i have a few questions about if my computer could be good enough to run..

Martinmz

Martinmz

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left 4 dead 2 and team fortress 2. ive never played any games on the PC. i have a emachines t series T3522. i also bought a pny technologies/nvidia geforce 7300gs graphic card. the reason im asking this is because i do not know anything really about computers. any help would be appreciated.
 
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[quote name='Martinmz']thank you and can every computer run windows 7[/QUOTE]

No. Computers from 1977 would have a hard time running Windows 7.
 
[quote name='Martinmz']how do i put a graphics card in. do i have to have an expert put it in?[/QUOTE]

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[quote name='Martinmz']i heard some computers have intergrated graphics and you cant put in a new card[/QUOTE]

You need to do a Google search for a tutorial. That's how I learned about working on my pc's. After you learn what your pc has for an available slot and power supply, then we can give you more help.

And all desktops can add a dedicated graphics card. The type of card is dependant upon what kind of slots you have available and the size of the case.
 
Well Emachines was bought out by Gateway, who was bought out by Acer. Emachines used to be the joke of the industry b/c they were POS pcs.

They're not bad, for gaming in the future you might want to think about something from ibuypower.com, cyberpowerpc.com, a bare bones kit from tigerdirect, or researching parts on newegg and building your own.
 
The games would be playable, but only at the bare minimum and even then the framerate would be unsatisfactory. Given your fairly limited computer knowledge, I'd say just buy a new one.
 
Well I've done some shopping and got some specefications. It has a 3.33 ghz processor,nvidia geforce n7300 graphics card, one tb hard drive and 1GB of ram is that fine
 
[quote name='Martinmz']Well I've done some shopping and got some specefications. It has a 3.33 ghz processor,nvidia geforce n7300 graphics card, one tb hard drive and 1GB of ram is that fine[/QUOTE]

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Google and reading must be broken.
 
[quote name='Martinmz']Well I've done some shopping and got some specefications. It has a 3.33 ghz processor,nvidia geforce n7300 graphics card, one tb hard drive and 1GB of ram is that fine[/QUOTE]

That sounds really really really really really really really really wrong.
 
[quote name='Martinmz']Well I've done some shopping and got some specefications. It has a 3.33 ghz processor,nvidia geforce n7300 graphics card, one tb hard drive and 1GB of ram is that fine[/QUOTE]

Umm I think you got an answer a while ago, the HL2 and other Source games will run on your PC, but won't run well enough for you to enjoy gaming. 1GB of RAM is probably too low to run games, even in Windows XP. 2GB is the bare minimum nowadays. 7300GS is a low end graphic card, but it should run the source games at low resolution and low details. I'm assuming that 3.33GHz CPU is a Celeron D, which is a very weak CPU. So basically, you have 3 components bottlenecking your gaming experience, CPU, amount of RAM, and the lowly 7300GS video card.

Really the only way to find out if your computer can run the games to your liking is to.... actually run the games on your computer and find out yourself.
 
[quote name='SOSTrooper']Umm I think you got an answer a while ago, the HL2 and other Source games will run on your PC, but won't run well enough for you to enjoy gaming. 1GB of RAM is probably too low to run games, even in Windows XP. 2GB is the bare minimum nowadays. 7300GS is a low end graphic card, but it should run the source games at low resolution and low details. I'm assuming that 3.33GHz CPU is a Celeron D, which is a very weak CPU. So basically, you have 3 components bottlenecking your gaming experience, CPU, amount of RAM, and the lowly 7300GS video card.

Really the only way to find out if your computer can run the games to your liking is to.... actually run the games on your computer and find out yourself.[/QUOTE]

To run modern games - 2006 to Now.

Bingo. Try a demo of one of the games and/or a demo of game with the same specs.
 
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