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I have no idea. I've been happy with my i5 and i'm also currently running a i7-5700HQ in my laptop and they have both worked great. 
Except for the overheating with my laptop cpu. 

There are some external GPU's for craptops. But not sure if they are compatible with your laptop/affordable enough.
 
And I know you don't want to buy a new computer. But if you really want to play that game at the framerates you want, you should. And get an actual computer, so you can upgrade it in the future. *down with the craptops* #desktopforlife and all that kind of stuff.

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

getting ready for paint


painting heatsinks for Mobo


All finished up

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

Just put it up http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/325009-my-scrapyard-wars-265-usd-including-monitor/

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

So after watching the Scrapyard Wars series, it finally pushed me to building my first pc. I was on a really tight budget so this was the best solution and looked promising to me. I surfed Craigslist for a while before coming across a deal. It was complete pc with no OS or side panels. It was sporting a Intel Duo quad core Q6600 with a stock cooler, a gigabyte motherboard, 4gb (2x2gb) of Gskill 800 mgz DDR2 ram, a 1Tb hard drive, 2 dvd drives (non sata) and a ATI Radeon HD 4870 gpu for the low price of $135. 
 
I also scored a 22in samsung monitor for $50
 
I ordered a Cooler Master AIO 120mm cooler for $50 on Newegg plus has a mail in rebate. And for the OS I went with Linux Mint for now.  I already had a new case that I picked up for $30 that included a usb keyboard and mouse and some cheap speakers. The case is horrible for cable management but here she is with everything installed.

I also did a scrapyard wars kinda build. I didnt get lucky as you on the mo but I did score a Q6600. I am being held back by ddr2 memory but I did score a antec 650watt psu and two dvd drives. Ill be posting pics and a build log soon.

Yeah that will deff help. When I build my next system. Pay more now and not have to buy another one later. And will overclocking my cpu help any?

My goal with this post is to help others by avoiding costly mistakes that so many before them have made, and to help educate people on the objective reasoning why you should choose one product over another. After being on this forum for over a year, I am seeing so many users complaining about their gaming experience with FX processors that it is time to put a stop to it, and the best way to do that is nip it in the bud and recommend the correct tool for the job.  To do that, I and a bunch of other forum members created this post as a one-link reference to all of the information we have gathered and continue to gather on the subject.  This is an ever growing and constantly updated post.
 
The most common problems with the FX processors are unsatisfactory results in games, VRM throttling, and GPU bottlenecking.  In my links below I will show you many different, yet conclusive results compiled from respected hardware reviewers and other members of this forum.  I hope to paint a picture as to why the FX processor is objectively the inferior option and why it is a bad choice for a gaming machine especially when an equally, or lower priced option is available.  I want you to make an educated decision based on information available without taking emotion and bias into this.  I am about to present to you that information.  There are some positives to the FX processors that I will talk about, but gaming is not one of them.
 
I always advocate the right tool for the job, and for some jobs, the FX processor is the best tool for the job, but you need to be aware of what your priorities are when building your machine.  If your priority is gaming, then Intel is the clear winner regardless of price point.  I have experience with both processors, and have owned both Intel and AMD.  I currently own Intel because it is objectively the better processor.  I don't hate AMD, I don't like Intel.  What I love is facts and the facts are very clear that Intel is the better option at this point in time.
 
If you enjoy games like MMOs(ArcheAge, WoW, Guild Wars2, World of Tanks, Planetside2 etc..) DayZ, ARMA, GTA V, Dead Rising 3, Indies, RTS, Emulators, etc.. the FX will fall WAY behind the equally and sometimes lower priced Intel processors, and in some instances, become unplayable* unless you are fine with massive, recurring, constant, and noticeable FPS drops when the action starts. 
 
*Everyone has a different definition of what unplayable is, so don't over analyze and exaggerate my wording.  What is unplayable to me, might not be unplayable to you, but what we can all agree on is that no one likes FPS drops that makes your game hitch, stutter, or freeze, and you shouldn't be ok with those side effects because an Intel processor won't give you those unwanted side effects nearly as often as you get them with FX processors.
 
Then there are other games that are playable, but no where near as fluid as they would be on Intel because minimum framerates(which are the most important), drop much more significantly with FX processors.  A few examples are: Starcraft, Skyrim, Civilization V, Far Cry 4, Assassin's Creed, Metal Gear Solid etc..
 
And of course there are a lot of games where the FX will perform similar to Intel because the games just run on anything.  Tomb Raider, Bioshock, CoD:Ghosts, and many more.
 
For the a lot of games, the FX will be sufficient.  But why would you want to spend more or the same amount of money on an old, and inferior product, when you can get a new and superior product for the same amount of money?  Why play 4 out of 5 games  at an acceptable level, when you could play 5 out of 5 games at an excellent level, with no bottlenecking, lower energy costs, and future upgrade paths while paying the same amount of money.
 
Minimum FPS is the most important FPS measurement.  Bad minimums mean less fluidity in gameplay.  Sometimes I see FX owners saying, "I hit 60fps just fine".  While you might be capable of hitting 60fps on FX, the minimums are going to be lower, and that results in a noticeable detachment from immersion which is what constant 60+fps feels like.  An Intel processor is often the difference between a fluid experience and a stuttery one.  With Intel, your minimums are much higher, meaning a more fluid and immersive game play experience. 
 
You will see below that even the Intel i3(costs less) is outperforming the FX6/8/9s in many games, and the locked i5(costs the same) is running away with it.  There have also been a lot of new, modern, multi-threaded games that are performing poorly on the FX platform because of the poor per-core performance.  More on that in some spoilers below.
 
I hope that when AMD releases Zen in 2016 that it will bring AMD back into high end consumer CPU relevancy.  It doesn't even have to be better than Intel, it just has to be competitive.  If its performance, namely single core, is close to Intel's while remaining at a lower price, then I will likely switch to AMD because I am all about price to performance.  The problem is, price to performance for AMD doesn't exist right now.  I will go over the pricing in detail in spoilers below.