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Low budget laptop

Steve Skills

Estimable
Oct 4, 2014
3
0
4,510
Toshiba C55-A-1H1
Intel® Core™ i3-3110M 2.40GHz,
4GB,
nVidia GeForce 710M 2GB,

vs

Lenovo IdeaPad B50-45
AMD Quad Core A6-6310 2.40GHz,
4GB,
AMD Radeon R5 M230 2GB

vs

Lenovo IdeaPad G505S
AMD Quad Core A8-4500M 1.90GHz,
4GB
AMD Radeon HD 8570M 2GB

Which one would do any decent in gaming? I am thinking about games like GTA 4 and those that appear so far with decent fps. The Lenovo has a really good price because of a dead pixel. Still comes with 2 years warranty, the dead pixel is in the top-middle of the screen (red). Is that dead pixel very bothering, or you can live with it?
 
All are pretty much the same unless the third one works as dual graphics with the integrated GPU. Otherwise the third system and last but not least the first option
 


The last one is the one with dead pixel (the G505S).
Should I get the B50-45 then? That one is not on sale but has very similar price (right between the toshiba and the G505S).
Toshiba is 445 USD, B50-45 is 415 USD and the G505S with the dead pixel is 385 USD. Which one should I consider buying in this conditions? I cannot tell if the third one works with the integrated GPU as dual graphics.



 


I just checked online and the A8-4500M's integrated GPU is the HD 7640G so no you can't dual. I think the middle one is the best because the CPU is about the same as the G505S and the GPU performs better than any of the 3