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GioMarcolla

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I need new Laptop, I mostly use it for 3D CAD, Data processing (not such heavy processing) and gaming ! I was looking around and I found those 3:

Asus N550JV with Core i7, 8Gb DDR3 and GT 750M 4Gb (couldn't thing the right model code)
MSI GE60 2OC-097US
MSI GE60 2OD-247US

My budget is 1200 dollars
Battery life: Anything over 2H
What you think about those options? What other options do I have?
I'm a far graphic freak some games I would like to play are BF4, Crysis 3/4 if possible, BLESS Online, LoL, TERA.....

PS: I prefer nVidia graphic cards, but money-value speaks louder right now!
PS: BLESS Online is not released yet but for what I've seen it should be very hard on the GPU with wind movement activated!
 
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That is this years model, not last years. The...
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GioMarcolla

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Here

Asus: (ony difference is that the one I have here is 4Gb graphic card)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152482

MSI GE60 2OC-097US:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152457

MSI GE60 2OD-247US:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152482

The price for those ones doesn't meter, I've checked it already ( I live in Thailand )

What meters the most is, will I see lot's of differences between core i5 with 760M to the Core i7 with 750M? Which ones fit's me better? is MSI better then Asus? Worth changing because of the killer E2200 network system?

PS: I'll mainly use wireless!
 
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GioMarcolla

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So you think that the Dual GT 750M GDDR5 fits my needs better than a GT 750M 4Gb DDR3 or a GT 760M 2Gb DDR3?
Also, which screen you think has the best image? I know that the Asus is IPS but I saw it on the store and the MSI seemed actually better, what about the lenovo, I've searched fro Lenovo before.
If I can't find the lenovo here, from those three which one fits my better?

link for the Asus, sent the wrong one last post!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231114
 
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Yes, I do completely.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-750M.90245.0.htm

The 750M with GDDR5 will beat the one with DDR3 by a significant amount. The 4GB of DDR3 is actually really redundant for a laptop, because unless you have it plugged up to several displays it will not use more than 2GB. My desktop GPU on a 1080p display with settings maxed out on most games usually sits around 1600MB of use, so there is even head room. The one with 760M 2GB will still perform better, but but the rest of the laptop specs are a lot better.

If you can buy from Amazon I would check it for the y510p first, but if not I would say its between these two:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152457
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231114

These two laptops, and the Lenovo laptop (Even the $800 one) all have better CPU performance. The other laptops, while one had a 760M GPU had significantly weaker CPU and so the trade off wasn't worth it.

Between these two, the Asus has better CPU performance, but only by an estimated 1-2% based on benchmarks. The MSI has significantly better graphics performance because it has GDDR5. I had to look it up on the MSI webpage to find it, but it does have it. So really the MSI laptop is better.

As for best image quality, I'm sorry I cannot help you much to determine this. My eyes aren't the best so I don't look too closely at image quality unless its bad. I know they both have 1080p displays, so pixel per pixel they should be the same but some displays do perform better. That you will have to search somewhere else though. Sorry. Maybe another user will know more about them for you.
 
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yea uh, thats the same laptop "IInuyasha74" recommended except his link was about $200 less than the link you provided...
 
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Well from the link you sent I'm guessing it's last year model since it has 8Gb SSD only, which I would consider to be waste, since 8Gb can bearly hold windows on it.

Also there is a version for 36 dollars more with 16Gb RAM, pretty price worth in my opinion:
http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-IdeaPad-59385820-15-6-Inch-Laptop/dp/B00F32ZBN6/ref=psdc1_t1_B00F0RC4VQ_B00F32ZBN6

Does anyone know if the 8Gb SSD Storage is actually SSD or Built In Storage? I mean can I upgrade that later for more than 8Gb or I would need to change the HDD for a new SSD?
 
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That is this years model, not last years. The SSD is pretty much a waste for you to throw a few programs or movies on and that's it. Lenovo sells this model with various sizes of SSD's up to I think 24GB which are on the motherboard, but the models with larger SSD space are expensive.

Like I said you should search around on Amazon. For going up to 16GB of RAM you are much better off to pay the extra $36.

As for the SSD again, I haven't actually had one to take apart and play with, so I am not sure. It could be soldered on to the motherboard in some weird way. It could be in an mSATA connection and be changeable later without any real issue to the system.

It could even by that its a Hybrid drive with an 8GB SSD cache and they are just presenting it in a strange way. I kind of doubt this one, because if that was the case they wouldn't be able to offer 16 and 24GB versions. Chances are though it is in some port or on the motherboard and either replaceable without causing any change to the system, or on the motherboard.

And really if its soldered on the motherboard, who really cares since it isn't wasting any ports?
 
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