Solved! Decent Gaming Laptop Choices

darokal

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I'm looking for a decent gaming laptop around $600-800.

Main games I'd like to play are SC2, Skyrim and Battlefield 3.

I found a few that I liked and would like suggestions. There's a i7 2630qm w/ gt 540m, 6gb memory at $750 (new), and a i7 740qm w/ radeon hd 5870, 8gb memory at around the same price but refurbished.

Is there a big difference between the 1st and 2nd gen i7's?
 

fb39ca4

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Yeah, there is like a 20% per clock difference, but in your case the second laptop is still better because it has a much faster GPU, in the first, the 540m is a huge bottleneck.