changed of heart, replacing AM1, but laptop cpu aimed to run SC13

[ExoMale]

after more thinking over it, im deciding to replace my AM1 instead, cant use it as HTPC now and wont get used much as a result leaving me with the better computer still as intended.


saw a nice older pavilion G6 with an E2-3000m for a fair price, but in general it doesnt seem a good laptop? also seen another with an i3 2370m + hd3000..... ive decided that while i play older games thats like early 2000 or older, i also want to play sim city 2013, so my main focal point of spec is round the minimum of that game, but im having trouble installing Origin on this laptop to test out how weak this one is to compare with.


according to game debate, despite having to use wrong igpu, but closest model from limited list, my sempron 3850 is the bottleneck and weak link from their 'can i run it' feature, thats at 1080p as i dont login to the site, but wont make a difference either way, my i3 and 610 gets a 'medium' setting option for the game with my 610 being the week link and these are desktops, i guess i still need something equal to my i3.

 

[mrbazmondo]

Take a look on here and pick something to compare it against:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-540+@+3.07GHz&id=738
For graphics comparison try here:
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/GPU_mega_page.html

 

[ExoMale]

Take a look on here and pick something to compare it against:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i3-540+@+3.07GHz&id=738
For graphics comparison try here:
https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/GPU_mega_page.html

thanks for reply.

dont usually buy based on those sort of scores, but the gpu link looks like it be more useful as that cpu list are for desktop processors, i need to know what laptop processor would equal my desktop i3 or better it as while my tech is old and not the best anyways, it will still be better than a lot of laptops due to the compromise in the chip designs for running under laptop conditions.

 

[mrbazmondo]

Well you can't compare chips without looking at some sort of comparative benchmarks...

Theres also a laptop CPU chart page that might be more helpful:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
Your i3-540 scored 2690, so scroll down to see what chips got a similar score.

 

[ExoMale]

Well you can't compare chips without looking at some sort of comparative benchmarks...

Theres also a laptop CPU chart page that might be more helpful:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
Your i3-540 scored 2690, so scroll down to see what chips got a similar score.

yeah im aware about comparing, i just dont care about passmark scores as they not exactly relevant, the software they use to test them are not something i use, so the results will differ really, they are decent indications, but its every day use, gaming, video/movie watching that are more used than benching software, but thanks for the link.

 

[humbug]

Passmark is about 10 years old, its not been relevant for that long.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

after more thinking over it, im deciding to replace my AM1 instead, cant use it as HTPC now and wont get used much as a result leaving me with the better computer still as intended.


saw a nice older pavilion G6 with an E2-3000m for a fair price, but in general it doesnt seem a good laptop? also seen another with an i3 2370m + hd3000..... ive decided that while i play older games thats like early 2000 or older, i also want to play sim city 2013, so my main focal point of spec is round the minimum of that game, but im having trouble installing Origin on this laptop to test out how weak this one is to compare with.


according to game debate, despite having to use wrong igpu, but closest model from limited list, my sempron 3850 is the bottleneck and weak link from their 'can i run it' feature, thats at 1080p as i dont login to the site, but wont make a difference either way, my i3 and 610 gets a 'medium' setting option for the game with my 610 being the week link and these are desktops, i guess i still need something equal to my i3.

Saw your another thread again in Graphics section, set maximum budget to £200 for a laptop.

Pavilion G6 with an AMD E2-3000M APU is not a good laptop, that APU used AMD Radeon HD 6380 IGP performed 128 GFLOPs that is about 65% slower than your desktop Geforce GT 610's 155.5 GFLOPs!

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-E2-Series E2-3000M.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/826/radeon-hd-6380g-igp
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/821/geforce-gt-610

Your Geforce GT 610 used GF119 chip based on Fermi 2.0 architecture, it also used same chip as Geforce GT 520 while GT 520M in laptop used GF108 chip are slight slower than GF119 all used 64 bit memory bus.

I found SimCity 2013 benchmark for laptops.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/SimCity-Benchmarked.89763.0.html

Also found notebookcheck mobile GPUs performance level list.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Geforce GT 610 performance fall in between Geforce GT 520M and GT 540M which are around the performance of HD Graphics 4000 Haswell.

For maximum £200, I found Lenovo IdeaPad Z50-70 laptop you can buy for £200 come with 2 cores/4 threads Core i5 4200U Haswell CPU with HD Graphics 4400 iGPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 15.6 inch HD screen, DVDRW and has Geforce 840M discrete GPU with 2GB GDDR3 memory based on Maxwell architecture performed 863.2 GFLOPS, it is about 8% slower than Pascal GTX 1030. Also found HP PAVILION 17-G171NF laptop for £200 with no one bid on it so you could grab it when auction close in 1 day and 20 hours. HP PAVILION 17-G171NF laptop has 17.3 inch 1600x900 HD screen, 2 cores/4 threads Core i7-6500U CPU with HD Graphics 530 iGPU, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 940M 2GB discrete GPU and probably has 2TB HDD.

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c04928681

Geforce 940M are based on Maxwell architecture too.

 

[ExoMale]

Saw your another thread again in Graphics section, set maximum budget to £200 for a laptop.

Pavilion G6 with an AMD E2-3000M APU is not a good laptop, that APU used AMD Radeon HD 6380 IGP performed 128 GFLOPs that is about 65% slower than your desktop Geforce GT 610's 155.5 GFLOPs!

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-E2-Series E2-3000M.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/826/radeon-hd-6380g-igp
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/821/geforce-gt-610

Your Geforce GT 610 used GF119 chip based on Fermi 2.0 architecture, it also used same chip as Geforce GT 520 while GT 520M in laptop used GF108 chip are slight slower than GF119 all used 64 bit memory bus.

I found SimCity 2013 benchmark for laptops.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/SimCity-Benchmarked.89763.0.html

Also found notebookcheck mobile GPUs performance level list.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

Geforce GT 610 performance fall in between Geforce GT 520M and GT 540M which are around the performance of HD Graphics 4000 Haswell.

For maximum £200, I found Lenovo IdeaPad Z50-70 laptop you can buy for £200 come with 2 cores/4 threads Core i5 4200U Haswell CPU with HD Graphics 4400 iGPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 15.6 inch HD screen, DVDRW and has Geforce 840M discrete GPU with 2GB GDDR3 memory based on Maxwell architecture performed 863.2 GFLOPS, it is about 8% slower than Pascal GTX 1030. Also found HP PAVILION 17-G171NF laptop for £200 with no one bid on it so you could grab it when auction close in 1 day and 20 hours. HP PAVILION 17-G171NF laptop has 17.3 inch 1600x900 HD screen, 2 cores/4 threads Core i7-6500U CPU with HD Graphics 530 iGPU, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GEFORCE 940M 2GB discrete GPU and probably has 2TB HDD.

https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c04928681

Geforce 940M are based on Maxwell architecture too.

thanks for reply.

i cant delete threads unless its for wants or sales i guess?

anyways thats a lot of good information there thank you, however i wish i saw those laptops within my radius criteria as the ones i find are too much and not really that good looking spec wise.

having had an haswell desktop with the 4400 graphics and being able to play titanfall on low settings, low res, looking like a 360 game, but very playable i had always looked for a haswell laptop thinking that would do, but some are low voltage meaning fair weak and while i saw an i5 5***u with hd5000 graphics for under £150, i question the paying that much when theres laptops with dedicated gpus about for similar price range.

gave me more to look at and think about ha.

 

[AthlonXP1800]

thanks for reply.

i cant delete threads unless its for wants or sales i guess?

anyways thats a lot of good information there thank you, however i wish i saw those laptops within my radius criteria as the ones i find are too much and not really that good looking spec wise.

having had an haswell desktop with the 4400 graphics and being able to play titanfall on low settings, low res, looking like a 360 game, but very playable i had always looked for a haswell laptop thinking that would do, but some are low voltage meaning fair weak and while i saw an i5 5***u with hd5000 graphics for under £150, i question the paying that much when theres laptops with dedicated gpus about for similar price range.

gave me more to look at and think about ha.

Saw people bidded HP PAVILION 17-G171NF laptop and then it now sold for £310 so it is out of your price range but saw Lenovo IdeaPad Z50-70 laptop price reduced from £200 to £150, there is no better alternative with similar Radeon spec as Radeon R5 is just slight faster than Intel HD Graphics 4000. Radeon R5 Firestrike GPU score around 530 compared to Geforce 840M score 1573 so Radeon R7 M445 has same performance as Geforce 840M but laptops with Radeon R7 M445 are cost £399 and above.

You will have to act fast to grab it or you will regret it if you don't or leave it too long to make decision.

Lenovo IdeaPad Z50-70 laptop with Core i5 4200U Haswell CPU with HD Graphics 4400 iGPU, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, 15.6 inch HD screen, DVDRW and has Maxwell Geforce 840M discrete GPU with 2GB GDDR3 memory for reduced £150. What a absolutely bargain price.

With Geforce 840M should last you for another 5 to 10 years and able to enjoy play SimCity 2013 with all eye candy on at Ultra settings while Radeon R5 cant do that and probably wont last much longer. I got Dell Inspiron 7737 with Core i7 4500U Haswell CPU with HD Graphics 4400 IGPU and Kepler Geforce GT 750M still going strong for 5 years since bought it in 2013, my laptop will last for another few years.