is this a good gaming laptop for things like steam?\
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HiThe full specs to this computer are attached. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc;=en&dlc;=en&docname;=c03499318Although this is a great all around laptop for school, work and play; the Intel Pentium Processor B960 laptop is not classified as a gaming laptop. If you do not need the expensive specs for gaming, this is a great laptop for the price.Hope this helps!
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To be honest, I'm not a gaming person, so I probably wouldn't be the best source. I know that for my needs it was a great value for the price. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Good luck!
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Hi The full specs to this computer are attached. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03499318 Although this is a great all around laptop for school, work and play; the Intel Pentium Processor B960 laptop is not classified as a gaming laptop. If you do not need the expensive specs for gaming, this is a great laptop for the price. Hope this helps!
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I don't use this laptop for gaming or imaging purposes. But from what I gather, you generally want a dedicated graphics card if you want to game. This Radeon is built into the AMD A6-5350M CPU, so it's going to be slower. Just figure out what you want to use your laptop for before you buy it. I certainly didn't purchase this laptop for gaming.
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Yes, but not at 100% graphics settings. I tried TF2 and it ran perfectly at 100% detail, but that's not a power-hungry game. I also tried GS Global Conflict, and it ran well at 75% settings. For more recent, powerful games, I'm assuming they'll run well at about 50%. That sounds bad, but the games are still great at 50%. I'd go with this, and when your budget allows, upgrade the GPU. For another comparison, I've done some video editing with this, and blows my 6GB dual-core laptop away. A 15-minute HD video takes more than 20-minutes to output on the laptop, and about 4 minutes with this PC. Not bad at all.
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its decent for it. its got integrated graphics which kinda sucks, but itll play things like skyrim on low settings, if you want to use that as a benchmark. i havent noticed any overheating problem. i personally use it for gaming as im a twitch streamer and this is my main rig atm. i havent really tried newer games on it as much. it has slowdown with dolphin (gamecube/wii emulator) but runs things like Skullgirls no problem.
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This is a basic spec laptop. You can play games on it and have access to Windows Store but it is not a gaming laptop.
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Hello Micheal, this laptop is not idle for gaming. Don't get me wrong, it will handle games extremely well at low settings but forget about extreme. But for the price, its more than idle. However, if you can shell out a little more then get this HP dv6-6c50us (15.6-Inch Screen) Laptop and upgrade your ram with this Corsair Vengeance Laptop Memory Kit 16 GB (2x8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz CL10 PC3 12800 (CMSX16GX3M2A1600C10), I assure you will get one powerful budget laptop all for around 800 bucks, with a bluray combo drive as an added bonus. This combo will give you a windows experience index rating of 6.4 and 7.5 for gaming graphics and memory operations respectively. Note the max WEI rating is 7.9, so do the maths, believe me $1800 laptops don't have such ratings. Hope this helps.
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It is mostly intel graphics card for this brand of Acer (and also mine is intel). It does a decent job of running some games. In general you should not expect a laptop to run games as fast as a PC does. In the case of small laptops this comparison becomes even more obvious.
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I think that this laptop should work just fine with the games you mentioned. There is a possibility, however, that you won't be able to use the best graphic settings in those games. Generally, if you want a laptop for gaming, try to search for the ones that have a dedicated (not integrated) video cards inside. You can usually find it (whether it's dedicated) out in the detailed specs of a laptop. The general rule here, however, is that it's hard to find a laptop with a dedicated video card under $700.
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This laptop is too slow to run latest high graphic games. However, if you play games like league of legends, dota, or valves game series, this laptop may be cheaper one to play.
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I've been more than pleased with this purchase- I use this PC solely for gaming and have had no issue running my steam games from Hawken and DayZ to Total War Rome 2 and Metro Last Light on the highest settings possible.Keep in mind that it comes without an internal wireless card so you'll need to be wired or grab a wireless dongle with your purchase.It looks beastly upon opening which is always cool.
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This laptop is certainly not intended for gaming although gaming is still possible. Experience may vary from one title to the next although in most situations it won't be sufficient enough. To answer your question, no it wouldn't be a good gaming computer though for everything else it should suffice.
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I bought it for my father-in-law, so I'm not using it all the time. But... I'm thinking it may be that good as a gaming machine. - it does have a good-sized hard drive and a decent processor, but it doesn't have the high end video card that would be best for gaming. It seems to be a good computer and the price was good though.
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I wouldn't recommend it for gaming. I ran a few games on our computer setup, and they ran much slower than an older computer using a quad core processor. I use it in an HTPC. Most of the tasks are done one at a time, so the dual core works fine. It is fast for light duty applications, but games aren't light duty.
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I am not sure. .... I will say it has been fine for normal laptop use, but I cannot answer for gaming. I think it is really stable to be honest. I have not had any issues with downloading or uploading.
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I've played League of Legends on it, doesn't lag. I haven't downloaded steam on it yet...But im pretty sure it can handle it..might lag a little I fyou want a gaming laptop, get a lenovo, msi or asus.
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I cannot, I'm sorry. I purchased this for resale. It's a pretty basic laptop, not a lot of bells and whistles. Large HDD, space for up to 8GB RAM, and a nice i5, but it's not a gaming rig. I want to say the graphics are by NVidea, but I wouldn't count on that.
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I run it for basic usage, not for gaming. The scree is shiny to me. and I watch video on youtube, for my personal feeling, the screen is OK.The laptop's weak-point (for most Acer laptop), when you type the keyboard, sometimes the focus jump away.