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Would an HP Pavilion dv6500 work as a gaming laptop?
The specs are on this site: http://www.laptopmax.com/HP/reviews/36/HP_Pavilion_DV6500_reviews.html I'm sort of new to PC gaming. Would this laptop be able to run computer games like Counter-Strike, Portal, Oblivion or Guild Wars? Thanks.
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- Um... I don't think so. It's memory is quite low to run that kind of games. Also, windows Vista isn't a great windows to run games. Install Windows 7.
- No, the computer wouldnt run very stable with the specs. I wil list the problems below:
1. Not enough RAM/Memory
2. Hard drive size is kind of small, so your computer would crowd over time. You would want to keep your hard drive about maximum 2/3 full
3. A 1.7gHz processor (dual core) is really slow for those kind of games, you would want something around 2.5gHz for a dual core, and a 2.0gHz for a quad core.
4. There also seems to be no high quality graphics card such as a nVidia or and ATI Radeon card installed. You would want a video card with around 512mb to 2gb of memory on your video card.
- The short answer is no, it will run some older games choppy and low res, and would completely choke on others.
This laptop is sorely outdated and very underpowered by 4 years ago standards, and the graphics card is an old on board "shared" memory graphics card, which isn't optimized for games.
This is at best a laptop for playing puzzles and surfing the web.
You can either buy a complete Desktop PC if you don't care about mobility and just want a good machine for playing games, and that should be in your price range. But, if you insist on a laptop for gaming; you are going to have to spend more than that!
