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    i5 series performance

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by edgaralanpwn, Mar 6, 2010.

  1. edgaralanpwn

    edgaralanpwn Notebook Consultant

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    I'm looking at purchasing a laptop sometime in the forseeable future and one laptop that struck my fancy is the MSI 640GX. my only concern is that the base config at xoticpc fits my budget perfectly, but comes with the i5-430. I've tried digging up benchmarks for this processor but I'm not savvy enough to interpret many of the results. How competent is this processor? I've heard it compared to a 2.8 C2D, that sounds OK, but will it handle gaming well? specifically the witcher, TF2, and maybe BFBC 2 at medium settings?
     
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    naton Notebook Virtuoso

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    with the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850 the MSI 640 GX should be able to handle any game.
     
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    fmac Notebook Evangelist

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    Its a very competent proccesor. I am playing COD MW2 and Mass Effect 2 at 1600x900 resolution at max settings, and thats with the inferior 4670. You wont be getting low fps due to this proccesor, thats for sure.
     
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    nu_D Notebook Deity

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    How's multitasking on the 430m, fmac? Has anything you've thrown at it bogged it down? I tend having itunes, firefox, word, utorrent, vlc/winamp, limewire...maybe a couple of others chugging along at once...would it be able to handle that?
     
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    satan194p Notebook Guru

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    ^^
    yes it will
     
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    edgaralanpwn Notebook Consultant

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    Well, this is great news!
    I'm heading off to college like everyone else in class of 2010, and really wanted a solid, well performing laptop. Though I have heard some negative reviews on the chasis of the MSI laptops, it seems perfect =) Can't wait for xoticpc to get them in stock! Wonder if they do a student discount?! XD That would be great =D
     
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    I still havent found any program or combination of those who makes me suffer from slowdowns or freezes. Anything I throw at it seems to respond in an excellent way. For example, yesterday I had at least 5 tabs of Opera opened, I was downloading some torrents using Utorrent, encoding some videos for my Zune HD and watching the last Lost episode at 720p, you can trust me when I say that it felt like I had nothing running.
     
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