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Aug 2 2015 11:21pm

I am going to be purchasing a laptop within the week
will be using for mild /light gaming streaming and browsing poker d2 maybe skyrim etc
price range 600-850.

Two I've been looking at
http://www.walmart.com/ip/ASUS-Dark-Gray-15.6-N550JK-DS71T-Laptop-PC-with-Intel-Core-i7-4700HQ-Processor-8GB-Memory-Touchscreen-1TB-Hard-Drive-and-Windows-8.1/37239039

http://www.officedepot.com/mb/skupage.do?skuid=121040&fromLocalBrowse=false

Any advice? Thanks!

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Aug 3 2015 06:58am

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Aug 3 2015 08:25pm

The top one has a graphics card which will perform ok on games. the bottom does not, so definitely don't get that.
Are you opposed to buying online from newegg?

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Aug 3 2015 08:59pm

Quote (Rapture @ Aug 3 2015 07:25pm)

The top one has a graphics card which will perform ok on games. the bottom does not, so definitely don't get that.
Are you opposed to buying online from newegg?

Not at all. Im just ignorant on what to look for tbh

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Aug 3 2015 09:06pm

Quote (Truggers99 @ Aug 3 2015 10:59pm)
Not at all. Im just ignorant on what to look for tbh

Well any laptop will run d2 and very low games. But if you want to play skyrim or anything a little more serious you'll just want to look for the Graphics card.
As you can see in the top link, it has a Gtx 850m. The bottom linked one has just intel HD 4600.

This has a 950m and a 128gb SSD, 1tb hdd
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232576

If you want to look at the performance of any GPU you can look it up on notebookcheck, but here is the 950m
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-950M.138026.0.html
Scroll down, it will show you the frames it gets in games.

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