Torn between three laptops - Primary use will be World of Warcraft. Right now she has a Compaq that's a couple of years old with integrated intel graphics (blegh). She gets around 8-17 FPS in WG on low settings. I don't imagine Cataclysm will be doing her any favours.
Screen size would be ideal at 17 inches but I'm sure she'd be perfectly happy with 15. So resolution isn't too big of an issue and none of those laptops have a 17 inch screen anyways.
She'll want to game at high/ultra settings on World of Warcraft and knowing her, she may want to dabble with the Sims or Starcraft 2.
I saw Benchmarks but they're too close to really tell and I really feel it comes down to CPU performance now and what would end up being better in the long run when combinging the cpu and gpu.
I'm looking at the following:
ASUS N52DA-X1 AMD Phenom II Quad-Core P920(1.6GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 NoteBook - 779.00
HP Pavilion dv6-3143us Intel Core i3 370M(2.40GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 + Intel HD NoteBook - 799.99
ASUS G Series G60VX-RBBX05 Intel Core 2 Duo P7450(2.13GHz) 16" 4GB Memory 320GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M NoteBook - 654.99
I saw an Acer Aspire with a 5650 in it for around 679 or so, but reviews said it suffers from a few issues.
I'm torn though. I know the GTX 260M is a better GPU but the CPU specs on the others are more current - Not sure about nicer as I don't know much about the P920 performance.
Anyone have experience with these GPUs and are able to tell me what kind of frame rate my wife could expect?
Thanks for all the help in advance.
Screen size would be ideal at 17 inches but I'm sure she'd be perfectly happy with 15. So resolution isn't too big of an issue and none of those laptops have a 17 inch screen anyways.
She'll want to game at high/ultra settings on World of Warcraft and knowing her, she may want to dabble with the Sims or Starcraft 2.
I saw Benchmarks but they're too close to really tell and I really feel it comes down to CPU performance now and what would end up being better in the long run when combinging the cpu and gpu.
I'm looking at the following:
ASUS N52DA-X1 AMD Phenom II Quad-Core P920(1.6GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5730 NoteBook - 779.00
HP Pavilion dv6-3143us Intel Core i3 370M(2.40GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 500GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 + Intel HD NoteBook - 799.99
ASUS G Series G60VX-RBBX05 Intel Core 2 Duo P7450(2.13GHz) 16" 4GB Memory 320GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M NoteBook - 654.99
I saw an Acer Aspire with a 5650 in it for around 679 or so, but reviews said it suffers from a few issues.
I'm torn though. I know the GTX 260M is a better GPU but the CPU specs on the others are more current - Not sure about nicer as I don't know much about the P920 performance.
Anyone have experience with these GPUs and are able to tell me what kind of frame rate my wife could expect?
Thanks for all the help in advance.