I7 920xm viable in cheap laptop?
45 minutes ago, Juggern0ttt said:If you really pay attention to those charts the parts are basically neck and neck. Where as the 920xm beats out the A10 in some areas , and the 5870 beats out the r7 in some areas. The biggest hits are in this like value and market share which isn't exactly a fair comparison. I'm not trying to argue that a desktop build would be better, but I'm looking at the value of this laptop for my father to play starcraft and browse the web mostly.
Well the value of that laptop is more around $150USD, and with 4Gb of ram even just web browsing can use that up quick, and since it is a nehelam chip it most likey also lacks sata 6gbps most likely so the ssd in it is also being held back by that.
With a ram upgrade it will do web browsing fine, possibly starcraft since that is older, and if it has the 5870m with 1gb of gddr5, but you should also consider that it will run very hot, you have a 55W cpu, and 50W gpu in that, if it hasn't been taken care properly, thermal throttling is going to be an issue.
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