I am thinking of buying a laptop for university work and some gaming. I preferably want to spend around £700 or less - I know this won't buy me much, but I want to see what I can do with that amount.
At the moment, I'm looking at a laptop with the GT 650M (2gb ddr3). I've heard that this is roughly the bare minimum you can use for a gaming laptop. I'd use it with 8gb of RAM and a 2.6 or 2.7 GHz CPU (dual core, i5 3230M or 3340M). I also have the choice of choosing a quad core i7 (3630QM, 2.4 Ghz), but I'm not going for it because I've heard: a) hyper-threading is not widely used in games as of yet, b) the 650M will bottleneck it anyway and c) it's more expensive.
Assuming that I can't upgrade the GPU, my questions are:
1) What sort of games could I play with this, and at what graphics settings?
2) Would the fact that the card is ddr3 mean that it could never fully utilise its 2gb? Apologies if I'm completely mistaken with this.
3) Am I right in thinking that there is no point in using a quad-core i7 processor with such a weak GPU?
Any help would be much appreciated.
At the moment, I'm looking at a laptop with the GT 650M (2gb ddr3). I've heard that this is roughly the bare minimum you can use for a gaming laptop. I'd use it with 8gb of RAM and a 2.6 or 2.7 GHz CPU (dual core, i5 3230M or 3340M). I also have the choice of choosing a quad core i7 (3630QM, 2.4 Ghz), but I'm not going for it because I've heard: a) hyper-threading is not widely used in games as of yet, b) the 650M will bottleneck it anyway and c) it's more expensive.
Assuming that I can't upgrade the GPU, my questions are:
1) What sort of games could I play with this, and at what graphics settings?
2) Would the fact that the card is ddr3 mean that it could never fully utilise its 2gb? Apologies if I'm completely mistaken with this.
3) Am I right in thinking that there is no point in using a quad-core i7 processor with such a weak GPU?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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