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Title: Whittled the list down to three (PC question) Post by: pandemic on August 21, 2011, 02:35:06 AM It's coming down to GPU. I have the option of getting either NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M (http://"http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-540M.41715.0.html") or the AMD Radeon HD 6490M (http://"http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6490M.43843.0.html")
I can either get a HP Pavilion DV6-6155CA (http://"http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157945") for $720 MSI FX620DX-256US (http://"http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152264") for $730 ASUS A53 Series A53SV-XN1 (http://"http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230089") for $750 Each has: Intel Core i5-2410M 2.3GHz 3MB L3 Cache Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz 6GB DDR3 640GB or 750GB HDD 1GB GDDR5 video memory The Asus has 1 year of accidental damage warranty which is pretty nice but otherwise I can't really decide. The HP looks better and has a fingerprint scanner. Otherwise it's coming down to the GPU. What do you think? Title: Re: Whittled the list down to three (PC question) Post by: koin on August 21, 2011, 12:41:35 PM Otherwise it's coming down to the GPU. What do you think? it should be nearly entirely about the gpu: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison Title: Re: Whittled the list down to three (PC question) Post by: pandemic on August 21, 2011, 06:31:08 PM Otherwise it's coming down to the GPU. What do you think? it should be nearly entirely about the gpu: http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison Good point but I'm not planning on mining with this machine. If I were, it'd be AMD. Title: Re: Whittled the list down to three (PC question) Post by: deslok on August 23, 2011, 01:25:08 AM These all seem to be fairly standard consumer grade pc's not normally my forte(business laptops normally for me w510 thinkpad currently) due to prefrence and their general projected lifespans however the decision here seems clear on the msi for 2 reasons.
1. Hp is looking to close their pc division any future support is uncertain. 2. The asus is out of stock assuming you intend to order from newegg that leaves only the msi. I would like to throw this in for your consideration as an alternative however, normally i use thinkpads this is the consumer equivelent. http://outlet.lenovo.com/laptops/ideapad/439525u.html Edit: there were 4 of that machine in stock when i orginally wrote that post and are now 0(i went to show it to a friend of mine) the only other laptop i would reccomend is 1200 dollars and is probably far our of budget in place of the 730 dollar msi |