Buying a laptop and cannot decide please help !

alucardseres · Sep 18, 2014

Hey guys, So two more days until I buy new new laptop.

Here are the main things I plan on using it for
- League of Legends
-World of Warcraft
-School(Excell, word, power point)
-Programming(Mainly C++ and visual basic for now)
-Diablo III
-Watching MKV's and another animes[10 bit and such]
-Borderlands sequel(whenever it is released)

And maybe some other games like Saints Row IV

15.6" Display
1tb hard drive
25gb SSD
core i7 4700mq 2.40ghz processor
8gb RAM
2 Nvidia Geforce GT755M Graphics Cards in SLi
Charger
Windows 8 64bit
Red Backlit Keyboard

And here is my other option :

CPU AMD Quad-Core A10-Series processor
OS Windows 8
Chipset AMD AM70 FCH
Memory DDR3 1600MHz, 8 GB
LCD Size15.6" Full HD (1920x1080) LED backlight
Anti-glare
Graphics AMD RadeonTM HD 7970M Graphic Card
Graphics VRAM GDDR5 2GB
256GB Pleaxtor M5 SSD
Optical Drive DVD Super Multi
AudioAudio Boost, 2.1ch Speakers, THX TruStudio Pro virtual surround

And these are my two options. Please give me feed back as to which is better for my needs. If i can get something cheaper or lighter like an ultra book let me know. These machines will both run for about 900 dollars. Anything for that price or under I would like recommendations for. Please and thank you.

justcallmetom13 · Sep 18, 2014

It's kind of up to you.
The Intel CPU laptop will probably be better at single core applications (most games and apps you're using). This laptop also has 2 graphics cards in SLI. 755M's albeit but they will do a great job for the games you're going to play.

The AMD CPU laptop has an APU (accelerated processing unit), which is essentially a CPU and a GPU merged into 1 chip. This might have been good if the laptop didn't have the 7970M and had a lower price but since they're together I'm assuming the laptop runs graphics via AMD's "Dual Graphics" (http

/www.amd.com/en-gb/innovations/software-technologies/dual-graphics).

So in short, you can get the Intel laptop for better CPU performance and mid to high graphics performance or you could get the AMD laptop with moderate CPU performance and mid to high graphics performance. I would go with the Intel with your uses but If the AMD was cheaper by 300$ or more I would definitely go with that one.

Good luck!

alucardseres · Sep 18, 2014

justcallmetom13 :

It's kind of up to you.
The Intel CPU laptop will probably be better at single core applications (most games and apps you're using). This laptop also has 2 graphics cards in SLI. 755M's albeit but they will do a great job for the games you're going to play.

The AMD CPU laptop has an APU (accelerated processing unit), which is essentially a CPU and a GPU merged into 1 chip. This might have been good if the laptop didn't have the 7970M and had a lower price but since they're together I'm assuming the laptop runs graphics via AMD's "Dual Graphics" (http

/www.amd.com/en-gb/innovations/software-technologies/dual-graphics).

So in short, you can get the Intel laptop for better CPU performance and mid to high graphics performance or you could get the AMD laptop with moderate CPU performance and mid to high graphics performance. I would go with the Intel with your uses but If the AMD was cheaper by 300$ or more I would definitely go with that one.

Good luck!

Surprisingly the MSI laptop with AMD and such is about fifty bucks more/

justcallmetom13 · Sep 18, 2014

Surprisingly the MSI laptop with AMD and such is about fifty bucks more/[/quotemsg]

Okay, yeah definetly go with the Intel then.

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