'Gaming' laptop comparison.

Juanoblan

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Good afternoon people i am here to ask for your help, i have a comparison 'gaming' laptops and i know they are not even near to a good gaming machine but thatsmy budget so if you have a better one and around that price feel free to tell me, but for the main question, which one is better?

1:
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-CX61-2QC-1654US-9S7-16GD51-1654-15-6-Inch/dp/B00VRKV7I6#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_secondary_view_div_1436885310327

2:
http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-572G-54S6-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B00MM2WA8O

Many thanks in advance guys.
 
Solution
The Core i5-4210u has a base clockspeed of 1.7GHz and a max turbo boost of 2.6GHz when only one core is used. The Core i5-4210m has a base clock speed of 2.6GHz and a max turbo boost speed of 3.2GHz when only one core is being used.

The nVidia 840m is definitely more powerful than the nVidia 920m. The nVidia 840m is very close to the performance of the nVidia 940m, which more or less performs slightly better than the nVidia 840m simply because the 940m has slightly higher clock speed. The performance of the nVidia 920m is between the 820m and the 825m.

While the MSI laptop has the more powerful CPU, it has the weaker GPU. Most games are limited by the GPU rather the the CPU. Therefore, the Acer laptop will provide better game performance.
Of the two there, the MSI should provide the best performance. The CPU is faster, 2.6GHz vs 1.7GHz which should be the deciding factor since the GT920 and GT840 graphics will perform near the same.
As you note, neither are really gamers. If able to stretch you budget at all I'll suggest looking at the MSI GP60 Leopard-1053 which sports a significantly better graphics card and should get you into more games (but it is ~$100 more).
 
The Core i5-4210u has a base clockspeed of 1.7GHz and a max turbo boost of 2.6GHz when only one core is used. The Core i5-4210m has a base clock speed of 2.6GHz and a max turbo boost speed of 3.2GHz when only one core is being used.

The nVidia 840m is definitely more powerful than the nVidia 920m. The nVidia 840m is very close to the performance of the nVidia 940m, which more or less performs slightly better than the nVidia 840m simply because the 940m has slightly higher clock speed. The performance of the nVidia 920m is between the 820m and the 825m.

While the MSI laptop has the more powerful CPU, it has the weaker GPU. Most games are limited by the GPU rather the the CPU. Therefore, the Acer laptop will provide better game performance.
 
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Juanoblan

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Thanks both of you guys for your response, i still have some doubts as if its better less CPU or GPU, what does having less CPU/GPU do. Because both of you have different opinions.
thanks.
 
I prefer Notebookcheck.net. They tend to have far more benchmarks (especially games). However, it is not always cut and dry since some laptops can have dual core CPUs while other can have quad core CPUs, so it is necessary to interpret the benchmarks. The GPUs are ranked in the center column of the page and based on the method Notebookcheck.net ranks the 920m, it is between the 820m and 825m.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-840M.105681.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-920M.138763.0.html



Here is a comparison of benchmarks between the 820m, 920m, 825m and 840m.

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