Gaming laptop Broadwell or Skylake??

anya7ya · Oct 15, 2015

Hi,

I'm going to buy a gaming/work laptop, So dose it worth to buy a skylake with DDR4 with GTX 970 or broadwell + DDR3 with GTX970

is it worth to pay 300$ to 400$ more on skylake laptop

I'm moving from desktop:
i5 3570K
Z77 board
240Gb 1st gen SSD
2X HD 6970 Crossfire

Anas

Calculagator · Oct 15, 2015

If the only difference between the laptops is the platform/CPU/RAM, then I don't think it's worth it. Skylake CPUs don't have dramatically better performance. They might have better battery life, but for gaming, that won't matter.
If one has a better screen / SSD / keyboard / cooling then it might be worth it.

Chrisg34 · Oct 16, 2015

I think when you are purchased gaming laptop the processor should be high quality and RAM should be 4 gb.

anya7ya · Oct 18, 2015

Ok to be more in detail here is the laptop I'm interst in
MSI GT72 Dominator-019

http

/www.ebay.com/itm/181905224527?var=481245215771

Future plan adding NVMe SSD

Calculagator · Oct 18, 2015

That's a nice laptop.
I don't think the extra cost of the skylake cpu is worth it. Broadwell and Haswell would get you basically the same gaming performance for $300 less. With the money you save, you could invest in a nice SSD, which is definitely worth the expense, IMO. While an SSD won't improve FPS in gaming usually, it cuts out a lot of waiting time.

Unrelated note: I don't like MSI's use of the "killer" networking stuff. It's basically plain Atheros chips with annoying software and a ton of marketing schtick. They don't actually perform that well.

anya7ya · Oct 19, 2015

Calculagator :

Absolutely your right, but how about the new NVMe PCIe 3.0 drive the SSD runs incredibly fast like 1600MB/s up to 2000MB/s it's way faster than normal M.2 SSD.

Calculagator · Oct 19, 2015

The ssd you can afford now is better than the one you may get later. While the numbers are much better for the PCIe SSDs, you won't notice the performance difference as much as you would moving from an HDD to an SSD.

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