Recentaly i got a gift, this computer that has 3gb of ram and geforce 7350Le graphics card. Will the graphics card support games coming out this year or maybe even earlier next year. Like say team fortress 2?
this is the comp: http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/HP-Pavilion-Media-Center-TV-PC-M-8120-N/sem/rpsm/oid/185193/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
2007-08-17 06:56:26 · 5 answers · asked by Sio B 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
OK, the machine itself is awesome... Q6600 Core 2 Quad!!
But the graphics card is crap- get a better one.
First off, the 7300 series is budget/entry-level for gaming.
Second, LE versions of Nvidia cards are the crippled/slowest versions. The GS cards are better, GT cards a step above that, and GTX cards the best.
Finally, that 7350LE card only has 128mb of dedicated video memory and steals up to 512mb from your system RAM!! That's just awful. Keep in mind that a 7300GT card with 256mb of dedicated video memory only costs $50.
A Geforce 7600GT only costs about $75- that should be your absolute MINIMUM choice for a system like this. For about $150 you could get a Radeon X1950 Pro.
If you want a really nice card, the GeForce 8800GTS 320mb is amazing- there are good choices in every price range, it really just boils down to how much you're spending.
Here's the latest roundup of gaming cards from Tom's Hardware review site:
2007-08-17 07:14:32 · answer #1 · answered by C-Man 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah should easily be great for gaming, believe it said you could put 8gb of memory in it, has great amount of space.
Only thing I do question is the Video Card it is only 128mb, after that it needs to use the system memory. From what I read alteast.
So harddrive space you have tons, Random Access memory(RAM) you can put 8GB I do believe very nice, Quad Core should be wonderful but for now I doubt you will really see any improvements over Duo core as of right now for games. Only issue is the video should be upgraded at some point, the Video memory of 623MB is misleading as it shares memory if you go over the video memory which could easily be done with todays games and future games. Also the Expansion is horrible, 1PCI-express slot, 1 PCI Slot( add more one) great computer for media as it is stated for. Gaming it should run very very well if you rip out the graphic card in the future and maybe even overkill the computer and put 8gb if memory in
Should be play team fortress 2 easily
2007-08-17 14:20:20 · answer #2 · answered by morrisville75 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll just add that you can't exceed 4 GB of ram in a Windows machine these days. Usually 3 GB is about as far as it'll go.
2007-08-17 14:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by Kyle S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
wow thats an awesome comp... with 600mb video memory it should be great for gaming
2007-08-17 14:02:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Somehow i feel like you make fun of us lol.
2007-08-17 14:04:13 · answer #5 · answered by _Sonic_ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋