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765M vs 860M

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  • Intel i7
  • Intel i5
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May 25, 2014 9:20:43 PM

It's clear from the subject that the 860M would be better, but the two laptops I'm looking into have an 860M on a i5-4200H and a 765M on a i7-4700HQ.

The price difference is minute so that's not the problem, my question is would the 860M perform to its fullest on the i5? Or should I upgrade to an i7 and use 765M. Looking around, the 765 will be sufficient for my gaming and other software uses, I do play Dota, Civ 5, and few other steam games as well as Blizzard's ones but nothing that makes me want to set the video setting on Ultra or even High in some cases.

If I OC the i5 during gaming, would I benefit from the power of the 860M? Thanks in advance.

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May 25, 2014 10:01:44 PM

The i7 performs significantly better than the i5 does, and even when overclocked, the i5 will not be able to catch up with the increased performance of the i7, so I would go with the i7 setup as the i5 is more likely to bottleneck the system than the i7, thus eliminating the performance boost of the 860M. The other point is that the 860M isn't huge step above the 765M, so there wouldn't be very much of a difference in the graphics performance of the machine anyway. I am pretty sure that you should have no problem maxing out civ V with the i7 machine :D 
May 26, 2014 10:37:17 AM

Thanks for the answer Nuckles, the reason I'm saying the 860 is better is because of notebookcheck. Their numbers show a significant improvement with a lower standard deviation with the 860.

Also the i5 showed a great performance compared to that of the i7 when they were both running on dual core, there's a post regarding this on here.

I think my biggest concern is getting a nice video card, either way it'll be an upgrade from my integrated gpu on my current laptop.
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May 26, 2014 4:10:48 PM

No worries, The reason that the standard deviation lower (probably) is because they have had less machines available to test the 860M, whereas the 765M has been out for about a year now so they have had plenty more laptops to test. But if you have had a chance to go and look at the numbers, I am not going to disagree with you, as I haven't seen any new numbers for a while. Regardless of the CPU I am sure you will have a great machine.
Well I think we can be fairly certain the difference in graphics will be like going from a GT8800 to a Titan Black :D 
May 26, 2014 6:25:15 PM

A little off topic but within the general scope. How about going with an i7-4700HQ with a GTX 850M but my screen size would go from a 17.3" (which the other two were) to a 15.6" to stay within my budget. Would the bigger screen be better gaming wise?
May 26, 2014 6:45:32 PM

If they are the same screen resolution, then the only difference will be the size of everything (everything will be bigger on the bigger screen of course), I would still go with the 17.3 if it is just going to be a gaming machine as they tend to cool better than the 15.6 and will tend to give you more options to upgrade in the future as well. Also the 850M is the same or weaker than the 765M, so there is no advantage there anyway. A bigger screen is almost always more pleasant to game on as well.
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