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Is This Laptop Good For Gaming?

I want to play games such as Guild Wars and Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 on high quality without dealing with the lag. Is this laptop okay? here are the specs: HP Pavilion DV9700t 17.0" Gaming Notebook Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo Processor T5750 (2.0 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB) 3GB DDR2 memory 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drives 17" WXGA+ High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1440 x 900) 8x SuperMulti LightScribe DVD+/-RW/CD-RW, Reads & Writes Dual-Layer DVDs and CDs Built-in Wireless 802.11a/b/g 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS Primary Battery: 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery Microsoft Works 9.0 Also Has Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit

Public Comments

1. Perfectly, it will run those games, even more complex ones at high FPS, don't worry, even though it can't run the most demanding ones.


2. yes


3. i am not a big vista fan but it looks ok for some gaming. A true gaming would have 4 gigs of memory and at least 512 of video ram

   http://bitsandbytescomputers.sytes.net



4. You do know that the processor will be slowing down the system along with Windows VIsta not a good gaming OS


5. it is perfect boss.....

   go ahead........



6. That's not bad, for Roller Coaster Tycoon. Your graphics aren't great, and your CPU could be better, but it'll work for that game. However, anything else, like UT3, Crysis, or The Orange Box won't run so well. Just keep that in mind.


7. You are getting insanely bad answers - sorry about that

   90% of gaming performance is the graphics chip and that unit only has an 8400.

   You will get lag.

   Look for NVIDIA 8800M GT or greater..

   Compare the video/graphics chips tested and ranked in this list:

   http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards-Benchmark-List.844.0.html

   Compare specs with these units:

   Dell XPS M1730:

   http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

   http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730wow?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs

   Falcon:

   http://www.falcon-nw.com/

   Voodoo:

   http://www.voodoopc.com/#/productsenvy

   Alienware:

   http://www.alienware.com/products/notebook-computers.aspx

   Sager:

   http://www.sagernotebook.com/default.php