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mosqt 12 Sep @ 3:29am

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Hi, is it better for cpu to have higher clock speed or cores and threads. I know cores are for multitasking, but clock speed gives you fluidity? Tell me if im wrong. For me Im just playing ''simple games'' ----- Dota 2, L4D2, HOMM, Battlebits, Company of Heroes and Call of Duty WaW. I will accept every advice. Kinda trying to buy laptop but idk if Quadro gpu is okay like k1000m or k2000m.

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Originally posted by GeForce 2 GTS:

Originally posted by mosqt:
Originally posted by Ogami:

I mean if you can get a cheap used laptop with a Quadro GPU, those are not bad.
For the games you listed its more then enough. If thats all you play then they will do their job.
But if you can raise your budget a bit more ( around 750) you can a new laptop with a 4060 or even 5060 which will blow the older K1000m and K2000m out of the water performance wise.
i can get for 250€ with quadro and i7 3rd gen

Well the great thing is buying a 13 year old intel laptop is that all the CPU's are so old and slow that the difference between them don't really matter. It's all just different flavors of old.

Plus, in 3rd gen laptop CPU's most of them were dual core, even some i7 SKU's. The top tier 3rd gen mobile i7's were quad cores. And if you look at the chart below then quad core i7's were usually clocked higher than the dual core sku's. So that simplifies things. You don't really need to worry about core counts vs clockspeed. Because if you go for the CPU with the highest clock speed, in 3rd gen intel mobile, you're gonna be getting a quad core anyway. And the CPU's are so old and slow, you're probably gonna want to shoot for the top one or two CPU's.

Plus given the low core counts, even if you're looking at a dual core i7 with a higher clockspeed, a few hundred mhz is not really superior to a couple of CPU cores. Yes yes, in single threaded applications the faster clockspeed would matter a little. But in multi-threaded applications the extra cores are going to matter a lot. The difference between 2 cores and 4 cores is significant.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/29902/products-formerly-ivy-bridge.html#@Mobile

I wouldn't even look at dual cores. And in the realm of quad cores, get the fastest CPU you can reasonably afford. And that's gonna be pretty true no matter which obsolete CPU you're going with.

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Ettanin 12 Sep @ 3:34am

Check for single thread and multithread benchmarks, it's really a "it depends" situation. Speed alone isn't everything. There are other factors such as IPC as well.

While Quadro GPUs can be used for gaming, they usually have less rasterizer units and are thus significantly weaker for gaming than contemporary GeForce GPUs of equivalent hardware feature level.

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mosqt 12 Sep @ 3:45am

Originally posted by Ettanin:
Check for single thread and multithread benchmarks, it's really a "it depends" situation. Speed alone isn't everything. There are other factors such as IPC as well.

While Quadro GPUs can be used for gaming, they usually have less rasterizer units and are thus significantly weaker for gaming than contemporary GeForce GPUs of equivalent hardware feature level.

Okay, but im not looking for dedicated gpu like powerfull laptop, 500€ +

Ettanin 12 Sep @ 3:50am

K1000m and K2000m are obsolete by today's standards (released 13 years ago). Better look for something modern and ditch used hardware, used hardware is usually overpriced for their age and sometimes comes bundled with an unexpected HWID ban amongst other surprises. You never know what the former owner did with the machine.

Last edited by Ettanin; 12 Sep @ 3:52am

mosqt 12 Sep @ 3:53am

Originally posted by Ettanin:
K1000m and K2000m are obsolete by today's standards (released 13 years ago). Better look for something modern and ditch used hardware, used hardware is usually overpriced for their age.

fair enough

Ogami 12 Sep @ 4:26am

Originally posted by mosqt:
Originally posted by Ettanin:
K1000m and K2000m are obsolete by today's standards (released 13 years ago). Better look for something modern and ditch used hardware, used hardware is usually overpriced for their age.

fair enough

I mean if you can get a cheap used laptop with a Quadro GPU, those are not bad.
For the games you listed its more then enough. If thats all you play then they will do their job.
But if you can raise your budget a bit more ( around 750) you can a new laptop with a 4060 or even 5060 which will blow the older K1000m and K2000m out of the water performance wise.

mosqt 12 Sep @ 4:39am

Originally posted by Ogami:
Originally posted by mosqt:

fair enough

I mean if you can get a cheap used laptop with a Quadro GPU, those are not bad.
For the games you listed its more then enough. If thats all you play then they will do their job.
But if you can raise your budget a bit more ( around 750) you can a new laptop with a 4060 or even 5060 which will blow the older K1000m and K2000m out of the water performance wise.

i can get for 250€ with quadro and i7 3rd gen

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GeForce 2 GTS 12 Sep @ 6:49am

Originally posted by mosqt:
Originally posted by Ogami:

I mean if you can get a cheap used laptop with a Quadro GPU, those are not bad.
For the games you listed its more then enough. If thats all you play then they will do their job.
But if you can raise your budget a bit more ( around 750) you can a new laptop with a 4060 or even 5060 which will blow the older K1000m and K2000m out of the water performance wise.
i can get for 250€ with quadro and i7 3rd gen