laptop cpus and gpu

[gamer-1234]

Hi,
I have been looking around for a laptop to buy for gaming. I have a ~1000$ budget and would be willing to pay a little more. My question is if buying an i7 is worth it for gaming compared to an i5 for laptops. I was also wondering if the i5 would be a bottleneck if the laptop had a gtx860m 2gb. Since I am budgeting I am also considering getting an SSD over the i7.

 

[NiCoM]

Depends, just don't go with a U series cpu.
I would look at upgradeability, it might support adding a MSATA ssd, i would defently get a i7 without the ssd and buy that later, or just buy a 128gb one when you buy the laptop.

Getting the i5 w/SSD would greatly improve install/uninstall, boot, program launch times. Although the i7 w/HDD would improve some of that by just being overall faster.

my desktop is a i5 4670K with a SSD + HDD, my brothers desktop is a i7 3770K with a single HDD for everything. The i7 does pretty well for bootup, game loadings and stuff like that, even with a single-HDD. ^^

 

[gamer-1234]

Depends, just don't go with a U series cpu.
I would look at upgradeability, it might support adding a MSATA ssd, i would defently get a i7 without the ssd and buy that later, or just buy a 128gb one when you buy the laptop.

Getting the i5 w/SSD would greatly improve install/uninstall, boot, program launch times. Although the i7 w/HDD would improve some of that by just being overall faster.

my desktop is a i5 4670K with a SSD + HDD, my brothers desktop is a i7 3770K with a single HDD for everything. The i7 does pretty well for bootup, game loadings and stuff like that, even with a single-HDD. ^^

ok thanks