Hello,
I've decided to finally get a new laptop for school and to do some gaming on. I've been trying to figure out the best bang for my buck, and became overwhelmed by the conversations about AMD and Intel. As I understand it currently, Intel's hyperthreading and quicksync technologies make them a faster and more powerful, but more expensive choice. However, it makes it sound like AMD just won't handle much, or restrict you to lowest settings. All this talk about "benchmarks" is overwhelming. Frankly, I don't understand enough yet to know the impact of them or if it's even a perceptible difference.
My budget is ideally around $600. Currently I am looking at the HP Pavilion 15z model, upgraded to the AMD A10-5745 with 2GB Radeon R7 dedicated graphics. It comes stock with 6gb ram, but I can upgrade that.
Would this be decent for casual gaming, such as a few mmorpgs I find around the net, playing games like fallout3 on steam or day z? I'm open to suggestion with different laptops around the same price range. Thanks for any advice you guys and girls can offer.
I've decided to finally get a new laptop for school and to do some gaming on. I've been trying to figure out the best bang for my buck, and became overwhelmed by the conversations about AMD and Intel. As I understand it currently, Intel's hyperthreading and quicksync technologies make them a faster and more powerful, but more expensive choice. However, it makes it sound like AMD just won't handle much, or restrict you to lowest settings. All this talk about "benchmarks" is overwhelming. Frankly, I don't understand enough yet to know the impact of them or if it's even a perceptible difference.
My budget is ideally around $600. Currently I am looking at the HP Pavilion 15z model, upgraded to the AMD A10-5745 with 2GB Radeon R7 dedicated graphics. It comes stock with 6gb ram, but I can upgrade that.
Would this be decent for casual gaming, such as a few mmorpgs I find around the net, playing games like fallout3 on steam or day z? I'm open to suggestion with different laptops around the same price range. Thanks for any advice you guys and girls can offer.