Better to go with i5 or i7 for games?

[Mozart25]

you demonstrate your ignorance once again.

i3 and i5 are dual cores, i7 are quad cores with exception of 2 or 3 models. The differences however are far beyond the simple difference in clocks.

There's actually more than 2 or 3 (10, to be exact) Sandy Bridge mobile i7s with 2 cores and 4 threads.

2 cores (4 threads) cover the i3-2340UE thru the i7-2640M (29 models). 4 cores (8 threads) are ten i7-QM models and two Extreme i7-XM models.

This is not counting Sandy Bridge Pentium and Celeron models.

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge#Mobile_platform

 

[tyo07]

the difference between i3 and i5 isn't big IMO, i7 is different beast. I will pick i5 if I have the budget, sadly I don't so I pick i3 last year😛

 

[FunSurfer]

you demonstrate your ignorance once again.

i3 and i5 are dual cores, i7 are quad cores with exception of 2 or 3 models. The differences however are far beyond the simple difference in clocks.

So, to summarize all the posts, best laptop for games now will be 4-cores i7 with HT disabled in the bios, and when games will handle more than 5 threads - re-enable the HT.

 

[HEXiT]

+1^ i think the op has his answer now...

 

[AntiZig]

considering the OP last posted in this thread on 11/29, I think, it's far beyond that point now