Which is a better choive?

[anarki417]

which is a better choice for around $650?

MSI EX460 w/ C2D T6600, ATI HD4330, 4GB RAM
or
ASUS K40AD-VX w/ Athlon II M300X2, ATI HD4570, 4GB RAM?

Thanks....

 

[frozenlead]

What are you going to use it for?

 

[anarki417]

casual gaming mostly RTS games, med settings is ok for me.....
HD4330<<HD4570, but the Athlon II M300 is a fairly new procie w/ not so many reviews....
i'm currently using a MSI EX401 w C2D T6400, HD3430, which i'm planning to sell, my budget falls between the two mentioned above or the ASUS K40IN w/ C2D T6500, 4GB RAM, GF G102M, but GF G102M<HD4330<HD4570...
i know games now are mostly GPU dependent so i'm leaning towards the ASUS K40AD-VX, but i worry about the AMD procie....

Thanks....

 

[ewood]

Do you already have all the other components? Like a power supply, dvd drive, hard drive, case monitor and an operating system?

Even for casual gaming on medium settings i would go for something along the lines of a 4850. It will last much much longer performance wise and wont break the bank.

Let us know what components you have and which one you need and we will go from there.

 

[frozenlead]

...this is the notebook forum, ewood...


Anyway, from this benchmark, the Athlon seems to be decently weaker than the T6600:
http/www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+II+Dual-Core+M300

The 4570 is significantly more powerful than the 4330, however:
http/www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

I think you should go with the stronger GPU. The Athlon seems to be on par with a T4200, which I've seen game decently at low settings.

 

[captaincharisma]

yea i have been hearing that for a long time too that AMD's mobile CPU's don't even come close to Intel CPU's in performance. but kudos to those 2 laptops man i too would stay away from the likes of Dell and HP.

 

[anarki417]

@frozen
thanks....


That's what i worry, the procie but if it were the Turion II M540 i've read good reviews about it performance-wise. then i found this Acer Aspire AS4740G-334G50Mn w/ core i3-330m and GF 310M gpu, but only 2gb DDR3 RAM, but you can upgrade it to 4GB though...
now i've got another choice, darn this... 😱