Is this a good gaming pc?

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Would this laptop be capable of playing games? Thats not the purpose of the laptop but it would be nice if I could play L4D.

Model- HP HDX16t series
OS- Vista Premium 64 bit
Processor- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P8700 (2.53 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
Memory- 4GB
Hard Drive- 320 GB
Graphics- 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Screen- 16.0" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
Battery- 12 cell

And for the graphics card i could also have a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 130M instead of 9600.
I also added a blu-ray drive, but I don't know if that affects gaming at all.
 
[quote name='gbpackers94']Would this laptop be capable of playing games? Thats not the purpose of the laptop but it would be nice if I could play L4D.

Model- HP HDX16t series
OS- Vista Premium 64 bit
Processor- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor P8700 (2.53 GHz, 3 MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
Memory- 4GB
Hard Drive- 320 GB
Graphics- 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Screen- 16.0" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
Battery- 12 cell

And for the graphics card i could also have a 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 130M instead of 9600.
I also added a blu-ray drive, but I don't know if that affects gaming at all.[/QUOTE]
Decent enough to run todays games at Med/High settings depending on screen resolution.
 
The GT 130M is a little faster than the 9600M but I wouldn't pay very much more for it (maybe $20). And yeah like xcopy said it should run all games reasonably as long as you turn down the resolution for some of them.
 
If you give the guys here a price range they could probably get you a better gaming system or even how to build it yourself. They helped me when I was looking for a gaming laptop.
 
My price range is to $1300. I would prefer to order it off of the official brand's website or a large retailer site. This laptop will be used for watching blu-ray's, playing a few different games, surfing the internet, and using microsoft office. I would rather it have the same specs or better.
 
Maybe this will get some PC guys to jump in and suggest something better:
http://www.alienware.com/customize/area-51-750i-desktop.aspx?SysCode=PC-A51-750I&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

Alienware Area-51 750i
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz 6MB Cache 1333MHz FSB
Alienware® 750 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Single 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTS 250 - Superclocked Edition
4GB« Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 2048MB
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1 plus Free Windows 7 Upgrade Option
500GB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 16MB Cache
6x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Full HD Support and Massive Storage!

Sub-Total: $1,209.00
 
You really don't want to change the screen resolution on an LCD if you can help it. LCD's typicaly don't work/look right outside of their native resolutuon.

I would try turning down game detail settings before I would mess with the resolution.
 
have you tried building a custom xps laptop at dell?
they currently are running a 25% off sale
you can build an identical system for 1300- the only difference being it would have a 1gb radeon 4670, which should be a sizable performance boost over the 9600m
 
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