must admit I got mine because of editing photo's.
And I also fired a load of ram in which hardly every gets used unless doing a large video file.
I have the Nvidia 765M card and 2G of ram. And a it rocks along with games.
The visiting kids harp on about better graphics cards etc but I haven't hit a game yet which struggles.
They all definitely do use all the cores though.
One of the lads at work was asking about what I had, discovered of course mine is now obsolete.
We got him ordered
Asus G750JM-T4049H 17.3-inch Full HD LED Gaming Notebook (Intel Core i7-4700HQ 2.40GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 750GB HDD, DVD-RW, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Nvidia GeForce GTX860M 2GB GDDR5, Windows 8.1 64-bit)
With a Samsung 840 EVO 250 SSD and a 2 pack of 4 Gb 1.35V ripjaws
Whole lot was under 1200 UKP.