pogodrummer

oh damn! eh well.. thank you everyone for the nice welcoming please let us know when you decide

Yes, i'm sorry, i understand that sentence was a lot too forward... i apologize, but i really didn't mean it in that tone, it was just an observation/question, not some angry hate comment And again, sorry

Yes of course, i replied because the OP was deciding between the i7 and the 3gb 555m, so i thought he had that 100$ to spend on something, and the i7 seemed more reasonable to me , if you know what i mean

Of course the first bottleneck will be the gpu, but have you read my post? In the future games will go for interactive environments, physics and small details current games don't have, and that things will not be calculated by the gpu (you see, almost no one is using physx and any other hardware specific middleware), but by the cpu. The GPU of the 555m won't even come close to calculating in real time all that gig and a half, let alone 3gb... unless of course you are planning to plug your m14x into a 30in monitor, which to me is kind of pointless. At that resolution (900p) you just don't need that much memory! And yes, the i5 runs at 300mhz more than the i7, so what? The bigger cache in the i7 helps speed up things, and you have got two whole cores more. What i'm trying to tell you is that while a 3gb 555m is completely futile, a quad core i7 instead of a dual i5 could have some improvements, especially in multithreaded applications. And one more thing (not to you marcus, to who criticized me), does the fact that i am a new member on this forum mean i don't know anthing about computers?

no, no, no... why getting an i5? Think about it, people need 3gb gtx580s for triple 2560x1600 monitor setups, so that 3gb 555m is not going to do you any good, especially because it has a lower memory frequency than its 1.5gb counterpart. while you won't be able to upgrade the gpu, future games will run on it just fine, until the GPU itself (the processing unit, not the gfx card) will be a bottleneck, not the memory. However having a quad core cpu will help, as programs and games are still being optimized to multithreading, and as time will pass, games will use all of your cores, for physics processing, better ai... I strongly suggest getting the i7 instead of the 3gb gfx, because it is a more futureproof setup. i registered here only to tell you this