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    r7 m265 vs 740m and other options

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by eeryanee, Oct 21, 2014.

  1. eeryanee

    eeryanee Notebook Consultant

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    im looking at a laptop with a a10 and r7 m265 I looked it up on google an it seems decent at best for low details low resolution gaming. the laptop in question is going to cost me 600 dollars canadian.

    is that the best laptop for 600 dollars or can you buy a better laptop for around 600. thanks
     
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    ..on the other hand, it's a power-efficient quad-core that was unbeatable in terms of minimal power-draw until the latest 15w intel dual cores. And the dual graphics option allows you respectable 3d graphics performance. Kickass OpenCL performance.. While also giving you the option to use full 3d acceleration, with the same instruction set, while turning the extra graphics card off. Which is useful if you play games on battery, watch video, run some small graphics contexts, like 3d desktops but don't want them to zap your battery, etc. And perhaps are fed up with the way Intel graphics, drivers or whatnot, tends to mess up changing graphics contexts, alt-tabbing, scaling, and so on.

    I was very happy with the apu I had because of that, and because I could lock the processor at a reasonably low level, and then know that the power draw never went over 20w in total. Success. Still nothing else out there that can do that. Only problem with the setup, imo, was that the control panels for the drivers were designed by some 13 year old going amok with Paint. Not sure if they ever sorted that out, but the drivers themselves are at least efficient.

    Of course, if you are buying a laptop and want the best synthetic performance.. to zip all your files, I guess, or encode masses of video with a single-threaded, unoptimized program, and things of that sort.. go Intel. They're clearly awesome, and they pay the bills over at Anandtech.
     
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    eeryanee Notebook Consultant

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    newegg.com does not ship to canada as they have their own site and that lptop is not listed. thanks a million though.

    does anyone know of a good laptop for 599-699 for gaming at 720p. canadian site or a american site that ships to canada.

    i have been searching for days with no luck
     
    eeryanee, Oct 23, 2014
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