Dollar Bill, on 15 May 2017 - 01:03 AM, said:
Games generally only use 1 to 2 cores of a CPU. 2 of the 4 cores of an i7 are never used when gaming and sit idle if just the game is running (check the 'CPU Performance' tab under 'Task Manager' while running the game to see what I'm talking about.) However, if you ever plan on streaming you game, like on Twitch, then the i7 is a must have, and a desktop system is highly recommended.
The i7 has a higher clock speed, but you only get about a few more frames per second over the i5 that you can't really notice from the speed boost, like 72 fps vs 75 fps. Not worth the extra $100 that could have been spent on a better GPU, which will give you a higher frame rate that can more than make up the small fps difference. What matters the most, ether laptop or desktop, is the GPU for gaming.
I recommend the i5 because it has 2 physical cores at minimum (all you need for gaming), or 2 physical cores plus 2 virtual cores at max in its higher forms (I think the top has 4 physical cores with no hyper threading.)
I agree and disagree at the same time.
Take a look at these older review/comparisions.
https://www.notebook...or.72681.0.html my current
The same yearline i5:
https://www.notebook...or.74458.0.html
Aswell if you check the benchmarks on my I7 3610qm it even beats the newest laptop i5s in benchmarks yet my cpu is realy old.
Tho i do agree that GPU is very important aswell, but when it comes to laptops CPU is abit alluring.
Most newer games these days do utilise 4 cores usualy.
And the price diffrence in the laptops is not that much when it comes to the CPUs.
Granted i was lucky and got my laptop on a sale, for 650$
There was also another with exact same specs as my except it had i5 3210 instead of the i7 For 550$
Aswell as no blueray and 1600 screen instead of full 1920.
So the choise is quite easy there in my opinion.
But this was like 5-6 years ago... And my CPU is still holding up vs most games, my GFX card however does not. ^^
Edited by xSleeZyx, 15 May 2017 - 03:50 PM.