Dell laptop choice

[rish83]

hi

I'm buying a dell laptop from the uk site and just wanted opinions on which to buy.
The two that im looking at are:

Assuming all else equal which is better (£50 price difference)?

1) i7-3632QM Processor (up to 3.20 GHz, 6M cache) with 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7730M.

2) i5-3230M Processor (3M Cache, up to 3.20 GHz) with nvidia gt 650m

just looking at overall performance with some basic gaming performance (midish for 2012 and older games) thrown in

 

[rish83]

Thanks for that, so does it mean an i5 combined with gt650m would perform virtually the same as an i7 with the 7730m?

i ask this as the card and processors seem to offset each other?

 

[rish83]

Well, I would choose i7 because it has better performance while using the same power. It also supports both turbo boost and hyperthreading, while i5 does not support hyperthreading (only turbo boost). And it is easyer to later upgrade GPU that CPU. There is not that much difference between those 2 graphic cards. AMD GPU also uses less power.

cool cheers for that, im going wit the i7 laptop