Is this a good laptop to run games good & fast ?

Question

* 15.6" WXGA LED Screen
* CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 processor 2410M (2.30/2.90GHz x2 Cores, 1333MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache)
* 8GB DDR3-1333 Ram
* 640GB SATA HDD Hard Drive
*NVIDIA® GeForce GT 520M 1GB (4170MB Total: 1024MB dedicated memory + 3146MB shared memory)
* DVD Super Multi Optical Drive
* Acer BGN WiFi
* HDMI
* 3hr battery
* 2.6Kg
* Crystal Eye webcam
* Windows 7 Home Premium

Specifications:

* Operating System: Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits

* CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 processor 2410M (2.30/2.90GHz x2 Cores, 1333MHz FSB, 3MB L2 Cache)

* Memory: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM

* Hard Drive: 640GB

* Wireless: Acer InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN

* Webcam: Acer Video Conference with integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam, 1280 x 1024 resolution

*Video: NVIDIA® GeForce GT 520M 1GB (4170MB Total: 1024MB dedicated memory + 3146MB shared memory)

* 15.6" (1366 x 768) high-brightness TFT LCD with LED backlight
* Mercury-free LCD
* Microsoft DirectX 10.0 support
* Up to 16.7 million colors
* Acer Video Conference with integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam, 1280 x 1024 resolution, and Acer Video Conference Manager software supporting 640 x 480 resolution online video calls
* MPEG-2 DVD, WMV9/VC-1 (Windows Media Video 9, VC-1 standard), H.264/AVC decoding
* VGA and HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (high-bandwidth digital-content protection) ports
* Support for simultaneous display on notebook LCD and external monitor

Interface Ports:

* DC-in
* RJ-45 LAN
* VGA
* Headphones/speaker/line-out
* Microphone
* HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) with HDCP (high-bandwidth digital-content protection) support
* Three USB 2.0

Answer 1

NVIDIA® GeForce GT 520M is not very good for today games I would consider NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Answer 2

Sounds similar to the one I have, (if not the same) and I run W.o.W. and Sims 3 (with a gazillion expansions) with no problems. You can always add an external hard drive should you find you need it. It's not a "gaming" computer. But to me considering the fact I paid $3000 for a Dell XPS gaming laptop vs my own Acer laptop, it's a lot easier on the pocket, even if you do need a $50 hard drive extra.

Answer 3

YES, good enough for medium to even high settings on most games.



Graphics could be better, but still OK.



The NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M is an entry level dedicated laptop graphics card presented in 2010.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-520M.43104.0.html

Answer 4

Medium to high settings on most games? I don't think so. Maybe older, less graphic intensive games. Modern games like BF3 and Skyrim are not even playable according to those benchmarks. MW3 is playable at low settings.



Maybe you could run Diablo 3 on high, but that's not a graphically intense game.



Edit- It seems around this time of day the Greek speaking Indians come on this board spewing their completely messed up English. They should give you guys your own section.

Answer 5

In this case, I think B will run faster. But if you are willing to upgrade A with a good graphic card, it will make a lot of differences!

Answer 6

Yes, it is a perfect one to run a game faster. These will make your gaming experience superb. Also try for 3D screens. This will make it much superb.

Answer 7

Ya according to your mentioned details the laptop is good one.Because u mention that graphic card is "nvidia" which is good one in card.So overall u laptop is good one i give 4.5....take care

Answer 8

this configuration is good for gaming...NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M is too good for gaming purpose(graphics card).....but,your configuration is not bad at all.u can play all video games till now..



my rating for this configuration : 4.5.