Bottlenecking a laptop

[Ben a cava]

Hi Guys,

Just a quick one... I  was thinking about getting the ASUS VivoBook S513EA-BN697T which has a 2.4ghz 4 core i5 Processor, however 16gb of ram. Would I be better off buying a laptop with a faster CPU and maybe an i7 but instead with 8gb RAM? Only wondering this as I dont know if I will bottleneck the RAM. 

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

Id go with more ram normally. 8GB of ram goes pretty fast with 

 

What are you using the laptop for? In most laptop tasks, the i5 vs i7 is a pretty small performance difference, with only a small clock speed change, and a bit of cache cahnged between them.

[Ben a cava]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id go with more ram normally. 8GB of ram goes pretty fast with 

 

What are you using the laptop for? In most laptop tasks, the i5 vs i7 is a pretty small performance difference, with only a small clock speed change, and a bit of cache cahnged between them.

I'm looking to run a bot testing and run a thousand to two thousand tasks but just didnt know if my RAM was too overkill for the CPU

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Ben a cava said:

I'm looking to run a bot testing and run a thousand to two thousand tasks but just didnt know if my RAM was too overkill for the CPU

Its really hard to say without your bot and testing it.

 

But on this laptop the i5 and i7 are very close in terms of performance, so the ram is probably the better pick.

 

16gb of ram isn't overkill for the cpu.

[Ben a cava]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its really hard to say without your bot and testing it.

 

But on this laptop the i5 and i7 are very close in terms of performance, so the ram is probably the better pick.

 

16gb of ram isn't overkill for the cpu.

Okay, Perfect. 

I think ill stick with this laptop then!

Thank you

[Light-Yagami]

36 minutes ago, Ben a cava said:

Hi Guys,

Just a quick one... I  was thinking about getting the ASUS VivoBook S513EA-BN697T which has a 2.4ghz 4 core i5 Processor, however 16gb of ram. Would I be better off buying a laptop with a faster CPU and maybe an i7 but instead with 8gb RAM? Only wondering this as I dont know if I will bottleneck the RAM. 

Thanks

16gb of RAM all day, every day. 

 

I have 32 and I'm struggling sometimes. You can bottleneck 16gb with an i3, so that's not an argument to make. It depends on what you do, what you have opened.

 

But if you have only 8GB, you already have like.. 4GB offset for the system, and the overflow is just gonna be written to the SSD, which will slow the whole system down.