Gaming Laptop using Dual Core i5

[Rune Knight]

My last laptop pretty much just bit the dust here in the last few days and I've started looking around at laptops. I'm not willing to spend too much, but I found the following setup for a decent price. Should this run most modern games on at least medium settings (not looking for ultra or even high really)?

Built on MSI MS 1756

Display

17.3" 16:9 Full HD (1920x1080) Matte or Glossy LED backlit LCD

Video Graphics & Memory

nVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M w/2GB GDDR5

Processor & Chipset

Intel Core i5-3230M (2.6~3.2GHz) w/3M L3 Cache - 2 Cores - 4 Threads
Mobile Intel® HM76

Operating System

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium

Main Memory

4GB DDR3 1600MHz SO-DIMM

Hard Drives

60GB Kingston SSDNow Solid State Drive

 

[X79]

Well gaming laptops are quite expensive. So if you can, get a
desktop.

That said, maybe it's worth it waiting a bit until Nvidia releases their
new 700 series GPUs. That might lower the prices for you a little.
A GT 650M isn't worth much. But again, it depends on what you're
going to or wanting to play.

Also, i5 processors are Quad core.

Furthermore, 60GB storage won't serve you well...

 

[elemein]

Well gaming laptops are quite expensive. So if you can, get a
desktop.

That said, maybe it's worth it waiting a bit until Nvidia releases their
new 700 series GPUs. That might lower the prices for you a little.
A GT 650M isn't worth much. But again, it depends on what you're
going to or wanting to play.

Also, i5 processors are Quad core.

Furthermore, 60GB storage won't serve you well...

What?

I know you mean well, but if you don't know, don't post.

Mobile i5's are dual core and hyperthreaded. All of em.

That CPU and GPU is good for about high settings BF3, and some other games maxed out like the Codemasters games. If you are wanting to max out higher end games like Crysis 3 however-- that wont happen with this laptop.

 

[X79]

My bad on that one. Thank you for correcting me.

 

[Rune Knight]

Well gaming laptops are quite expensive. So if you can, get a
desktop.

That said, maybe it's worth it waiting a bit until Nvidia releases their
new 700 series GPUs. That might lower the prices for you a little.
A GT 650M isn't worth much. But again, it depends on what you're
going to or wanting to play.

Also, i5 processors are Quad core.

Furthermore, 60GB storage won't serve you well...

What?

I know you mean well, but if you don't know, don't post.

Mobile i5's are dual core and hyperthreaded. All of em.

That CPU and GPU is good for about high settings BF3, and some other games maxed out like the Codemasters games. If you are wanting to max out higher end games like Crysis 3 however-- that wont happen with this laptop.

I'm definitely not looking to max out any games. I've always been happy just playing on medium settings, graphics has never been too important.

 

[Raj Ron]

Hi... as far as i know the ivy bridge's i5s has near identical GPU frequencies (650-1250Mhz) compare to i7s(650-1350Mhz). So the is no much difference in gpu performance compared to i7, but of course i7 has a much more processing power and cores than i5s but still games dont depend on cores. If can buy higher clock processor where it is the only way to make i5 faster. The Msi's i5-3230M is good enough with 650-1200Mhz Gpu clock.

Another thing is off course the dedicated gpu. Gt 650M will gasp abit for newer games but if u prefer in medium settings than that should be good. If u want more gpu power, try to get gtx 660M or equivalent amd gpu or higher.

Correct me if i am wrong....

some of i5 Laptops tht at least with dedicated GPU :
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Toshiba_STP_L870_I5-3230M-4-500-17.3-DVDSM-W8_PSKFPE-00F00MEN/version.asp

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Acer_TravelMate_P253_Core_i5_Windows_7_Pro_Laptop__NX.V8AEK.002/version.asp

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/HP_EliteBook_8470w_14_Core_i5_Windows_7_Pro_Laptop__B5W63ET/version.asp

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-C-Series-CX61-0OL-696US-Core-i5-2-6GHz-6GB-Memory-/130995462390?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item1e7ff020f6

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MSI-CX61-0NF-59US-15-6-Notebook-9S7-16GB11-459-i5-3230M-6G-750G-GT645-BT-W8-/151029946158?pt=Laptops_Nov05&hash=item232a16172e