Opinions Please--What Would YOU Do?

[Somelikeitsmooth]

I WANT YOU! Well, mostly your opinion.

Someone has offered to trade their quad core (i7) custom rig for my older gaming laptop. The specs are:


Custom Gaming Desktop

-i7-920

-Intel DX58SO Motherboard

-3 GB RAM

-465 GB HDD (Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit)

-ATI HD 5670

-No monitor


Gateway 17" P6860 FX Laptop

-t9300 (2.5 Ghz) CPU

-64 GB SSD (OSX Lion and Windows Vista), 320 GB HDD

-4 GB DDR2 RAM

-NVIDIA 8800M Graphics card (Overclockable)


My question is, would you do it? I also have a dell Optiplex 960 Mini Tower (e8400) that I was going to put an HD 7750 into and use that for my gaming rig (display is native at 1920 x 1200)--I want to play FIFA 13 at high settings and maybe BC2 in the future. What this really comes down to is getting a better CPU and a more upgradeable rig--I'm sick of all the finicky stuff that's involved with this Dell.

 

[jay_nar2012]

I would definitely take the i7 machine.

 

[mocchan]

I agree with jay; take the i7 machine. Those i7 920's still have plenty of kick left in them Plus, you could swap out that HD5670 for a beefy GPU if you choose to do so.

 

[dodger46]

Take the i7 but re-install with Windows 64bit so you can upgrade RAM in the future.

 

[Somelikeitsmooth]

Thanks everyone! Looks like its unanimous--I'm doing the trade tomorrow!

 

[vinaykumar5320]

Thanks everyone! Looks like its unanimous--I'm doing the trade tomorrow!

Wait... If the deal seems unanimous, there might be a problem.

Check the Parts properly, before trading. There might be something fishy... Just an advice.

 

[Somelikeitsmooth]

Thank you for the advice. By unanimous I meant that everyone has agreed.

I will give it a good once over, but these folks seem very nice and trustworthy.

 

[Brett928S2]

Hi

Personally I would bite their hand off for the i7, with ONE proviso.... make SURE that Windows Ultimate is a legal one.... READ what it says on the COA sticker.... if NO sticker , you are going to be buying a LEGAL OS... so be careful...


All the best Brett

 

[jay_nar2012]

He is trading it so he might be getting it for free.

 

[Somelikeitsmooth]

I'm not too worried about Windows--I was interested in putting 64-bit windows 7 on it anyway.

I have access to some retail disks for 7.

Any other hesitations that anyone thinks I should be having?