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mero4ever on 21 July 2009

it looks like my brother PC.

I bought him the GPU as a gift.

His RAM is 2 GB

 

Frankly he never had any trouble running games on it. The last game he tried was FEAR 2 and I dont remember him mentioning any problem with the game.

So, your PC will be alright even with Crysis, though turn off AA and AP and try to tweak down your video setting as neccessary, its a very good game you dont wanna miss.

 

and have a good gaming life. :)



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FootballFan on 21 July 2009

Whatever you do you will get screwed. They will release a computer tommorow which is better and then your will be dated. i found out the hard way



Soleron on 21 July 2009

No; the computer fails. Why would you buy something that old when PCs today are so cheap and literally 10x better?

e.g. http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/17102/2

That will play practically any game on High settings at 1600x1200 or even 1920x1200, and Crysis on Medium at 1600x1200. And it's only $550 assuming you already have a monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers.

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However, the biggest bottleneck on your PC is the graphics card. Assuming the slot is PCI-E, you could get an HD4650 for $40 and see a doubling in framerate or resolution.



haxxiy on 21 July 2009

Most games will be playable at console resolutions and console framerates.



 

 

 

 

 

CatFangs806 on 21 July 2009
Tallgeese101 said:
CatFangs806 said:
tedsteriscool said:
CatFangs806 said:
Is there an easy way to upgrade the graphics card on it, since it is a laptop? I know nothing about replacing GPU's.

It's possible, but you're going to have a hell of a time finding a laptop GPU that doesn't cost you an arm and a leg (and prepare for battery life to decrease). Basically the only thing that can't be replaced on a laptop is the screen.


I did see a Nvidia Geforce 9800 for between $150 and $200. It wasn't a Go, but if that's the price range, then it's not too expensive.

Well a standard PCI-e card wont just fit into a laptop.  Also a newish GFX card with very old CPU, RAM will likely bottleneck.

 

Intall Steam and try the demos that are available.  Thats really the only way of knowing how well it will play games and what your personal tolerances are for FPS and graphics.

 

 

Does Steam cost anything to join or is it totally free?

Also, I don't plan on doing serious gaming on the computer, either. I just wanted to know if it was capable in case I wanted to. It is lightning fast on internet and everything else. What I plan on most is doing High Definition video editing, and running some special effects hardware on it. But from the looks of it, it seems like it will run what I want it to. And I'll try some demos, too. And I'm paying $500 for the laptop.



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mrstickball on 21 July 2009

Not every game would be playable for minimum specs. I know Arma2 is one of those games.



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sega4life on 21 July 2009

 

No

 

Free YES

 

 



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tedsteriscool on 22 July 2009
Deneidez said:
kiefer23 said:
Your Xbox 360 is capable of better graphics. ;)

Actually that card isn't that bad,

http://www.hothardware.com/articleimages/Item648/hl2.png

It can run for example HL2 in 1600x1200 with ease. We do know how well for example the incredible black box runs HL2 in smaller resolution. :)

 

@tedsteriscool

20 fps at 1280x1024. FPS games aren't playable at under 30fps, sorry.

So... Most of console games are unplayable? :)

Yup! Have you tried playing a FPS at 20fps? Killzone 2 second to last level anyone? Any bit of lag could mean death.



vgciesl on 23 July 2009

Video card is not that good, you need at least 512mb, otherwise you pc will still slow in future games.



Zlejedi on 23 July 2009

CPU is at absolute minimum for most games
GPU is slightly above current day low end cards

800x600 or 1024x768 is max what you can do in new games

Older stuff like Oblivion should work nicely.

Generally becouse the card has all neeeded technology you should be able to run any game in existance but some of them will need very low settings.



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