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Laptop Purchase: MSI GE70 vs ASUS N550JK vs ASUS N551JM

MrVasarovsky

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May 23, 2014
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Hi, I'm looking for a laptop with a decent screen quality, but which not lacks in performance as well, since it'll be mostly for gaming.

I have the following options in my 900 EUR budget. Could you please give a detailed suggestion regarding the better model?

1) MSI GE70 APACHE / 930 eur / i5-4210H / GTX 850M 2GB GDDR5 / TFT
2) ASUS N550JK / 890 eur / i7-4710HQ / GTX 850 4gb GDDR3 / IPS
3) Asus N551JM-V2G-CN081 / 880 EUR / i7-4710HQ / GTX 860 2gb / IPS
4) MSI GE70 2OE-091XPL / 860 EUR / i5-4200M / GTX 765M 2gb / TFT
5) MSI GE70-2PE-070XPL / 870 EUR / i5-4200H / GTX 860 2 gb / TFT
 


Might a 2 gb on a video card be a problem for gaming?
 
You will have issues with the actual power of the GPU before you have issues with the amount of video RAM, as the GPU will not be able to make use of more than 2GB.