Hey all, Found this at Canada Computers. Do you guys think the i5 460M will bottleneck the GTX 460M? I'm debating whether the extra $300 is worth the i7.
ASUS G73JW-X3C, Gaming Notebook (Black) - Intel Core i5-460M, 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080), 6GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 1.5GB GDDR5, Blu-ray Combo Drive, Wireless N, Bluetooth, 2.0M Webcam, Windows 7 Home Premium, 2-year Global/1-year A
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Nope. the GPU is still the bottleneck 99.9% of the time.
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^^I would have to disagree, at least to an extent
@hagoo
What games do you play? RTS and MMORPGs might be bottlenecked yes
As for FPS and most others, as DCx said, the GPU ends up being the bottleneck usually. That i5 is still a great processor though, as well as the machine as a whole. -
While my main concern is the quality of media playback, I still want to be able to play the latest games. Will the 2 extra cores make a huge difference in gaming? -
Umm I havent played all of those games but I would say no, the extra 2 cores wont make that much of a difference. Just go for the i5
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Thanks for the input!
I'll probably go for the i5 - the extra ~$350 will get me another months rent -
lol you won't see a difference between the two chips in performance, unless you're really pushing the CPU with some media transcoding. Games are generally GPU bound
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@hagoo, np, and im certain later on you can always upgrade and go all out on an extreme edition i7
@DCx, ya ya I know, thats probably why you said what you did for hagoo's sakelol
Im a huge RTS fan/player, and some RTS games can have many thousands of units in game, and in those cases a quad core can really help, but im sure your aware of this -
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Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by hagoo, Feb 12, 2011.