Is The Core i7-740QM Good For Gaming?

[ModMaster1558]

Im getting A Decently Priced Laptop And thats The Best Processor I can get and an ATi Mobile Radeon 5470 1GB But Anyway is this processor Good for Gaming?

[Illiad86]

Holy crap lol, it better be at $289 :P http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819111018&cm_re=Core_i7-740QM-_-19-111-018-_-Product mobile processors...*sigh*so expensive.

 

But, it's only 1.73GHz...sheesh, I didn't know they made them that slow anymore :confused: Many games these days use as much CPU as they do GPU. I'd suggest a CPU in the 2.1-3+GHz range for gaming. It may be a quad core, but nearly all games still don't harness the extra cores.

[ModMaster1558]

Holy crap lol, it better be at $289 :P http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819111018&cm_re=Core_i7-740QM-_-19-111-018-_-Product mobile processors...*sigh*so expensive.

 

But, it's only 1.73GHz...sheesh, I didn't know they made them that slow anymore :confused: Many games these days use as much CPU as they do GPU. I'd suggest a CPU in the 2.1-3+GHz range for gaming. It may be a quad core, but nearly all games still don't harness the extra cores.

But if I play A game Like Fallout 3,Turbo Mode Kicks in And Disables 2 cores,So i now Basically Have a 2.70 GHz Dual-core and when I exit the game i have all 4 Cores Again.

[Illiad86]

Hmm...

 

Well, you'll have to wait and see if someone will post about Turbo Mode, I know nothing about it.

[Retribution]

Don't get a laptop for gaming. I got one about 6 months ago and I was very unhappy with it, it was a piece of crap. Thankfully it broke and I got a full refund.

[Vindekarr]

Well I've got whats probably a heartily outdated but still touroughly impressing I-7 340 desktop proccesor @ 2.93 GHZ and that little think, for its low cost, has been honestly the third best investment I've ever made in gaming. Truly. it has never broken down, never overheated, and the performance it delivers is astonishing considering I got it so cheap with my latest PC.

 

My current rig is a localy made (hell, they make em half an hour away from my house, little factory in an old hangar, but on the inside, clean as a surgery chamber) Scorpion Vemon, its of an older style of pc: a thunking great GPU and a whole lot of ram with a medium grade cpu as a tacked on extra, but all in all the CPU and the the RAM are what really impressed me most about this particular, excellent pc.

 

If the 740 QM is anything like the venerable old 340, then it would be good indeed.

 

As for gaming laptops, I think you're being really way more agressive and extreme than need be Retribution. I had a gaming laptop for years and it was as reliable as they come and fairly powerful. Speaking of the medium price ( US $500-1.5k) They are more of a portible console than anything else, having similar power to an xbox 360 on average, but that really isnt bad considering they're portible and though expensive, are nice to have when you're at uni and can augment them with wifi. You'll have fuin with them and if you buy from a really good brand like Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Sony or Alienware, you'll get a half decent gaming machine, but avoid gaming portable if you can.

 

And some of them, and Im going a little off topic here because these machines Im talking about now are in the $(USD) 3-10K price range. But Asus, and Alienware make some BRUTAL laptops, some of them with a good deal more power than my venerable old desktop. Now, if you want gaming, get a desktop, right now, even basic cheap gaming desktops give good bang for your buck if you do your homework and buy from a good brand. But if you have eight thousand spare dollars, a fireproof groin (you'll need one, the damn things produce heat like a small sun) and not much purchasing sense, you CAN get a monster of a laptop should you really really want one.

[ModMaster1558]

Well I've got whats probably a heartily outdated but still touroughly impressing I-7 340 desktop proccesor @ 2.93 GHZ and that little think, for its low cost, has been honestly the third best investment I've ever made in gaming. Truly. it has never broken down, never overheated, and the performance it delivers is astonishing considering I got it so cheap with my latest PC.

 

My current rig is a localy made (hell, they make em half an hour away from my house, little factory in an old hangar, but on the inside, clean as a surgery chamber) Scorpion Vemon, its of an older style of pc: a thunking great GPU and a whole lot of ram with a medium grade cpu as a tacked on extra, but all in all the CPU and the the RAM are what really impressed me most about this particular, excellent pc.

 

If the 740 QM is anything like the venerable old 340, then it would be good indeed.

 

As for gaming laptops, I think you're being really way more agressive and extreme than need be Retribution. I had a gaming laptop for years and it was as reliable as they come and fairly powerful. Speaking of the medium price ( US $500-1.5k) They are more of a portible console than anything else, having similar power to an xbox 360 on average, but that really isnt bad considering they're portible and though expensive, are nice to have when you're at uni and can augment them with wifi. You'll have fuin with them and if you buy from a really good brand like Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Sony or Alienware, you'll get a half decent gaming machine, but avoid gaming portable if you can.

 

And some of them, and Im going a little off topic here because these machines Im talking about now are in the $(USD) 3-10K price range. But Asus, and Alienware make some BRUTAL laptops, some of them with a good deal more power than my venerable old desktop. Now, if you want gaming, get a desktop, right now, even basic cheap gaming desktops give good bang for your buck if you do your homework and buy from a good brand. But if you have eight thousand spare dollars, a fireproof groin (you'll need one, the damn things produce heat like a small sun) and not much purchasing sense, you CAN get a monster of a laptop should you really really want one.

Im Planning to Use this Monster As A Desktop Replacement.Edit:Also its a Studio 1558 That has the i7 That is The one im Getting.