I7 Laptop or Intel Quad Core??. Could somebody please tell me if there will be any big differences between the two laptops: HP dv7-2185dx with a Quad Core Q9000 2GHz processor, 500 gb hd, ati radeon graphic card and 6 DDR2 ram or Hp dv7-3085dx with...

is 1.6GHz???? Forgive me is this is obvious, i'm not very knowledgeable. Yes. If it is to be used for gaming though, the GPU matters quite a bit as well. What graphics card is in each? The Intel Quad has the : Video Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650...

issues with certain chipsets/mobo. Thanks for the suggestion on xeon. I had not even heard of this line, i was more researching on core2duo, quad cores and/or i7. Any info on xeon over the other intels? if this is your personal business, I would buy...

The Q9550 is the best bang for buck ATM (as far an Intel quad goes)... i was wondering if this question is a joke, of corse get the 9550 thanks for the replys everyone, i guess the q9550 would be the wiser choice. Go Quad, OC it, be happy :D. Microenter...

is better...probably the Quad Core?) Video Card: Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280M, 2GB – SLI® Enabled Memory: 6GB DDR3 at 1333MHz Hard Drive: 1TB - 2x 500GB 7,200RPM - RAID 0 The Asus' specs: Processor: Intel® Quad Core Processor Q9000: 2.0 GHz,...

I would also like to know about the overclockability of the Intel quad cores vs the Intel dual cores? About the motherboards, what about the nvidia chipsets? Are they better or worse than the Intel chipsets? Nvidia chipsets are only necessary if doing SLI....

Core 2 quad q8200. In planning to build a pc using intel core 2 quad q8200, do you think its good for gaming? thanks a lot for the advice! Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 2.33 Ghz, 4MB, 1333Mhz Asus P5Q-EM, Intel G45/ICH10R Chipset Kingston Value 2 GB DDR2-800...

rather small. Thanks for the varied answers to my initial reply. My setup is as follows and at present i am using CS3. Intel quad core, 4gb memory 250gb boot disk 750gb program disk. And a crappy video card that i need to replace once i have decided on the...

quad is the way to go. While the AMD Phenom is not as fast as the Intel quad, it doesn't lag in video editing the way it does in games and would be less expensive than Intel. You could do a complete Intel Q6600 machine including case, hdd, and Windows for...

that Crysis was not meant to be played on Very High with our current hardware. However am I asking to much in being able to play Crysis on all High in DX10 mode with my current setup? Here is what I am currently running: ASUS P5E / Intel X38 Chipset Intel...