Help Mussels find a laptop!

HalfAHertz · Jan 2, 2012

According to notebookcheck.com you'd need at least a 6490 to match the 520. Btw from what I've read nvidia's optimus solutions sound really well if you value battery life.

Norton · Jan 2, 2012

The site below has some pretty good info on laptops, reviews, mobile GPU's, etc...

Link:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-520M.43104.0.html

Mussels · Jan 2, 2012

Norton said:
The site below has some pretty good info on laptops, reviews, mobile GPU's, etc...

Link:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-520M.43104.0.html

well well welll...

looks like a low/medium mix will work great.

HammerON · Jan 2, 2012

Mussels said:
i think the 520 is slower than the 420, half the memory bus or something like that.

hows the mobile drivers? do we still need to do .inf modding?

I have had no problems updating gpu drivers. Only upgraded once a couple months ago when I was out of town and wanted to play BF3.

The optimus feature does work pretty well as far as I can tell.

Steevo · Jan 2, 2012

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4444/amd-llano-notebook-review-a-series-fusion-apu-a8-3500m/11

entropy13 · Jan 2, 2012

You should go with Nvidia. The low entry GPUs don't have much of an advantage in raw performance apparently over the Intel HD 3000. It actually boils down on how good the drivers are.

cdawall · Jan 2, 2012

Asus K53TA, A53TA or K43TA

15.6" pr 14.1" with an AMD A6 with a dedicated HD6650

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

update, and i'd like opinions fast!

harveys given me a choice to change laptops i'm getting, and price matched. i have about an hour to make the decision.

http://www.harveynorman.com.au/acer-aspire-as5750g-2434g64mnkk-laptop.html (4 week wait)

http://www.harveynorman.com.au/hp-pavilion-g6-1206ax-laptop.html (in stock)

price is matched to $508 i think, unsure how if price matching the $80 cashback deal.

opinions? the HP one is coming with 8GB of ram, but has a 10-15% slower video card (but a quad core vs intel dual w/ HT)

xBruce88x · Jan 12, 2012

according to notebookcheck.net, the amd gpu seems to be a little faster (with an i5) what model i5 is in the other laptop? (link isn't working)

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-520M.43104.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6470M.43075.0.html

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

first ones i5 430, they killed the link.

xBruce88x · Jan 12, 2012

from a glance... the i5 seems to be much faster.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A6-3400M-Notebook-Processor.55753.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i5-430M-Notebook-Processor.23750.0.html

edit: and both have the same TDP rating of 35w

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

ehhh shit you're right. i was about to say yes to the AMD system.

thing is, its a 4 week wait for the i5 model, and i go on holidays in 2 weeks.

edit: ahh its single threaded performance it gets owned, multi threaded things even out. so its not as bad as it first seems.

xBruce88x · Jan 12, 2012

... ouch that does suck. how long do you have to return it to them? (im thinking get the amd now, then return it when you get back and go for the i5 lol)

edit: i guess you could go for the amd if your not worried about single threaded stuffs

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

xBruce88x said:
... ouch that does suck. how long do you have to return it to them? (im thinking get the amd now, then return it when you get back and go for the i5 lol)

edit: i guess you could go for the amd if your not worried about single threaded stuffs

i intend to use it as a HTPC (via HDMI to HDTV) and playing starcraft II on low/medium. i think the AMD setup will do that, but laptop hardware aint my specialty.

xBruce88x · Jan 12, 2012

both systems seem pretty well capable of running sc2 (and as an HTPC) on med... but the base clock of 1.4ghz for the amd cpu makes me wonder about performance when things start to heat up in the game.

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

xBruce88x said:
both systems seem pretty well capable of running sc2 (and as an HTPC) on med... but the base clock of 1.4ghz for the amd cpu makes me wonder about performance when things start to heat up in the game.

2300Mhz in turbo mode, and i'm sure i can mess with that via software to lock it to dual core at 2.3

edit: they're holding the AMD one for me in stock now, but i've got a week now to come up with the money or change my mind. gunna haggle and get extended warranty for free if i can.

thanks for the help, leaving for work now.

Darkgundam111 · Jan 12, 2012

the acer one i can vouch for the 520 and 540s overclock well. get quite a nice boost from it. and if you get the one with an i5 it'd be pretty sweet. its also great for saving power too.

xBruce88x · Jan 12, 2012

i can't seem to find a decent review with that same cpu + gpu combo. the gpu is def. enough though. well time to get some sleep... if my memory lets me i'll continue searching tomorrow

R_1 · Jan 12, 2012

Some advice, go to a shop, where they have those notebooks on display and look for the screen quality. Some of them have washed colors and narrow viewing angles. Also text readability varies wildly, cause of display sharpness. The most annoying thing to me was choosing Asus notebook , based on specs and when it arrives and I opened it the screen had terrible quality, compared to what I already got - a superb MSI one.

mrsdnf · Jan 12, 2012

Bought a 15.6'' HP from Centrecom before xmas for about $800 with hdmi 6770 graphics and quad core. Will try to find a link and post it.

mrsdnf · Jan 12, 2012

Didnt take as long as i thought to find it. I have not used it personally but was a present.
http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/qc368pa-pavilion-6145tx-qc368pa-p-53518.html?sort=2a

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

damn that HP is beefy, but $800 breaks the budget

i can get the AMD one i mentioned for $580, to put the price into context.

what i was thinking is that i can always OC the GPU, and it wont be impossible to upgrade or OC the CPU later (at the very least, i already know how to lock the CPU cores into turbo mode)

Red_Machine · Jan 12, 2012

Have you thought about the Alienware M11x? Mine is awesome. Got it on clearance for £500.

Mussels · Jan 12, 2012

Red_Machine said:
Have you thought about the Alienware M11x? Mine is awesome. Got it on clearance for £500.

thats about triple the price.

Red_Machine · Jan 12, 2012

Hmm? Triple? How do you mean?

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