Guild Wars 2

Hi, guys – topic says it all, have been driving myself crazy with this.
Cannot decide between i5 – 3210m with 650m and i7 – 2670qm with 630m, both go with 720p screens. Since GW2 is more CPU hungry i was thinking of going for i7, but 650 is just a better choice as GPU. I don’t mind playing medium settings as long as fps is good.

It runs perfect with me on i5 and 1gb shared Intel graphic card,medium settings.Not that heavy of a game.

@Rudens.3245: The i5-3210M is a dual core CPU with hyperthreading (2 physical cores + 2 virtual cores), the i7-2670QM is a quad-core CPU with hyperthreading (4 physical cores + 4 virtual cores). The 630M is a 96 shader gfx while the 650M is a 384 shader gfx.

Tbh, both are bad choices, lol. The ideal would be that i7 with the 650M. If you really “have” to choose, i’d say the 650M is really much better than the 630M (as in more than 2x better).

The i5 is also an Ivy Bridge CPU (that i7 is a Sandy Bridge), so that also outweighs some of the i7 benefit.

IB’s dont beat SB THAT much…core for core speed IB wins ..just.. but SB can overclock better. Granted this is a laptop, but you could still possibly get away with a small OC on the SB ..where as the IB i wouldnt touch.. they dont overclock well on desktops ..let alone trying on a laptop.

in the end as Virtual said, both are bad choices. Infact a laptop for gaming is gneraly a bad choice. However if you insist on a laptop you should look for one with a high ghz 4-core intel cpu and a good modern gpu like the 650 or above.

Nothing elitist about it. Two people have 1k to spend. One buys a 1k laptop ..one buys a 1k desktop. Nether is elitist, they both spent the same money lol.

Its just you get more for your money with a desktop ..FACT.
And becouse of that, the average person who has a laptop generaly doesnt have one that is good enough for gaming. Therefor “a laptop for gaming is ‘genraly’ a bad choice” is a perfectly logical statment to make.

It doesnt mean you CANT get a laptop that can game fine, its just means that on average people dont have loads of money to spend on a laptop that can play games properly.

Masaki.2153:

“Infact a laptop for gaming is gneraly a bad choice. "

Simply not true elitest talk. I game on a laptop, well what they call laptop, it’s really a “desktop replacement” that’s “mobile” but it’s still a portable laptop and it’s more than satisfactory. Apart from the looks I get at airports or on the plane because it looks like it is ancient due to it’s size, it runs recent games at highest settings and it’s powerfull enough to get my actual work done. Asus G74, in case you were wondering.

Oh, and that’s only a 560m.

Yeah I game on a Sager (i7-2760QM | NVIDIA GTX 580M) that is a gaming beast. So far been able to play GW2 @max as well as many other games and able to take it on the road. I am happy to have payed the extra $$ for the convenience. The only thing ive had to do to it is reapply thermal compound to the CPU/GPU at about 1 1/2 years old cause I noticed gaming temps running hotter than I liked. It was extremely easy…in fact easier than doing the same thing to a desktop. remove a few screws, clean off old paste….repaste…..put screws back in……done.

I used to be one of those people that mocked laptops for gaming……not anymore.

I payed just at around $1500 for it and while high by desktop standards IMO it was not crazy expensive considering the performance and convenience.