Dual vs. Quad Core

[carl hall]

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)

 

[carl hall]

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

 

[carl hall]

Read here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-a8-3850-llano,2975-2.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.

Smart guy, the sales team has confirmed that the A8 has the HD 6650M (2gb) and not the HD 6740, in your opinion how is this 6650 (2gb), for "OK" gaming, compare that to Acer 5755G i5 with GT630 M (1gb)

 

[13thmonkey]

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/gaming-graphics-card-review,review-32374-7.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.

 

[carl hall]

Best answer selected by carl hall.