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Hello guys! The two processors I'm thinking about are i5-5200U (Harshwell) vs i5-6200U (Skylake). So what are the major difference between these two processors or are there any? If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming would I be able to notice any difference in performance between the two processors? And how well would these two processors perform for this kind of laptop usage demand?
Clearly the Skylake, i5-6200U, runs on a 0,1 GHz higher base and turbo clock. However, on top of this small boost, how much more faster does the 6200U performe compared to the 5200U taking into consideration that it's 6th gen?
The difference in performance should be minimal.
But i would look for something else waaay more important: The 6 series model is more likely to have an m.2 slot(and yed you DO want one of those, as no pc nowadays should be without an SSD, adn the lack of an m.2 slot means you'll be replacing your HDD with an ssd and have to use the hhd externally or install it in the cdrom's place and what not.)
Really, i cant stress this enough, look for a laptop model taht has an m.2 slot.
The laptop's I'm looking at both have 2 hard drive slots and both have 1TB HDD and 128GB SSD so that shouldn't be the issue. I'm just thinking about the CPU that is it worth spending extra 50USD on the laptop with i5-6200 (skylake) if there is no actual change in performance
Oh, excellent. Spend the extra 50 for the newer platform on the one hand, but, more importantly, to avoid a discrete graphics card(yes, you read that right: lighter, more battery life, less stuff to go bad etc. Plus the utter uselessness, driver clutter etc.
That is, if the aren't any other differences worth mentioning like screen type and quality etc.
And what are your thoughts on how would the i5-6200U perform If I was using my laptop for daily online surfing, movie&video watching and light gaming. Is two cores with 2.3GHz and 2.8GHz turbo enough to achieve optimum performance? (+6gb RAM)
No problems whatsoever. It's a dual core, but it has hyperthreading, so , as far as the kind of work you are mentioning is concearned it's asif it had 4.
As a curiosity, what's the make and model. I'm always interested in dual drive or m.2 slot laptops.
EDIT: go for 8gigs of ram if you can. 6 may prove a little short in the future(or even now, depending on your browsing style. mind you, both firefox and chrome have 64-bit versions that can access more than 4 gigs. and, btw, you should be using those)