Better processor or graphics card

Komomu

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Narrowed it down to 2 laptops really, unless you can find better ones under $700 with better specs

I'll be using it code mainly but I will play games on it, most intensive probably being battlefield bad company 2 and fifa 13, other like minecraft and pcsx2, should I bother to get the i7? I'll hope to keep it for 3-5 years and will upgrade to the max ram each can take.

I also realize the i7 can get faster ram, so maybe I can give it 1600 ram.. what do you guys think?


http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-571G-6602-15-6-Inch-Midnight/dp/B0085H63TC/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1346111869&sr=1-1&keywords=gt+630m

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008482UHG/ref=gno_cart_title_1


P.S I'll mostly be playing minecraft, so maybe the better processor would be good for that?

 

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but out of the 2, is quad core really necessary? should I just get the gt 630m with i5-2450m at $600?

I'll boost it to 8gb easy peasy esp since I cant give the toshiba a graphics card

like I said, I kinda want to run bfbc2 again and I know the gt 630m can do it, but I'm not sure about intel 4000 gfx
 

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ok I bought the one with the gt 630m 2gb one because it'll help when I'm playing old games at high res XD

amazon because I can choose one or 2 day shipping and i've bought from them already