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Today my brother is shopping around looking to get a new gaming PC. I've never built one myself, but am familiar with specs of previous laptops I've bought (yes, I know, Desktop>>>>>>>laptop).
The first strange thing I found; several "gaming" desktops I was looking at with him didn't even seem up to par with his laptop, let alone mine (For reference, my CPU average is 9147 on this site, while his is 7631). We found a semi-custom desktop which appeared overall better except the CPU-Intel Core i7-4510U, average mark is 3939. His laptop is a few years old, so I thought-maybe there's something I'm not understanding? I'd figured it was a straight ratio; a laptop with a higher benchmark beats out a desktop with a lower one, such as this case, and vice versa. Is this just a bad "gaming" cpu?
On to my next question. He ran a benchmark after I asked him to, figuring by now he'd score lower than the average, just so we could get a ballpark of how this new CPU might perform compared to his current does. He scored 1946. That's thousands below the AVERAGE. What is going on here? I'm not too familiar with how the rest of the machine might affect it; I know his graphics card is pretty crappy (benchmark average is around 400)-but I'd think a CPU test would exclude the GPU. To me this means there's a problem-what might this problem be? Or is he just getting throttled by GPU?
Thanks for your time.
Today my brother is shopping around looking to get a new gaming PC. I've never built one myself, but am familiar with specs of previous laptops I've bought (yes, I know, Desktop>>>>>>>laptop).
The first strange thing I found; several "gaming" desktops I was looking at with him didn't even seem up to par with his laptop, let alone mine (For reference, my CPU average is 9147 on this site, while his is 7631). We found a semi-custom desktop which appeared overall better except the CPU-Intel Core i7-4510U, average mark is 3939. His laptop is a few years old, so I thought-maybe there's something I'm not understanding? I'd figured it was a straight ratio; a laptop with a higher benchmark beats out a desktop with a lower one, such as this case, and vice versa. Is this just a bad "gaming" cpu?
On to my next question. He ran a benchmark after I asked him to, figuring by now he'd score lower than the average, just so we could get a ballpark of how this new CPU might perform compared to his current does. He scored 1946. That's thousands below the AVERAGE. What is going on here? I'm not too familiar with how the rest of the machine might affect it; I know his graphics card is pretty crappy (benchmark average is around 400)-but I'd think a CPU test would exclude the GPU. To me this means there's a problem-what might this problem be? Or is he just getting throttled by GPU?
Thanks for your time.
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