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Deciding between these two laptops or recommend any better?

Viharlovag

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Aug 28, 2016
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Hello there!

I'm in the process of looking for a laptop which I'll need for my studies and for gaming. I stumbled upon 2 ASUS notebooks which have differences that I can't decide between.

The differences between them are the following: one of them has an i7 6700HQ, 8 gigs of DDR4, GTX 950M (GDDR5 variant) with 4 gigs and a 1366x768 display and it has a price of roughly 740 USD (converted from HUF, that's why 'roughly') and the other has an i5 6300HQ, also 8 gigs of DDR4, but a GTX 960M 4 gigs with a 1080p screen and some RoG eyecandy for about 820 USD.

Any thoughts?
 
Solution
there aren't many infos/reviews about gl553vw
this is a review for the x550vx
http://laptopmedia.com/review/asus-x550vx-k550vx-review-gaming-on-a-budget/


could you write the exact model? apps?
 
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ASUS ROG GL553VW-FY147D and ASUS X550VX-XX072D. As for the second one, yes, it has only 4 gigs of memory as standard but I counted the memory upgrade into the price which I wrote.

 
there aren't many infos/reviews about gl553vw
this is a review for the x550vx
http://laptopmedia.com/review/asus-x550vx-k550vx-review-gaming-on-a-budget/
 
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MERGED QUESTION
Question from Viharlovag : "Deciding between these three laptops"

Hello everyone!

I've recently asked a question about two laptops but now I'd like your opinion on which laptop is the best out of this three.

My candidates are:
- ASUS ROG GL553VW-FY147D
- ASUS X550VX-XX072D
- ASUS N551JW-CN212H

I've heard that the first two models have inferior build quality but the third one has a weaker CPU than the first two. What do you think?