[Solved] Dual vs. Quad Core

Hello
Want to buy a gaming laptop for extreme gaming. All things being equal like the price, the ram, the size etc, confussed on which to get:
1) i5 Dual core vs Quad core (e.g i5 Acer Aspire 5750G vs AMD Quad core Acer Aspire 5560G)
2) NIVIDIA GT 520 (1 gb) vs Intel HG 3000 (up to 1.2)

neither of those two graphics options are for gaming, and certainly not for extreme gaming.
Read toms recent article on 580 Vs 580M and you might start to understand what gaming cards are like. You'll need at least $1500 for a gaming laptop, more for extreme gaming.
Unless you mean gaming whilst upside down on a cliff.

If you want gaming and laptop combined you're gonna have to shell out. Otherwise go desktop gaming and go basic word processing on the laptop.

The 520 is dead SLOW.

http://www.geforce.com/Hardware/GP [...] erformance

That AMD setup has about twice the graphics performance.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-R [...] 275.0.html

not very computer literate, what would be an A8 then

For $800 use $500 on a gaming desktop and $300 on a laptop if you need one.

Intel HG 3000 (up to 1.2)

That won't even game at all .. well minesweeper might be ok.

guys - thanx. I was going to make a big mistake.

Look at certain models. Higher # model= better. Come back here when you have decided on a laptop.

look at this: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gami [...] 374-7.html
This will give you an idea as to what is better than what, ignore shaders etc.. unless it is from the same family, between manufacturers there is no comparison.

Ok, back to choices, which would you go for (all things equal - budget is £580{$800} in terms of gaming:
1) Lenovo ideapad Z575, A8 3500 Quad 1.5-2.4ghz, 8gb, Radeon HD 6650 (2gb)
2) Lenovo " " " " , Radeon HD 6740 (1gb)
3) Asus K53sc, i5 2430M, 2.4ghz, 4gb, , Nvidia GT 520 MX (1gb)

check the llano articles, as the inbuilt can work with anothr GPU but only upto a certain level, i've got a feeling that the 66XX is that level, so the 66XX would be hybrid crossfired with the A8, but the 67XX would not be.

Read here: http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 975-2.html

As I thought you can't hybrid a 67XX with an A8, but you can hybrid a 66XX with an A8. You'll have to make up your own mind.

I have to be mobile, no choice there. i neeed the laptop now and maybe later can build up a desktop

I do not know about the 630M, in fact I wasn't aware that any 6XX parts had been released.
I'm assuming that there is no variant with dsicrete graphics and an A8?

loking at : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/gami [...] 374-7.html
again, if the 630M is like the 530M (which it probably is) then the 66XXM's are 5-6 levels up in the hierarchy.