ROG Series Worth it?

[sdw123]

Hi I have a MSI GL62 i5,8GB, 950 , no ssd, 1tb hdd laptop. And I got a deal to exchange this to a Asus ROG GL552JX i7 4720HQ, 16 GB, 950,no ssd, 1TB hdd one. (I have to pay extra US$100.)

 

Is it worth to move to a ROG series? (considering long time usage or something may be)

[Radiant]

ehm to be honest, i dont know alot of stuff about laptops. but i think its pretty decent

[Brooksie359]

18 minutes ago, sdw123 said:

Hi I have a MSI GL62 i5,8GB, 950 , no ssd, 1tb hdd laptop. And I got a deal to exchange this to a Asus ROG GL552JX i7 4720HQ, 16 GB, 950,no ssd, 1TB hdd one. (I have to pay extra US$100.)

 

Is it worth to move to a ROG series? (considering long time usage or something may be)

depends on what you want to do. the i7 has hyper-threading and could come in handy for some tasks but wont make much of a difference in games as the gpu will start to limit you far faster than the gpu. unless you were playing something like an rts or other cpu intensive strategy games and even though i don't know for certain that it would matter. 

[Damascus]

21 minutes ago, sdw123 said:

Hi I have a MSI GL62 i5,8GB, 950 , no ssd, 1tb hdd laptop. And I got a deal to exchange this to a Asus ROG GL552JX i7 4720HQ, 16 GB, 950,no ssd, 1TB hdd one. (I have to pay extra US$100.)

 

Is it worth to move to a ROG series? (considering long time usage or something may be)

I'd go for the ROG laptop, lots of newer games are starting to use more threads and RAM and I've had pretty good experience with ROG in the past.  

[Pendragon]

not worth. unless upgrading ram is only to cost you 100 dollars. the 950 will bottleneck any game before the i7 can be taken advantage of. 

[sdw123]

4 hours ago, Pendragon said:

not worth. unless upgrading ram is only to cost you 100 dollars. the 950 will bottleneck any game before the i7 can be taken advantage of. 

 

8 hours ago, Radiant said:

ehm to be honest, i dont know alot of stuff about laptops. but i think its pretty decent

 

8 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

depends on what you want to do. the i7 has hyper-threading and could come in handy for some tasks but wont make much of a difference in games as the gpu will start to limit you far faster than the gpu. unless you were playing something like an rts or other cpu intensive strategy games and even though i don't know for certain that it would matter. 

 

8 hours ago, Damascus said:

I'd go for the ROG laptop, lots of newer games are starting to use more threads and RAM and I've had pretty good experience with ROG in the past.  

Thanks.Is there any specialty in ROG series apart from specs? Since my current one isn't a gaming series laptop.

[Brooksie359]

12 minutes ago, sdw123 said:

 

 

 

Thanks.Is there any specialty in ROG series apart from specs? Since my current one isn't a gaming series laptop.

Nope not really

[Damascus]

17 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

Nope not really

Yeah the only difference I can see is visual and possibly beefier cooling over a more mass market laptop.

 

My point was that my ROG laptop performed well in the cooling arena

[sdw123]

15 hours ago, Damascus said:

Yeah the only difference I can see is visual and possibly beefier cooling over a more mass market laptop.

 

My point was that my ROG laptop performed well in the cooling arena

 

On 3/2/2017 at 10:17 AM, Brooksie359 said:

Nope not really

Thanks bro s.

[Benliam12]

I would pick the ROG because I7  Although you have to pay 100USD you get 8 extra GB of ram and the GPU stay the same. 950 is kind of out perform right now but for 100USD you're getting a nice deal.

 

[sdw123]

On 3/4/2017 at 3:53 AM, Benliam12 said:

I would pick the ROG because I7  Although you have to pay 100USD you get 8 extra GB of ram and the GPU stay the same. 950 is kind of out perform right now but for 100USD you're getting a nice deal.

 

Thanks bro.