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Yeah. Its working. But its not the best gaming perfeomance. It cant even run minecraft vannilla with max settings witout getting higher than 40-50fps... And thats with a new world... So sure. It works with gaming but its nood good. Thats why i will get a good desktop. The laptop is really good for taking with you and game like lan..
Well for what my very humble and not terribly intuitive opinion or mind is worth the i5 actually is an i7 that did not make "the grade" when it came to slicing the silicon disk up and while you are right the lesser power consumption is aimed at the laptop market it is still a real powerhouse in a desktop.
If you could see the differences between the mobile processor and the ones we put in desktops my friend you would know that the laptop version does not have a heat sink whereas the desktop one does. See the pic from a site I use a lot for fixing Toshibas and you will see that difference and by the way the GPU chip is shown as well. As you mentioned videos take a look at this quite simple one made by Intel and there are more in depth ones too Sand to Silicon - the Making of a Chip (full screen) - YouTube
The capability of the particular "i" series core is not reflected in any way as to the performance of any such core. So an i5 3570K in its laptop form is no better than the desktop version it just smaller (thinner).
As for power consumption this is an important consideration for laptops given the cooling problems therein - would you agree or not?
I would go as far as to say that the power consumption of the CPU is a somewhat piddling amount compared to the proposed GPU for your machine I would then go on to say that add all the power consumptions of the rest of the hardware together and there you will find the CPU is a minor player.
The RAM well I have 8GB 2400MHz in and run it at 1866MHz and quite frankly I cannot see much to any difference in running that at the default 1333MHz that my board gives it.
All in all I think that you are wanting is some super fast machine that is created by just throwing super speed components into a machine but in my own experience it does not quite work like that unless of course you know of a way that does.
But anyway I stand to be corrected on any of what I have said all the same.
Not totally sure about if youre talking about laptops with cpu and gpu or just cpu with intergrated graphics like mine. And. The cooling technology in a laptop is a bit like a aftermarket cpu cooler i suppose? Fan that blows air on a heatsink that then cools the cpu with heatpipes.so its like a normal desktop cpu cooler but smaller and the heatpipes is longer...
And "only having minecraft servers" minecraft servers is running much faster and smoother with better ram and cpu. My old desktop woth modded server vs my laptop with modded server. My laptop server is faster. Becouse i think i
Atleast is bcouse i got better ram. 1600mhz ddr3 instead of 400mhz ddr2. The cpu is simmilar. 1.9 ghz 4 core amd cpu vs 3 core 2.4 ghz amd.
This is a typical set up in a laptop they do vary a little from brand to brand - this is a Toshiba.
Perhaps you can see now why they have no heatsink attached to the chip itself because the bottom panel is very close to the motherboard as you might imagine. So in essence I guess you could call it a stock cooler.
The new "i" series chips might well have the GPU on them too but as I have never worked on one yet I cannot say.
Well I am glad that you how laptops are built.
To answer your question (from what my obviously limited mind can make out of post #44) you made mention that the i5 was made - more for laptops or so I thought hence I went on to explain the difference.
Which video you were watching I don't know but from what I have read and researched on the "i" series of CPU they were intended for any computing device not just with laptops especially in mind - unless I am dreadfully wrong of course - far be it for me to claim to be an expert.
But in any case as you know about how laptops and how these devices are made already then I was plainly wasting my time wasn't I??
Personally I go for a decent CPU and a reasonable priced GPU I find getting the drivers right for dedicate GPU's much less of a challenge.
But I just have a GPU as I like the control over quality rather then leave it to what is given me as I very rarely game I don't have the time to be honest. So I don't need all the whistles and bells that some gamers require or like.
Price wise well it is going to cost more because it is extra equipment but if you can get away with the onboard graphics then it is the cheapest way out..