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What part of a computer if upgraded, offers overall the most performance increase?

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This could mean anything, It could the the GPU if it was gaming, It could the the SSD for benchmarks and It could be the CPU for other tasks...

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So, let's say I'm shopping for a laptop.

 

One has a

 

Core i5-5200U, GT940M, 500GB HDD, and 4GB of RAM

 

while the other has a

 

Core M-5Y10, HD 5300, 128GB SSD, and 4GB of RAM

 

Which would be snappier overall?

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SSD.

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So, let's say I'm shopping for a laptop.

 

One has a

 

Core i5-5200U, GT940M, 500GB HDD, and 4GB of RAM

 

while the other has a

 

Core M-5Y10, HD 5300, 128GB SSD, and 4GB of RAM

 

Which would be snappier overall?

 

The one with the SSD.

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It depends on what metric- if you're timing boot times, then an ssd will benefit you the most.

If you're measuring frames per second, usually the graphics card upgrade will yield the most improvement.

If you're rendering videos, a cpu upgrade will yield the most improvement. 

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So, let's say I'm shopping for a laptop.

 

One has a

 

Core i5-5200U, GT940M, 500GB HDD, and 4GB of RAM

 

while the other has a

 

Core M-5Y10, HD 5300, 128GB SSD, and 4GB of RAM

 

Which would be snappier overall?

 

One with SSD. It also has newer CPU. Though in pure power upper is better.

 

I'll give few things here.

- In overall performance CPU means much. Most current CPUs are still enough for general use, no matter how many jigahertz they have.

- SSD is always faster than HDD. Here you would want to think how you are going to use it. If you only use cloud for mass storage (personal cloud included), you can go for less physical space.

- Over 4gb ram is good for everyday use. If you are gamer, you really do want 8gb at least.

- GPUs only matter if you are true gamer or do digital creative stuff. From examples, lower has very weak GPU.

- Laptops are tricky as you can't expand and need to think more than just hardware specs.

 

Further on laptops. I just made this decision. I went with upper option first and then changed for bigger screen and not having dedicated GPU. Reasons were more overall performance (faster CPU), price (got 8gb and 256SSD for price of 8gb and 128SSD) and the fact that I have gaming PC. Laptop is going to be only for travels. Also if I need light device with more battery power, I get tablet. From examples lower will have longer battery life as it uses passive cooled and low TDP Skylake CPU.

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If it has an SSD, it will feel faster. Like, NOTICEABLY faster.

It's not worth it to get a computer nowadays that doesn't have an SSD.

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Overall computer perf: SSD

 

Gaming: GPU

 

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I'm gonna do some light video editing on Premiere. Is Premiere CPU or GPU intensive?

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DEPENDS on the performance increase your looking for, like;

 

  • for possessing power CPU
  • for loading times SSD
  • for gamming GPU/CPU
  • for IGP RAM
  • for edditing/rendering RAM/CPU

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I'm gonna do some light video editing on Premiere. Is Premiere CPU or GPU intensive?

 

I think its bit both. But you are going to need to up your price range if you need to do video editing with laptop. Look for i7 at least. The lower from those two is i3 with less power consumption.

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