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I am looking for a laptop but I would like to know which option is the best between refurbished i7  laptop and medium range i5 new aptop 

I don't play very often but I like to have something that perform well ( no video editing or anything intense) looking for 5-600$ PC 

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Link to what the options are.

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If the "new" laptop is 8th gen or newer, then the i5 is gonna be better than the i7, since from 8th gen i5s are true quad-cores.

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10 minutes ago, Nocte said:

If the "new" laptop is 8th gen or newer, then the i5 is gonna be better than the i7, since from 8th gen i5s are true quad-cores.

The older gen HQ series i5s are also true quad cores, and will perform about as well as 8th gen i5s, albeit at a power usage premium.

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Im looking at older version like 4-5th gen so I guess I better go with newer one but get lower end for a better performance/price  i guess

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21 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

The older gen HQ series i5s are also true quad cores, and will perform about as well as 8th gen i5s, albeit at a power usage premium.

but dont have hyperthreading + lower freq.

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34 minutes ago, Darpyface said:

Link to what the options are.

I don't really have 2 models in mind but I'm looking at old refurbished model on ebay but I don't know the big performance difference between an old and newer version of cpu 

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2 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

but dont have hyperthreading + lower freq.

Do the newer ones have hyperthreading? Well there's something I didn't know. I thought that was still exclusive to the mobile i7s

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4 minutes ago, BobVonBob said:

Do the newer ones have hyperthreading? Well there's something I didn't know. I thought that was still exclusive to the mobile i7s

yeah, the i5-8300H is a 4c8t, the i7-8750H is a 6c12t

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1 hour ago, Jo_manic69 said:

5-600$ PC 

Location? Usage? Any preference on weight and battery life? 

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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Just now, GeneXiS_X said:

Location? Usage? Any preference on weight and battery life? 

Montreal would be use for surfing web and little gaming nothing latest games high rez type of gaming and weight dont matter but battery life quite nice to have some good battery

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On 2/8/2019 at 10:49 AM, Jo_manic69 said:

battery life quite nice to have some good battery

Min how many hours?

Desktop specs:

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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