Question about CPU bottleneck with 675M

I'm not really sure where i should be posting this, but this seems as good as any. I'm wondering if any of you think that an i5 CPU is "slow" enough to bottleneck a 675M.

I'm close to buying a MS-1762 barebones from PowerNotebooks. For $999 their standard configuration is:

i5-3210QM
8GB RAM
675M GPU

It's only $89 to upgrade to an i7-3610QM but I'm trying to keep cost as low as possible.. Do any of you feel that the i5 would be a bottleneck for the 675M?

 

You could always buy now and upgrade later.

As for i5 being a bottle neck, it could be a problem on CPU intensive games [RTS, poor console ports, etc...]

 

For what it would cost to upgrade to an i7 and sell the i5 I would probably just upgrade in the first place.

I pretty much only play fps games so theoretically the i5 should be fine? Anyone else want to chime in here?

 

I doubt. Maybe with 680M or 675m SLI it possibly will.

But anyway I would buy 3610QM. The first reason on my mind is to sell it somewhat later for 200$ and buy 3720QM ES LOL
Second is that more is always better than not enough.

 

Except for a very small amount of games, nope, it won't bottleneck.

You can take a look at this: Intel Ivy Bridge Guide for Gamers - Notebookcheck.net Reviews. To take a quote from it:

 

Wow that was a great read. I feel a bit better about the i5 as I will probably never play any mmo games. I may still just suck it up and get the 3610qm but we'll see. Configured with the i5 and without a hd (in have an ssd) at less than $1000 I doubt anything can compare at that price point.

 

It's only 79 bucks, I highly recommend the upgrade. For an extra 8% (think of it like a sales tax ) you get a much more powerful processor that won't bottleneck the 675m, and if you want to upgrade the gpu later the 3610 will be a lot more suitable than the i5.

 

Can you clarify a bit more why you could consider a CPU intensive game to be a "poor" console port?

If the PC release of a multiplatform game is optimized to make use of multi-core CPU and delivers higher frame rate with a better CPU, isn't that the very definition of a well-done port? A bad port would seem to be poorly optimized and make no difference whether you are using an old dual core processor or i7-2600k, right?

No idea about where exactly a mobile i5 CPU vs. mobile quad core i7 might result in a bottleneck with Nvidia 675m, but I've come across a few games which seem to be CPU intensive, Valve's recent games, Civ 5, open world games like Skyrim, GTA series. Also, if you are planning to run the latest games on this laptop for the next few years, you might take note that a number of 2012 and 2013 AAA games have begun to list "quad core CPU" in the recommended specs.

 

The GTA series is an example of a badly done console port, hence why it takes so much CPU.

 

Battlefield 3, GTA IV, Sleeping Dogs, to name a few are not really CPU bottlenecked as much as they are core bottlenecked. A same speed quad core can usually perform admirably compared with a same speed dual core. But that's a handful of games, most others aren't affected as much. Although most newer games are being coded for multi-threads so more cores will become more important over time.

 

Yeah i think i'm just going to get the i7 to save me hassle of updating down the road. Thanks for the help.