lelouche

Since you do not need power in your laptop, get an older Core 2 Duo and integrated Intel graphics. I get much better battery life from Intel compared to ATI or Nvidia because Intel has such weak graphics. Mobile i5/i7 uses a lot more energy too.

Also the 5770 is only slightly more powerful than a 4870 but has better power consumption.

bryce

Off topic, but I've seen the name lelouche like everywhere. A few private game servers and forums lol.

On topic, I say keep the i7, just move it into your dorm or whatever. You'll miss that power after a little it .

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vdek

Well in all fairness, if you're not even in university yet you shouldn't be buying $2500+ PCs...

A laptop through college is all you need, make sure you get something very portable, you WILL be lugging that thing around everywhere.

Villainstone

I know that it's blasphemous but I don't even OC anymore, just to many issues getting it stable. I cannot tell you how many time I corrupted my OS, and drivers OCing my MB and CPU. I do not OC GPU's they really do not need it.

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Dopamin3

You were doing something wrong.

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Starbuck5000

If you don't need a powerful laptop you could get an Ion netbook? Have a bit more welly to em and all the one's i have seen have a bigger screen than most netbooks.

For a main pc what about a micro ATX amd build?

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Has far to many components for a 20 year old, and while you're at it forgive my spelling, the keyboard is dyslexic

Aick

hey if your profiting off this, it's totally worth it. I'd say go with your plan.

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