Gaming Laptop! Which to pick? Help :(

Lemontarts

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Intel i5 Dual Core Mobile Processor i5-4330m (2.80GHz) 3MB
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i7 Quad Core Processor i7 -4700MQ (2.40 GHz) 6MB
(I will need to pay £60 more if I buy the i7)

8GB RAM

GTX 770M - 3GB DDR5
OR
AMD Radeon HD 8970M - 4GB DDR5 (I will need to pay £30 more if I buy the Radeon)

500GB Memory

Which is better for value for money and better for gaming? I want to at least max out most of the latest games such as, Diablo3, CoD, Battlefield, Tomb Raider, Left4Dead etc etc etc.

Can I do better? Both cost around £1200ish, can I do better with less money? >_<

Really appreciated if you can help me out here :)

Thanks! :awe:
 

Lemontarts

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Are you 100% sure? How come the price difference for the 770m and the 8970 so low? The GC benchmark does say the 8970 is higher than the 770m but how come the price is cheap? sorry i hope you understand, my english is not the best. :)
 

patrick47018

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Think of it like this, Android phones are great, and a powerful android phone is still significantly cheaper than a Apple phone of somewhat similar performance. NVIDIA vs AMD is the same way where NVIDIA is Apple and AMD is Android. AMD is almost always better performance value for your money
 

Lemontarts

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Oh I see. So you think I should get the 8970 then? Also, if I get the i5 whats the difference if I buy the i7 instead? will i get anything increase like game settings, max settings etc?
 

Lemontarts

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Correct me if I'm wrong. How come the 8970M has many bad reviews?
 


Can you provide links to these bad reviews?

From what little I have read about the Radeon HD 8970m the complaints seems to be that it is merely a Radeon HD 7970m with a 6% increase in clockspeed. AMD's specs for both card seems to be exactly the same for everything else. Not particularly bad in itself as long as the price difference for a HD 7970m abd HD 8970m isn't very large.

I have read of some stability complaints with AMD's drivers more or less something like you the Radeon HD 8970m can provide very good performance (better than the GTX 770m) as long as you can find "flawless" drivers. I suppose that's the part that get me; "flawless". I don't believe in "flawless" drivers, I don't care if we are talking about AMD, Intel, or nVidia. To me "flawless" does not exist.

Another complaint is that the switching technology between integrated graphics and dedicated graphics for AMD GPUs in general is not good as nVidia. But that has no effect on performance... unless the graphics don't switch at all I suppose.
 

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can you give a link to this offer? or name the model?

 

jazzjackrabbit

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no thx.
I'm definitely going for the gtx 770m or the 8970m.

Yet I'm unsure if a i7 is necessary. i5-4330M looks nice and should be powerful enough for multimedia and gaming. (doesn't it?)

anyone out there has seen an offer including those specifications for around 1000€ ?
 

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I've never heard of the company behind that. I don't reccomend getting it. Especially given it's EBay, making it less likely to be a functioning model.