Best GPU and CPU for new laptop

Discussion in 'hardware' started by Rasheed187, Sep 3, 2020.

  1. xxJackxx

    xxJackxx Registered Member

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    More cores is good. More RAM is better. I hope you got plenty as that will make a big difference. At this point I give VMs at least 6GB.
     
  2. Cutting_Edgetech

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    I got G. Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4 3600, 32 Gbs. I will get another 32 Gbs soon.

    I also have the following video card below on the way.
    EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER BLACK GAMING, 08G-P4-3071-KR, 8GB GDDR6.
     
  3. reasonablePrivacy

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    So do you have AMD's CPU or AMD's APU (integrated graphics)? I believe video driver issues mentioned by Jack (or put it another way: AMD/ATI driver being of less quality than Nvidia) were exclusively due to GPU and its drivers (be it integrated or dedicated card), not CPU itself. If this is "pure" CPU (or APU, but you will not use integrated graphics) then it doesn't matter if it is Intel or AMD when it comes to video driver bugs.
     
  4. Cutting_Edgetech

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    I will be using this video card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER BLACK GAMING, 08G-P4-3071-KR, 8GB GDDR6
     
  5. Rasheed187

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    Thanks for the feedback guys, just to stay on the safe side, I will probably buy the Lenovo laptop with the dedicated Nvidia GPU. It will probably cost me only about 150 euro more, so why not. Correction, I just saw that it's even cheaper. I'm not sure why the Lenovo Yoga is more expensive than the Lenovo IdeaPad.

    https://www.bol.com/nl/p/lenovo-yog...p-14-inch/9300000005869126/?s2a=#productTitle
    https://www.bol.com/nl/p/lenovo-ideapad-3-14iml05-81wa009fmh-laptop-14-inch/9300000000539102/
     
  6. Rasheed187

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    Guys I was being silly. I was comparing the wrong models, it's about these 2, they are similar except one has the Nvidia GeForce MX330 and the other has the Intel UHD Graphics integrated GPU, and the difference is only 50 euro. I also forgot that browsers use the GPU for hardware acceleration. And more power consumption isn't a problem for me, because my laptop is almost always plugged in.

    https://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_lenovo-ideapad-5-14-–-i5-16gb-512gb-mx330-grijs-1660675.html
    https://www.mediamarkt.nl/nl/product/_lenovo-ip-5-14-i5-16gb-512gb-teal-1660674.html
     
  7. Rasheed187

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    I finally bought my new Lenovo laptop, but the thing that I didn't expect was that the screen resolution of 1920*1080 would be a problem. Here's the thing, I have always worked on a 1280*1024 screen, and now for example screenshots (PNG files) that I made on the desktop, look quite small on the laptop, is this normal?
     
  8. Rasheed187

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    Guys, I have noticed that the Nvidia GeForce MX130 GPU isn't enabled on my new Lenovo laptop? Is this normal and can this perhaps also cause problems? For example, at the moment I can't play Instagram Stories on Vivaldi and Edge (non Chromium), could this be a hardware or software issue, what's more likely? I did use O&O ShutUp10 and Spybot Anti-Beacon and I disabled a couple of services, but this shouldn't interfere with video playing on websites right? BTW, YouTube works just fine, I can also play MP4 videos with Media Player Classic.
     
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