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    Asus G73jw-x3c

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by hagoo, Feb 12, 2011.

  1. hagoo

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    Nope. the GPU is still the bottleneck 99.9% of the time.
     
  3. CrappyAlloy

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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.
     
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    I play RTS such as SC2, and Total War series. Only MMO I plan on playing is SW:TOR, and might play some shooters like UT3 and BF:BC2.

    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?
     
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    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 :D
     
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    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 :p
     
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    @hagoo, np, and im certain later on you can always upgrade and go all out on an extreme edition i7 :D

    @DCx, ya ya I know, thats probably why you said what you did for hagoo's sake :D lol

    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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    Hell yeah. Supreme commander for example ...