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Originally Posted by Halius
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Awesome, thank you both for all the advice. I know what I need when it comes to building PCs but laptops I am less sure on what is the most important so thank you. I don't check tigerdirect often and usually I find amazon to be more expensive than newegg (just my personal experience) but I will definitely check out techbargains. The only reason I listed the Lenovo was to save a little money, do you think the extra $200 for the Asus would be worth the upgrade from i5 to i7 and double the RAM?
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It's hard to say for sure. As I said, the RAM isn't as important for gaming (unless you also plan to run a browser, word, maybe photoshop, etc.
while you are gaming), so I wouldn't worry about that. As for the CPU, this page compares the two processors, and while it's clear that the i7 is better, it's not clear that it's
that much better:
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i...s-Intel-4710HQ
So, what it amounts to is spending the $200 now might give your laptop another half a year of life (ie. it might be able to run one game in the future that the i5 can't). Then again, it might never be relevant: the graphics card might become the limiting factor first. All I can really say is, the i7 will likely let you have *slightly* better game performance. Throw in the faster hard drive and you'll also get slightly faster startup time and slightly faster read/write of data. Whether that's worth $200 is up to you, but if money is tight I'd think you could do ok with the Lenovo.
What I'd really suggest though is spending a couple weeks on Techbargains.com and checking other sites. My bet is that if you do that you'll find a computer equal to or better than the Asus, for the price of the Lenovo or cheaper
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