Which one is better for gaming?

[mphhot2]

I play starcraft 2 and battlefield 3, looks forward to buy diable 3.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230133

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246153

 

[rolli59]

This one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246153
It has the stronger GPU http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

 

[mphhot2]

This one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246153
It has the stronger GPU http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

but how about the CPU? i play starcraft!

 

[rolli59]

The I5 is running faster and will handle gaming just as well as the I7, for gaming the GPU is more important!

 

[mphhot2]

The I5 is running faster and will handle gaming just as well as the I7, for gaming the GPU is more important!

i think your right, but think about the future, more games are starting to use quad core, and Gt 540m is not much apart from gt 555m

 

[rolli59]

The I7 in that regards is more future proof and would give the better overall experience specially taking multitasking into consideration!
(I personally would buy the I7)

 

[jaguarskx]

There is actually a pretty decent performance diffierence between the GT 540m and the GT 555m.

If you are the type of person who prefers to play strategy games, then you will probably want a quad core CPU. If you prefer playing first person shooters, then you should get the faster GPU.

 

[mphhot2]

Best answer selected by mphhot2.

 

[FtsArTek]

I'm gonna tell you one thing: SC2 on a laptop is hard to play, often quite laggy. Unless you NEED to have a laptop, go with a desktop. Also, SC2 does rely on CPU almost as much as GPU... The i7 would probably outperform the i5 just because of this.