How Good is an Intel Core I5-4200m

[gamerguy319]

Hello I am juat wandering if and i5 4200m is powerful enough to decently play aby game

 

[Effeectt]

Nope, it can play minecraft and source based games fine. But since its a dual core clocked quite low, it won't be able to play any game. And this also depends on the GPU

 

[jaguarskx]

It should be able to handle any game. However, it also depends on what graphics chip the laptop has. For example, even if you were to have a desktop Core i7-4770k @ 5.0GHz paired up with a Radeon HD 6670 DDR3 graphics card you will find gaming performance to be... disappointing.

 

[gamerguy319]

The i5 wil be paired with a gt750m and im not necessarily looking to max the games i just want to be able to play them smoothly even if that means low settings

 

[jaguarskx]

The GTX 750m is a pretty good GPU. You can certainly play nearly any game with high settings at 1366x768 resolution excluding very graphically intensive games like Crysis 3 which you might have to play it at medium settings. For a 1600x900 resolution screen you should be able to play many games with medium settings. For a 1920x1080 screen you will most likely have to play most games with low graphic settings.

 

[jaguarskx]

Here's a link to for some GTX 750m benchmarks. Hover over the graphic settings "Low", "Med", etc... to find out the settings used which can be different for each game. "Low" for one game maybe 1024x720 resolution while for another game it might be 1366x768.

If there are multiple benchmark results then click on the benchmark FPS number to find out the laptop which got that FPS for the game you are looking at.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-750M.90245.0.html

 

[gamerguy319]

so do you think the i5 is a good match for the gpu

 

[jaguarskx]

Yeah. It has a stock speed of 2.5GHz and with Turbo Boost, it can reach 3.1GHz assuming the temps are not too high and only one core is used. The most powerful Haswell Core i5 that I know of is the i5-4330m which is 2.8GHz / 3.5GHz. I am pretty sure if there was an upgrade option from the i5-4200m to the i5-4330m it would be at least $200.

 

[jaguarskx]

Naturally a quad core i7 "QM" model like the i7-4700MQ at 2.4GHz / 3.4GHz would give you better performance in games that can make use of more than 2 cores. But again, it would add to the cost of the laptop.

 

[gamerguy319]

well im not exactly looking to break the bank, so would tue i5 4200m do fine with games though

 

[saint19]

That is a dual core CPU, yeah, it's four Intel generation but I'm pretty sure that you will have some problems with that CPU for run any recent game.

 

[jaguarskx]

It will be fine for games. The only game where a dual core Intel CPU performs poorly in is Crysis 3 with all eye candy maxed out.

 

[logainofhades]

That combo should do fine on low settings on any game out there. I have an i5 2430m and a GT 540m in my laptop. It plays WoW and D3 fine. I haven't really tried any other titles, though. I haven't really seen any games come out that really interest me.

 

[FunkyFeatures]

To get the best settings with less lag/framerape, you should try geforce experience. Helps me picking settings for my games, and does help.