Laptop Advice!

colmbob

cant decide between these 2 laptops
gimme your thoughts
it'll be mainly for gaming

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfullat.asp?productcode=MME865Q476#spec

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfullat.asp?productcode=ECE1741658#spec

thanks in advance:)

cherryghost

its a fairly low clocked quad core with a decent graphics card in it

while the 2nd one is a decent core 2 with an good graphics card in it. you'd get a much better performance bang for buck with the 2.53ghz core 2 and 4650 combination, but you can get better laptops for identical prices elsewhere.

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/MSI_GT627-246UK_Quad_Core_Laptop_GT627-246UK/version.asp?PID=1021

there is a much better graphics card in this baby, but maybe you want to do some searching on your own?


Heres a compilation of all graphics chips in laptops, rated from the top down. Just a word of advice. The quads are lowly clocked but there would be a slight improvement in games that take significant advantage of the 4 cores, but a lot of modern games dont utilize the quad to its full potential.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Graphic-Cards.130.0.html

colmbob

thanks for the recommendation, but for a stupid company reason i can only pay by cheque which elara.ie take.

Also on the 2nd elara laptop, do you know if i could i could upgrade to ddr3 1066mhz from ddr2 800mhz, or how do i find out if it's compatible?