Help me choose

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

Just broke my laptop, so buying a new one.

I've finalized my choices to 2 laptops.

 

Option one:

HP Pavillion 15-511 TX.

8 GB ram.

Intel i3 6006u (2ghz)

Graphics Card:  AMD radeon r5 m430.

 

Option two:

HP pavillion 14 AM081TU

4 GB ram

Intel i5 6200 (2.3 ghz)

(Integrated Graphics)

 

 

Which one would give me better performance? I use my laptop for only some Tanki, youtube, general internet browsing, a bit of programming.

 

Which one would be better?

[Tofu 6,773]

The more expensive one :3

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

The more expensive one :3

Cost is not the problem here. Though the first one is more expensive.

[Tofu 6,773]

Cost is not the problem here. Though the first one is more expensive.

Rich boi

 

I say go for the first one as it has more RAM

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

Rich boi

 

I say go for the first one as it has more RAM

RAM is not everything boi.\

The second one has i5 :X

[r_GaIaxy2 8,611]

You aren't looking to do anything that would require plenty of ram or a decent processor, so I think the 2nd one should be good enough. 

[Ninja 10,468]

The second one is much better, an i5 which is marginally more powerful than an i3 and the GPU is 30% faster in benchmarks since the m430 is pretty bad. The only sacrifice is 4gigs of ram which shouldn't make much difference considering the 8gigs would be bottlenecked by the i3 anyway.

 

Anyhow, the ram is upgradable should u need more: http://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c00820047

Edited April 1, 2017 by Ninja

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

You aren't looking to do anything that would require plenty of ram or a decent processor, so I think the 2nd one should be good enough. 

 

 

The second one is much better, an i5 which is marginally more powerful than an i3 and the GPU is 30% faster in benchmarks since the m430 is pretty bad. The only sacrifice is 4gigs of ram which shouldn't make much difference considering the 8gigs would be bottlenecked by the i3 anyway.

 

Anyhow, the ram is upgradable should u need more: http://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c00820047

Thanks  :rolleyes:

Lux, how is a processor supposed to bottleneck ram? 

[Ninja 10,468]

Lux, how is a processor supposed to bottleneck ram? 

It doesn't directly bottleneck it, for example, an operation which would use but not require 8Gigs would overload the processor.

 

3D rendering is a good example, most programs will optimise the rendering process for the amount of RAM available, though if the program used all the RAM the CPU would be overloaded causing other issues.

 

Theoretically this means your 8Gigs of RAM would NEVER be used, even in large multicore workloads, that certainly the case in my laptop.

[personia 4,036]

Probs the second one tbh.

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

Thanks. I'm ordering the second one tonight. Moderators you may close this topic.  :)

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

You do nothing, that requires a lot of performance.

The cheaper one should do fine.

[sid262 283]

lol ...never buy hp its top n bottopm keys too small to play tanki 

[sid262 283]

n buy i5 if u have money....

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

lol ...never buy hp its top n bottopm keys too small to play tanki

hahaha xD

"normal" sized arrow keys were a main requirement for my laptop as well :P

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

hahaha xD

"normal" sized arrow keys were a main requirement for my laptop as well :P

Yes, I considered that. The laptop I'm ordering does have a numpad. I can replace arrow keys with numpad by changing the controls.

[DonCarnage 1,270]

I wouldn't know. To me, both of those computers would be a step up. But, because you can often add RAM later, but not CPU speed, without thinking hard, I might lean towards the second option.

 

Thanks. I'm ordering the second one tonight. Moderators you may close this topic.  :)

Because you asked us to close the topic, based on people's expressed opinion, we have closed the topic.