So I'm due for a laptop refresh, and I've been looking at an acer e5-573g on newegg. It has a 5th gen i5, GT 940m and 8gigs of ram. For 470 bucks it's a great deal, but I live in Sri Lanka, And its gonna cost me exactly 600 dollars to get it from newegg via a middle man. This isn't exactly the deal of the century but it's still the most cost effective option I have.
I only need this by September, when my exams are over, and my primary priority is GAMING. I was wondering what the bottleneck would be in this system, the core i5 or the gt940m. If it's the core i5, should I wait for skylake? Would skylake laptops be hitting the shelves around September or by October at the very latest?
I intend to play new demanding games that are coming out over the next couple of years, albeit at 720p with shitty quality and at like 20fps even. So getting maximum performance out of this is very important.
What should I do? Also how much of a performance improvement would skylake give me?
And I'm also wondering if a 4th gen i5 and GT 840m combination would be better for gaming. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I only need this by September, when my exams are over, and my primary priority is GAMING. I was wondering what the bottleneck would be in this system, the core i5 or the gt940m. If it's the core i5, should I wait for skylake? Would skylake laptops be hitting the shelves around September or by October at the very latest?
I intend to play new demanding games that are coming out over the next couple of years, albeit at 720p with shitty quality and at like 20fps even. So getting maximum performance out of this is very important.
What should I do? Also how much of a performance improvement would skylake give me?
And I'm also wondering if a 4th gen i5 and GT 840m combination would be better for gaming. Any help would be greatly appreciated.