So basically this is for a friend. He wants to buy a laptop for general use and playing games (not very demanding. mostly Football Manager, Heroes Of Newerth and perhaps something different in the future
).
So anyway, we came down to 2 laptops:
ACER Aspire 5742G
6GB RAM
540M 1GB GPU
Intel Core i5 480M @ 2.66/2.93GHz (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5+480M+@+2.67GHz)
Cost: aprox. 474GBP (converted from Bulgarian Lev, since he is buying it from Bulgaria)
and
ACER Aspire 5750G
6GB RAM
540M 1GB GPU
Intel Core i3-2310M @ 2.10GHz (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-2310M+@+2.10GHz)
Cost: aprox. 452GBP (converted from Bulgarian Lev, since he is buying it from Bulgaria)
I am asking because I am not sure about the i5, since it has Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost and I am conserned about the temperature it runs at. Basically, I want to know which one will be performing generally better.
So please tell me which laptop should I recommend to my mate.
If possible give me pros and cons on the two CPUs.
Thanks in advance.

So anyway, we came down to 2 laptops:
ACER Aspire 5742G
6GB RAM
540M 1GB GPU
Intel Core i5 480M @ 2.66/2.93GHz (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5+480M+@+2.67GHz)
Cost: aprox. 474GBP (converted from Bulgarian Lev, since he is buying it from Bulgaria)
and
ACER Aspire 5750G
6GB RAM
540M 1GB GPU
Intel Core i3-2310M @ 2.10GHz (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-2310M+@+2.10GHz)
Cost: aprox. 452GBP (converted from Bulgarian Lev, since he is buying it from Bulgaria)
I am asking because I am not sure about the i5, since it has Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost and I am conserned about the temperature it runs at. Basically, I want to know which one will be performing generally better.
So please tell me which laptop should I recommend to my mate.
If possible give me pros and cons on the two CPUs.
Thanks in advance.
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