then look at the CPU.
 
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carl hall

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ok, now that I'm looking for the better/best GPU, what do i consider? Am I looking at the pixel shaders, vertex shaders, core speed, shadow speed, memory etc (greater would be better?)
 

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If you want extreme gaming how long do you think your gaming sessions to be anything over probably 2 hrs and you are going to be plugged into a wall anyway seems to be a shame to shell out that sort of money and still be wall bound especially when you consider what you could get from ebay in a desktop for the same money a core i5/i7 with a 560i for $600-$700
 

carl hall

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Ok, back to choices, which would you go for (all things equal - budget is £580{$800} in terms of gaming:
1) Lenovo ideapad Z575, A8 3500 Quad 1.5-2.4ghz, 8gb, Radeon HD 6650 (2gb)
2) Lenovo " " " " , Radeon HD 6740 (1gb)
3) Asus K53sc, i5 2430M, 2.4ghz, 4gb, , Nvidia GT 520 MX (1gb)
 


This. You're wasting money buying a laptop for "extreme gaming".