Laptop vs Desktop

[charneski97]

I currently have a razer blade stealth with a razer core, as my main system when im at college, and I am getting some serious bottlenecking when im in games. I was wondering if it would be a good choice to  buy a x4 860k processor and fm2+ motherboard for ~$70, this is literally all I need (I have memory, case, psu, hdd, gpu). Not sure if the gaming experience would be better or worse. Thanks for the input.

[Mira Yurizaki]

It'd be way worse. It's an ancient platform with an anemic performing processor and GPU.

 

Save a little more and get yourself a Ryzen 3 or 5 system.

[Docretier]

4 minutes ago, charneski97 said:

I currently have a razer blade stealth with a razer core, as my main system when im at college, and I am getting some serious bottlenecking when im in games. I was wondering if it would be a good choice to  buy a x4 860k processor and fm2+ motherboard for ~$70, this is literally all I need (I have memory, case, psu, hdd, gpu). Not sure if the gaming experience would be better or worse. Thanks for the input.

Where is the bottle neck exactly? 

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, Docretier said:

Where is the bottle neck exactly? 

It's the processor. I'm going to assume OP has an older model with a dual core U series processor.

[Jurrunio]

Nah, nothing the Rader Blade Stealth comes with is slower than the x4 860k when it comes to games.

[CrippledROBOT]

21 minutes ago, charneski97 said:

I currently have a razer blade stealth with a razer core, as my main system when im at college, and I am getting some serious bottlenecking when im in games. I was wondering if it would be a good choice to  buy a x4 860k processor and fm2+ motherboard for ~$70, this is literally all I need (I have memory, case, psu, hdd, gpu). Not sure if the gaming experience would be better or worse. Thanks for the input.

Definitely save your money. As a current university student finishing his undergrad, my philosophy, even with some of the really nice gaming laptops these days, is to save up for both a desktop and a laptop. You can pick up a really solid portable machine for under $700 these days. If you spend $1300 or so on the desktop, you're at $2000 total; about how much a nice Razer Blade and Core will cost (or even more)! 

 

AMD is releasing some nice upgrades to their famed Ryzen platform. You could pick up a used Ryzen desktop system at that point. You could also pick up some of these new chips and build an entirely new system-- all in a very portable form factor!

 

I hope that helps!

 

[bimmerman]

Stick a book or something under one end of the laptop to raise it enough for air intake/exhaust to flow better. My laptops (non-Razers, FWIW) have always performed drastically better this way.

 

You're in college -- spend that money on either experiences, beer for experiences, or loan payments and school supplies. Don't spend it on hardware that you'll have forgotten about in two years.

[charneski97]

13 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

It's the processor. I'm going to assume OP has an older model with a dual core U series processor.

Yeah it's just a 7500u, bottlenecks pretty easily

[charneski97]

12 hours ago, bimmerman said:

Stick a book or something under one end of the laptop to raise it enough for air intake/exhaust to flow better. My laptops (non-Razers, FWIW) have always performed drastically better this way.

 

You're in college -- spend that money on either experiences, beer for experiences, or loan payments and school supplies. Don't spend it on hardware that you'll have forgotten about in two years.

It's not that it's overheating (which it is slightly), it's that it's only a dual core processor