Confused with processor options. 2nd gen vs 4th gen vs 5th gen

[MySeaGateIsDown]

I was using a 2nd gen intel i7 2630 QM previously until my laptop HDD died. Now thinking about buying a new laptop. Confused by the options.

Here is my other two 4th gen and 5th gen processors. Suggest me the best processor out of the 4th and 5th gen for gaming (mostly GTA V and BF4) and CAD designing. I have fixed on the graphics card. It will be 2 gigs of GeForce 840M with 8 gigs of RAM.

 

[gamerk316]

The difference between a 4th gen and 5th gen Intel CPU of the same equivalent model/speed is about 10%. So it probably isn't worth a price premium of more then a few dollars. If the price is significantly (>$20), go with whichever is cheaper.

 

[Brunostako]

Both the 4th and 5th gen CPUs perform almost exactly the same. Actually, your old 2nd gen i7 is faster than any of those two. The main difference is power consumption, the new ones are more power efficient.

Just for modernity, i suggest the 5th gen laptop. But if the 4th gen one has better features like more ports, better cooling or stuff like that, take that one.

 

[MySeaGateIsDown]

The difference between a 4th gen and 5th gen Intel CPU of the same equivalent model/speed is about 10%. So it probably isn't worth a price premium of more then a few dollars. If the price is significantly (>$20), go with whichever is cheaper.

Okay.. How about the 2nd gen quad core in the comparison? http://ark.intel.com/compare/85214,52219,81015 Shall I still go for a 4th or 5th gen?

 

[MySeaGateIsDown]

Actually, your old 2nd gen i7 is faster than any of those two.

Could you give me an approximate answer for "how fast?" Cuz, I have seen the benchmarks, but still can't decide. I am looking for dell laptops in India. Unfortunately, there are no quad cores here. XPS is phased out too. So cud you tell me how fast the quad processor is compared to the 5th gen. Will it affect my gaming experience and CAD (CATIA) usage?

 

[4Ryan6]

I was using a 2nd gen intel i7 2630 QM previously until my laptop HDD died. Now thinking about buying a new laptop. Confused by the options.

Here is my other two 4th gen and 5th gen processors. Suggest me the best processor out of the 4th and 5th gen for gaming (mostly GTA V and BF4) and CAD designing. I have fixed on the graphics card. It will be 2 gigs of GeForce 840M with 8 gigs of RAM.

Sounds like a new hardrive is what's really needed, and since you'll end up doing a scratch installation anyway an SSD would be the thing I would do, that would give you great performance at much lower cost than buying a new laptop and probably learning a new operating system.

 

[MySeaGateIsDown]

I was using a 2nd gen intel i7 2630 QM previously until my laptop HDD died. Now thinking about buying a new laptop. Confused by the options.

Here is my other two 4th gen and 5th gen processors. Suggest me the best processor out of the 4th and 5th gen for gaming (mostly GTA V and BF4) and CAD designing. I have fixed on the graphics card. It will be 2 gigs of GeForce 840M with 8 gigs of RAM.

Sounds like a new hardrive is what's really needed, and since you'll end up doing a scratch installation anyway an SSD would be the thing I would do, that would give you great performance at much lower cost than buying a new laptop and probably learning a new operating system.

Actually, the machine is 5 years old and suffering from overheating issues... I'm thinking of keeping this laptop too, as a backup one. I just wanna know if the laptop what I am about to buy is better than the one I am having.

 

[4Ryan6]

Most laptop overheating issues are simply because they need to have the dust cleaned out of them, 5 years can accumulate a lot of dust and dust blocks up the airflow, upgrading one to an SSD HDD can bring back better snappiness than it ever was new with an old mechanical HDD.

However one serious issue is did the laptop come with it's own operating system installation disk?

Or was the OP/SYS restore on the HDD that is now kuput?

Of course a new laptop today is going to be faster than a 5 year old one!

 

[Brunostako]

I was using a 2nd gen intel i7 2630 QM previously until my laptop HDD died. Now thinking about buying a new laptop. Confused by the options.

Here is my other two 4th gen and 5th gen processors. Suggest me the best processor out of the 4th and 5th gen for gaming (mostly GTA V and BF4) and CAD designing. I have fixed on the graphics card. It will be 2 gigs of GeForce 840M with 8 gigs of RAM.

Sounds like a new hardrive is what's really needed, and since you'll end up doing a scratch installation anyway an SSD would be the thing I would do, that would give you great performance at much lower cost than buying a new laptop and probably learning a new operating system.

Actually, the machine is 5 years old and suffering from overheating issues... I'm thinking of keeping this laptop too, as a backup one. I just wanna know if the laptop what I am about to buy is better than the one I am having.

I thought your 2nd gen i7 laptop died. If you're just experiencing overheating, look for a trusty computer technician or a friend that knows of that, tell them to open it, fully clean it and replace the thermal compound of the CPU (and dGPU if any) with a good quality one.

That's it.

Also buy a SSD. That old laptop will be good for at least another 2 years.

 

[velo3100]

The 4th gen is the best out of the 3 as far as I can see. The 5th gen is focused on saving power rather than performance. The 2 gen has the advantage of more cores as it is an m cpu rather than a u cpu.

But this does not make that much of a difference in games. The gpu is the most important thing while gaming.