Is this viable?

[vesseblah]

I already addressed that, but if you insist.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?...600M+APU&id=10

PissMark does not in any way or shape tell anything about IPC which is all that matters for WoW. It's 99% multithreaded/office application test with no relevance whatsoever in gaming.

I already addressed that intel is faster, however without turboboost the i3 and pentium lines are almost worthless in laptops compared to an a8 or a10 because the a8 and a10s are clocked higher and have turbo avalible to them while intel artificialy gimps the i3 and pentium lines.

Still the clockspeed does not tell anything about actual performance between two different brands. Not with nor without turbo. And FYI i3/i5/i7 CPUs do the exact same turbo thingy as AMDs processors, upping speed and shutting off cores.

[n0cturnal]

Even ordering from Denmark you could get something like:

http://www.webhallen.com/dk-da/hardw...indows_8-svart
http://www.webhallen.com/dk-da/hardw...l_hd-windows_8
http://www.komplett.dk/k/ki.aspx?sku...B-BB3EEB25CF18
http://www.medion.com/dk/prod/MEDION...m_campaign=edb
http://www.merlin.dk/product.aspx?ui...&prodid=499174

[Kraszmyl]

PissMark does not in any way or shape tell anything about IPC which is all that matters for WoW. It's 99% multithreaded/office application test with no relevance whatsoever in gaming.



Still the clockspeed does not tell anything about actual performance between two different brands. Not with nor without turbo. And FYI i3/i5/i7 CPUs do the exact same turbo thingy as AMDs processors, upping speed and shutting off cores.

i3s and pentiums do not have turboboost. i5 4 series lack vm instructions , i5 5 series have vm instructions , i7 gets you quads and most except the cheapest have vm instructions. The U series do have a few exceptions to this.

everything but pentiums should also have hyperthreading if i recall correctly. Feel free to check intel ARK.

As for ipc, currently sandy is ~20% better than pile driver and ivy is ~30% better to be very genertic. Since you dont think passmark is fair how about this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...w,3328-15.html

basicly a 3.2ghz ivy would be about equal to a 4.1ghz piledriver so your dual core 1.8ghz i3 still unfortunately gets trounced by the base clocked a10 at 2.3 which then can turbo up cores to 3.2 and the i3 would need to hit ~2.4 to 2.5 to match that, however sadly the i3 doesnt have access to turboboost to do so.

@ nocturnal

Most euro computer parts are over priced , but its pretty awesome you could point him at that site. Assuming there isnt a random reason he cant use it, tis a hell of alot better deal.

[n0cturnal]

You also have http://www.notebookguru.de/en/Notebo...ru-SUN-IV.html

[vesseblah]

You also have http://www.notebookguru.de/en/Notebo...ru-SUN-IV.html

Wow... That is damn good laptop for cheap gaming. Portability/battery life might be bit iffy though.

Since you dont think passmark is fair how about this.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...w,3328-15.html

Flight path test is more about GPU than CPU, and WoW can't be benchmarked fairly in raid circumstances. But if you want some hint of the IPC difference, this is probably the fairest benchmark available at the moment. Based on anecdotal evidence matches up fairly well with true 25man raid performance.

basicly a 3.2ghz ivy would be about equal to a 4.1ghz piledriver so your dual core 1.8ghz i3 still unfortunately gets trounced by the base clocked a10 at 2.3 which then can turbo up cores to 3.2 and the i3 would need to hit ~2.4 to 2.5 to match that

Made up math is the best kind of math. You're still comparing apples and oranges when looking into clock speeds.