Recent content by Phaaze88

You could try contacting support, but they may not be of much help, depending on your luck. I wouldn't recommend swapping with that cpu, because the 2860qm is a true quad core, while your current is a dual core. The quad will draw more power, as well as put out more heat - heat that the current...

Step up to an I7 setup. All those games you mentioned will pretty much max out that I5...

It'll run... but the performance won't be stellar. You'll also want to replace that hdd with an ssd. The hdd that comes with it is slow; boot and load times are long on it. A gaming laptop under 500 doesn't really exist unless you can get it used. You'll need to increase the budget a couple...